| 单词 | wrenching |
| 例句 | He begins wrenching my face, like’s he’s trying to pull it off my neck. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It had all happened in a blink, and all the while the ghosts were wrenching her out of the doorway, dragging her back inside. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The most wrenching thing, however, was our shrunken size: three days earlier, when we had ascended this terrain we’d numbered eleven; now there were only six of us. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z With an unmistakable bellowing roar, dragon fire burst from the exhaust, white-hot and blue, and the motorbike shot forward like a bullet with a sound of wrenching metal. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The news of the castle's fall had come as a wrenching shock. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But I myself didn’t cry about Papa, or have any inkling of what was wrenching Mama’s heart, until the next time I saw him, almost a year later. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She kept hold of the weed digger, wrenching it free of the wound as she fell. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It’s an awesome place, even if the trail climbs in elevation and she feels the wrenching through her whole body. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z And the woman wrenching out of the male form in the sculpture he made last night? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Donovan was wrenching at the door wildly, when Powell was only half through. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He jumped when a loud clang cracked through the air, followed by the wrenching sound of metal screeching against metal. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Hopper bolted into the room and grabbed the jar, wrenching Dallas’s hand out of it. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He looked at me with consternation as my coughing subsided to spluttering and then, finally, to painful wrenching hiccups. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z A German chambermaid named Caroline Klausmann had tended the children’s room and observed the same wrenching scenes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Watching my sister suckle filled me with hatred, and my hot head thought of forcibly wrenching her away from my mother’s lap and sucking the succulent gourd of milk myself. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like they weren’t even really talking to me, but rather, right at my body, wrenching the two apart. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z But his diary and two notes found at the camp tell a wrenching story of his desperate and progressively futile efforts to survive. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, because divorce is such a wrenching, stressful experience, it probably raises one’s risk of death, and thus the reality is quite contrary to the above misleading correlation. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He sprinted upstairs and threw himself under the bed, wrenching up the loose floorboard, and grabbed the pillowcase full of his books and birthday presents. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z My mind was consumed with a wrenching need to get out of that room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I feel that guilt again, wrenching as a fist to the gut. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Walking back to the meeting point, I swung between peace with my decision and wrenching regret. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z My breath hitches at what I see laid bare in his gaze: a wrenching knowledge, a bitter understanding of pain that I know well. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Heaving up again, wrenching away from the pain, she bent her writhing limbs beneath her and sprang backwards in a convulsive leap. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In the end, Gordievsky made the lonely and wrenching decision of the double agent: to save his own life. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He had forgotten, lost track; he could not now remember whose wands these were; he seemed to remember wrenching them out of someone’s hand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He made a violent effort to raise himself into a sitting position, and merely succeeded in wrenching his body painfully. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The first time he had wrestled, he nearly got himself kicked off the team, wrenching a boy’s head and throwing him to the ground like he was made of air. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I forwarded many of these e-mails to Jesse, which was wrenching for both of us. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a final, wrenching tug on my backpack. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It was the contrast that was so wrenching. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And this time, with a wrenching crack, the knife shattered and the blade fell in pieces to the ground, to glitter on the stones that were still wet with the rain of another universe. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When they stopped outside the garden gate she tried to dismount hastily and he had to catch her hand, wrenching her arm back painfully, to prevent her from falling. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I screamed, wrenching upright out of my bed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The boy who I now know is Day lets out a wrenching scream and charges at the nearest soldier even as they close in around him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I see my hands grasping the wheel, and I feel strong arms wrenching my legs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was violent, loud, and her wrenching caused Sam to do the same, and it was in their hair, all over the floor. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It was a wrenching exposure of our country’s structural divides, most especially the intense, lopsided vulnerability of African Americans and poor people of all races when things got rough. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The anguish in the man’s eyes was wrenching. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In kindergarten, kids would call me “Marble Mouth” because I spoke in a garbled voice, my bound tongue wrenching itself to move in the right ways. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe if I bled, I’d feel something more than this wrenching grief. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Dallas spotted his sister, Florida, inching her way along the sidewalk, wrenching clumps of weeds and grass and dirt from the ground. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z There was a great wrenching as the wings caught the pines at the side of the clearing and broke back, ripping back just outside the main braces. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m fine,” she said to Pearl now, and with a wrenching effort she let her daughter go. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He heard a wrenching screech: they were ripping open a crate. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Suddenly there was a wrenching pain in my gut. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Brian grabbed the wheel and pulled it back, too hard again, and the plane went through another series of stomach- wrenching swoops up and down before he could get it under control. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z With a deadly effort, like wrenching a piece out of his own brain, he could even have dragged the thing into the open. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Henry’s legs fall open readily and Alex crowds up between them, wrenching Henry’s head back into another searing kiss. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The knight grunted, turning, wrenching his weapon up. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But most of the wrenching guilt I now felt had to do with Mrs. Gilmore, and the knowledge that my actions had gotten her killed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Homes pushes me aside, wrenching open a first- aid kit. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He felt a wrenching sense of loss, which didn’t make any sense at all. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled me across his lap, wrenching my hands free of the wheel, and suddenly he was in the driver’s seat. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z But Tally jerked to a halt, her arm wrenching in its socket, and she heard the Special’s razor voice curse. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But Herrera had already slipped one under Luke, wrenching his neck. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the Depression, when wrenching need narrowed the parameters of experience as never before, the liberation offered by the racehorse was, to young men like Pollard and Woolf, a siren song. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I bruised the tendon of my heel, wrenching it like a fool when my foot was caught between two boulders, and limped out the afternoon. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Abiyoyo strained, and with a wrenching twist and another roar, he pulled free of the sap. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They were wrenching, sometimes astonishing, an electronic outpouring of breathtaking anger and compassion. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he came into the room, and she was kneeling on the floor, wrenching open the little crate in which the cupid was packed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z There was a lurch that Mark felt in his back, then a squeal, then the continued slow wrenching sound as the door started opening once again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Then I braced myself again to my horrid task, and found by wrenching away tomb-tops one other of the sisters, the other dark one. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z When I lay down to sleep, I was overcome by a wrenching loneliness. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z An electronic river of true pain had sprung up in that period of national soul-searching, far deeper than I’d imagined, and it was wrenching to have so much of it run literally through my fingers. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We could hear the ship’s whistle blowing constantly, and there were sounds of metal wrenching and much shouting. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But sickle-cell anemia must have seemed the strangest—for it was hereditary, often appeared in fits and starts, and was accompanied by sudden, wrenching bouts of pain in the bones, joints, and chest. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z None of her old fears could compare with the wrenching loss she had just escaped. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The tune, somehow, is immediately wrenching, its measures plead in near arpeggios, and like any good folk song it makes the voice of its singer sound lost, or forlorn, incomplete. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard a whoosh like something moving through the air, then a wrenching pain shot through his left shoulder. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But Balekin shows his decades of experience, wrenching the sword from Cardan’s hands and knocking him to the ground with the crossbar. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z This year’s festival is packed, but remembering Darin, I feel wrenchingly alone. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The male figure’s on his back now and it looks like the female figure’s wrenching herself out of him, climbing right out of his chest. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I snapped, wrenching myself out of his grasp. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It was magnitude 7.5, not vast as earthquakes go, but so abrupt and wrenching that it collapsed an entire mountainside. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Blood pouring down his face from a gash on his forehead, Mareth was already wrenching the swords from Shed and Fangor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He checked the teeth of a young buck he had never seen before, wrenching the boy’s jaw to get a good look, and nodded in approval. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There was a bellow, and the foot jerked back, nearly wrenching Sting from Frodo’s arm. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She ignored his doe-eyed expression and stalked over to the tree, wrenching her knife from the bark. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z There’s a tingling feeling that radiates outward from a point below my stomach—wrenching and wonderful and almost unbearable. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z But the action was cut off by a loud wrenching sound from above, followed by the groan and squeal of hydraulics. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Watching them pat each other on the back and proudly spin their turkeys, examining the carcasses for size and weight, I was back to wrenching regret. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It’s somehow both sweet and wrenching, and the singer sings it like she means it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Powell varied this by wrenching at the edges of the original hole. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I’d drift off in my chair for a second before wrenching awake. I was so scared to be a dad: Haunted, yes, by the 1986 Boston Red Sox failure 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Above all, the production’s greatest asset is Mr. Sher, whose final moments are as wrenching as his earlier ones are boisterously funny. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z His protestations, however, echo feebly against the wrenchingly sad voices of four young men and women irretrievably damaged by his harsh sentences. Movie Review: ‘Kids for Cash,’ Directed by Robert May 2014-02-28T00:28:36Z If this wrenching gaggle of souls doesn’t migrate next to a home uptown, then it will be Broadway that is the poorer. Review | With Dylan songbook, ‘Girl From North Country’ is a triumph 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z The minuet was anything but a dance, its elegance stilted and uncertain, the slow movement mysterious and wrenching where you’d least expect it, in the plainest of cadences. Review: Takacs Quartet and the Viennese Masters Play at Alice Tully Hall 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The scenes of their grief are particularly wrenching, all the more so because of the unique closeness of Aaron and his dad and Tillie and her mom. Two Suicidal Teens, Four Possible Paths 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Joyce’s death is the first time a major character dies, and the ordinariness of it – an aneurysm, nothing supernatural and, crucially, nothing to be done – is utterly wrenching. Demons, death and dynamite dialogue: the 20 best episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z It also is, in its way, the most wrenchingly personal play Lerner has written — and one on which he has been toiling, off and on, for more than a decade. A playwright who wants to change society, not merely observe it 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Eventually, a measure of justice is done, and when the identity of Nelly’s killer is revealed, it’s wrenching. Chilling ‘I Can See in the Dark’ brings adults’ real nightmares to life This wrenching twist is not the only reason that “Blue,” which I saw in its second performance, on July 26, came across as powerful — as well as sadly timely. Review: Police Violence Reaches Opera in ‘Blue’ 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The documentary’s most wrenching scene is a discussion between the two: “You’re the only man that made me buckle at my knees,” she tells an impassive Goude. Grace Jones has been a star for 40 years, and there’s still no one quite like her 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z She was at her best during a wrenching monologue, a rumination on the instinct in life to return to whatever has broken us. Review: A Peter Eotvos Premiere and Schubert at the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting at his girlfriend on the bus.” Review: ‘The Girls’ Has a Great Start. Too Bad About the Rest. 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z But Lee’s too much the clear-eyed realist to peddle that myth, and it’s wrenching when Mallory characterizes his home-brew sessions as “down to the level of a bad demo or bootleg.” In Don Lee’s ‘Lonesome Lies Before Us,’ a singer tries to make one last comeback 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z We expressed our disdain for each other through emotional snubbing and wrenching, lonely sex that always ended abruptly, with backs turned. The Man in Xinjiang: A Frightening Experience in Rural China 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z This was an incredibly wrenching version of that. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys Break Down the ‘Devastating’ Finale of ‘The Americans’ 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z In the movie’s most wrenching scene—one that may be almost unbearable to watch if you’ve ever fought bitterly with a partner over money— a person he’s let down berates him with escalating, horrifying vitriol. Review: Why 'Money Monster' Will Make You Mad as Hell 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The performance I probably cherish most was Ms. Smith’s funny but also subtly wrenching turn as an eccentric woman who settled down in Alan Bennett’s front yard in “The Lady in the Van,” in 2000. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Missing Maggie Smith 2011-02-17T18:40:33Z The printed text of “Three Women,” which Ms. Plath wrote shortly before she began work on the poems that form the wrenching collection “Ariel,” is hard to recognize as a play. Giving Voice to Sylvia Plath?s Pregnant Women 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z As Yasaka’s presence in the household becomes ever more disruptive, the story veers in unexpected directions, leaping over years before landing with wrenching ambiguity. Review: In ‘Harmonium,’ a Family Lets the Wrong One In 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z All of you have faced wrenching decisions to come forward. Jodi Kantor on bringing down Harvey Weinstein and helping start the #MeToo fire 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Sensitive souls in search of wrenching emotion can be guaranteed their Kleenex moments; you will get wet. Les Misérables: The YouTube Version 2012-12-11T13:00:47Z It won't be here, although I see the temptation; it's challenging to accurately assess Remember Me's merits without discussing whether the end is grossly manipulative or fair use of wrenching emotional material. Remember Me Review: Young Love, Hold the Vampires 2010-03-12T19:35:00Z The book ranges widely, but it’s held together by a single premonition: that the wrenching changes of the War on Terror have been not only legal and political but also cultural. “All Muslim life in America is seen through the lens of terrorism” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Those humdrum scenes become weighty markers in time: a wrenching study of before, during and after. Artist of the week 102: Breda Beban 2010-08-25T16:16:00Z The film director Michael Haneke recently created a wrenching, elegant version set today but with haunting touches of commedia dell’arte. