Sentences with phrase «coming conflagration»

A nimblefooted, witty piece, but one also imbued with a premonitory sadness at the coming conflagration [World War II].

It's a moral equivalency confirmed by the coming conflagration, as neither side seems to see a square full of old men, women, and children as much of a deterrent to staging a massive gunfight.

Their aim is to prepare for the coming conflagration against arch big - bad Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), though their crowning triumph is as a metaphor for how ill - served are our children by a steady diet of pabulum, platitude, and Pollyannaism.

In their comparative sombreness, King Vidor's The Big Parade (1925) and Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) are greater anti-war films, but then Vidor and Milestone couldn't possibly have feared, as did Gance, the coming conflagration.

«Ironically impeaching Buhari may well be what will save Nigeria from such a civil war and what can best be described as the coming conflagration.»

Faulting Gowon's stance, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain insisted that Buhari's impeachment would also avert what he termed the «coming conflagration.»

In the coming conflagration, no one will be safe.

Not exact matches

It was in the period of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, when England was threatened by the conflagration on the Continent, that such organizations as the London Missionary Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the British and Foreign Bible Society came into being.

Jeff Daniels, reprising his Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain role sans handlebar moustache, is given a few deadening Foghorn Leghorn pontifications (the worst coming in an embarrassing scene with «Didn't you used to be» Mira Sorvino) that only underscore the extent to which the North is a bit player in this conflagration.

Democracy may yet come to Iraq and the region, but so too may civil war or a regional conflagration, which in turn could lead to spiraling oil prices and a global economic shock.

These self - contained yet very much linked bodies of work come together in the gallery creating a conflagration of distorted messaging.