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We knew so little in those days, as little as now, I suppose about healing those hurts: even the women, in their best dresses, with beads and sequins sewn on the bodices, even in lipstick and mascara, their hair aflow, could only stand wringing their hands, begging for peace, while father and son, like thugs, like thieves, like Romans, simmered and hissed and hated, inflicting sorrows that endured, the worst anyway, through the kiss and embrace, bleeding from brother to brother, into the generations.
The end credit song finished the job, wringing even more emotion from me.
It seemed to reduce the novel into a hand- wringing, costumed melodrama of debatable worth.
Considering when this was made, the Censors must have been wringing their hankies during the scenes in the 'bawdy house', Taylor's relationship with the squaw, and much of the dialogue.
The performance of Dr Azziz which switched from his hand wringing subservience to proud but embittered nationalist was just totally unrealistic.
He also does a great job wringing out the atmosphere as the viewer can really get the feeling that they are in this desolate cafe in the middle of nowhere with a howling wind and blowing sagebrush.
Personally I was happy to see the foul mouthed fat kid keel over from heart attack though I don't think that was how Leigh intended the audience to react and I suspect many a weeping wallower was wringing tears from their hanky.
Aside from wringing their hands, what should governments be doing?
But we have to understand the consequences of wringing our hands instead of putting them to work.
Some Americans may be celebrating that fact, but Europeans are increasingly wringing their hands over the growing dominance of US tech titans.
If central banks go down this path, they will no doubt eventually succeed in wringing inflation out of the system.
Europe’s leaders are wringing their hands in shock and surprise, as if in the aftermath of a natural disaster.
Macri must be wringing his hands over an international environment that is far more challenging than he probably anticipated.
To achieve any reassertion of effective Lebanese sovereignty in southern Lebanon, a robust international effort is needed, beyond the current hand wringing and rhetoric.
Deciphering China’s Economic ResilienceNEW HAVEN – Once again, the Chinese economy has defied the hand wringing of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
In the United States, applying the equivalent proportion would mean forcing every citizen to pay roughly $20,000 – all to line the pockets of some billionaires, intent on wringing the country dry.
The GOP establishment spent the primary season wringing its hands, asking how something like the Trump candidacy could happen.
And yet, ever since the 2016 US presidential election, mainstream media outlets and the Democrats (my own party) have been wringing their hands over Russia, often succumbing to sheer hysteria.
The Logic of Sino-Western DétenteLONDON – While much of the hand wringing over China has abated somewhat during the COVID-19 crisis, the fears animating Western attitudes toward that country have not disappeared, and could resurface at any moment.
The Power of Green Public FinanceLUXEMBOURG – Policymakers and pundits have been wringing their hands over the crises afflicting the European Union, arguing that it is falling behind in confronting major threats to its long-term survival.
Rather than wringing our hands, we must start preparing to do whatever it takes to prevent an even deeper catastrophe.
And, as US President Donald Trump has learned during his ill-fated trade war, wringing concessions out of China is more difficult than ever.
She gazed at the darkness with distraction, wringing her hands in another fit of sobbing.
Then he approached her, and in a soft voice said—"It isn't pleasant, I know; but, after all, no bones are broken, and, since that is the only way that is left for you paying back my money—""But where am I to get any?" said Emma, wringing her hands.
'That wretch Frilair has betrayed me,' she said to him, wringing her hands; rage prevented her from speaking.
And he imagined the most laughable scene possible as an example of this, if this contemptible student, this inflated child, this knock-kneed redbeard, if he were kneeling at Elsa's bed wringing his hands and begging for forgiveness.
Aunt Polly fell to crying and wringing her hands.
Jock!" said my father, wringing his hands.
In this distress I had no assistant, no friend to comfort or advise me; I sat and cried and tormented myself night and day, wringing my hands, and sometimes raving like a distracted woman; and indeed I have often wondered it had not affected my reason, for I had the vapours to such a degree, that my understanding was sometimes quite lost in fancies and imaginations.
They did not cry 'Stop thief!' because nobody ran away, but I could hear the word 'robbed,' and 'lace,' two or three times, and saw the wench wringing her hands, and run staring to and again, like one scared.