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z McDonagh consistently juxtaposes the hilarious with the emotionally wrenching to powerful effect. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z In only one scene, a wrenching campground ambush, does Mr. West demonstrate the facility for dread — and recognition of the moral weight of murder — that elevated more than one of his previous movies. Review: Don’t Mess With the Dog in ‘In a Valley of Violence’ 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z For all the adjustments and abridgments Gounod and his librettists made to turn “Romeo” into “Roméo,” they maintained the key scenes that move the wrenching plot forward: ball, balcony, bed and tomb. A New Take on Romeo and Juliet’s Ball, Balcony, Bed and Tomb 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Invigorating drums, driving guitars and wrenching vocals combine to make a masterpiece that is best enjoyed at maximum volume. Shoegaze: a beginner's guide 2013-01-23T15:42:23Z Some of his friends said through intermediaries that they were not ready to speak publicly about him, perhaps because his death took them so wrenchingly by surprise. Tributes pour in for Sondheim, the greatest theater composer-lyricist of our time 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z But Ms. Walter’s wizard is a man of rueful contemplation, too, conscious of himself as a victim of his own hunger for control, and wrenchingly unresolved about the traitorous enemies he must forgive. Review: In ‘The Tempest,’ Liberation and Exhilaration 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z The pivotal moment is beautifully captured and gut wrenching. Two Say ‘I Do’ in X-Men Gold, but Not the Pair Fans Were Expecting 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The other, 2004's "The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History," is a wrenching account of the worldwide flu epidemic of 1918. Summer reading: 10 nonfiction books to last the season 2012-06-15T17:01:34Z This call to gratitude feels like passing the work back to us — an issued challenge of wrenching good moments out of a devastating crisis. A Mother’s Day scream into the void 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z But Turner’s book is guided by a wrenching question: How did she find success and stability while her sister and friend were left behind? 7 New Memoirs to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The reflections of these women, who expose their bodies along with their deepest fears, are wrenching. Movie Review: ‘The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013’ Anthology 2013-01-31T22:57:57Z Wall projections of sometimes wrenching letters give different views of the experience behind the slogans. How Do You Tell the Story of Roe v. Wade? 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z In one particularly wrenching scene in the second season we see Celeste’s therapist urge her to imagine her close friend Madeline being brutalized by her husband. War at home: how Big Little Lies deftly dissects domestic violence 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z His wrenching descriptions of mass evacuation, bumper-to-bumper traffic, refugee camps and the plight of those suddenly made homeless cuts frighteningly close to the bone in this era of dramatic climate change and mega-storms. Review: ‘Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands,’ by Chris Bohjalian “Eat, Pray, Love” chronicled the healing year she spent traveling through Italy, India and Indonesia after a wrenching divorce; her best-selling follow-up memoir, “Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage,” was published in January. | Elizabeth Gilbert: Love, Travel, Sell 2010-08-12T23:14:00Z James Bundy, Yale Rep’s artistic director, said it is only through the difficult conversations enacted in the play that viewers can develop empathy with those on the other side of wrenching political issues. Will a New Play Restart a Fire? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Davidson and three accomplices were convicted of the murders following a long and wrenching trial. "Sins and Secrets": The perfect antidote to the sleazy crime show 2011-02-17T15:18:00Z Collette, in the gutsiest and most wrenching performance of her career, plays a woman quite literally and violently possessed by her own grief. The horror of grief: how loss is the ultimate boogeyman in Hereditary 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Indeed, the raw pain that Hurt dredges up in the movie’s last quarter constitutes some of the most wrenching acting he’s ever done. ‘The Last Full Measure’ Review: Remembering a Fallen War Hero 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The big question being commonplace makes it no less wrenching: whether to put the grandmother in a nursing home. Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z These wrenching stories humanize the stakes of a health initiative that found itself and its employees at risk from a toxic mix of politics, propaganda and terrorism. Review: ‘Every Last Child,’ a Front-Line View of the Polio Crisis in Pakistan 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The most wrenching sequences in “Night Will Fall” are the scenes it incorporates from “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey,” a movie begun under the auspices of the British government in 1945. ‘Night Will Fall’ Examines the Making of a 1945 Holocaust Documentary 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z There’s an emotional nakedness here, almost a reversion to childhood that is both completely understandable and often wrenching, but at times an impediment to really falling into these stories. Sex, Death and More Sex: Three Books of Fiction by Acclaimed Japanese Writers 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z This is a delicately powerful film, funny in all the right places, but wrenching too—a marvelous example of how a story originally told in comic-book panels can become even more vivid on-screen. 10 Underrated Comic Book Movies You Need to See 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The song’s video showed wrenching images of an immigration raid and family separations. Jessie Reyez Is Yelling and Loving at the Same Time 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z But her singing became more refined and interior as the evening wore on, and her final plea for peace was heart wrenching. Music Review: ‘Aida’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-11-25T23:03:14Z Toews mines the frustration of caring for someone set on self-destruction, offering a nuanced look at the wrenching questions about the end of life. The top 50 fiction books for 2014 It’s poor form to mention Sublime at a barbecue without then playing one of its songs, so here’s my all-time favorite, the wrenching but always buoyant “Badfish.” 16 Songs to Soundtrack Your Fourth of July Barbecue 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z I admit I found the first part so emotionally wrenching that it took me two weeks to force myself to read the second part. Comics: Graphic novel 'Stargazing Dog' is emotionally wrenching 2011-10-17T16:03:37Z Mr. Grigolo mingled raw despair and feral intensity when he sang Edgargo’s wrenching aria of farewell to life, as he anticipates being killed in a duel at dawn with Enrico and welcomes it. Review: Vittorio Grigolo Is the Reason to See the Met’s ‘Lucia’ 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z It is a wrenching choice because Owens’s very identity is synonymous with athletic excellence. Review: ‘Race’ Chronicles Jesse Owens’s Rise to Olympic Glory 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The result was startling, dazzling, and wrenching in equal measure. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Each migrant has a wrenching story, but to agents these are just “wets,” or “POWs,” “plain old wets.” A Different Perspective on the Border 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z As wrenching as the women’s tearful declarations is the spectacle of grown men crying. The Invisible War: When Soldiers Rape Soldiers 2012-06-20T15:00:57Z It occurs when a society is undergoing a wrenching transformation. Hustler’s denigrating S.E. Cupp “satire” 2012-05-24T20:30:00Z “Every day I’m trying not to hate myself,” they sing with wrenching candor, “but lately it’s not hurting like it did before.” Sam Smith Seeks Self-Acceptance and Catharsis, and a Sound to Match 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z She got rid of the full-time art critic and eliminated the Sunday magazine — “a particularly wrenching decision because my then-husband was the magazine’s editor.” Yes, Fake News Is a Problem. But There’s a Real News Problem, Too. 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z A sickeningly beautiful rain of nighttime missiles is followed by wrenching shots of suffocated infants being hauled from pulverized homes. Movie Review: ‘Tears of Gaza,’ a Documentary of Human Misery 2012-09-18T21:51:22Z Long lines at certain polling places: Elections in urban areas must present such wrenching choices that people take hours to ponder their options. Style Invitational Week 1450: Putting ‘anoid’ in humanoid 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Only the reliably excellent Ms. Day gives a truly distinguished performance, culminating in the wrenching delivery of Willa’s climactic speech about the loss of her daughter. | 'Oliver Parker!': Elizabeth Meriwether?s Dark New Comedy 2010-05-20T22:00:00Z The smallest and most aching work, “Torso,” is a plaster cast of the volume of a hot water bottle that suggests, with wrenching economy, an embalmed infant corpse. Ghosts of the Past, Embalmed in White Plaster 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z His final act scene with Cordelia would no doubt be wrenching. Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z It describes itself as “a people’s history” of that wrenching time. Potent Memories From a Divided India 2013-08-13T22:12:21Z In this inventive, poignant folk opera, written and performed by Andrew R. Butler, Rags appears onstage at an underground club on Earth and tells us, wrenchingly, about America 250 years from now. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z There was also a wrenching sketch from 1988, “Andre’s Mother,” which introduced the two adversarial people who begin “Mothers and Sons.” Theater Review: ‘Mothers and Sons,’ an AIDS Tale Starring Tyne Daly 2014-03-25T02:00:01Z Wright infuses the Bee Gees’ “To Love Somebody” with wrenching, down-home soul and a daydreaming Joni Mitchell lurks under Wright’s “Somewhere Down the Mystic” and Nick Drake’s “River Man.” Catch these jazz shows in June 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z “Brick” was a wrenching piano ballad detailing Folds’s girlfriend’s teenage abortion. Review | Rock-musician memoirs have a distancing effect, but Ben Folds is as relatable as ever 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z And I loved Ali Smith’s “Autumn,” a stunning and wrenching celebration of deep and lasting human connection. Celeste Ng, Ann Patchett, Min Jin Lee and Others on the Books That Bring Them Comfort 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z But in this wrenching production, you leap at any strand of consolation, no matter your beliefs. Review: In Britten’s ‘The Rape of Lucretia,’ a Savage Act With Resonance Today 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z But such wrenching and wailing resides in the heart of Naples — the home of the Sirens. ‘The Story of the Lost Child,’ review: Elena Ferrante’s final — key — volume 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z As I grapple with these issues, I'm discovering these darker facets of my Jewish identity, and doing so is wrenchingly painful. Grieving together, and also apart: A Jewish American wrestles with identity, belonging and trauma 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z The relevant clip, along with other fragments from the director’s oeuvre, is inserted into his new documentary, “Marx Can Wait,” a wrenching and tender film that will be essential viewing for Bellocchio fans. ‘Marx Can Wait’ Review: A Director Digs Into His Brother’s Death 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Carpenter's strategy for wrenching the instrument out of its torpor is first to dress like an ice-dancing Skrillex, then to deliver performances of great physical drama, his body convulsing, his legs moving like Fred Astaire. Manchester International Festival 2013: Cameron Carpenter's organised noise 2013-06-10T11:25:27Z It is a good performance, although the film itself puts a sugary soft focus on the wrenching agony of Garland’s decline. Golden Globes: who will win and who should win the film awards? | Peter Bradshaw 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z In the most wrenching scene–one that may be almost unbearable to watch if you’ve ever fought bitterly with a partner over money–a person he’s let down berates him with escalating, horrifying vitriol. Why Money Monster Will Make You Mad As Hell 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr Genc is a subtle guide to the wrenching changes Turkey is undergoing, and his personal testimony is rich in historical and cultural detail. A novelist and a journalist come to terms with the new Turkey 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Other, more wrenching stories etch characters whose ideas of traditional morality lead them astray. Books of The Times: Rural Pride and Poverty and a Hen?s Empty Nest 2010-03-08T08:48:00Z He said he had hoped filming “Living,” three parallel tales of wrenching personal loss, would shake his recent preoccupation with death. Vassily Sigarev, a Voice From Russia’s Rust Belt 2012-07-29T22:00:23Z Mr. Davies saves the best for last on this disc of Dowland songs: a wrenching rendition of “Now, oh now I needs must part.” ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Beethoven, the Bad Plus, Fred Astaire and More 2014-04-02T16:00:38Z Another counter to Hardwick’s idea of the literary letter as an idealized self-portrait is her own wrenching correspondence with her husband of 23 years, the confessional poet Robert Lowell. What Do Letters Reveal About the Creative Mind? 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Based on a classic play by Terence Rattigan, it's a wrenching drama about a woman in post-World War II London who has left her wealthy husband only to be abandoned by her lover. At TIFF: "The Deep Blue Sea," "Hysteria," star-spotting 2011-09-12T22:13:05Z Melancholy, yes, and even momentarily wrenching; yet its emotional arc bends insistently from inarticulate sadness to gentle catharsis. Review: A Young Orphan Finds a New Home in ‘Summer 1993’ 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z That the Zellner brothers will be in conversation with Herzog, a master of complicating fact and fiction and wrenching pathos from the foibles of humans and nature, should make for a fascinating talk. Next Fest a little taste of Sundance in L.A. 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Variations on those unsettling words — both explicit and unspoken — echo through the wrenching final scene of Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt,” which opened Wednesday night at Wyndham’s Theater in London. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z And though it may not be the most wrenching interpretation of this pillar of Western literature that you’re ever likely to come across, it more than capably gets the job done. A well-played, compact ‘King Lear’ at Folger Theatre In the climactic moments of the final episode, “Against Oblivion,” the orchestra breaks into wrenching fury and slashing dissonance. Music Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Émilie’ at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-07-20T23:33:07Z “Holy Toledo” is nearly as good, more metaphorical and poetic, but equally wrenching. Idol Bowersox doing her own thing 2010-12-13T20:36:07Z In the film’s most wrenching scene, Barbara is wedged between Mr. Pleskun and his brother while they sing along to a truck radio. | 'Strongman': An Iron Man?s Life of Might-Have-Beens 2011-01-25T22:03:01Z In sharp contrast with Lennon's shocking murder in 1980, Harrison's passing could be considered less wrenching. How George Harrison's lifelong quest for spiritual enlightenment shaped his music and life 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Lothar’s bighearted, witty and wrenching novel — rescued from oblivion by Europa — reminds us how delicate, yet resilient, that frivolous notion was. ‘The Vienna Melody’: A family drama with cameos by Hitler and Freud 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Lushly layered vocals with wrenching lyrics, laced into rich electric beats made from ambient sounds like creaky stairs and greasy-pan pops — Imogen Heap plays the Paramount Theatre on Monday. Innovative musician Imogen Heap to play the Paramount 2010-06-11T01:10:00Z As the babies’ struggle for breath is vividly evoked, so in retrospect is Hattie’s hopeful exodus from the Deep South to the Northeast, as part of a historic and wrenching African-American Diaspora. ‘The Twelve Tribes of Hattie’: the scars of a mother’s battles 2013-01-31T23:00:50Z The wrenching, layered arc about the ICE private prison alone guarantees its list-worthiness. I Love Top Ten Lists 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z When Darren’s killer went on trial, Lisa wanted to forgive him and ask the court for leniency, but that proved wrenching, too. Growing Up With Murder All Around 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z And that was very wrenching for you, because you were very close with and loved your mother. “To Live in the World, and Not to Hide”: An Interview with Janet Mock 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z In addition to being a wrenching series of personal stories, the film is also an effective exploration of the ways the military climate fosters abuse, as a “prime, target-rich environment for a predator.” Ending military rape: The crusade of “The Invisible War” 2012-06-27T11:45:00Z But Suriname’s appeal should be broadening now that it has distanced itself from a wrenching civil war in the late 1980s and can capitalize on the allure of its huge tracts of rain forest. Latin America 2011 : Suriname, South America?s Hidden Treasure 2011-09-16T18:55:00Z Jackson’s sophomore novel is a wrenching commentary on the ease with which Black children are disappeared in plain sight. 