Sentences with phrase «of a love affair doomed»

Manuel de Falla / Stokely Carmichael brings together the score of a 1904 opera — La vida breve (Life is short) by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, which tells of a love affair doomed by social mores and class differences — and a 1967 speech delivered in Seattle by Stokely Carmichael, in which the civil rights activist and Black Panther Party member argued that African Americans should not serve in the Vietnam War.

(Life is short) by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, which tells of a love affair doomed by social mores and class differences — and a 1967 speech delivered in Seattle by Stokely Carmichael, in which the civil rights activist and Black Panther Party member argued that African Americans should not serve in the Vietnam War.

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Dr. Boli goes to the opera -LRB-» Giuditta tells the story of the doomed love affair between Octavio... and Giuditta, a beautiful woman with the brains of a gerbil»), observes Thanksgiving customs all over the world, teaches us history, and writes a play.

Bring a bottle of champagne, something to nosh on and arm yourself with some interesting local history, such as a shipwreck, doomed love affair among sailors or anything cool that's washed up on the shore.

It is a film in which we see snapshots of a long - term love affair that seems doomed from the start.

Against the backdrop of 19th Century Paris and the famed Montmartre cabaret, this is the story of the doomed love affair between Christian (McGregor), a young poet, and Satine (Kidman), a courtesan and performer at the Moulin Rouge.

Brief Encounter makes an illicit love affair more than that, giving the doomed romance more of a soul than a thousand tragic romances since then.

That Cowboy Bebop's main plot revolves around a deadly terrorist attack (both a specific reference to Japan's own subway massacre and a contemporary brush at a more global post-9 / 11 paranoia) precipitated (and ultimately ameliorated) by a doomed love affair is something to admire for its understanding of the ripple of consequence that infects as it spreads; love as the product of and the inspiration for chaos.

A deceptively simple tale of the doomed love affair between an ageing cleaner (Mira) and a young Moroccan gastarbeiter (immigrant worker) which exposes the racial prejudice and moral hypocrisy at the heart of modern West German society.

The last ten seconds of the movie is however awash in the sort of treacly unbearable Mills & Boons chocolate box kitsch that even Titanic — a similar doomed love affair story which Somewhere in Time has foreshadowed in many ways - would have blanched at.

Royal expert Kelly Lynch and I enjoy better chemistry just sitting around chatting over a glass of wine than Naomi Watts and Naveen Andrews have while swept up in a passionate and doomed love affair in «Diana.»

Feast, about a doomed love affair in a manor house during the English Civil War, was bought as part of a time - unlimited two - book deal by Grove Atlantic's Morgan Entrekin years ago.