The film is a variation on classical tragedy — a horror story in which will, faith, and the mysteries of the human heart are pitted against the forces of evil, forces that forever change the landscape of the protagonist's innocence.
No author has so many titles on the list of Most Often Remade pictures: The Black Cat (which may be the single most filmed short story of all time), The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Raven.
My journalistic heart went pit-a-pat when I was greeted at reception by a pig.
Robert, thankfully, is a huge "dog person" with a soft spot in his heart for pit-bull mutts like mine.
In a controversial study of congestive heart failure pitting bilevel positive airway pressure against continuous positive airway pressure [ 83], a greater rate of myocardial infarction was seen in the bilevel group [ 83].
The physical symptoms of anxiety and the body's reactions to exercise are pretty similar i.e., the heart-pounding pit stains as one study of people with heightened sensitivity to anxiety found.
First I'd like to share a personal story of my own because statistics always resonate more clearly and colorfully when they are illustrated by our own gut-wrenching, heart-sinking, pit-in the stomach stories.
At its heart, the debate pits a growing push to protect children and young women from sexual assault in India against the realities of human sexuality, the lifting of taboos about casual sex and the country's longstanding patriarchal marriage traditions.
With a chorus that holds reference to the Edgar Allen Poe poem The Pit and the Pendulum ("Pendulum swinging slower, degenerate moving") to lines such as "time lapse, bars riding heart's bottomless pit" alluding to his own increasing disinterest in hip hop, the once gore glorifying emcee verbalizes his growth as a lyricist.
Two matters close to the progressive heart have been pitted against each other.
October is the month of Poe's mysterious death, in 1849, and ends with Halloween, whose spirit is so expertly evoked by his memorably macabre stories like "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Pit and the Pendulum".
