Sentences with phrase «as tragedy then»

Depending on your tastes, that verdict might either bring to mind Marx's adage about history being repeated first as tragedy then farce, or the immortal words of Jay Gatsby: «Can't repeat the past?

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Then, tragedy, as an Uber self - driving car kills a woman.

@CP: before the age of 24 I buried my Mom and 2 children... tragedy didn't make me believe then and it certainly won't make me believe now... if anything those tragedies made me question what kind of an evil monster god really is if he allows 3 innocent people to die horrible deaths (my Mom was an avid believer and went to her grave believing she was going to be with god... it was a comfort for her and eased her mind... I just don't see it as a necessity)

If at this point in the central tragedy in our history there had occurred the demonstration of the power and glory of the God in whom he trusted; if Elijah had come; if he who saved others had been saved; if we know not what natural or supernatural event had taken place to deliver this soul of faith from death and further shame; then might not faith as universal loyalty and universal trust have been reconstructed among men?

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.

I don't want to go into politics as this is a football forum, In the past we have seen plenty of tragedies inside football stadiums, especially in England, where hundreds of fan's lost their lifes and there was no postponement to the league back then.

He recovered, then suffered a stroke in 2002 that debilitated him and ultimately ended a life that served as not only a reminder of the tragedy of a career cut short but also a reminder that no case is ever truly hopeless.

Football as a sport is about winning and when the manager can not inspire a squad of talented players, to perform at their best or to even compete, then it is a tragedy that needs to be resolved urgently before further decline in performances, fortunes and revenues.

Those tragedies might not even be recorded as such, and are probably not scrutinised, picked apart, and then used to effect change.

They say history repeats itself first as a tragedy, then as Labour party political strategy.

Trump has been compromised since then as McCain said many more shoes will fall in the Trump TREASON tragedy.

The logic goes that if companies are putting the proper processes in place across their businesses and supply chains and responding to minor infringements as they happen, then shocking human tragedies like Rana Plaza should be avoided.

I'm not sure when the statute of limitations is on this, but it does strike me as a little hypocritical to argue that the mosque is an affront to the 9/11 survivors and victims» relatives and then force them to re-live the tragedy over and over in a campaign ad.

He speculated that Cuomo was seeking national headlines and seeking primarily to placate the left, and then wondered whether it was even worse, and Cuomo was using the latest shooting tragedy as an excuse to push a radical gun agenda he wanted to advance «all along.»

Then, just as the characters reach their happiest point, sudden tragedy strikes and the film cuts ahead seven years.

Fleming then co-wrote and directed the comedy Hamlet 2 (2008), with Steve Coogan as a high school drama professor who attempts to save his flagging theater department by mounting an onstage sequel to Shakespeare's famous tragedy.

The fact that, this time, the setting is an all - black school really doesn't change anything, as this kind of story can only really have one possible trajectory: Gung - ho young men embrace the spirit of the institution, go all out and then too far, resulting in tragedy from excess zeal.

I thought this movie was a good representation of a tragedy even though Aruba does come off looking badly but that is just my opinion... and I do realise there are similar such incidents all over the world that does not receive the same acclaim as this one did but then such is life..

Unsurprisingly, then, Carrell nearly steals the picture as a man who's so busy hustling for a second chance that he doesn't realize his life is actually a tragedy.

Her take on the selfish and pampering Madame Raquin, especially as she grieves for her perfect son and then befalls an even greater personal tragedy, is pure Oscar material and reminded me greatly of her multi-dimensional role in American Horror Story: Asylum.

«The story unfolds first as an adventure, later as a mystery, then as near tragedy as this artist kept her work to herself, and finally as something of a triumph, as exhibitions of her work have been selling out throughout the world.»

It's a combination that provides piquant juxtapositions and peculiar correspondences as the mood remains wildly funny but the tone shifts easily from tragedy to comedy and then back again.

After a ghost - town - foraging prologue that introduces the Abbott clan as a tight unit, but then deals them a horrific tragedy, «A Quiet Place» settles in nearly a year later at their forest - enclosed homestead, where a system of lights, soft household items (they eat on leaves instead of plates), sanded pathways and padded spaces ensure a base level of safety for Lee (Krasinski), Evelyn (Blunt, sublimely good), Regan, and Marcus (Noah Jupe, «Wonder»).

Harding ran onto the ice to avoid disqualification, started and then stopped her routine, skated over to the judges and hoisted up her leg, sobbing, her face a mask of tragedy, an image equally as iconic as Kerrigan's confused, anguished expression seven weeks earlier.

