Sentence examples for by downfall from inspiring English sources

There's a particular German flair for solid, serious, handsomely crafted historical pieces, exemplified by Downfall, Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, The Lives of Others and the recent Berlin film festival hit The Counterfeiters; but more radical impulses are also flourishing.

The opening of the 2015 edition of the Berlin film festival is set to herald a new mood of confidence in German cinema, as new films from the fabled 70s generation of auteurs such as Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog sit alongside offerings from prominent film-makers of more recent vintage, led by Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel.

The Australian actor plays Diana in her later years in the film, previously known as Caught in Flight, which is being directed by Downfall's Oliver Hirschbiegel, best known for his acclaimed drama about the last days of Hitler in his Berlin bunker.

In Egypt, the military is racing to grab the levers of power before the Islamic extremists who seized the opportunity left open by downfall of Mubarak to kill and wound hundreds of Coptic Christians and have called for an end to equal treatment of women.

"The combination of the Depression and the New Deal," he declared, "gave the Hollywood of the Thirties its particular audience – an audience which was at once demoralised by the downfall of the system, exhilarated by the promise of action and deeply responsive to the image of purpose and freedom".

Today, all that certainty is gone, swept away by unprecedented protests in Cairo, Alexandria, and other Egyptian cities. Emboldened by the downfall of Tunisia's president, and alerted by Facebook and other social media, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets and publicly vented their rage against Mubarak's thirty-year dictatorship.

He said he had been as surprised as everyone else by the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

Many were equally shocked by the downfall of Richard S. Fuld Jr., Lehman's chairman and chief executive.

For some users, Friday morning's sandwich hangover was interrupted by the downfall of Jon Corzine, who resigned as the chief executive of the troubled financial firm MF Global.

That was followed by his downfall as next ball he attempted to sweep a full toss and was stone-dead lbw.

Bisset plays Simone, long-suffering wife of Gérard Depardieu's vastly adulterous financier Georges Devereaux (the film is inspired by the downfall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn).