Few photographers plan a career with the meticulousness of an economist - "Five to seven years a project allows me a half-dozen major reportages before I have to think about retiring," he told me in London in 1990 - while also talking in terms of "the drama of humanity" and "the grandeur of the human race".
For all her avowed interest in the drama of humanity, Denis is vague to the point of opacity about her own family life.
The terrible trials of humankind, in this view, might well portend the joyous conclusion of God's long drama of humanity.
The string arrangements elevate it above typical Monkeys/Rascals fare to something approaching the drama and humanity of Scott Walker or Love.
According the Hollywood Reporter, the actor is set to star in The First, an eight-episode drama chronicling humanity's journey to settle Mars from the astronauts floating in a tin can to the Red Planet, to the family and ground control team supporting them from Earth.
Instead, it often chooses business over humanity, drama over accuracy, and withholding of information over the uncovering of truth and exposure of injustice.
There is enough drama and humor and humanity in many honest, true stories to touch our hearts and minds.
There's something so wonderful about watching someone have a convincing breakdown on film to say something about humanity or drama, or in Celia's case, the audition process and the film industry.
Here, in the middle of an MMA fight, where doubt can spell doom, was a moment of true emotional confusion, without pretense or forethought, one of those spontaneous flashes of humanity and drama that true, longtime, been-there-seen-that fight fans eat up.
"Now, again, we have the devaluation of the humanities, with drama not being taught in schools if [Michael] Gove gets his Ebacc.
