We collapsed, as planned, to our knees, conveying the beautiful anguish of our subjection to the sole King of Sentences — bowed heads, fingers wriggling as if combing the air for particles of his greatness.
We collapsed, as planned, to our knees, conveying the beautiful anguish of our subjection to the sole King of Sentences bowed heads, fingers wriggling as if combing the air for particles of his greatness.
Pedro Américo's 1884 oil on canvas, "Moses and Jochebed," depicts the beautiful Jewess in anguish as she stands on the banks of the legendary river.
This reticence affected her singing, which would become generically beautiful rather than plumbing the anguish and torment of the character.
'What was clear was that the film was beautiful, mysterious, and full of anguish over lost faith.
"Modern" in this case was 1966, the year when Shostakovich completed his 11th quartet, here played with beautiful articulation and without heavy anguish, presenting a very grown-up kind of suffering.
At first blush, the film seems like a frivolous retreat from the audaciousness of "Life Is Beautiful," which found humor amid the anguish of the Holocaust, earning a best actor Oscar for Mr. Benigni, best foreign-language film for the movie and the abject horror of some critics.
Brooks Atkinson, a New York Times theater critic at the time, wrote of the play that "everything contributes to the total impression of wildness, ecstasy and anguish...The subject is not beautiful.
We wish to be as the careless gods, lying around on Olympus, eternally beautiful, having sex and being entertained by the anguish of others.
The sun shone outside but I couldn't play 'Cause I had a high fever that beautiful day I sat there with Sally, in anguish, we two.
Rivette's exploration of the act of creation reached its apex in La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker, 1991), which captured with painful lucidity the anguish of an artist (Michel Piccoli) struggling to express himself on canvas, and the brutal interaction between the artist and his model (Béart).
