His resume encompassed horror films and television series, and he most recently appeared in the TV miniseries "Longitude". Gray was best known to international audiences as Blofeld, the villain with the white cat in his arms, in the 1971 "Diamonds Are Forever" with Sean Connery as the redoubtable Agent 007.
That is what the millions of hapless victims of the encompassing horrors deserve.
Lovecraft was well known in the world of "weird fiction," a term that he popularized: it was an early-twentieth-century genre that encompassed supernatural horror stories as well as some of what would now be called science fiction.
In this, Mr. Lubin both describes the Kushner sensibility that is so in tune with our moment and echoes Paul Fussell's "The Great War and Modern Memory," the classic study of how the charnel house of World War I provoked a new literature of irony and fragmentation to encompass irrational horror.
For how can language ever encompass the horrors that they have both experienced in their respective lands?
Bellow's sense of the all-encompassing horror is borne out by the course of events, including the ubiquity, to this day, of representations of the Holocaust and of Hitler (as Amy Davidson and I discussed here last week), many by artists and intellectuals born long afterwards.
It placed fourth on Ain't It Cool News' Top 10 Best Scores Of 2008 List, being described as "scrupulously weaving together strains of bone-chillingly cold horror with the encompassing warmth of newly acquired love".
It was the widespread horror at that event, encompassing both communities, that put an end to the threat that the siege of Drumcree posed to the overall peace settlement.
And yet the subject of infidelity is wholly worthy of scrutiny, encompassing as it does the most searing of emotions: the horror of lying, rage at being lied to; disappointment in a spouse, or even more devastating, disappointment in oneself.
While this programme swears blind "the golden hour" is its focus, it also encompasses the aftermath – the horror of your world turning in on itself after an awkward faceplant, bin-lorry collision or heart attack, as well as the unimaginable dedication that doctors, nurses and paramedics have to patching you up.
