Petty's songs are unspecific enough that they become vulnerable to many kinds of interpretation — and there is a recurrent internal vagueness that redirects his suffering antiheroes away from the real heart of the matter and off, instead, into the great wide open.
How much solidarity and humanitarianism can the peoples of Europe conjure for refugees who arrive at their borders, as opposed to those suffering far away?
Though it struggled through to the end of the war, it proved a vital source of supplies and solace to the town's soldiers fighting and suffering far away.
The uncomfortable moral dilemma for each citizen of a European nation is this: How much solidarity and humanitarian sentiment can we conjure for refugees who arrive at our borders, as opposed to those who are suffering far away?
Suffering far away reaches you through art, through images, recordings, and narratives; the information travels toward you and you meet it halfway, if you meet it.
Envisioning a world where inequality and suffering melt away thanks to virtual reality and 80s pop culture, Ernst Klein's novel Ready Player One is a seductive prophecy for the media landscape of tomorrow and today.
Most, they say, were prosecuted after suffering obstetric complications away from medical care.
Many of the elderly simply fade away suffering from loneliness and depression with virtually no attention from social services.