If you re-read the final scenes between Winston Smith and Julia from Nineteen Eighty - Four and then watch this scene, you can have your own version of Marx's dictum about history as tragedy, then farce.

He depicts Killmonger as a brilliant black - ops assassin before revealing the primal tragedy that spurs him on to political and then racial revenge.

Directing with an even more restless energy than he showed in Kings and Queen, Desplechin sketches out a family tragedy, the untimely death of a first - born, that precedes the story by decades and then only overtly references it a few times, even as the shadow of that death hovers over the film: in the cancer that family matron Junon (Catherine Deneuve) has been diagnosed with, in the fragility of her teenage grandson Paul (Emile Berling), and in the odd sibling dynamics that have caused eldest daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) to, in effect, legally separate herself from her brother Ivan (Mathieu Amalric, in a mesmerizingly manic - depressive performance).

This tragedy isolates Bill and Kate from the world as they hide out from the media, then turns them violently against it.

Then as tragedy hit us on 9/11/2001, the federalization of their movement moved forward without much national discussion.

The world watches as the situation in Chester's Mill goes downhill fast, and then turns away once the novelty of a town sealed off from the rest of the world fades and other news stories take top billing, recalling tragedies like Hurricane Katrina.

After their love affair ended in tragedy, Rosa retreated first into her kitchen and then into solitude, as a librarian in Palermo.

These essays are then collected and published in a red - covered book, known as the Red Book, the mere sight of which causes most alumni to drop whatever it is they are doing to pore through the stories of personal triumphs and failures, tragedies marring otherwise successful lives, and humor and hope even in the midst of despair.

She had known tragedy as a small child and then again as a young woman, but she was determined to forge a life for herself and her children.

Tragedy and humor and spine - tingling action run side by side in this tale; Robinson pulls helpless laughter out of you with the high - jinks of his adrenaline - junkie young heroes, then turns the pace on a dime and has you mopping your eyes as the cruel odds of aerial battles against enemy Messerschmitts sends the irrepressible fliers you've come to love spiraling one by one to their deaths.

The read is a roller coaster of emotions as Nadia Hashimi teases us with their safety and then their near tragedies throughout the escape from their homeland (Laurie F).

Help them to accept us as a breed in whole and not let the few tragedies shine brighter then the many great traits that we have.

I'm also talking about the writer who turns an entire country into tragedy porn, going to volunteer at an orphanage and using brown kids as props in their photos or writing about how sad and poor everyone in Haiti is, with no mention of history, race, and politics, and then leaving a link for people to donate to the Red Cross, where their money will surely disappear into a black hole along with all the other Red Cross donations that are unaccounted for.

Then there's Wayne's relationship with Commissioner Gordon which puts Bruce in yet another awkward position, plus the return of Jason Todd who, as we've already covered, is often referred to as Bruce's greatest failure, a tragedy that weighs heavily on his mind.

Watch Dogs sees gamers play as Aiden Pearce, who used to be a criminal but then family tragedy happened and now he's using his brilliant hacking skills FOR GOOD.

We got to see Laura Croft, then green as grass, transform into a capable, self - sufficient and completely confident individual after enduring one tragedy after another.

As the city was digging out from under the tragedy of 9/11, Viridian was moving to 530 W 25th in Chelsea where it remained until 2011, moving then to its current location at 548 West 28th Street.

He has painted on photos, painted over photos, and questioned the possibility of literally representing monumental tragedy, such as the series Birkenau (2014): four imposing works that had begun life as images of the Nazi death camp of the title, but then painted over to become inscrutable abstracts.

The protagonist undergoes a tragedy and is thought to have died, then reemerges in another village as a mystic and healer, where her practice of magic lands her in trouble.

For «Beyond the Black», at London's Victoria Miro gallery until 9 November, he has used Friedrich Nietzsche's «The Birth of Tragedy» as inspiration, engraving his analysis onto rubber stamps, then overlaying them in celestial formations until they leave the literal world and enter the sublime.

You say that there have been climate extremes and tragedies in recent years (as in all years), then you say that they can not individually be attributed to human activity (burden of proof off), then you say that there is a prediction that such events, with greater frequency and magnitude, will be due to human activity (the prediction exists, and you are only claiming the existence of a prediction).

Citing issues such as corruption and abuse of power raised by the protesters, Pitman says: «The tragedy of it is best remembered by thinking about what were the issues then and what they are today.»