From this democratic line-up – no conductor, no need – came a reading that was both studied and spontaneous, born of a unity of purpose, an urgent narrative, and the terrible momentum of an unjust act that spirals to its terrible conclusion.
When stripped of Marxist fairy tales and techno-utopian happy talk, rigorous atheism casts a wasting shadow over every human hope and endeavor, and leads ineluctably to the terrible conclusion of Philip Larkin's poem "Aubade" — that "death is no different whined at than withstood".
For a film full of murder, jealousy and fatalism, "Snow Angels" feels curiously small and anecdotal, and its impact diminishes as it nears its terrible conclusion.
caseful of plot elements, all pulled from Iraq war headlines — lost billions in cash, prisoner interrogations, soldier indiscretions, failed counterinsurgency plans — and all play their part in bringing Toby's story to its terrible conclusion.
As the story drew to its familiar, terrible conclusion, I felt more intensely than ever "the pity of it," in Othello's words: the waste of goodness, and the horror of man's propensity to sow darkness where there should be light.
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There are other terrible conclusions — defenestration, decapitation, disembowelment — but they have a certain élan, as in Jacobean tragedy.
"The Right and Proper Way" reaches a terrible and inevitable conclusion.
At the conclusion, Hughes prepares a terrible punishment for the paedophiliac tendency he has seen lurking in himself and transferred to Captain Jonsen - a fictional warning for what might have developed into fact, and a form of atonement.
At the conclusion of the story, we find that a terrible car accident (which took place at the end of the previous tale) has brought them together again.