6 Thought-Provoking Y.A. Thrillers That Tackle Social Issues 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z But the darkening shivers of his arrangement for string quartet, played by Brooklyn Rider, set up an emotional pivot: He’s still numb from a wrenching loss, and his daily routine provides only meager distraction. Review: In Gabriel Kahane’s ‘The Fiction Issue,’ Timelessness and Sept. 11 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z It was the director’s 53rd birthday, and the happy ending to what has been a wrenching, tumultuous year. They Live in Public 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z The collective quiver and shrinking of the audience during the wrenching assault in “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord.” When Tragedy Strikes, What Does Criticism Have to Offer? 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z It’s easy to romanticize baseball: Historically, the sport has seen its fair share of wrenching tragedies and unqualified triumphs, both on and off the field. Cleveland’s field of dreams: What hope means for long-suffering Indians fans 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z When Walter reaches out, asking Eliza to grant him forgiveness, she faces a wrenching decision: Should she visit him in prison? New in crime fiction: Laura Lippman's 'I'd Know You Anywhere,' a new Arkady Renko mystery, and local debuts by Jeanne Matthews and Peter Lewis 2010-08-10T17:26:00Z And the Dyatkovo story, with a couple of expendable characters introduced just for the episode, was a disappointingly convenient, if wrenching, way to move the story toward a point of crisis. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 11: You’re a Monster 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z A scene where he’s clearly battling symptoms of heroin use while helping Love cut his daughter’s hair is especially wrenching. 'Montage of Heck': A sympathetic look at the life of Kurt Cobain 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Its title track, “All to Myself,” was a wrenching, gospel-rooted ballad she recorded on its first take. Baby Rose Writes Music With Intention, ‘Not to Fit Into a Box’ 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Chesser's solo work, "I Have Something to Tell You," brings a wrenching twist to otherwise routine headshots. Two 'Hide/Seek' offshoots in Seattle, at Greg Kucera and Photo Center NW 2012-04-26T20:13:04Z I was flooded with the most beautiful, wrenching, deeply personal emails. “Mad Men” and Mom’s suicide 2012-06-12T00:00:00Z As they grapple with their own risk, the story poses a wrenching question: Would you want to know if you carried a fatal genetic mutation? New in Paperback: ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ ‘Compass’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z “Be Careful,” whose lyric provides “All the Girls” with its title, is wrenchingly ambivalent, celebrating women’s strength but also their fragility — and ending, in this arrangement, on a daringly unresolved harmony. With Her Final Album, Rebecca Luker Bids a Fond Farewell 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Taylor gives a wrenching performance as a single mother, having spent beyond her means for her son’s private school, now acting desperately to save him even as he drifts away from her. In ‘American Crime’ Season 2, a Rape Accusation Raises Troubling Questions 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z “In Pakistan, it is real. And constantly, wrenchingly, in the news.” Review: ‘Discontent and Its Civilizations’: Mohsin Hamid at Home in Three Lands 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z One phone conversation that is not played for laughs is his wrenching exchange with the personnel director at the company he works for. 2010-01-29T07:06:00Z It was a wrenching play on the family portrait, the four adults arranged in a row in matching knee-high muck boots, black bars over their eyes. Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z There’s a wrenching, satisfying moment in this new season when Veronica admits out loud that the two people she can’t live without are her father, Keith, and her great love, Logan. "Veronica Mars" contends with the mystery and tragedy of growing up 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Wyld’s emotionally wrenching novel traces a solitary sheep farmer’s attempt to outrun her past on a remote British island. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z It’s not long before we realize why he is so adamant, a wrenching revelation that Cooper can’t quite steer to port. ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ Review: After Great Tribulation, an Exodus of Black Citizens 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The trophy wife of a dying man in "Magnolia," Paul Thomas Anderson's wrenching work on emotional decay. Oscars 2015: Julianne Moore and the art of effortlessness 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Their wrenching social poetry retains a submerged memory of the material's original identities and functions. Noah Purifoy's smoldering work of art, 'Watts Riot,' is a powerful reminder on the 50th anniversary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The archive’s writings probe the challenges the incarcerated face in wrenchingly personal terms, whether it’s a mother separated from her 12-year-old or the isolation of solitary confinement and its effect on mental health. For the American Prison Writing Archive, a ‘Shadow Canon’ Sheds Light 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The sweet — if wrenching — memoir is an ode to our dearest four-legged friends, and the people they lead us to. What to read in 2021 based on what you loved in 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The rifts wrought by inequality are on galvanizing display, for instance, in Roundabout Theatre Company’s moving revival of the 2003 musical “Caroline, or Change,” anchored by a wrenchingly uncompromising Sharon D. Clarke. Perspective | In words and music, New York theaters take aim at an America at war with itself 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Working from "a deft script" and making use of an "extraordinary" soundtrack, Vallee "weaves Strayed's wrenching memories through shots of her trudging … and trudging … and trudging." 'Wild': Reese Witherspoon leads a rewarding journey, reviews say 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z And “Stolen Youth” makes conscious use of its three-act structure, seeking resolution in a wrenching final episode devoted to the two women who stuck with Ray the longest. In the Country of True Crime 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z This was a pleasantly even-keeled lullaby rather than a radical or wrenching depiction of life draining away. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Leads His New York Philharmonic 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z The most emotionally wrenching and enthralling of the series was “The Long Winter,” a depiction of the winter her family endured in 1880-81 while they were living in South Dakota. ArtsBeat Blog: Julianne Moore's Favorite Books from Childhood 2011-09-13T18:42:47Z Sawyer's arc in the first half of "Lost" this season was wrenching to watch, the complete undoing of a man who lost the love of his life, and Holloway was never, ever better. Emmy nominations: Who got snubbed? 2010-07-08T15:30:00Z One teacher thinks that, by showing kids the Parker Closet, she is “wrenching their understanding of their lives into a new and different meaning: as needy.” “Janesville” and the Dangers of American Optimism 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z “The Last Ride” is a vignette-size version of an enormously wrenching plot thread from “The Border.” A Master of Thrills Shows His Range, and His Bite 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Stretched and mounted, they appear to be abstract paintings, but their origin and residual leather smell make them wrenchingly organic. From the Border, the Whitney Biennial Asks What American Art Can Be 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z A wrenching story in Esquire about what our attitude toward pit bulls says about us as a culture. Round-Up: An artist's 3-D crime, Darwin's library, why parking sucks 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Some of the obituaries in the musical press were wrenching. The 1918 Pandemic’s Impact on Music? Surprisingly Little 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z The final reveal, in which Dani unknowingly sacrifices her soul to the Lady in the Lake in order to save Flora, is a wrenching and moving twist. "Bly Manor’s" lesbian love story is no cause to celebrate 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z And despite its ornate grandeur, there lies something rather plain and wrenching at its heart. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-06-03T22:22:00Z A brilliant little play in itself, “Exorcise” is as wrenching a portrait of moral gridlock as anything in Arthur Miller, as weirdly lyrical as Tennessee Williams and as potently heightened as Suzan-Lori Parks. Review: ‘Slave Play,’ Four Times as Big and Just as Searing 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Kelegian's portrayal is all the more wrenching for its refusal to ask for sympathy. A wrenching ' 'night, Mother' at Lost Studio 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Early dramatic auditions found her striving for wrenching emotion but inspiring something else. Television: J D Souther, Lucy Punch and Others in New Series 2012-11-14T21:41:30Z The museum’s approach to these wrenching episodes is calculatedly theatrical, and effective. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z As your mind struggles to accommodate this wrenching reality, you won’t be able to sleep or focus. Modern Love: A Roomful of Yearning and Regret 2010-12-09T23:30:00Z It’s not as though serious, even wrenching events don’t arise in these pages. Book review: ‘The Boston Girl,’ by Anita Diamant 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z The decision to attend the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, N.Y., was a wrenching one, and it would ultimately take her away from her children for decades. | An 84-Year-Old Ceramist’s New York Moment 2014-03-03T23:45:27Z In the space of four wrenchingly booty-shaking minutes, Robyn captures the anguish of love lost, and the therapeutic power of feeling "messed up" over it at the club. Ten Grammy nominees that don't suck 2011-02-12T17:10:00Z I've really gone back and forth and thought: 'OK, do you become a really intense activist, whether it's civil disobedience or monkey wrenching or whatever? 'Why are people so reluctant to say they're feminists?' 2013-07-03T18:00:00Z And after spending days holding the fictional Oliver’s hand, when he finally dropped it, the disconnect was gut wrenching. Acting Out a Nightmare 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z In , Scott Thomas's performance as a middle-aged housewife who has an affair with a labourer just out of jail is as wrenching and well observed as anything in Madame Bovary or Anna Karenina. French films glow with confidence and culture. Ours should do the same 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z But her daughter finds it wrenching to unplug after dark. Vamping Teenagers Are Up All Night Texting 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Whereas Dickens describes Scrooge as “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner,” that still leaves plenty of room to imagine what he was like when he was getting started in 1800. Review | Christmas comes early in Jon Clinch’s ‘Marley,’ a clever riff on ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z A wrenching tale of child molestation in segregated northern Louisiana of the 1970s is is beautifully composed with nuances of shade and color. Met returns with 1st work by a Black composer in its history 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z “Actress” isn’t that book; instead, it’s a thoughtful, sometimes wrenching consideration of what preparing to write such a book about her mother would entail. Review | Anne Enright is the real star of her brilliant new novel ‘Actress’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z “Good Friday,” which was written by Kristiana Rae Colón and runs Feb. 11 through March 18, deals with another wrenching topic: school shootings. The Upcoming Flea Season Will Explore Police Brutality and Gun Violence 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Bazille brought a bracing objectivity to scenes of bathers, parties and his fellow artists, and it is wrenching to think of what he did not paint. The Best Art of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z What were his motivations for wrenching Britain out of Europe? 'They've turned Michael Gove into a vacillating fool' – politicians on Brexit: The Uncivil War 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The work is dark, both literally and metaphorically, but also exquisitely, wrenchingly, beautiful; a world of its own that draws you ineluctably within. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Souvenir d?un Lieu Cher? 2012-03-05T23:31:27Z Those who are accustomed to social media as a way to tout how fabulous your life is, beware: these sites can be unflinchingly graphic and wrenching. An Online Generation Redefines Mourning 2014-03-21T21:07:21Z One of “Barefoot Woman”’s most wrenching passages is also its most resolute. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Gillian also did some horrible things, but when we see what happens to her, it's pretty wrenching. A fitting ending to 'Boardwalk Empire' 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z For me it Is emotionally wrenching, brilliant, transcendent, and a source of unending wonder and joy and inspiration. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z With a viscerally emotional score “One Sweet Morning” shifts in mood from ruminative to bellicose, from mystical to wrenching. Music Review: Stephanie Blythe and Philharmonic at Avery Fisher - Review 2011-10-02T20:21:48Z Recently, I melted at viewing “Brooklyn,” which snuck up on me as its love triangle plays out in a wrenching but never manipulative way. The top 5 Valentine’s Day heartbreak films 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z The absurdity of this inane chitchat taking place as some of the most wrenching moments in theatrical history are occurring outside has a certain mordant humor. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z This wrenching novel is based on a horrific real-life event that occurred in 1996, when 139 girls at a Ugandan boarding school were abducted by guerrillas from the Lord’s Resistance Army. Susan Minot’s ‘Thirty Girls,’ and More 2014-02-26T21:15:54Z But removing a tattoo with a lover’s name is more than just physically painful: it must be emotionally wrenching as well. Melanie Griffith and 6 Other Celebrities Who Had Tattoos of Lovers Removed 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The shop’s dark, serene Zen space, always so orderly, was now an unkempt warehouse sale; the unwanted belts in a box on the floor brought to mind some wrenching image from the Goth genocide. 2010-02-11T06:20:00Z Poulenc wrote the French libretto, adapted from a play by Georges Bernanos, and his music is an uncanny balancing act: restrained yet lush, refined yet wrenching. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z Danes has not lost it: her wrenching, physical meltdowns as Carrie are only a reminder of how false and glossy so many on-screen tears really are. Homeland Watch: Playing It Close to the Vest 2011-12-19T13:28:04Z Letting Mom Down Easy: As wrenching as this will be, please talk to your mom without the jokes — good ones, by the way — and deflections. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: An adult child doesn’t want kids, which doesn’t fit Mom’s grand plan 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z When she finally gives in, it’s part of an outpouring that finds her rubbing the makeup over her naked torso with a mixture of pleasure and pain: a shocking, wrenching image. Review: Mozart Reimagined in a Violent, Racist World 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Some of the most wrenching effects of the law can be seen in the area of parental rights. Take a valium, lose your kid, go to jail 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z But he did stay, for the wrenching scenes of loss and the audience’s knowing silences, the unexpected humor and the joyful laughter. Chicago News Cooperative: Writer Gets New Vision From Film 2011-07-31T02:50:05Z The resulting film is no less significant: It is one of the most wrenching of the year. 4 actors, 1 room unspool a shooting’s aftermath in ‘Mass’ 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Yet the most wrenching scenes are those in which the characters are plunged into a more earthly form of hell — on the telephone. Grace on Broadway: Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon in Motel Hell 2012-10-09T14:30:38Z When, in her wrenching final soliloquy Ms. Close’s Isabelle talks about shaking her fists at God, you can’t help feeling that the Almighty had better take cover. Review: Glenn Close Raises a Saint in ‘Mother of the Maid’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Much as we all enjoy a happy chorus of affirmation, Mr. Spinelli’s “Wringer” proves that moral courage more often feels like a wrenching solo. Review: ‘Wringer,’ a Musical Adaptation of Jerry Spinelli’s Book 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z In another, “Difference Maker,” Daum unsparingly details her ambivalence about motherhood and her wrenching turn as a court-appointed advocate for a foster child. Contemporary Womanhood, in Fact and Fiction 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z It’s a wrenching, beautiful image, and the product of natural sunlight corralled by Polly Morgan, the director of photography. How to Turn a Good Cry Into Good Cinema 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Whatever it is, this partnership is thrilling to watch: funny, wrenching, full of large and small surprises. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z After last week’s emotionally wrenching episode, “Succession” comes back with one of the funniest of the series, filled with quotable lines and sick burns. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 4 Recap: A Coronation Demolition Derby 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z The overall performance was directed by Simon Halsey, who led the chorus in the Berlin Philharmonic’s wrenching staged account of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” at the Park Avenue Armory in 2014. ‘The Public Domain’: Cherished Harmony in a Splintered Nation 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The fluid gushes up rather than down, changes color and eventually become a clear liquid washing Scott, who experiences wrenching trauma, clean and pure. