On opening night, only Stephanie Blythe turned in a complete performance — a Fricka superbly enunciated and charged with desperate emotion.
And nowhere are those qualities needed more than in the finale of the Mahler's Ninth, which has to carry the listener on surges of sound and desperate emotion.
All my explanations for this behavior are purely conjecture at this point, because, four years later, it's so hard for me to tap into the well of desperate emotion the relationship unleashed in me.
From its beginnings in the early 1990's, Tool has been one of the bleakest and most idiosyncratic bands in rock, determined to probe the most desperate emotions.
I think him peerless as a writer of his generation; and his gift of communicating — to millions of strangers — his most exalted and desperate emotions was, in his case, fortified by immense and uncommon intelligence and erudition.
I think him peerless as a writer of his generation; and his gift of communicating to millions of strangers his most exalted and desperate emotions was, in his case, fortified by immense and uncommon intelligence and erudition.
But in retrospect, I couldn't help it, I was so overcome by this crescendo of desperate emotions..."...
It is that same exquisite sensitivity, the lack of calluses on the soul, that explains why, if you were not raised in Canada, it is so hard to understand the desperate depth of emotion with which a Canada-Russia hockey game takes place.
"Rooms" is a portrait of strangled emotions, desperate outbursts and all-too-brief respites.
Paul Chan's sculpture "Untitled (for Antigone)" (2004), a toy gun with a concealed radio transmitter, arouses the desperate, possibly demented emotions attendant to suicide: to listen to the sound component of this work, you need to pick up the gun and put it to your head.
But that's Cav: volatile, demanding, unwilling to hide his emotions, desperate to establish himself as one of cycling's all‑time greats, disinclined to suffer fools but keen to exploit every opportunity to promote a sport he loves for itself and its history as much as for what it has brought him.
