Things rallied after a couple of hours – especially once the focus switched to Jeremy Vine in his deathless seat-by-seat virtual reality prison – but, sheesh, talk about a rough start.
We've evolved to successfully procreate, not to enjoy deathless romance.
Monarchs whose touch could cure scrofula, semi-divine emperors, deathless Arthurian kings: legends about rulers encapsulate the hopes and dreads of a nation.
When Dallas commemorates the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death next November, Americans will be remembering a man who ran his first campaigns without the aid of television, who had to overcome fears that he would take orders from the Vatican and who enjoyed a level of personal closeness with reporters unthinkable in this age of ubiquitous cameras and the deathless news cycle.
IN THE deathless prose of bureaucracy, it is known as the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.
Not that it was clear to the man most concerned; he continued as before, lamenting religious dissension, attending to the business of government, continuing the pretense of deathless majesty, destroying the powerful Howard family, whom he suspected of plotting to control his successor.
Magnificent memorable lines are created with simplicity of diction: Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.
In the Gospels and in the apostolic letters, "eternal" is first of all a temporal designation: in contrast to life of this world, eternal life has a deathless duration.
Whitman's greatest theme is a symbolic identification of the regenerative power of nature with the deathless divinity of the soul.
His poems may not be easy to understand fully at first, with their abstract nature and oblique details, but he does make an immediate impact with those deathless lines: "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper".
But Fehr's production, so sympathetic in its depiction of an isolated community torn apart by the deathless Dutchman and his ghostly crew, betrays his distaste for the qualities that made Wagner Wagner.
