And the movie never sits still, piling one bravura sequence upon another – family reunion, Indian murder raid, pitched battles, fraternal fist fights, heartbreaking sadness, all against the forbidding grandeur of Monument Valley and the south-western desert – and never once losing its vicelike grip on the audience.
In Mr. Reed's dishy, anecdotal history of the movie studio and the founders' fraternal strife, Jack L. Warner and Bette Davis are among the fearsome battling titans he brings to fulminating, fire-breathing life.
I rise from a grave whose wet clay I have passionately kissed, and I look up and see Christ spanning this battle-field with his feet and reaching fraternal and lovingly up to heaven.
The battle for second was also critical in the fraternal power play involving Button and Hamilton.
Mr McCain has won one battle but has a long march ahead.Fraternal enemiesThe Democratic contest had none of the Republican one's clarity, and the pundits are still probing the entrails for guidance.
He has also represented many survivors of Chicago police torture, and has done battle with the Chicago Police Department--and the Fraternal Order of Police--on numerous occasions over his 45 year career as a people's lawyer.
The former Foreign Secretary, who is to head a charity based in New York, said he left British politics to end the "soap opera" of his fraternal rivalry, but admitted he could "never erase" the memory of his defeat in the 2010 battle for party leadership.
Their fraternal quarrels ended in 1106, when one son, Henry I, king of England, defeated his brother, Robert, duke of Normandy, in the Battle of Tinchebrai, after which the succession in Normandy temporarily passed to the English kings.
Then came a fraternal split.
(The two retain a fraternal relationship.
