Comments on: Another Angle on Sinatra’s ‘Way’ http://stkarnick.com/culture/2010/02/26/another-angle-on-sinatras-way/ News, reviews, and analysis, edited by S. T. Karnick Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:50:23 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mike D'Virgilio http://stkarnick.com/culture/2010/02/26/another-angle-on-sinatras-way/comment-page-1/#comment-5913 Mike D'Virgilio Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:08:19 +0000 http://stkarnick.com/culture/?p=5827#comment-5913 Hal, I recently saw a TV Sinatra biopic (just called Sinatra from 1992), and it's certainly not a flattering portrait of The Chairman of the Board. I think most everyone was aware that the man's character left something to be desired. So he may in fact have hated the song because it hit so close to home, so close to those traits he probably loathed about himself. One sees in Sinatra as a fallen human being, and in what I think is a powerful way, the glory of the image of God and at the same time the brokenness of the base downward pull of sin; pride, ambition, a longing restlessness for fulfillment and gratification but never really finding it. He was a blessing to many, a curse to some and no doubt an enigma to himself. Hal, I recently saw a TV Sinatra biopic (just called Sinatra from 1992), and it’s certainly not a flattering portrait of The Chairman of the Board. I think most everyone was aware that the man’s character left something to be desired. So he may in fact have hated the song because it hit so close to home, so close to those traits he probably loathed about himself.

One sees in Sinatra as a fallen human being, and in what I think is a powerful way, the glory of the image of God and at the same time the brokenness of the base downward pull of sin; pride, ambition, a longing restlessness for fulfillment and gratification but never really finding it. He was a blessing to many, a curse to some and no doubt an enigma to himself.

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