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z In his first-act monologue, which takes place in his living room, he describes his history of being overlooked and under-produced in wrenching detail, mixing in stories about the death and decline of great playwrights. | 'My Last Play': Oh, Come in. Glad to See You. Would You Like a Book? 2010-12-17T21:58:35Z In the second movement, which begins with wrenching expressions of grief and anger, Shaham dispatched the tangles of skittish lines and blocks of heaving chords with eerily controlled vehemence. Review: Michael Tilson Thomas, a Podium Hero, Returns 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Britten’s opera “Billy Budd” is the wrenching story of its title character, a young, naïve and guileless sailor pressed into service aboard a British war ship in 1797. Opera Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd,’ From Glyndebourne to BAM 2014-02-09T22:34:46Z The overall effect is of a smoothly unfurling carpet — reminiscent of Philip Glass in its unhurried yet wrenching harmonic progressions — atop which voices soar. Review: A New Opera Tells an Original Story With an Open Heart 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z In depicting the psychic load a black artist bears in a predominantly white profession, “Life in Motion” is wrenching and revelatory. Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z And the Modern’s famous elliptical gallery hosts nine Mapplethorpe photographs, featuring an elegantly wrenching self-portrait of the artist suffering from the slow ravages of AIDS. Fort Worth’s Modern Museum of Art hosts exhibit of ’80s New York art The move, exciting for some, wrenching for others, may seem an anticlimax to many. Goodbye, old Washington Post, home of the newspaper the Grahams built 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z The character’s death would have been as wrenching for viewers if the soldier’s appearance remained unaltered and he merely fell limp. The Beauty of Sam Mendes’s “1917” Comes at a Cost 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z In a candid and wrenching plea on the eve of his 23rdbirthday last week, the Livermore, Calif., man did something extraordinary. Karen Klein: YouTube’s most evil bullying video 2012-06-21T15:45:00Z After a first season that started strong, then wobbled as it found its own material, it’s become a confident, emotionally rich series — but one that, by nature and obligation, is wrenching to watch. Review: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 2 Moves Into a Dark Future 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z When it was introduced, this wrenching, frenzied score proved a salve for countless listeners coping with their grief. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z His new drama, Little Men, which premiered to raves at Sundance, is another subtly wrenching character study that is probably too low-key to go noticed the Academy. And the Oscar might go to: the sure bets and underdogs critics have already seen 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z “You stay soft, get eaten — only natural to harden up,” Mitski sings on this sleek but deceptively vulnerable pop song, as her voice, fittingly, oscillates between icy cool and wrenching ardor. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z In this quietly wrenching memoir, Hsu recalls starting out at Berkeley in the mid-1990s as a watchful music snob, fastidiously curating his tastes and mercilessly judging the tastes of others. The 10 Best Books of 2022 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z This wrenching collection of Elizabethan responses to political and religious turbulence marks the Monteverdi Choir’s 50th anniversary. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Kevorkian's wrenching tape of Thomas Youk's request to die, and of the death itself, is carefully edited and deftly inserted into the movie to startling yet sympathetic effect. Movie Review: Pacino as Dr. Death 2010-04-15T15:36:00Z No other biography of Black Elk matches the depth, breadth and color of Joe Jackson’s wrenching account of the Sioux elder and his people. Best audiobooks of 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Without being overtly topical, he has consistently viewed the world through a critical eye, with the result that art he made decades ago is pertinent to our present morally wrenching American moment. Bruce Nauman Reappears: Pay Attention 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The beginning of the school year can be emotional for any parent, but it is particularly wrenching for Anna Whiston-Donaldson. She let her son play in the rain. He never came back. That simple observation lies at the heart of “The Velveteen Rabbit,” one of the more wrenching children’s classics. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Given that it’s midsummer, you might consider putting aside those emotionally wrenching novels you don’t really want to read or those dispiriting analyses of our national politics. Review | Johnston McCulley dreamed up Zorro 100 years ago. The masked avenger is still a thrill. 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Clearly, the Taylors are headed for some wrenching negotiations, and it will be interesting to see where it all goes. ArtsBeat: ?Friday Night Lights? Watch: Tami Taylor?s Dream Job 2011-07-02T04:01:26Z Mary’s speech about the personal cost of her peculiar position in Berenson’s ménage strikes the evening’s most wrenching and powerful note, and Ms. Knight delivers it with a quiet, captivating force. | 'The Old Masters': Showdown at the Italian Villa, Easels Drawn 2011-01-28T03:01:21Z As Anna, a woman stretched to the breaking point, Ms. Clark gives an understatedly wrenching performance. | 'Harvest': The Family That Stays Together Frays Together 2011-05-06T05:30:05Z The result, “Punching the Air,” is a wrenching novel whose story, told in verse, is both urgent and heartbreakingly familiar. Teenagers in Turmoil 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Switching to the news provided a sober dose of hyperrealism followed by a wrenching documentary on the Amazon Delta zeroing in on capitalist entrepreneurs stalking rainforests with chain saws. My Cancelled Detectives 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z But readers of “Pure Colour” stay with Mira through some wrenching emotion. Sheila Heti Is Still Asking Questions 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z These passages are wrenchingly sad and display an emotional intelligence that was less to the fore in Shteyngart's previous novels. Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:26Z Here, in scene after scene, the story of the Lovings is nothing if not wrenchingly personal. Review: In ‘Loving,’ They Loved. A Segregated Virginia Did Not Love Them Back. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z He has come to think of Staten Island as another planet, and Harlem as his home turf, but his self-deluding streak is just another wrenching part of his character. Review: A Corrupt Cop Is Up Against the Wall in Don Winslow’s ‘The Force’ 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Then it takes a sudden turn toward something important and genuinely wrenching. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The most wrenching scene in “Safe Home” is the goodbye between Lucky and his mother after a 10-minute reunion that will be their last. 2010-01-20T05:27:00Z “It’s wrenching to know that the reason someone is sending flowers is because otherwise they’d be there in person,” said Whit McClure, who runs the floral design studio Whit Hazen in Los Angeles. We Are Saying It With Flowers. Loudly and Repeatedly. 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z The boys veer off into sports or computer games, the girls into friendship in all its wrenching mysteries and satisfactions of favor and exclusion. “Books Smell Like Old People”: Do Teens Read Seriously Anymore? 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z That’s hardly the only haunting going on in Sara Fellini’s unwieldy new play, “In Vestments,” in which Isaac Byrne’s high-energy production is by turns earnest and campy, wrenching and visually eloquent. Review: In Sara Fellini’s ‘In Vestments,’ Haunted by More Than Ghosts 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z "That particular scene, it was just wrenching for me," said Devine. Hard-working Loretta Devine up for second Emmy 2012-09-13T19:45:12Z Though the ideas underpinning “Glass Guignol” are shrewd, the biographical context wrenching, the staging seemingly audacious, the play itself is often inert. Review: A Gothic Tennessee Williams Mash-Up in ‘Glass Guignol’ 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Wendell Pierce, as Willy, is wrenching as he flails and fails to avoid his fate instead of slumping into it from the start. Review: In a New ‘Salesman,’ the Lomans Look Like All of Us 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z But it delivers another of Mr. Banks’s wrenching, panoramic visions of American moral life, and this one very particular to the early 21st century. Books of The Times: Russell Banks?s Novel ?Lost Memory of Skin? - Review 2011-09-25T22:26:09Z An affecting oddness is the great virtue of “In the Distance,” along with its wrenching evocations of its main character’s loneliness and grief. A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Many of the film's most wrenching scenes involve Patsey being subjected to unspeakable physical and emotional torture. With cotton and corn husks, actress connects to her '12 Years a Slave' character 2013-11-20T20:03:02Z I had the sense that America was going through a wrenching transformation and then the transformation didn’t really happen. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z It was heart wrenching and spectacular at once. ‘Fairview’: Watching a Play in Black and White 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z It is unique among its social media peers in that it has not spent the last five years in a state of wrenching crisis. Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z “A Screaming Man” is a quiet, tender, finally wrenching story of an individual at the intersection of the personal and the political. | 'A Screaming Man': A Pool Man in Chad, at the Intersection of the Personal and the Political 2011-04-12T22:43:09Z Jay-Z has been startlingly honest and introspective over the past year, whether on his wrenching album “4:44” or in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times. What’s on TV Friday: ‘6 Balloons’ and ‘Troy: Fall of a City’ 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z “It’s about the wrenching pain of separation,” Ms. Satpathy said, a subject particularly on her mind these days. A Great Odissi Dancer Conjures Gods and Demons Alone 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z “We are such stuff as dreams are made on,” he says, and, in Harriet Walter’s wrenching delivery, it has never sounded so wistful. Two Ways to Bring Shakespeare Into the Twenty-First Century 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Chris decides the most humane thing is to kill the doomed man, but, being Chris, when he finally manages the task, he’s hunky-dory, as if the wrenching experience had no emotional impact at all. Fear the Walking Dead recap: season two, episode three – Ouroboros 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Yet his wonderful staging is dreamlike, wrenchingly human and viscerally theatrical. Music Review: A New Vision for ‘Prince Igor’ at the Met 2014-02-07T11:38:03Z To be reminded of the vulnerability of young bodies and souls is wrenching, but there is also something thrilling about the honesty and tenacity of the kids and the dedication of their caretakers. Sundance Wrap-Up: 6 Movies We Like and One We Disagree on 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z “Konin” proved to be neither a nostalgic “Fiddler on the Roof” homage to the shtetl nor another wrenching reimagining of the Holocaust. Theo Richmond, Who Revived the Past in a Polish Shtetl, Dies at 93 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z This is not an unreasonable request — this extraordinarily wrenching episode demands to be handled with care and concern, something any human being with a shred of empathy does not need to be told. Trump treated the Dunns like characters on reality TV, with grotesque results 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z “All right” doesn’t quite describe the effect of Ms. Manville’s wrenching performance in this production, directed by Richard Eyre, which begins performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Sunday. Lesley Manville as the Unhappy Heroine of ‘Ghosts’ 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Early in the festival, the documentary “Silvered Water,” an impressionistic essay film about Syria, helped make that conflict more wrenchingly palpable. After a wobbly start, the Cannes Film Festival offered plenty of good and even great films this year. He and the inspired orchestra brought richness and majesty even to the wrenching, torturous first half of the second movement. Bavarian Radio Symphony Performs Brahms and Ligeti 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z As a portrait of a displaced man unraveling, Mr. Cranston’s wrenching performance stands on its own. Review: An Electrifying Bryan Cranston Is All the Rage in ‘Network’ 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The rest is all hugs, tears and wrenching confessions, set to a meticulously curated soundtrack. Review: ‘Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru’ Depicts a Self-Help Prophet 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Akin, whose previous features include the explosive “Head-On” and the sprawling, wrenching political melodrama “The Edge of Heaven,” observes his characters and their social environment with a rigorously measured mix of intensity and detachment. Review: ‘In the Fade’ Is a Tale of Grief and Violence in Modern Germany 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Moving the camera slightly with her — she lurches somewhat out of frame at one point, suggesting a violent, existential wrenching — he shoots the song in a head-and-shoulder close-up, with the background blurred. Movie Review: ‘Les Misérables’ Stars Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman 2012-12-24T22:48:43Z Deciding to leave was “heart wrenching,” she said. ArtsBeat: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster is Leaving 2011-05-25T18:09:04Z It is only when the final, wrenching break from most of her family arrives that one realizes just how courageous this testimonial really is. She Didn’t Own a Birth Certificate or Go to School. Yet She Went On to Earn a Ph.D. 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z In his acclaimed film “Moonlight,” Barry Jenkins told the wrenchingly uncertain story of a gay black boy growing up in the Miami projects. Gay America’s Harrowing, Heartening Year 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z The descriptions of the Balkan War are detailed and heart wrenching. Val McDermid's new whodunit rattles with recent Balkans history 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z But then you have Hirschhorn, who shows us wrenching images of destroyed bodies, even children’s bodies. These Artists Refuse to Forget the Wars in Iraq 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z One of the artists in the video is Keyon Harrold, a trumpeter born and raised in Ferguson, Mo., where the most wrenching confrontations between protesters and the police have taken place. A Cri de Coeur From Jazz Musicians in a Black Lives Matter Age 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z In June, she sang her wrenching rendition of “You Learn,” from “Jagged Little Pill,” for an Opening Night Times event on the future of Broadway. The Breakout Stars of 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z But these scenes might actually feel emotionally wrenching, too, were his character more than the sum of his grizzly mistreatment. ‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z "Da 5 Bloods" opens with archival footage of Muhammad Ali explaining his reasons for being a conscientious objector alongside wartime frames seen as still and moving, all of it gut wrenching. With "Da 5 Bloods" Spike Lee triumphantly reflects with Black experience of the Vietnam War 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z But in the final soliloquy, just before Billy is hanged for having given a fatal blow to Claggart, Mr. Gunn spins the dumbfounded sailor’s wrenching lines with aching tenderness and finespun pianissimos. Daniel Harding Brings the Opera ?Billy Budd? to Life 2010-04-30T18:39:00Z The restorative justice space is a sun-filled aerie that can safely accommodate emotionally wrenching conversations. What Would a World Without Prisons Look Like? 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z This gloomier inclination is more compelling; there’s a wrenching number toward the end of the first act when Mr. Blankenbuehler uses dance, in “Right This Way,” to suggest the psychological burdens these men carry. Review: Singing and Dancing the Postwar Blues in ‘Bandstand’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s always emotionally wrenching—I can’t believe what people are capable of, good or bad. Cover Story: Lorenzo Mattotti’s “On the Way” 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Its finale is from that 1968 TV special: his wrenching performance of “If I Can Dream,” longing for equality and redemption during a year of social turmoil. Review: A Reverent Elvis Doc Separates the Trailblazer From His Tragedy 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z We wait for the heart wrenching moment when Selma discovers her loss. Review: Great Expectations for a New Opera, Dashed 2010-09-16T03:00:00Z Just two days later, Priscilla Presley shared a wrenching message about her daughter on social media, along with a photo of the two of them together. Another Public, Painful Loss for Priscilla Presley 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Their subject matter is often wrenching, their mode is naturalistic and they seem devoted to probing the dark underbelly of human behavior as well as the weak spots in Europe's decaying social democracy. Cannes: A heart-rending take on a movie classic 2011-05-15T17:21:00Z The final scene, in which she rejects Onegin's longed-for ardour, is as physically wrenching for us as it is for her. Onegin – review 2013-01-21T18:17:00Z “It’s become a confident, emotionally rich series — but one that, by nature and obligation, is wrenching to watch,” James Poniewozik wrote in his New York Times review. