The internal struggle culminated in the crisis of the pox, the moment when a sudden and dramatic change in the course of the disease (either toward recovery or, in the worst case, toward death) could be expected.
If, though, we can grasp their possible futures with sufficient faith and rigour, we may achieve the best anyone can hope for: averting the worst, aspiring toward the best, and handing on a culture (if not a planet) in better shape than the one we inherited.
But social media has allowed us to embrace our worst impulses toward celebrity culture.
Monographic shows of this kind often tiptoe around touchy subjects, edging in the worst cases toward hagiography.
As Lachlan MacAldonich, Carlyle plays a captivating waster, a guy who makes a mistake that upends his world, bringing out his worst tendencies toward self-sabotage.
As a human rights researcher in Afghanistan for the last two years, I have found that some of the worst behavior toward civilians comes from these CIA paramilitary forces.
The best episodes of the old Twin Peaks mix the two in about equal measures; the worst lean toward the former to the point of being profoundly boring and dumb, whereas Fire Walk With Me is so heavily weighted towards the latter that I didn't rewatch it until it became clear that I had to.
"The worst damage was toward the ocean, about five miles from where I grew up, all up and down the coast," Saito said.
At its worst, "Joy" veers toward Russell's default position, the tall tale, in which the story's peculiarities and the characters' idiosyncrasies are their own justification.
