Sentences with phrase «time as tragedy»

Artforum International; June 22, 2007; Gilligan, Melanie; 700 + words FEW APHORISMS ARE MORE FAMOUS than the redoubtable «History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farcean observation typically attributed to Karl Marx.

The Beggar's Pantomime Artforum International; July 1, 2007; Gilligan, Melanie; 700 + words MELANIE GILLIGAN ON PERFORMANCE AND ITS APPROPRIATIONS FEW APHORISMS ARE MORE FAMOUS than the redoubtable «History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce» - an observation typically attributed to Karl Marx.

Marx's observation that history tends to repeat itself «the first time as tragedy, the second as farce» may help to account for the evolution from JFK to Natural Born Killers.

But many party members must be thinking of his observation that everything in history happens twice — the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.»

The first time as tragedy and the second time as farce.

Not exact matches

It's time to demand greater responsibility from gun manufacturers and the NRA as they once again shrug their shoulders and dodge their complicity in what has become a recurring American tragedy.

As we focus on these issues and meeting the needs of our students and families during this difficult time, the rise in «fake news» related to this tragedy is reprehensible.

«Today Cardinal Dolan had the long - awaited opportunity to talk about his decision nine years ago in Milwaukee to publicize the names of priests who had abused children and how he responded to the tragedy of past clergy sexual abuse of minors, during the time he was privileged to serve as archbishop of Milwaukee,» Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, said in a written statement.

Perhaps all my questions amount to this: When it is time to talk about terror, tragedy, and world - historical occasions, what do writers» precisely as writers» bring to the table?

The trick of teaching children becomes shepherding kids through their own brokenness, letting them in on the tragedy of the world at the same time as you let them in on the goodness of God.

The profound tragedy of our times is that our democratic majorities are applying the same tactics as the totalitarian rulers of the past to destroy marriage and family.

Time to take my place as a «creature» again created by God and recognize my limitations, and humbly pray for the Great Physician to work this tragedy out for His glory.

Especially in this case, NOT INSANITY, he took time to plan this, build bombs, and intended to harm as many people as he could, we should focus on the victims, the families, watts to prevent similar tragedies, and STOP GIVING THESE PSYCHOTIC PROPLE THEIR UNDESERVED ATTENTION.

wouldn't wish a tragedy like this on him and certainly not his son, but we are not going to sit back and watch as he attempts to marginalize people because he does nt agree with who they spend their time with....

In particular, he kept seeing the baffling personal injustice involved when «the wicked doth compass about the righteous,» and, even when he thought of the nation's collective problem, his solution was not so much to blame present social tragedy on antecedent social sin as to believe that justice, now denied, would come in time — «Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.»

And there's terrible tragedy there somehow, as these people are too sweet to survive in this world and they are in terrible danger all the time.

To our knowledge they have two sons, both named, as were Hosea's children, symbolically: Shear - Jashub, «a remnant shall return,» 7:3, obviously predicating the tragedy that will leave only a remnant, but at the same time affirming the expectation of productive survival; and Maher - Shalal - Hash - Baz, «The spoil speeds, the prey hastes,» 8:1 - 3, with initial reference to the imminent collapse of the Rezin - Pekah alliance against Jerusalem in 734, but perhaps later with reference to Judah herself as the soon - to - be spoil and prey of Assyria.

If Mahler is successful in expressing the texture of our experience, it is because he has managed to develop his musical motifs in such fashion as to recreate for us our sense of participation within the world: our experience includes both times of joyful freedom and optimism, and times of tragedy and vulnerability.

In sufficient number of causes to make us humble, we discover good points in the cause which time has erased, just as one often learns more from the slain hero of a tragedy than from some brassy Fortinbras who comes in at the end to announce the victory and proclaim the future disposition of affairs.

Of note he has started to make space in the midfield by asking Campbell to find a new team, another player who is far better than the english core, but will not be given the time to grow, as the likes of Ramsay, Wilshere, Walcott and Chamberlain,, even to the detriment of the team position in the league, such a tragedy

The fact that a footballer like him is not remembered as the best player of all time is a great tragedy in my opinion.

Michel Odent, in his review of research on the «primal period «(the time between conception and the first birthday), concludes that interference or dysfunction at this time affects the development of our capacity to love, which is particularly vulnerable around the time of birth, being connected hormonally to the oxytocin system.3 Research by Jacobsen4 5 and Raine6 among others, suggests that contemporary tragedies such as suicide, drug addiction and violent criminality may be linked to problems in the perinatal period such as exposure to drugs, birth complications and separation or rejection from the mother.

It is becoming one of the essential baby products for the reason that when you monitor your baby all the time with it, you minimize the risks of accidents as well as other sorts of tragedies.

