Sentences with phrase «gulag known»

State Sen. John Bonacic's retirement announcement reminded me of one of our first encounters, back around 1997, when he was part of that political gulag known as the Republican Assembly minority.

Not exact matches

Solzhenitsyn discovered in the gulag what my friend also knows — that there is a strength that comes from renunciation of life, a strength that triumphs even over the powers that threaten death.

But consider the price at which that comfort is purchased: it requires us to believe in and love a God whose good ends will be realized not only in spite of» but entirely by way of» every cruelty, every fortuitous misery, every catastrophe, every betrayal, every sin the world has ever known; it requires us to believe in the eternal spiritual necessity of a child dying an agonizing death from diphtheria, of a young mother ravaged by cancer, of tens of thousands of Asians swallowed in an instant by the sea, of millions murdered in death camps and gulags and forced famines.

As it is, the stilted claims at auteurism (he's known as the master of eye violence, mainly for a few juicy bits from The Beyond and Zombie) do more, perhaps, to relegate his work to a sort of camp gulag: the Siberia of legitimate cinema, where adolescent tools congregate for midnight showings armed with irony and a crippling baggage of disdain and contempt.

Everyone knows that if they lose this power struggle, they may be shot on the spot, or sent to a gulag until the next change of government.

The idea you're no longer going to die in a nuclear holocaust, or some Soviet gulag (hey, the Cold War was an anxious time!)

The theme is no different - Lysenko viewed Mendelian genetic theory as a fascist theory, and anyone who disagreed was sent to the gulag - hence putting Soviet biological science back decades.