Sentences with phrase «american tragedy»

The day after Ta - Nehisi Coates «s new essay collection We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy was released, Coates appeared on CBS This Morning to promote it.

American Tragedy Ralph Fasanella (1914 — 1997) 1964 Oil on canvas 40 x 90 ″ Collection of John and Susan Jerit Image courtesy Andrew Edlin Gallery

While criticism has been directed towards the seemingly superficial approach to depicting a city that currently represents an American tragedy, the scale of the exhibition promotes a vision of activity, even if a bleak reality lies just beneath the surface.

On hand are such celluloid phantoms as Josef von Sternberg's unfinished Roman epic I, Claudius, in which Charles Laughton reputedly gave the performance of his career; and Sergei Eisenstein's adaptation of An American Tragedy.

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden Grant by Ron Chernow Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West by Tom Clavin We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta - Nehisi Coates The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit by Chris Matthews The American Spirit: Who We Are & What We Stand For by David McCullough Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem by Bill Nye Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom by Condoleezza Rice Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977 — 2002 by David Sedaris Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated (B&N Exclusive Edition) by Shea Serrano Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union

RACE AND DEMOCRACY The winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Between the World and Me, Ta - Nehisi Coates has produced a new book of essays — some new, some previously published in The Atlantic — titled We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, which refers to a quote from a Reconstruction - era congressman but also, of course, to President Barack Obama's two terms as president.

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The talent lost is an American tragedy.

She throws cryptic hints about an unhappy marriage with Griffin (Stanley Tucci, Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, The Whole Shebang).

The classic black and white A Place in the Sun was adapted from the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, the second adaptation of the same novel (after the film titled An American Tragedy in 1931).

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta - Nehisi Coates 2.

Released: February 3 Director: Barak Goodman (Scottsboro: An American Tragedy) Why it's great: A perfect example of how a documentary can be conventional without being trite, Oklahoma City is as by - the - book as they come, talking heads and archival footage serving a riveting historical work.

George Stevens's languorously moving 1951 adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy won six Oscars.

The 1984 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was not only an American tragedy, but one that transfixed the entire world.

In her hands, the film turns from psychological horror to American tragedy.

Regina Scully — «The Hunting Ground,» «Alive Inside» Signe Byrge Sørensen — «The Look of Silence,» «The Act of Killing» David Teague — «Cutie and the Boxer,» «Freeheld» Trinh T. Minh - ha — «Forgetting Vietnam,» «Surname Viet Given Name Nam» Jean Tsien — «Shut Up & Sing,» «Scottsboro: An American Tragedy» Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi — «Meru,» «Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love» Wang Bing — «Three Sisters,» «West of the Tracks»

Is it because this is an American tragedy, done by Americans?

But The Aviator makes the story of Howard Hughes a grand Hollywood epic, an insightful character study, and a great American tragedy.

Crane and his wife Doris (Frances McDormand, Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, Wonder Boys) have a marriage more of convenience than of love.

Apart from her impressive embodiment of Tonya's «rough around the edges» physicality, her vulnerability is what transforms this «Great American Scandal» into a «Great American Tragedy.»

There's an all - American tragedy of belonging buried deep within «The Disaster Artist,» but I'm betting the movie's core audience wants none of it — and Franco's too much of a showman to give it to them.

As laughter wraps itself around anguish on this Manhattan landscape, you wonder if what's unfolding is an epic American tragedy or a raunchy workplace comedy.

NEW YORK — A former state senator was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday by a judge who called his rise from humble origins an «American tragedy» because he used the influence of his public office to steal from charities for his personal needs and pleasures.

He said it was an «American story but in large part it's also an American tragedy.»

And that would be a modern day American Tragedy of epic proportions.

So this guy Zanis is a good christian and has built 13,000 crosses, each for a victim of an American tragedy as a tribute.

The Holocaust was not an American tragedy, the arguments against the structure went; why give it Mall real estate that elevates its status in our history to that of the events recalled by the Smithsonian or the Washington Monument?