As at the time of filing this report members of the Executive Council were still discussing the tragedy most especially as the late Tinubu appeared healthy before the commencement of the MarcAs at the time of filing this report members of the Executive Council were still discussing the tragedy most especially as the late Tinubu appeared healthy before the commencement of the Marcas the late Tinubu appeared healthy before the commencement of the March.

If the Democrats try to use it as leverage now, they look really bad for trying to profit from tragedy.4 So now would be a bad time to try to ask for anything.

History, as Marx taught us, likes to repeat itself: the first time in the form of a tragedy; the second, a farce.

He was as statesmanlike as in his recent Commons statement about police corruption at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy.

It is an unfortunate fact of life that large scale tragedies will continue to occur, as the earthquakes in Japan and the horrific events in Norway attest, so Elizabeth's advice to other psychiatrists looking to help survivors and rescuers in future events would be to not focus on the therapy they have learned but instead invest time in listening and providing comfort by simple human contact.

While accidents and tragedies are unavoidable at times, it is critical that we as a community are best prepared to handle them should they occur.

«We will now be able to work in tandem with other local law enforcement agencies and the media in alerting the public of a missing senior, as time is of the essence when it comes to bringing these vulnerable citizens home to avert a tragedy.»

Using Shakespeare's contributions as a guide, he identified 24 points of similarity between «Sir Thomas More» and «The Spanish Tragedy,» a play republished, with new material, at about the time of «Hamlet.»

During the same time, I had a tragedy in my family, as a result of which my aunt was diagnosed type 2 diabetes.

And that tragedy exposed a lot of what is wrong in the «fast fashion» world and it's time that we as consumers stand up and do something about it.

Mature 44 yr old... Black Male... professionally minded... 190 lbs 6» 1... work out 4 - 5x a / wk... very discrete and keep my business to myself... work full time but will be re-entering school full time as well... overcame alot of tragedy in life but no real emotional baggage... my Motto: It is what it...

In a ripped - from - the headlines plot that unfortunately seems to be the de rigueur at this point in time, reeling from the tragedy, Katja self - medicates as she is thrown into the German legal system where the two defendants — a young neo-Nazi couple — end up being acquitted of the murders due to minor disparities in the evidence and Katja's drug use.

As they spend more time together, Keller and Broome realize that their lives were both touched by tragedy, and this allows them to come to an understanding with each other.

Writer / director Richard Ayoade, making his feature debut, nails a salient point about why it's so tough to stay grounded as a teenager: Oliver realizes that most of the «tragedies» of his life won't have meaning by the time he's 38, but that's scant comfort at the moment.

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.

Comedy has been famously defined as «tragedy plus time.»

He brings it back to grapple with a couple of tragedies that befall the family, nudging the film past the two - hour mark and into a sluggish custard of voiceover impressing on us the importance of living each day as if it were our last, and how all life is time travel, etc etc..

By the time the opening scene repeats, two years have passed, and what began as everyday misery threatens to deepen into tragedy.

Focus is not centered on Big Moments but monotony and Baker manages to discover immense joy and tragedy in something as simple as evening bath time.

Rather than focus on the lowest point in Lee's life — the tragedy that drove him from the film's titular town and estranged him from his wife Randi (Michelle Williams)-- Lonergan moves back through time freely, showing specific moments in Lee's past, even as he struggles with a new challenge: being a surrogate father to the now - teenaged Patrick after Joe dies.

Deadpool 2 is primarily an action - comedy, of course, but it also packs an emotional wallop, as at the film's heart lie two tragedies: the loss of Wade Wilson's longtime girlfriend Vanessa, and the murders of Cable's wife and daughter, which lead him to travel back through time to change the future.

In that film, as in Tragedy Girls, the emphasis is placed on the concept rather than the act itself, and how murderers integrate into the functioning machinery of society at a given moment in time.

«Their Finest» is small - scale, as WWII movies go, but that gives you time to appreciate its characters (including Bill Nighy as a demanding aging actor with hidden softness) and the moments it captures related to the everyday horrors of war — the inconvenience / tragedy of crew members not showing up on set because they were killed in the Blitz, for example.

Although Felix does not make an appearance again, he's mentioned as having fulfilled his duty because the grey rains did fall again in a different part of the world — triggering a whole new tragedy with different NPCs, and a story with twists and turns spanning multiple time skips in the past.

Hoberman («emerges from the mists of time... as a career - capping epic tragedy») to the New Yorker's Anthony Lane («lovers of cinema should reach for their fedoras, turn up the collars of their coats, and sneak to this picture through a mist of rain») to Newsweek's David Ansen («the best foreign film of the year»), critics from across the spectrum, who almost never agreed, rallied around Melville's neglected masterpiece.

The real tragedy of Dickinson's life isn't that it ended, as all lives do, but that it began perhaps a little too soon: Her writing was never appreciated in its time, and she died sadly unaware of the posthumous acclaim that awaited her.