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Archer’ 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z PÖLTEN, Austria — “Speak of me as I am,” Othello urges in the wrenching final scene of Shakespeare’s tragedy. A Rare ‘Othello’ Puts the Spotlight on Race 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z The wrenching, piano-driven torch song “Lighthouse,” on the other hand, gives her a little more breathing space and puts a spotlight on one of the album’s most impassioned vocal performances. Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Chemistry’ Draws on Familiar Formulas 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Twenty-seven years after Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings, Anita Hill recalled that the most wrenching part of her testimony was not being asked by an all-white, all-male judiciary committee to repeat Thomas’s graphic and grotesque comments. One Year of #MeToo: The Legacy of Black Women’s Testimonies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The Broadway staging of that production, wrote David Rooney in the Hollywood Reporter, gives "ample evidence of Cooper's personal connection to the material, which goes far beyond technical craft to a place of wrenching empathy". Cooper takes Elephant Man to Broadway 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z They illuminate wrenching occasions, like the time when Mr. Mandela was refused permission to attend the funeral of his mother and later, the funeral of his oldest son, who died in a car accident. Liveright to Publish Nelson Mandela’s Letters From Prison 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z It is a wrenching expression of the sadness of aging, watching the light fade and tearfully remembering better days. Review: Megan Hilty Goes Beyond Daffy, to Sweetness, Even Regret 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z The scenes between Williams and Woods are wrenching. Alfre Woodard is devastating in the beautifully bleak death-penalty drama "Clemency" 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z His sudden fall from that pinnacle, when the feds come after the company, is one of those wrenching Dickensian tumbles that's meant to reveal a character's true nature. "How Do You Know": A deliciously messy holiday rom-com 2010-12-17T01:30:00Z And there is speculation as to whether one of biggest challengers to “La La Land” for best picture, Kenneth Lonergan’s wrenching “Manchester by the Sea,” might be hurt by being a bit of downer. Movie Awards Season Kicks Off in High Gear 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z From the outset, the studio carefully devised a marketing campaign that would showcase the film's wrenching emotional firepower as much as if not more than its gunplay. In marketing 'American Sniper,' Warner Bros. treads carefully with gender and politics 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z That wrenching is, alas, an experience shared by many other cultures. A soulful, flavorful ‘Fiddler’ at Village 2012-11-14T21:43:13Z Jacobs argues convincingly that Washington’s inability to develop an energy policy after this wrenching national experience was an object lesson in the failure of governmental regulation and power — one whose import endures strongly today. 5 new books not to be missed 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z While “Amnesty” succeeds in wrenching attention toward systemic injustice, its stylized, iterative interactions are too cursory to move past being concept demonstrations. Review | In ‘Amnesty,’ an immigrant is put in an impossible position 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z And the wordless, gut-deep howl with which she concludes “Apologia” is more wrenching and revelatory than any of the carefully arranged words that precede it. Review: Stockard Channing Is a Mother to Remember in ‘Apologia’ 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The portrayals across the board infuse Arthur Miller’s 1953 drama of vengeful mass hysteria with a stomach-knotting urgency that doesn’t dissipate until well after the last of the evening’s wrenching twists. ‘The Crucible’ as you’ve never seen it 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z McCann’s fictionalization of such wrenching stories is likely to raise questions among readers, particularly in a story that unfolds in a charged political conflict where virtually every fact is up for debate. How Colum McCann Shaped Loss Into a Book 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Matthias Goerne, who had just sung the title role, an oppressed and delusional soldier, in a concert performance with the Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, stepped in and was wrenching. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 14-20 2014-03-13T22:51:05Z I received the following from Anon in the Midwest, who wrote so wrenchingly of her young son’s struggle with mental illness earlier this week. Motherlode: Response From the Mother of a 'Son With Demons' 2011-08-09T17:22:48Z Thuso Mbedu and Aaron Pierre, who star in the wrenching depiction of U.S. slavery combined with elements of magical realism, are potential nominees. ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ ‘Ted Lasso’ vie for Emmy nominations 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z “In the lock,” she continues from one side of a shut door that now feels like a wrenching divide. ‘One Fine Morning’ Review: The Moments That Make Up a Rich Life 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z His singing was an uncanny amalgam, at once elegant and wrenching, intelligent and fitful. Music Review | Metropolitan Opera: At the Met, What a Piece of Work Is This Man 2010-03-18T00:00:00Z It’s a deep, wrenching piece of writing that is so seamlessly put together I can’t imagine changing one thing about it. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z The finale movement, true to its title, is a wrenching lament. Review: Chamber Music Society Performs Ligeti’s Trio 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z That struggle was put into wrenching perspective by the midsection of the show, which drew heavily from his latest album, “Wrecking Ball.” Concert review: Bruce Springsteen at Wrigley Field 2012-09-08T12:25:00Z Nearly four years ago, the novelist Wendy Mills was at the airport with her family when her son Zack asked a simple but wrenching question. A Wave of 9/11 Novels Seeks a New Audience: the Young Reader 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z “The company lost dozens of talented people. It was wrenching for everyone. But travel did come back and so did Lonely Planet.” Where now for travel? Lonely Planet closures point to an uncertain future 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Set in contemporary China, this elegant, sensitive, at times wrenching movie plaits together the lives of four characters who over a single day set down separate, difficult paths that finally converge. 11 Movies You Need to Know at New Directors/New Films 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z The wrenching film follows two Chibok girls freed in 2017 and two women who, like thousands of others, were kidnapped but are known as “forgotten girls” because they weren’t captured in a high-profile event. Stolen daughters: what happened after #BringBackOurGirls? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z “Libby and Declan’s relationship is gut wrenching — but is it exploitative or empathetic? I couldn’t stop mulling it over.” Ethical Drama Wins Edinburgh Theater Prize 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Carl Lund's screenplay hits a lot of flat notes and the acting is uneven, but ultimately I didn't much care -- I was swept along by the spectacular visual journey and the wrenching emotional experience. Tribeca: Return of a moviemaking madman 2011-04-26T21:30:00Z This wrenching drama about a Black teenager growing up amid gangs in a racist Los Angeles was actually put out on laser disc by Criterion in the 1990s. Readers Would Add These African-American Directors to the Criterion Collection 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z This is a wrenching, often disturbing, almost entirely gripping experience for grown-ups. Video Game Review | Heavy Rain: Murderer?s Young Prey; A Father?s Torment 2010-02-27T00:34:00Z ‘AQUARIUS’ The United States was not the only country undergoing a wrenching political upheaval this year. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z In this show’s most wrenching moment he remembers Coles’s final performance in Grand Rapids, Mich., during which he suffered a stroke but managed to finish the number. Music Review: Tommy Tune at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-11-22T21:31:29Z But after being offered the post-show mini concerts, Reeves made a wrenching decision and called Lee. A Shirelle joins 'Baby, It's You!' 2011-07-19T20:57:16Z Farther away, we heard a choir’s wrenching yodels, traditional wordless songs alternating between falsetto and chest voice. A Grand Tour of Switzerland, Reluctant Son in Tow 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z And Grigorian’s final scene, which milks the unexpected poignancy of her simply changing in front of us from her habit into a sleek black cocktail dress and letting down her hair, is just as wrenching. At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z But this “Hamlet” is at its most wrenching when Scott’s eyes widen at the horror of what has become of those closest to him. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Should we have been shocked at the sight of Ptolemy wrenching the tongue out of a slaughtered giraffe and slathering it in the face of a grieving woman? Julius Caesar; Siegfried – review 2012-10-06T23:08:03Z They performed a memorable "Giselle," but still, no one was quite prepared for the wrenching "Romeo and Juliet" they performed in July of last year. From South Dakota to the Bolshoi, a dancer's leap 2011-11-03T11:26:09Z I wish they could hear this wrenching, ingeniously structured, grimly beautiful work, especially in this visually stunning and searing production. Review: A Masterful ‘Lulu’ at the Met 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z There has been a mixed reception since the film started screening at festivals last year; not surprising, since it is an emotionally wrenching, uncompromising, sometimes horrifying piece of work. Gillian Wearing: A nose for the truth 2011-08-29T20:30:01Z Of course Russell and the screenwriters are driving toward a sentimental conclusion -- much more sentimental than the real ending of the Ward-Eklund story, as it happens -- but the journey is plenty wrenching. "The Fighter": From small-town palooka to champion 2010-12-10T01:30:00Z I swam as if I were drowning, thrashing the water, wild-armed, wrenching my head from side to side. IVF: 'I had the dread feeling that I was part of some greater experiment' 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z These women set exacting standards — vocally, especially — in a show with wrenching themes and challenging melodies; the evening is 95 percent music. It’s a Nova Y. Payton sweep in ‘Caroline, or Change’ 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z The scene in which he disappears is a reminder of how profoundly gut wrenching Mr. Banks’s writing can be. Books of The Times: Russell Banks?s Novel ?Lost Memory of Skin? - Review 2011-09-25T22:26:09Z Hers is the publication of the paperback of her latest book, “Every Last One,” a wrenching but transformative read about the healing of a shattered family. Motherlode: Quindlen on Parenthood?s Joys 2011-03-22T16:49:14Z But the playing of the opening movement, a slow, ruminative and quietly wrenching Largo, was especially wondrous. Music Review: The Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-25T23:35:51Z Brown plays Hero, the character confronting a wrenching decision in Part 1. Suzan-Lori Parks' 'Father Comes Home From the Wars' is an entrancingly intimate drama 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z “Beyond its romance, ‘Titanic’ offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences,” Janet Maslin wrote in her review for The Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Idol’ and ‘Dave’ 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Near the end, the forest department makes a wrenching demand that “The Elephant Whisperers” never adequately explains, even if it provides the sort of heart-tugging finale a screenwriter would love. ‘The 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Bite-Size Global Tales 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Any work that penetrates the human condition with such wrenching honesty fits my definition of spiritual. Music Review: ‘Wozzeck,’ by Philharmonia Orchestra, at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-11-20T23:07:31Z Its star, Nathan Fielder, displayed hints of melancholy, but nothing prepared fans for his wrenching season finale, “Finding Frances.” Comedy Highlights of 2017 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Times theater critic Charles McNulty says it’s worth it to brave traffic for the “wrenching new revival” of August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean” at South Coast Repertory in Orange County. Essential Arts & Culture: Vampire weekend, a Mexican masterpiece reemerges (sort of), the rising Academy museum 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Since Jill died, I wake up every day and read a quote by Maya Angelou: “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” The monster myth: What I learned from seeing my wife’s killer in court 2014-04-28T23:00:00Z The scene in which Henry, caught breaking into a neighbor’s house to play video games, miserably pleads “I’m a good person!” is one of the most wrenching things I’ve seen this year. RECAP: The Americans Watch: Something Greater Than Yourself 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z In a particularly wrenching scene in “The Father,” a new film directed by the French novelist Florian Zeller, Anthony Hopkins’s title character is disoriented with dementia, talking to a caregiver. Anthony Hopkins is welcoming old age by embracing his inner child 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s a luminous, human, wrenching exploration of identity. Boyhood, Moonlight and beyond: the best coming-of-age movies 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The idea, said Ruby Chen, another of the founders, is to produce a body of work that will document a wrenching period in Chinese history. CNEX, a Nonprofit, Helps Filmmakers Document China 2013-08-20T21:47:30Z But rather than drilling too deep into this history, she tells the impassioned, wrenching story of the mental health crisis within her own family and community. The Harsh Realities of Being Indigenous in North America 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z “It’s doubtful that anything more wrenching will be seen in paint this year,” Godfrey Barker wrote in 1999 in The Evening Standard of London when the “Abortion” series was exhibited in Madrid. Paula Rego, Artist Known for Unsettling Images, Dies at 87 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z "Daddy Doesn't Pray No More" ponders faith, while "Why I Cry" is a wrenching weeper filled with angst and revelation. Essential albums of 2015: Bjork, Kendrick and 8 others on the edge of pop 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Sunday night’s Breaking Bad was so fascinating – equal parts wrenching, shocking and creepy – that I actually logged on this morning hoping that James Poniewozik felt compelled to say his piece. Breaking Bad Watch: Four Terrifying Glimpses of Walter White, Lost Cause 2012-08-27T16:09:22Z Given the deepening dread and uncertainty over immigration issues, “From Nowhere,” Matthew Newton’s wrenching, if somewhat chaotic, film about undocumented high school students in the Bronx could hardly be more pertinent. Review: Immigrants ‘From Nowhere,’ Anxiously Living Under the Radar 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z But, wrote Ms. Plisetskaya, her aunt, known in the family as Mita, exacted a wrenching emotional cost for her kindness and over the years their relations soured and then broke off completely. Maya Plisetskaya, Ballerina Who Embodied Bolshoi, Dies at 89 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z Though Liverman has been rightly praised for his wrenching performance in “Fire,” he did sometimes have trouble being heard over the orchestra at the Met. Two Singers Reveal the Core of Art Song, on Stages Big and Small 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z But the visceral immediacy of their performances here seems wrenchingly out of context and reveals the ornamental thinness of the surrounding play. Review: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Uses Love as a Weapon 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Plenty of kids of the ’70s like myself must still be scarred by Radar O’Reilly’s wrenching announcement of the death of Col. All the Things That Make Us Laugh and Cry: Family Guy and When Sitcoms Kill 2013-11-26T15:14:22Z But getting broken open, wrenching as it is, can also be an opportunity to become a healthier, better person. Mary South on Content Moderation and Trauma 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Thankfully the universe sees him more clearly than he sees himself, as fate presents him with two guides on a wrenching yet revelatory journey. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The film's visually striking travelogue is juxtaposed with wrenching interviews of war veterans, including Mincio. May 28 at SIFF: NW vet takes a 'Long Ride Home' 2012-05-25T22:13:05Z Silly at times, but also wrenchingly empathetic, it is a musical, a murder mystery, a ghost story and a love story. Review: Whimsy, Horror and Missing Bones in ‘Hunter John and Jane’ 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Paak’s voice is an endearing, sometimes wrenching complement to his music’s atmospheric swirl. Broccoli City Festival promotes health and sustainability with music 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Even the tone and structure of the Starz series is familiar: What begins as a wrenching but contained tragedy ripples out into widening and intersecting circles of secrecy and deceit. ‘The Missing,’ on Starz: 8-Year Odyssey to Solve a Mystery 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z It's really wrenching since boyfriend thinks they like him. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Parents want dentist to excise blue-collar boyfriend 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z The result is a wrenching meditation on appropriation, cultural genocide and how to best honor one’s ancestry. Review | Woolly Mammoth’s ‘Where We Belong’ speaks the languages of theater and film with equal elegance 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z The audience leapt to its feet midway through the song, and stayed there through her final, wrenching, hand-thrust-in-the-air, wail. ‘Moulin Rouge!’ and ‘Inheritance’ Take Top Honors at Tony Awards 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z The tone of the narration is so wrenchingly honest that the film never lapses into self-pity or relies on mystical platitudes. Review: ‘Notes on Blindness’ Is John Hull’s Trip From Darkness to Light 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z They’re all comedies, as wrenching, as painful, as sorrowful as they may be. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z “The Father” is a wrenching film about an elderly man wrestling with dementia, and many voters told Barker and his co-president, Tom Bernard, the subject matter made them afraid to watch it. Inside Anthony Hopkins’s Unexpected Win at the Oscars 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z As wrenching and messy as it is to have a big cry while reading, I consider it one of life’s great pleasures. Susan Orlean: By the Book 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z But I’ve never experienced the feeling of a fist closing around my heart and wrenching me to my feet. The Nick Cave Song That Changed My Life 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z But here, some passages were reassigned to the Glimmerglass Festival Children’s Chorus, whose youthful vulnerability lent new pangs to an already wrenching piece. Critic’s Notebook: Glimmerglass Offers an Ambitious Spread of Works 2013-07-22T22:01:46Z “Blue” paints a wrenching portrait of a black family living in Harlem and torn asunder when their only child — a boy, a dreamer, an activist — is shot dead by one of his father’s white colleagues. ‘Blue’ is the opera on police violence that America needs to see, but can’t 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The decision was wrenching, Tokuda-Hall said, but she turned Scholastic down and went public, describing her predicament in a blog post and a Twitter post that drew more than five million views. Asked to Delete References to Racism From Her Book, an Author Refused 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Q. A mother is parted from her child forever in the wrenching novel “Sophie’s Choice,” written by whom? Style Invitational Week 1285: Eye jinks — our googly photo winners 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z None of these are facile examinations and each requires the filmmakers to piece together the victims' wrenching accounts and furiously mine documentation for whatever corroboration they can construct to make the most forceful case possible. HBO's wrenching "Allen v. Farrow" builds a damning case against Woody Allen's credibility & egomania 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z In the most wrenching verses of “Love and War” he pictures brides of servicemen killed in action trying to explain to their children “why daddy won’t ever come home again.” Movie Review: Jonathan Demme’s ‘Neil Young Journeys’ 2012-06-28T23:29:53Z In an unnamed, war-ravaged city in the Muslim world, two young lovers face a wrenching choice. Global Migration Meets Magic in Mohsin Hamid’s Timely Novel 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z But the emotion that drives Turk and Brittany for the bulk of the story is not hatred but wrenching grief. ‘Small Great Things’ is the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z The film “is a quiet, tender, finally wrenching story of an individual at the intersection of the personal and the political,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times in April. Video: Another Round for the Bad Boys 2011-07-29T21:15:06Z King, a former CIA agent, scripts the title character, an escape-artist superhero, with wrenching depth — a depressed god racked by trauma that he cannot elude. The best graphic novels, memoirs and story collections of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z She's not, of course, and both her initial brush-off of Nori as well as her rush to say a wrenching farewell at the last moment are the most painfully real parts of this hour. "The Rings of Power" shows us a new side of Middle-earth: girlfriends 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z His Ninth Symphony, a wrenchingly meditative commemoration of the third anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster and the 70th of Hiroshima, had its premiere earlier this year in Tokyo. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Set to a rousing, eclectic selection of opera, pop, rock and blues, it was in its time and is still an emotionally wrenching revelation, a defining achievement of art in the 1980s. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Not long after Shorter and Spalding decided to take on “Iphigenia,” the writer Rachel Cusk put out a wrenching, modernized telling of “Medea” that won critical praise. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Such spontaneity is particularly wrenching in the climactic scene in which Vanya explodes during a family meeting called by the professor. Jay O. Sanders on How an ‘Oak Tree’ Became Uncle Vanya 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z She was wrenching in the Prioress’s death scene, when this severe nun, rather than embracing the moment, is seized by terror and feels abandoned by God. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z To listen to the pianist Paul Lewis’s new album of late Brahms, you would think these pieces had been written just after the last sonatas of Schubert, which Lewis has recorded with wrenching restraint. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z “If ‘25th Hour’ does not quite work as a plausible and coherent story, it produces a wrenching, dazzling succession of moods,” A.O. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Spy’ and ‘In the Shadow of the Towers’ 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Freed from all the imitation and parody, it's both a breathtaking technical exercise and a wrenching glimpse of human suffering set against the cruelty of history. How "Battleship Potemkin" reshaped Hollywood 2011-01-12T01:32:00Z It’s wrenching to see—whether for the first time or the hundredth—Walter Cronkite take off his glasses, voice cracking as he announces the President’s death. Reporting JFK’s Death: News, Tragedy, and Confusion, Decades Before Twitter 2013-11-14T17:32:00Z Zhao Liang’s “Petition,” a brave and wrenching new documentary from China, takes a bottom-up view of the cruel and absurd ways that lofty ideal is put into practice on the streets of Beijing. | ?Petition?: In China, You Can?t Fight City Hall 2011-01-14T00:04:43Z Of course, at the most emotionally wrenching moment in this father-daughter standoff, a huge oil pump rolled in and kicked into action. Music Review: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Opens at Bayreuth With Reality-Cam Touch 2013-07-28T21:38:06Z The wrenching complication of the new season involves Paige, dealing with the knowledge of her parents’ secret. ‘The Americans’: In Season 4, the Wars Grow Colder and More Dangerous 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z It was wrenching to see the beaten-down characters seeking entry, dressed in dingy gray suits with rumpled hats. Music Review: Salvatore Sciarrino?s ?Porta Della Legge,? After Kafka 2010-07-21T21:23:00Z A colleague wrote a brave, wrenching article about her stillbirth, and how social networks assumed she was still pregnant. Perspective | Notes from a miscarriage 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z A half-century later, his commentary is still wrenchingly relevant. Bakari Sellers wanted his memoir to spark tough talks about race. We’re already in the middle of a conflagration. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Hill tore through a swinging version of "Lost Ones," and a guitar-driven version of her wrenching "Ex Factor" transformed the tune from a slow-burning torch song to an uplifting foot stomper. 150,000+ celebrate black music and more at BET Experience 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z The role is wrenching, vocally and emotionally, and Andrew will be the first teenager to tackle it on Broadway. He’s 16 Going On Stardom: Meet Broadway’s Next ‘Evan Hansen’ 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z But Barker compares the foregone conclusion of “The Final Year” to the unhappy ending of another movie he calls equally “wrenching” yet worthwhile. What was the final year in the Obama White House like? This filmmaker was there. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z And Hahn’s performance as the biggest and most open heart on Transparent became more wrenching and convincing still now that she’s broken. Here’s Who Should—and Actually Will—Win Emmys This Year 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Moving to Asia opened a door to the wider world for Ms. Hazzard, but it was also the beginning of a string of wrenching leave-takings. Shirley Hazzard, Novelist Who Charted Storm-Tossed Lives, Dies at 85 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z In this exclusive clip, we see the wrenching anxiety those dismissed warnings generate at home, where Felicia attempts to maintain composure as she grasps the reality that she may never see her husband again. Kate Hudson Gets Emotional in Clip From 'Deepwater Horizon' 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Each year, thousands attend wrenching services to honor the 49 people who died. At Pulse Shooting Site, a Plan to Remember Renews Pain for Some 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Ms. Röschmann commanded the stage as Dido, especially in her nobly wrenching account of “Dido’s Lament.” Review: Purcell’s Elaborate Scores, Elegantly Executed at Carnegie Hall 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Brandi Carlile’s solo version of “Party of One,” on her album “By the Way, I Forgive You,” was wrenching enough: a desperate reckoning with a partner the singer knows she’ll never leave. The Playlist: Esperanza Spalding’s Intoxicating Groove, and 12 More New Songs 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The Odyssey committee said that "the narrators' dramatic, forceful performances meld two emotional and wrenching plot lines." Corner: Let's hear it for these winning audiobooks 2011-04-13T20:22:06Z The sparse, anguished tone of Eötvös's music is often in stark contrast to the mercurial wit of the original, making the action seem infinitely more wrenching. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z Created two years ago, De Keersmaeker's "Vortex" would be a wrenching experience under any circumstances. Weekend concerts across L.A. provide solace in a world gone wrong amid Paris attacks 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Nors’ writing is by turns witty, gut wrenching, stark and lyrical. Breaking up is hard, even for the avant-garde: Dorthe Nors' 'So Much for That Winter' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z In her wrenching, austere, bleakly comic works, the world — interior and exterior — is always, already burning. Review: ‘Crave’ Is a Timely Ticket for a World on Fire 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z The story of Brittany Maynard, the terminally ill woman in Oregon who committed suicide earlier this month after making her intention public, forces us to consider — or repress — wrenching questions about how life ends. Book review: ‘All My Puny Sorrows,’ by Miriam Toews "United by life, divided by dreams," said the New York Times, which described the show as a "thrilling Broadway revival" and "a beautiful and wrenching musical." Step right up for a revival of bizarre world of 'Side Show' on Broadway 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z The melodies retain their jagged edges, though, evoking both the fragmented mind of Ms. Cox’s character and the wrenching ambivalence of Ms. Kritzer’s. Theater Review: ‘The Memory Show,’ at the Duke Theater 2013-05-10T17:35:52Z A wrenching scene toward the end, depicting a concert at the camp, pits Bach’s Chaconne in D Minor, for solo violin, against an overpowering orchestral mass. Alex Ross: Mieczysław Weinberg’s “The Passenger,” at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z “I’m wearing the ring still, but I think I’m lying,” Ballerini sings wrenchingly. Feist’s Electrifying Return, and 9 More New Songs 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z The wrenching case has unleashed an international debate over parental rights, medical ethics and who should have the final word when it comes to the fate of an extremely ill child. When Parents and the State Disagree Over a Child's Medical Treatment 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z This somber, intimate and at times wrenching self-portrait — written by the actress herself and not a ghostwriter — feels like an act of personal investigation, not a Hollywood memoir. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Questlove Thompson’s beats come hard as a clenched fist, softened by pleading voices and the wrenching narratives of Black Thought, one of hip-hop’s most underrated voices. Album review: The Roots, 'Undun' 2011-12-02T16:25:00Z But there is another death scene much earlier in the opera that is almost as wrenching. Review: Stirring revival of Poulenc opera at Met 2013-05-06T12:51:11Z So it was wrenching when this Jesus showed poignant vulnerability in accepting his fate. Review: An Intimate ‘St. Matthew Passion’ Has a Shattering Effect 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z He had no intention of glossing over the most wrenching moments. Rob Delaney Wants You to Know How He’s Feeling (It May Ruin Your Day) 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z The most wrenching performance is of “O Death,” a folk song from the twenties made famous by the Coen brothers’ film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” Diamanda Galás, Lounge Singer in a World on Fire 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Those choices are what Ms. Westbroek and the opera’s creators and artistic staff also found so compelling and so wrenching. Revival of ‘Anna Nicole’ Opera Comes to London 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z “When I pass on something, it’s gut wrenching for me,” Mr. Sorkin said. Television: ‘The Newsroom,’ Aaron Sorkin’s Return to TV 2012-06-06T13:37:35Z The show, after all, is about life’s final stretch and the wrenching decisions that accompany it. Review: Facing Life’s Final Stretch in ‘Harry Townsend’s Last Stand’ 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z “Stones in the Sun” is a wrenching portrait of Haitian exiles struggling to build new lives in New York City after fleeing their country in the late 1980s. Haitian Diaspora in ‘Stones in the Sun’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z But the script gives Kate the guy stuff, which means forcing her through wrenching internal conflict and external trauma, while Blunt adds the girl stuff with an impressively shaded performance. A Star Crosses Hollywood Boundaries at the Border 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z In it, he described the firing of Mr. Galliano, after allegations of disgraceful and anti-Semitic comments, as “a terrible and wrenching ordeal for us all.” Special Report: Fashion: Tears and Applause 2011-03-04T16:41:41Z It was a story so wrenching that Weiner dropped her usual happy resolutions for a more ambiguous ending. Weiner and fans bond at New York City reading 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Give me wrenching monologues, moments of profound personal triumph, a way to reflect on my own experiences, a character I care about so completely it should be embarrassing. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘The Last Man on Earth’ and ‘Being Erica’ 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z He also gave up his usual work habits—wrenching personal excavations, repeated revisions, and “the tyranny of the artiste maudit cliché”—in favor of a quick attempt at fun. Ian Parker: The Real Life of Edward St. Aubyn 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z But, apart from her name, there's little to indicate Maleficent's dark future, until she experiences a wrenching and deeply metaphoric betrayal that hardens her. The baby-cursing Maleficent gets to show a softer, less-wicked side 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z And so, like a chick hatching from its shell or the phoenix rising from its ashes, rebirth and renewal sometimes only come from wrenching displacements of the world you knew. Love, sex, Iraq: A roadside bomb won’t kill my marriage 2014-02-02T13:00:00Z She gives an anguished, hilarious performance of a wrenching scene from Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House,” in a strong Southern accent. Jan Hooks (1957-2014): An Appreciation 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z “What about my life?” she asks him in the midst of an especially wrenching confrontation. Review: Beneath the Bombast, ‘Fences’ Has an Aching Poetry 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z He is vitally funny in dramatic roles, wrenchingly somber in comic ones. Tom Hollander Is Starring on Broadway, Poor Guy 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z But it was solid, stable, attractive — not wrenching or raw. Review: ‘Ainadamar’ Turns Lorca Into Death-Haunted Opera 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z In the annals of cinematic memoir, there are very few films like Yance Ford’s “Strong Island,” a stylish and wrenching rumination on familial grief that had its première last night, at Sundance. Yance Ford’s Powerful Cinematic Memoir, “Strong Island” 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z The wrenching music in that moment has been heard earlier, though, as I point out in this video. ArtsBeat: Video: Anthony Tommasini on 'La Bohème' 2012-12-17T16:12:36Z The dismissal, though, was not merely the wrenching end to a long-simmering personnel matter involving a headstrong staffer. Ari Roth’s swift departure from Theater J follows a tumultuous tenure 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z His explosive, wrenching performances in movies owed much more to his own emotional intuitions and inclinations—to his way of carrying himself when not acting, as seen in this clip—than to any training. Kristen Stewart and the Actor’s Dilemma 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z For Colman, then known primarily for comedy and TV, the wrenching performance opened new dramatic opportunities that eventually led to an Oscar for the 2018 film “The Favourite.” In ‘House of the Dragon,’ Paddy Considine Claims the Crown 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Amid America’s wrenching self-examination of racial attitudes and inequities, BET is touting its annual BET Awards as a much-needed celebration of black excellence in music, film, TV, sports and philanthropy. New this week: ‘Clemency,’ BET Awards, HAIM, ‘Doctor Sleep’ 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Those three lead performances — Ms. Seymour’s the most quietly wrenching — put a haunting human face on the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Theater Review: Brian Friel’s ‘Freedom of the City,’ at Irish Repertory Theater 2012-10-16T22:01:00Z Blatant