Stella Abrera danced, heart-rendingly, her first Juliet in New York.
|
|
On his latest album, "Arca," Mr. Ghersi reveals more of himself than ever, singing about desire and loss in heart-rendingly direct Spanish lyrics.
|
|
You might not have thought a cartoon about a talking horse could warrant an entire list of heart-rendingly emotional moments, but here we are.
|
|
In one (Syrmor's most-watched, with just under six million views at the time of writing), a young boy using a Kermit the Frog avatar discusses being bullied frankly and heart-rendingly, all while his Kermit arms wag about.
|
|
Earlier this morning all of that personal stuff from outside world, intruded rudely on my retreat earlier in the day in email form, and although it's nowhere nearly as brutal as Elverum's, his grief focuses the pain that I'm feeling, and that feeling–as much as the heart rendingly beautiful music–is why the tears start welling up in my eyes, and why I don't fight them.
|
|
Sopra il ritratto di una bella donna scolpito nel monumento sepolcrale della medesima ("On the portrait of a beautiful woman sculpted in her sepulchral monument") is basically an extension of the above. The poet, drawing his inspiration from a funerary sculpture, evokes the image of a beautiful woman and compares her breathtaking beauty to the heart-rendingly sad image that she has become; one that is no more than mud, dust and skeleton. As well as being centred on the transience of beauty and of human things, the poem points to the specular antinomy between human ideals and natural truth. Leopardi does not deny—if anything, he emphasizes—the beauty of the human species in general, and by the end of the poem extends his point to all possible forms of beauty, intellectual as well as aesthetic.
|
|
Instead Robertson decided to take a different tack, by making a short, silent, black and white, documentary film in November 1952, called A Two-Year-Old Goes to Hospital Using a hand-held camera, Robertson working with his wife Joyce Robertson, a researcher, selected a little girl, called Laura, aged 2 years and 5 months, who was admitted to hospital, for the removal of tonsils, a common operation in those days. Laura was initially composed, until she realised her mother had actually left her there, and the film shows how she developed acute and continuous distress... Laura pleaded to be taken home, but as her protests and pleadings were useless, they were gradually followed by despair. She became listless, unsmiling and her traumatised emotional state was heart-rendingly clear, and on those occasions when her mother did visit during the eight days she was in hospital, Laura would turn away from her. Robertson's film was shown to the Royal Society of Medicine on 28 November 1952, before a large audience of doctors and nurses.
|
|