Here are about forty «sketches» of life in the city that Dreiser (An American Tragedy and Sister Carrie) did for daily newspapers in the first two decades of the century.

Greg Zanis, an electrician from Aurora, Illinois, said he has built 13,000 crosses in that time, each a memorial for a victim of an American tragedy.

When, some years ago, I studied Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, I had something other than literary style or ethical enlightenment in mind.

It's time to demand greater responsibility from gun manufacturers and the NRA as they once again shrug their shoulders and dodge their complicity in what has become a recurring American tragedy.

The subgenre of American tragedies in cinema has only grown over the last decade.

The compassion fund has assisted victims of many recent American tragedies, including Aurora, Colo., Charlottesville, Va., and Orlando.

Not exact matches

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» wide - ranging new crackdown on drug offenders could exacerbate one of America's most persistent public health tragedies: the heroin and opioid addiction epidemic that's been ravaging the country and killed nearly 35,000 Americans in 2015 alone.

I, therefore, thought that the Netherland's finance minister — a country serving as the key enforcer of German austerity - at - all - cost (as long as the costs are not theirs) policies — showed an incredible chutzpah when he lectured the U.S. Congress last Friday that it would be a real tragedy (sic) if mandated spending cuts were to stifle American economic growth.

FORTUNE — In a year with a highly contentious presidential election, the Olympics, and tragedy, after tragedy, after tragedy, you'd think 2012 would have been a banner year for American media.

President Obama addressed the recent tragedies in a Facebook post: «All Americans should be deeply troubled by the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.

«Since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, a number of companies have decided to sever their relationship with the NRA, in an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community,» the NRA said in a statement.

But uncertainty lays fertile ground for the seeds of desperation, and the Times newsroom has repeatedly found itself a struggling protagonist in the more than decade - long tragedy of American newspapers.

«In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, our country's better angels are showing up with compassion and incredible strength as Americans help Americans through this tragedy.»

Renewing American Compassion is the sequel to The Tragedy of American Compassion, Olasky's historical account of private charitable activity in the United States in the nineteenth century.

Renewing American Compassion also revisits the basic principles of effective compassion outlined in Tragedy.

«Those museums will present American history, not European history, and they will cover hundreds of years of each people's history, their accomplishments as well as their tragedies.

On the eve of developments that would lead to America's entry into the war, Morrison was speaking for a large segment of American Protestantism in his view that one of the greatest of this war's tragedies would be the destruction of social progress — a near - fatal blow to the social gospel.

The number is virtually unchanged (71 %) from when Ipsos / World Vision asked the same question in October, before the City of Lights experienced tragedy and American politicians began debating state bans on Syrian refugees in response.

Over the weekend, countless more Americans will look to clergy as they struggle to process a tragedy in which so many of the victims were children.

Corrections please,,, My say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces, we are here with you on the Ship, Ark still can feel and suffer the results of the vibrations that has reached us since the 9/11 tragedy and the following Global Economy Crash and we do not want those any more as much as you do but nothing we ordinary ones can do other than be heard complaining and that what we are doing here right now where I am to Remind out of but have no Control Over.?!

Indeed, it is simply remarkable that those people responsible for educational and social policy during the past three decades can not make the obvious connection between the deplorable state of education, the multiple tragedies of the inner cities, and the virtual elimination of religiously informed values from American public life.

And I'll add a few of my own favorites: Waugh on the Merits, Paul Mankowski; Singing Aquinas in L.A., Dana Gioia; The Tragedy of the Republic, Pierre Manent; Struggle Against the Gods, Gao Zhisheng; The Omni - American Blues, David Bradley; and The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, R. R. Reno.

The new church was born out of tragedy: a fire destroyed a 98 - year - old church that was the heart and soul of the Catholic Native American community of the Red Cloud Indian School in Pine Ridge.