product placement, unconvincing bird effects and awful soundtrack selections all undermine a potentially wrenching, difficult premise with utter bogusness. ‘The Starling’ Review: For the Birds 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Finally, a wrenching, must read, article on this morning’s front page, about abuse of young residents in homes for people with autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and other disabilities around New York State. Motherlode: Transracial Dating, and Other Questions 2011-06-06T21:11:15Z Each is a little masterpiece of suffering and redemption, made with a wrenching, openhearted economy. Frida Kahlo’s Home Is Still Unlocking Secrets, 50 Years Later 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Even more wrenching is the frenzied gallop of horses, driven mad by gunfire and starvation, through the trenches of men in a state of doomed fear every bit as palpable. War Horse: Spielberg's Searing, Splendid Christmas Gift 2011-12-22T21:17:44Z Many singers treat the piece like a wrenching, in-the-moment drama that depicts the journey of a young, delusional loner, rejected by the woman he adores. Classical Playlist: Mozart, Schubert, Goffredo Petrassi and More 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Her vocal performance is wrenching, but by the song’s end she has arrived at a kind of peace: “Forget the old dream,” she sings, “I got a new thing.” Angel Olsen Finds a New Gear in a Vintage Genre: Country 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z However, that series’ defining characteristic is its defiance of strict definition: it is neither comedy nor drama, and can be wrenchingly funny and deeply disturbing within the span of a single episode. "South Side" and "Sherman's Showcase" give rarely-seen perspectives on black American life 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Spielberg handled this material wrenchingly in A.I., which may be the most emotionally disturbing movie he ever made; if a CBS series became nearly that raw, that would be something. REVIEW: Halle Berry Stars in CBS's Extant 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z He is an insightful and sensitive Mahler singer who knew what he wanted to do with every phrase, word and emotional nuance of these wrenchingly beautiful songs. Music Review: A Soundtrack for the Chaos, Light and Dark of Creation 2011-01-07T22:54:00Z Caitlin is held hostage in the bubble of her mother’s wrenching heartache. David Vann’s ‘Aquarium’: dark story of family’s dysfunction 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z The character’s choking death at the hands of police officers in front of a crowd of his neighbors incites the film’s wrenching final scenes. Bill Nunn, Who Played Radio Raheem in ‘Do the Right Thing,’ Dies at 63 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s all people with wrenching decisions under complicated circumstances. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When your moral compass always points in others’ direction 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The upside of the wrenching extraction of the Pilots from Seattle was that the foundation of civic leadership, first formed after the spectacular success of the 1962 World’s Fair, gained strength. ‘Becoming Big League’: a history of Seattle baseball’s ins and outs 2013-04-26T20:22:13Z The chapters are unified by an overarching tone, one that’s filled with bonhomie but is punctuated by tough, wrenching flourishes. Books of The Times: ?The Imperfectionists? by Tom Rachman 2010-05-05T22:48:00Z A young American drifting through Paris after a wrenching breakup with an off-screen girlfriend, Simon is introduced in the film’s most compelling scene. ‘Simon Killer’: Psychopath’s life takes a dark turn 2013-05-02T21:20:37Z Some people might be annoyed by all this shimmying and wrenching, but I am no stranger to the effortful task of putting on high-waisted pants. How High Can High-Waisted Pants Go? 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z But as England and Belgium were unkindly reminded, after wrenching semifinal losses, the tournament makes fools of the faithful. A tale of two losses: from hopeful to heartbroken in the World Cup semi-finals. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z In “Sight Unseen,” a wrenching father-son story, the narrator speculates about his dad’s apparently psychotic conviction that aliens have been using his eyes to spy on the world. Michael Dirda’s picks for Halloween chillers: Get ready to be grossed out 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z In the last entry, following notes about the production and her dashing if troubled beau, she writes about the wrenching decision to give up her child for adoption. Review: ‘Hamlet in Bed’ Is Michael Laurence’s Shakespearean Take 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z “Have a good laugh at this,” he says at one of the tale’s most wrenching moments. Books Of the Times: Tana French?s Thriller ?Faithful Place? 2010-07-11T21:25:00Z She is magnetic, wrenching, a jolt of electricity from beginning to end. Newsboys Striking, Garland Freaking: Broadway's Newsies and End of the Rainbow 2012-04-03T10:45:13Z Chung’s despair over his loss, and the cracked national safety net, is wrenching. A Transcendent Memoir About Family, Class and the Contours of Loss 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z I would walk through fire to hear her again, just as I would for the spectacular Sieglinde of Amber Wagner, overflowing with power and wrenching in her vulnerability. Review: ‘Die Walküre’ Brings the Thunder to Tanglewood 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z “It was confusing for him and emotionally wrenching for me,” she says. You can direct a movie while pregnant. But Hollywood’s not going to make it easy. 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The whole point of that chapter of my book is that we absolutely have to confront those questions, difficult and wrenching though they be. Our great healthcare denial 2012-06-17T12:00:00Z There was more brooding from the Deftones, whose sorrows are channeled into songs that keep wrenching themselves in different directions: thrash outbursts, rap imprecations, grunge melodies. ArtsBeat: Lollapalooza Chile: All About the Details 2011-04-04T00:48:21Z Albom’s first nonfiction book since 2009 tells the wrenching story of the Haitian orphan he and his wife adopted after learning of the girl’s brain tumor. New & Noteworthy, From Carrie Fisher to the Case for Impeachment 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z The nominations give an awards boost to several films, especially "Gravity," an astonishing 3-D technical achievement, and the wrenching "12 Years a Slave." 'Gravity', '12 Years a Slave' lead UK film awards 2014-01-08T14:21:10Z Not until the episode’s wrenching conclusion and the postcredits curtain call was it clear this stunning experiment was over. ‘Horace and Pete,’ Keeping You on the Edge of Your Seat, Right Up to Last Call 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The orchestra sensitively cushioned the astringent harmonies and incisively dispatched the jagged rhythms and bursts of wrenching atonality. Music Review: Cleveland Orchestra Performs Berg?s ?Lulu? Suite 2010-05-23T21:25:00Z Season 4 — as moving and wrenching a run of television as has ever aired — follows four city students through a year of middle school, their options already starting to fall away one by one. ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Although there’s still — and forever will be — a gaping void in their lives without him, committing to “live like Trev” has helped the Thomas family turn their wrenching pain into purpose. Random acts of kindness have helped them since their son died 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The fight scenes are brutal, the dramatic stretches wrenching, and Levinson orchestrates his first-rate cast with aplomb. ‘Stars at Noon,’ ‘Vortex’ and More of This Year’s Streaming Gems 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The task has proved far more daunting than anyone could have imagined, amounting to a struggle of wrenchingly complex proportions with no reliable end in sight. New York City can’t rebound without Broadway. And Broadway’s road back is uncertain. 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Talking to a journalist about playing DuBois can resemble a particularly wrenching therapy session. It Takes More Than the Kindness of Strangers 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Theater people have been through such a wrenching intermission, with their livelihoods in stasis for so long, that a suspicion of business returning to usual seems eminently sane. ‘Six’ was shut down on the day it was set to open. It’s finally getting its big Broadway night. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z In a wrenching produced segment, we then meet Markai and her partner, James, as they wrestle with their options for her unplanned second pregnancy, the result of a missed appointment for her shot of Depo-Provera. MTV's shockingly good abortion special 2010-12-29T15:20:00Z And now here she is with her third solo album, Love and Its Opposite, bearing such wrenching vignettes as Oh, the Divorces! and Singles Bar. Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt: Everything but the grief 2010-05-26T20:45:00Z Buechner’s story, though often wrenching, was rich with childhood fantasies, wistful longings and absurd turns that had the audience laughing along. Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z The audience will not hear Owen’s words until the final scene of the film, when the poem’s wrenching account of a young man maimed in battle is impressionistically depicted onscreen. ‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z They spend 10 days in a barren, mountainous landscape, their interactions filled with spite, passive aggression and conflicting motivations, leading to a wrenching climax. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Queer Eye’ and ‘Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas’ 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The story was a simple one, simply told, but the experience was nonetheless extraordinary, and emotionally wrenching. Review: ‘Gardens Speak,’ a Graveside Encounter With Lives Lost in Syria 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z The heart of "Still Alice" is the wrenching business of watching as all the things that define this woman to herself and her family gradually drain away, one by one by one. 'Still Alice' powerfully presents a mind falling to Alzheimer's 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z This is her movie, her heart wrenching scenes the driving force of Ginger & Rosa. Ginger & Rosa: Best Friends. Forever? 2013-03-15T20:02:09Z At any rate, this is a brilliant and troubling film, sometimes hard as ice and sometimes emotionally wrenching, which could only have been made in this moment yet reaches for timeless allegory. "Parasite": A prickly, disturbing class-war thriller — and a signature film of 2019 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Hiranandani drew on her father’s childhood experience to create this wrenching, ultimately hopeful story. Review | Best new children’s and young-adult books this month 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Nauman has changed the way we define what art is and what is art, and made work prescient of the morally wrenching American moment we’re in. 22 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The Liebestod, the opera’s concluding scene, was as painful and private and beautiful as this transcendent aria about transcendence needs to be, after the travails of an emotionally wrenching night. For its most glittering evening, the Met opts for a dark ‘Tristan.’ Good for them. 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Spall’s performance is quietly wrenching, the execution lyrical. Review: In ‘Electric Dreams,’ the Future Seems Outdated 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z And the JCC is home to one of the nation’s leading Jewish-themed theater companies, Theater J, which frequently takes on the wrenching drama of clashing Israeli and Palestinian narratives. Jewish groups argue over who gets to argue Scott called “Saint Omer” an “intellectually charged, emotionally wrenching story about the inability of storytelling — literary, legal or cinematic — to do justice to the violence and strangeness of human experience.” For the Documentarian Alice Diop, Only Fiction Could Do Justice to a Tragedy 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z The show is a series of wrenching personal betrayals. The Cruel Irony of “The Americans” 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Hill tore through a swinging version of “Lost Ones” and a guitar-driven version of her wrenching “Ex Factor” transformed the tune from a slow-burning torch song to an uplifting foot stomper. BET Experience 2015: N.W.A reunion, Lauryn Hill among final thrills 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The wrenching passion of love, the fear and heroism of war, and how lonely these hungers and dreads are in children’s often isolated and alienated experience of life. Patter and Patois 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z The story, which emerges slowly through the warmth and noise of Pio’s daily life, leads him toward a wrenching moment of moral crisis. Review: In ‘A Ciambra,’ a Young Roma Boy Comes of Age 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z At the same time, in the 1995 “Ashes to Ashes,” a wrenching account in words and family photographs of her mother’s death from cigarette-related emphysema, she is forthrightly autobiographical. Art in Review: ADRIAN PIPER: ?Past Time: Selected Works 1973-1995? 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z In a wrenching duet with Carlos — who was first her fiancé, then, sigh, her stepson — Élisabeth, the miserable queen of Spain, begs him to know her heart is not indifferent, to understand her silence. Review: A Starry ‘Don Carlos’ Brings Verdi, in French, to Paris 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z It’s especially wrenching when he plays videos of juvenile prisoners speaking to the incarcerated mothers, who face death sentences with little hope for appeal. ‘Sunless Shadows’ Review: A Harsh Look at Iranian Women in Prison 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z This power is on display perhaps most stunningly in Jean Valjean’s wrenching “What Have I Done?” shot in a medieval chapel in London. They Dreamed a Dream: Les Misérables Is a Whole New Kind of Movie Musical 2012-12-04T17:00:00Z Evolving as an artist, she wrote, “is so exciting and wrenching and aching and tiring and frightening slightly.” A Sculptor of Black Heroes Leaves a Legacy 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Some are calling it wrenching, or bleak, or poetic. Lynne Ramsay's stark 'Kevin' gets Cannes talking 2011-05-12T14:43:09Z The subsequent rejections they receive from Lawrence and Jared sting, but it’s this argument that is the most gut wrenching. ‘Insecure’ Season 1, Episode 7: Who’s Daniel? 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z The dirty cops killed Mike’s son anyway, and Mike realized, wrenchingly, that his advice cost his child’s life and soul: “I broke my boy.” Review: ‘Better Call Saul,’ Quirky and Absorbing in Season Opener 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Barber could have gone for a pervasively wrenching emotional mood. Music Review: A Third Season Begins After a Busy Preseason 2011-09-22T13:22:45Z Some of the ballet’s most wrenching moments involve Riggins and Silvia Azzoni’s mermaid, as together they learn it takes more than legs to survive on land. Hamburg Ballet’s ‘Little Mermaid’ — adrift in a sea of despair 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z “I found the leave-taking wrenching,” said Ms. George, who is married to the playwright Lisa Kron, “but handled with exceptional grace and care for all.” Alone With Their Muses, Artists in Retreat Wonder if It’s Too Much 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z O’Farrell expertly unravels the tangled threads that lead her protagonists to a wrenching confrontation that quite probably will destroy their marriage. A marriage based on secrecy is threatened in ‘This Must Be the Place’ 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z What’s even more wrenching is that at the time of his death, Michael was poised for a major resurgence. George Michael’s magical fluidity: Remembering the pop icon’s modern and progressive sound 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z They eventually reunited to produce the 2002 film “The Pianist,” the wrenching Holocaust drama that mirrored the wartime experiences of both men. Gene Gutowski, Holocaust survivor who produced Roman Polanski films, died at 90 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Now “All Creatures,” premiering Sunday on PBS’s “Masterpiece,” arrives in an America in need of its own relief, amid a still-surging pandemic and wrenching political upheaval. ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ Heals Cows and Soothes Souls 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z This fatalism, which exists in contrast to Jones’s uncommon openness and aesthetic ravening, is wrenching. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “Hot & Bothered” If you think the steamy sex, sensational scandals and wrenching heartbreak on Latino soap operas are a little extreme, just wait until you see what happens behind the scenes. Watch Trailers for NBC's New Fall Dramas and Comedies 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Salonen’s picturesque, often tumultuous account, with its electrifying accelerandos, carefully sculpted woodwind lines and polished but hefty brass playing, captured the score’s heroic qualities and made its wrenching conclusion palpable. Music Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducts Juilliard Orchestra at Tully Hall 2012-04-05T21:20:41Z The movie’s depictions of poverty and social injustice have the potential to be wrenching, in the tradition of neorealist Italian pictures of the 1950s or, more pertinently, the early work of Satyajit Ray. Review: In ‘Beyond the Clouds,’ a Brother and Sister Struggle in Mumbai 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z We read one pass yesterday very simply and it was very heart wrenching for me. For Your Ears Only: Broadway’s New Stage Is a Mic 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z I think everyone should read this incredible and heart wrenching story of two girls. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein - review 2013-06-15T14:00:00Z Humiliation is especially wrenching in “Presenter,” where we find a female figure with her panties around her ankles. Dana Schutz’s New Paintings Just Might Be Her Best 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z There are also exhibits about the construction of the towers, the wrenching posters of the missing, the outpouring of tribute art. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum’s Fraught Task: To Tell the Truth 2012-06-02T16:26:23Z One striking stage picture, in which a horse and a tank rear up in each other's paths, provides a wrenching illustration of the conflict of nature with the machine age. London hit "War Horse" makes thrilling Broadway bow 2011-04-18T03:57:08Z It’s the right amount of emotional without being wrenching — it’s not a show that wrecks you, but you might want to drink tea and wear sweaters for a while after watching it. What You Should Watch to Catch Up on This Summer’s Shows 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z A tea-ringed saucer, a discolored hatbox, an unfixed sink or a case of vegetable peelers — from these humble materials, the Irish-born artist conjures wrenchingly moving tableaus of family, loss and memory. 22 Art Exhibitions to View in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The opening scene of extended prison violence is wrenching and graphic, and the entire story resonates today. The Essential Patricia Highsmith 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z This wrenching musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir moved to Broadway in March, giving Sam Gold’s production a wider audience and an even deeper resonance. The Top Ten Showstoppers of 2015 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z “He’s there for you,” Sawayama sings on the wrenching bridge, “in all the ways I never was.” For the Gloriously Over-the-Top Rina Sawayama, Less Is Less 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The Madwoman, the main character of Britten’s austerely wrenching “Curlew River,” a parable for church performance, has lost her son. Ian Bostridge Stars in Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z But the new work, while playing with those expectations, owes a lot more to Proust than to Poe, as a wrenching examination of memory and the ways it shapes identity. White Paint, Chocolate, and Postmodern Ghosts 2011-01-30T02:17:14Z Bottom’s indescribable visions were a suddenly wrenching metaphor for the collective dreams we dream — artists, audience and all — when live theater, at its best, pulls us under its spell. Digital Theater Isn’t Theater. It’s a Way to Mourn Its Absence. 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z If the experience is not emotionally wrenching, invite others. Sweetie, Where’s My Paycheck? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Excavating the past, wrenching it into the present — that’s very much his brand. Simon Stone Faced the Unthinkable. He Thinks You Should Too. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z The biggest change involves the play’s most wrenching plot point. Theater Review: ‘Trojan Women (After Euripides)’ at BAM Next Wave Festival 2012-11-29T22:29:32Z “Shame,” which opens Friday in select cities, is a wrenching saga of sex addiction set in executive-suite New York, where self-destruction plays out against minimalist décor, sophisticated hotels and other trappings of upscale urban life. Movies: Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender Team Up in ?Shame? 2011-11-27T05:31:02Z My mother was that dancer in 1961, scribbling into her notebook, writing funny and wrenching poems that sent up her own troubled relationship to men and marriage. Warming up to “Baby It’s Cold Outside”: What my mother taught me about the guy who wrote the “date-rape” Christmas song 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z It is also a wrenching portrait of Atlantis and her role in Bonner’s life. A Troubled Artist’s Death Proves as Unknowable as Her Life 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z In the wrenching final episode, we’re looking not at an imagined past but at an alternative present and a possible future. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z In battle, he defeats Grendel, wrenching off the monster’s shoulder and arm as proof of his victory. ‘Beowulf’ Gets a 21st-Century Update 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z For you, it’s a wrenching decision under complicated circumstances; for other people, it’s . . . bad morals? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When your moral compass always points in others’ direction 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z These images of paranoia and darkness crescendo on the wrenching “Gary Condit,” in which the singer mourns the death of a friend and confronts the fear of one day losing his parents. Cymbals Eat Guitars rises above 2011-10-20T16:36:00Z It’s a risky premise, but French makes you feel every cent of the catastrophe, and she delivers a primal scene of genuine, wrenching horror that I didn’t realize she was capable of. My Book-Buffer for June and July 2012-07-03T18:40:01Z From then on, she sang within what seemed to be a photographic darkroom while to her right, nearly invisible, William strangled his wrenching instrument. White Lung howls at the abyss at Los Globos 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z It was a wrenching incidence of a girl’s fate and natural suffering, in contrast to a series that has been about men dooming themselves or bringing suffering on others. Boardwalk Empire Watch: The Body of an American 2011-11-21T12:49:40Z In the most wrenching of them, when Alice’s health is failing, Calvin must promise that, even if she dies, their younger daughter’s imminent wedding will proceed as planned. Review: ‘About Alice’ Brings a Husband’s Eulogy to Life 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z That’s the kind of question that makes this book so wrenching. Beth Macy’s 'Factory Man,' Michael Lewis’s 'Flash Boys' and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z In one wrenching scene, Jennifer Walton, the mother of two adult sons in recovery from addiction, faces off with her son, Skyler, and his friend, who appear to have just been using drugs. 'It needs to make you uncomfortable': the opioid documentary set to shock America 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The larger installation, “Black Box,” is a dark yet almost lyrical indictment of colonialism, with wrenching use made of drawings, vintage film of white hunters and of mechanized puppets that move with eerie resonance. Art Review | 'William Kentridge: Five Themes': Anger and Angst, Explored With Animation 2010-02-25T22:41:00Z Directly ahead, inside giant boxes marking the footprints of the destroyed towers, are a pair of wrenching exhibitions. Architecture review: At 9/11 Memorial Museum, a relentless literalism 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The trade-offs to come will be both wrenching and inescapable. New Directions for American Foreign Policy 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The subplot never quite connects to the central story in a satisfying way, but Trauner commands the stage all the same, finely balancing her character’s wanderlust tendencies and wrenching anxieties. Brandon McCoy’s ‘West By God’ stands tall at the divide of rural and urban America 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z That the act is one of piety and tenderness makes it all the more wrenching. Music Review: ‘Dog Days,’ New Opera, at Peak Performances in Montclair 2012-10-03T20:58:42Z Yet when it comes to “Lulu” — a set of wrenching, astonishingly profane songs inspired by two century-old German plays — he cannot contain himself. Music: Lou Reed and Metallica Team Up on ?Lulu? 2011-10-27T12:00:00Z And the impact of the testimony and graphic evidence is still strong, wrenching, relevant — despite too much strained emphasis, in this mounting, on process over content. Review: 'The Laramie Project' paints public, private face of grieving community 2010-07-16T15:34:00Z When the animal disappears for many days, Raven’s frantic distress, her imaginings of Fox “dead, caged, or manacled,” her bargaining with God for his return, are wrenching. Review | In ‘Fox & I,’ a biologist finds solace in a wild animal’s friendship 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Such dedication to wrenching new sounds out of their guitars kept the musicians staring down at the rafts of effects pedals at their feet: hence the name shoegaze. Araki's films are a crash course in shoegazing 2011-08-05T23:03:00Z She accomplishes this through a sometimes wrenching account of the abuse her grandmother, and the women in her family even earlier, suffered at the hands of men. Perspective | She’s a playwright. He’s a scholar. Their mutual admiration was ordained and established by the Constitution. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z In 1992, he and Bruce Sinofsky debuted “Brother’s Keeper,” the wrenching tale of a barely literate farmer accused of murdering his own brother. In ‘Crime Scene,’ Joe Berlinger Investigates True-Crime Obsession 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z The novel’s polyphonic structure delivers a wrenchingly sad story. ‘The Blazing World’: charting an artist’s turbulent inner life 2014-04-09T20:15:27Z "The bankruptcy of the Philadelphia Orchestra illustrates that fact wrenchingly." Theater stagehands in Philadelphia on strike 2011-10-01T11:43:12Z It’s “a haunting, wrenching and surprising tale of race, apartheid, motherhood and revenge, told in an original voice by an Afrikaans writer,” she said. ArtsBeat Blog: Editors and Critics Pick Their Favorite Books of 2011 2011-12-09T22:28:27Z It’s never wrenching, though, or even particularly moving; unruly emotions are portrayed, but not communicated. | 'The Diary of Anne Frank': On PBS, Ellie Kendrick as Memoirist in Secret Annex 2010-04-09T22:10:00Z Of course, part of the story of the recent past is still X-rated in China and the forbidden zone includes the inside story of the most wrenching period of Mao's rule. A new chapter in Chinese history 2011-07-15T15:53:27Z It’s an overwritten but at times wrenchingly moving play, probably destined to remain a cult item because, among other things, it requires the kind of deeply felt, painfully exposed acting that is not easily achieved. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z A bit less wrenchingly, the album also pays tribute to Mr. Johnson, the guitarist, who died this year, and the soul and R&B singer Teena Marie, who died in 2010. New Music: Sara Bareilles, George Duke and Ace Hood 2013-07-15T20:42:55Z “We wanted some sense they were going to get back together,” Mr. King said, making Will’s death even more surprising and wrenching. ArtsBeat: CBS Works to Minimize the Drama After a Dramatic Departure on ‘The Good Wife’ 2014-03-27T02:15:41Z For all the melodrama of his defenestration in the Walla Walla hotel room, and the potentially wrenching relationship at the movie’s core, Sleepwalk is oddly soothing, like a cup of camomile tea before bedtime. Sleepwalk With Me: His American Life 2012-08-24T04:21:10Z And in the middle of the piece there is a wrenching monologue in which Mr. Beaver details a struggle with alcoholism. Review: Warming Up to the Frozen North in ‘Alaxsxa / Alaska’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The turmoil of growing up in the household of one of the counterculture’s most celebrated figures seems to have been troubling and often wrenching but not permanently crippling to Juan Thompson. ‘Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up With Hunter S. Thompson’ review 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z This has been a gut wrenching season so far. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2, Episode 8: A Shock to the System 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z "Ortiz writes with a raw, wrenching, vulnerable truth that is refreshing, grounding, and full of life-sustaining filaments," Jessica Dewberry wrote in a critical essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books in April. 'Excavation' digs up memories of an illicit child-teacher relationship 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps there’s a better way to handle this wrenching task. Perspective | My nest is empty, but the stuff remains. Why is decluttering so emotionally fraught? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z "What fearful admission do I have to make," Williams writes, "that after Streetcar I haven't been able to write anymore except by a terrible wrenching of the brain and nerves?" The strange allure of Tennessee Williams's Notebooks 2011-03-25T11:20:11Z And the actor plays these moments with a wrenching subtlety by allowing Deborah's immaculate mask to fall, ever so slightly, as she's confronted with the truth of who she is. HBO's brutal comedy "Hacks" returns with raw, bloody candor, rising to even greater heights 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Her account is now filled with wrenching stories from both women and men in the industry. After Weinstein Scandal, a Plan to Protect Models 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z There are clear parallels to be drawn between the Hughes’ dynamic and that of a family afflicted by addiction or debilitating mental illness; and Guillory, Alexander and Stokes ground the story with wrenching performances. ‘A Banquet’ Review: Starving for a Higher Purpose 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z It is also a wrenchingly sad, soul-shaking story about revenge and its moral costs, which makes it the most important American fiction movie about Sept. Movie Review: Jessica Chastain in ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ 2012-12-17T23:06:45Z But her track record in album of the year, traditionally the most coveted prize, is especially wrenching. It’s Beyoncé’s Time to Shine at the Grammys … Right? 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s a marvelously constructed personal journey, both wrenching and bittersweet, whose emotional ripple effects stay with you for days and weeks afterward. Pick of the week: Haunting, gorgeous “Oslo, August 31st” 2012-05-25T00:00:00Z But it’s absolutely wrenching every time I find myself constantly wondering whether I need to run to the hand soap after my kids embrace me. Perspective | I want to cuddle with my kids, but is it safe? 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z In one of the most wrenching scenes the Christian identity she had repudiated saves her life but at the price of making her the helpless witness and silent accomplice to a massacre by Phalangist fighters. | 'Incendies': Scavenger Hunt for Family Secrets Across Time and Geography 2011-04-21T22:24:49Z Called On The Pulse of the Morning, it included the lines: "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived/But if faced with courage need not be lived again." Obituary: Maya Angelou 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Seiffert draws on real wartime accounts in her novel; the story unfolds over three days as the town’s residents — including a German engineer and a Ukrainian girl who hides the children — confront wrenching moral choices. New in Paperback: ‘Unbelievable,’ ‘Improvement’ 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z The book ends with a chatty, opinionated author’s note about source materials and methods, in which Atkinson describes the book as “a wrenching apart of history followed by an imaginative reconstruction.” In ‘Transcription,’ Kate Atkinson Delivers a Story of Wartime Espionage 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z And that sentence affirms Mr. Rash’s reputation for writerly miracles when it manages an uncanny feat: fusing the cove, the Vaterland, the parakeets and the lovebirds into one perfectly wrenching last thought. Books of The Times: ?The Cove,? a Novel by Ron Rash 2012-04-01T18:46:33Z For all his open-book ebullience, there were still things Almodóvar had kept hidden, especially the extent to which he must navigate wrenching pain as a daily indignity. Why Pedro Almodóvar’s Newest Film Frightened His Friends 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z In the midst of a terrifying and wrenching event, Pierson says, he felt something “special and magical” about the new proportions of the city’s sound. Caught between silence and clamor, these musicians find connection in birdsong 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Now, as the nonprofit theater is marking its 20th anniversary, the couple is facing another wrenching struggle: Jon has A.L.S., the severe neurological disorder also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Born of Grief, a Couple’s Off Broadway Incubator Marks 20 Years 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z What has happened over the last week has been a terrible and wrenching ordeal to us all. On the Runway: For Dior, the Show Goes On 2011-03-04T15:58:30Z Is it nice to delve into a fantastical role after doing something emotionally wrenching? ArtsBeat Blog: Emmys Watch: Michelle Forbes 2011-09-12T21:15:34Z What kind of love story is “Phantom Thread”? The wrenching tale of a woman’s love for a man and a man’s love for his work. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z It was wrenching to testify against loved ones, and put our community under such a harsh spotlight. A family at war: saving my granddaughter from FGM 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Another wrenching scene shows a protester trying to address a black female officer, the only person of color in a defensive line of cops; she holds her position even as tears fill her eyes. Review: Anatomy of Ferguson, From a Shooting to Activism 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The last episode, which shows what happened to Mr. Simpson after the verdict, is in a way the most wrenching and upsetting part of the film. Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The image is part of a new installation, “Unframed — Ellis Island,” by the French artist JR, which brings this landmark building, its patients and staff members, to grainy but wrenching life. JR Brings Ellis Island’s Abandoned Hospital to Life 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The most resonant and wrenching object here is a bill of sale. Offbeat History, Off the Beaten Path 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z It was also convenient as a "frame in which the actual social and economic forces wrenching the city could be personalized and ultimately obscured." Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Yet the awkwardness just ramped up the impact of her wrenching, self-penned Devil in Me. London jazz festival: Jazz Voice – review 2012-11-12T13:40:28Z Few other shows can pair loopy quirks and wrenching monologues, and the show’s ability to find resonant, powerful moments immediately after cartoonish asides remains its No. 1 super power. Watched All of the ‘Gilmore Girls’ Revival? Let’s Talk About It 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Dudamel's dark, wrenching Mahler Third views our surroundings through a more reactive lens. Gustavo Dudamel brings out the full force and awe of Mahler's Third Symphony 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z |
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