John Dugdale This time last year, as part of the Hay festival, Ian McEwan and I were sitting in Theatr Brycheiniog in Brecon watching the final rehearsals of For You, our opera about the perils of the abuse of power (by a composer/conductor) and obsessive love (as afflicts his housekeeper).
The police inspector, brilliantly played by Mr. Melki, evolves from a stock tough guy into a Dostoyevskian figure racked by guilt and doubt but driven by his sincere, helpless love for his afflicted wife.
We are inevitably in love with desire, afflicted by absence and seekers of material possessions (see home and money from #1).
Families who are dealing with these diseases have a double burden; taking care of their afflicted loved ones as well as trying to raise money for a cure.
He is writing this book, he says, for ladies afflicted by love: "Gracious ladies," "amiable ladies," the narrators begin.
The spicy and the sour are also mixed into Ms. Kim's choreographic confection about people so afflicted by love that their lives become in some way distorted.
She is an art historian, teaching at a New York City university, who has survived one bout of cancer and its treatment but is permanently afflicted with love for a high-minded drifter called Rex.
THAT WAS NEW YORK about Frank Crowninshield, his career in the publishing world; his interest in collecting art; his concern for the aged and afflicted; his love of fun and of good food.
By Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, February 14 , 1948P. 74 THAT WAS NEW YORK about Frank Crowninshield, his career in the publishing world; his interest in collecting art; his concern for the aged and afflicted; his love of fun and of good food.
Love #INDECLINE Comfort the Afflicted / Afflict the Comfortable.
Apparently Beth's been told that like the curious, constantly foraging magpie, she's afflicted with "love of shiny objects syndrome" due to her attraction to metallic works.
