Sentences with phrase «war on an intimate scale»

Charles Frazier realizes the Civil War on an intimate scale in his fourth novel, returning to the time and place of his iconic best - seller Cold Mountain.

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Vera defies her old - fashioned parents and wins a place at Oxford, only to drop out to become a military nurse and do her part for the war effort; through her eyes, we witness the devastation and destruction of warfare on a personal, intimate and life - changing scale.

And South Park Bigger Longer & Uncut remains their defining statement, a work combining epic scale (a land war with Canada, a trip to the depths of Hades, a daylight raid on the Baldwin compound) with intimate character comedy (Satan's grief over his lover Saddam Hussein's infidelity is genuinely touching), wrapped in a biting commentary on censorship and topped off with belting show tunes worthy of West Side Story.