Moorcock's universe is one that is engaged in a ceaseless bipolar battle between the stultifying, life-denying Gods of Law and the anarchic, destructive Gods of Chaos.
It will be a long time before a Wotan comes along who can convey the internal torment of this volatile, despairing and self-destructive god, who never, as Mr. Morris plays him, loses his stiff-backed, godly dignity.
Rudra, the god of the roaring storm, is usually portrayed in accordance with the element he represents as a fierce, destructive deity.
Black Sabbath's bleak, turgid and blisteringly loud take on the blues set the template for heavy metal more than 40 years ago, when Ozzy Osbourne was an angst-ridden, self-destructive rock god rather than a lovably befuddled reality-TV star.
Represented here are the famously self-destructive songwriting god Townes Van Zandt ("Lungs," "Flyin' Shoes," "Highway Kind," "If I Needed You"), Van Zandt's close friend Guy Clark ("Step Inside This House"), and Robert Earl Keen ("Rollin' By"), who was Lovett's college chum.
Before he became pope, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, called same-sex marriage a "destructive attack on God's plan".
On Sunday, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, had declared it a "destructive attack on God's plan".
In its race to derail the change, the church organized large protests involving tens of thousands of opponents of the measure, with Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, calling the bill a "destructive attack on God's plan".
The novel deals with sin, guilt, obsession, compulsion, the nature of religious belief and the destructive innocence of God's elect but nothing rumples the bright precision of the writing and the observation behind it.
It's just that it's not as easy in a dense metro environment, or even in suburbs that enforce property standards, but these experimenters are out there -- some of them involved with "steampunk" q.v., others who like pyrotechnics, rockets, odd engines, mobile sculptures, destructive robots and God knows what else.
He has described same-sex marriage as the work of the devil and a "destructive attack on God's plan".
