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  • intense expression of heavenly faith, earthly despair, and unquenchable humanity. From its very first performance that January day, the audience jumped ...
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  • much of the material. After years of silence and despair, Andrei Rublev finds his deeper creative self. In Nostalghia, the dying Yankovsky follows the ...
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  • image of a lover suspended between happiness and despair. Scholars have debated the degree to which courtly love was practiced in the real world ...
    17 KB (2,718 words) - 06:12, 11 January 2024
  • the catalyst for a joke about optimism and despair in the 1972 film Play It ... the catalyst for a joke about optimism and despair in the 1972 film Play It ...
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  • absolute transcendence is not an object for despair, and, once acknowledged rationally, does not frustrate the soul's innate and never-ending desire ...
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  • ("Twenty Love-Poems and a Song of Despair"), a collection of love poems that were controversial for their explicitness. Both works ...
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  • " Lycomedes, however, falls on the floor in despair and dies. John himself now despairs for his own life, as the Ephesians are likely to hold him ...
    18 KB (3,042 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
  • that over 300 years had passed. In great despair for having lost his family, and not knowing how to return to see his wife, he opened the box ...
    21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
  • the themes found in Camus and Kierkegaard. The despair of choice and the anxiety of the unknowing self featured prominently in cinema and novels. ...
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  • glory of war was replaced by a growing sense of despair, as many thousands of combatants gave their lives for, literally, a few square yards of territory ...
    18 KB (2,623 words) - 14:37, 27 January 2023
  • of Kostroma, burst into tears of fear and despair. He was finally persuaded to accept the throne by his mother Kseniya Ivanovna Shestova, who ...
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  • without Rama filled her with insurmountable despair. At this point, Lakshmana grew angered with Rama for the first time in his life, but, following his ...
    19 KB (3,150 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
  • for some, it need not lead them into despair: Meaning is not tied to society's values. Certainly, each society attempts to summarize meaningfulness ...
    21 KB (3,325 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
  • all, is meant to sympathize, to share in the despair of the mother who holds the body of her crucified son. ==Madonna in controversy== ...
    21 KB (3,389 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
  • David Asman, "Despair and fear in Managua," Wall Street Journal, March 25, 1985. In 1987, New York Times reporter James LeMoyne wrote ...
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  • wife became Christian. He left her in anger and despair, visiting from village to village for several months, before returning. Following his return ...
    21 KB (3,357 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
  • stolen by a serpent. Gilgamesh returns to Uruk in despair, but the sight of its massive walls move him to praise. *Tablet Twelve: Although several ...
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  • and hope addressed to the exiles in Babylon who despair of ever returning to "Zion"—the prophet's favorite term for Jerusalem—it prophesies ...
    20 KB (3,364 words) - 02:59, 8 March 2024
  • a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent. When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its judges. ...
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  • every man's hand against me, I am here in despair. And why; For doing what Brutus was honored for ... And yet I for striking down a greater tyrant ...
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