People see someone suffering, and think "either the world is a cruel and essentially random place where people can suffer for no reason, or this person is suffering because of something they did, so they deserve it".
Sad reflection turns to rage, however, when the acquirer's stock is suffering because of something more than bad luck.
Ms. Jolie, in contrast, hurtles through "Changeling" as if it were the latest installment in the Lara Croft action franchise, sustaining a pitch of intensity that turns Christine at once into a vivid icon of suffering and something of a blur.
"People feel defensive, as though they've done something wrong – that their pet is suffering discomfort because of something they did.
In contrast, Angelina Jolie in his recent film "The Changeling," sustains a pitch of intensity that turns her exhausting lead performance at once into a vivid icon of suffering and something of a blur.
"After Vietnam, he couldn't stand the thought of something suffering," his wife said.
That's about eighteen per cent, and the only reason the number isn't higher is that many people suffering from dementia die of something else first.
With the help of some extraordinary homeless animals, Shannon realized that her suffering was the birthplace of something beautiful.
And yet thinking about the army this way, as a tool of policy, risks underplaying the degree to which the Civil War was not just another military engagement, but, as Drew Gilpin Faust has argued in her recent book "The Republic of Suffering," something approaching massacre on an organized scale.
