While filming their 1984 film Blood Simple in Austin, Texas, the Coens had seen a hotel which made a significant impression: "We thought, 'Wow, Motel Hell.' You know, being condemned to live in the weirdest hotel in the world".
One minute the computer is all nicey-nicey and "Can I help you with that?" and "You just listened to Fleet Foxes, perhaps you'd like to hear the new Sufjan Stevens album?" then the next thing you know, humanity has been condemned to live in vast subterranean slave camps and forced to mine uranium for our new robot overlords.And besides, it doesn't work – at least, not for me.
It is perversely reassuring to report that the artist's personal existence, which her work has condemned us to know practically everything about, remains a regular shambles.
It is perversely reassuring, then, to report that the artist's personal existence, which her work has condemned us to know practically everything about, remains a regular shambles.
Now, before I'm rightly condemned to the Don't Know You're Born wing of the Marcel Proust Memorial Home for Sensitive Lambs, I'll quickly point out that I'm not saying my failure with Dr Faustus ruined my holiday.
For then I should know them condemned to a permanent niggerdom among men, their lives, whatever adjustment they might make to their condition, to be lived out as part of the pain of the earth".
Tyrion was betrayed by almost everyone he'd ever known and condemned to death.
Elegantly, astutely, elegiacally, Guzmán pulls these threads (and others) together, proving that past and present collide on a cosmic level, and reminding us that whoever does not know history is condemned to repeat it.
Pressure was huge on him because he knew he was condemned to years in prison".
On the contrary, we pity them, because we know that they're condemned to solitude.
