In this totemic, sorrowing work, Cleopatra Mathis reveals a grief so pure and learned that it burns, a solitary flame, beyond self-pity, beyond what is bearable.
The response Gericault seeks is one beyond mere pity & indignation.
These transcripts of prison conversations with Goering, Hess, Keitel and others, held in the run-up to the Nuremberg Trials, show them moving in a realm beyond morality, pity or even self-knowledge.
Japan's past hardly seems relevant any more, except for the memory that it is the only nation to have suffered nuclear attack.Beyond pity at seeing residents of a rich, proud country scavenging for food, hoarding bottled water and huddling for shelter on schoolroom floors, it was hard not to feel admiration as well.
But I've also seen guys who just couldn't move beyond self-pity, the status quo or the need to blame others, guys who refuse to acknowledge that sharing how they feel with women is the best path, even though they admit that their shut-down emotional behavior wasn't working.
As Lawrence Wright has written, unhinged violence is part of ISIS's sense of itself; the group is beyond appeals to pity.
When it comes to American slavery, Toni Morrison has set the bar high, forging a language and an imaginative landscape that have reminted the slave experience in a way that forces the reader beyond guilt and pity into a more profound sense of identification.
A pity beyond all tellingIs hid in the heart of love.-WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS.
Which is a pity, because beyond Madrid and Barcelona, there are great stories, great games and great players.
