Sentences with phrase «refusal of the happy ending»

As ever, a ruthless refusal of the happy ending distinguishes South Korean genre cinema from its saccharine Hollywood counterparts.

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Still, the pathos of his protest is, to my mind, exquisitely Christian — though he himself seems not to be aware of this: a rage against explanation, a refusal to grant that the cruelty or brute natural misfortune or evil of any variety can ever be justified by some «happy ending» that males sense of all our misery and mischance.
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