This documentary is an intriguing study in passion, deadly drive and cruelty to animals.
A moment later their room would resound with growls, the thud of falling bodies, cries of fright; and then the woman's tender death agony would begin: "Oh, Jean… " The story concludes with a dreadful and deadly crime of passion ("L'amour,' repeated Mme. Truffeau, advancing upon me, 'c'est une grosse affaire, l'amour.' ").
The Scottish election campaign was deadly dull with little passion shown by the main parties.
In these days of smart, knowing literary fiction, with its ironic debunking of manners and morals, there's something refreshing about reviewing a book that inspires phrases like "desperate longing," "cruel rejection," "deadly truth" and "lonely passion" to describe its characters and their lives.
Set in the eighteenth century, "Forza" revolves around three principal figures who spend the opera pursuing one another across southern Europe, lost in a continent at war, chasing one another for reasons of both passion and deadly hatred, before they're finally and fatally brought together, in the last act, by "la forza del destino," the force of destiny.
Frank still views passion as potentially deadly but now his touch is lighter and more ironic, and as a result, "L'Annee des Meduses," which he adapted from his own novel, has much more meaning and impact than its predecessors.
The idea of the seven deadly sins takes our destructive passions for granted.
Unfortunately, Iran is serious -- or at least Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is deadly serious: Holocaust denial is his personal passion, not just a way of taunting Israel, and it's based on his personal interpretation of history.
EVEN Merton Miller, a Nobel prize-winning economist with a passion for financial arcana, found it "deadly dull".
"Because I know there are Democrats and Republicans on the Hill who share our passion, our passion to silence this deadly disease".
