In the past, it was pilgrims and explorers and colonizers who, in variously benign and cruel ways, drove interchange among peoples.
The world is anarchic and cruel and can drive all of us to despair sometimes, but good art is a realm unto itself, he tells us, and thankfully we can escape into it from time to time when we need to regain our senses.
And the third question is that exacting quality he had — that persnickety demanding, sometimes cruel way he drove people — how important was that in terms of succeeding in driving them to a greater level of perfection?
Demand for the breed, and the cruel practices that drove its supply, continued in the postwar years.
With cruel vehemence, he drives his performers through tightly knit sequences, or drills, that are full of bounding, synchronized movement that makes use of fast footwork and rigid arms.
The title "Dogfight" refers to a cruel bet that drives the plot early on, as a group of Marine buddies vie to bring the most unattractive girl to their last hurrah before shipping out to war on the eve of President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Mr. Armfield sees the house at No. 1 Cloud Street, Perth, as a metaphor for the nation itself, occupied as it is by the wild, shiftless Pickles family, the industrious, God-fearing Lambs and the ghosts of an Aboriginal girl and the cruel missionary who drove her to suicide.
"The Last Secret" appeals to the longing readers feel to inhabit, at least for a change, a zone free of such condescension — to be engaged by the lonely passion of Nora's husband and his lover, the cruel rejection that drives Nora to desperate acts of anger and revenge, the devastating realization that the children have guessed their parents' crimes of the heart.
To many at the networks and studios, it is a cruel joke that could drive them out of business.
It's very harsh, the weather is cruel, you can hardly drive for a mile without having a moose get in your way… " Equally importantly, she also explained that her story could only have happened in a place "where people are kind".
