Through all the tension and human tribulation, Mr Crouch is a passionate yea-sayer.
All-too-human tribulations have long surrounded these flawed automatons.
Comedy, parody, satire are worthy vehicles in which to dissect human foibles and tribulations.
But I couldn't help imagining how uplifting a Douglas video would be if, instead of recycling the trials and tribulations of human existence, he turned toward what Hollywood films, for all their faults, have in spades: hope.
This abruptly changes in the second act when the tone shifts from a general account of the settlers' tribulations to the far more human desires of Cather's pioneers that lead to bloody tragedy.
This could be our best century ever, as we find the means and collective will to overcome poverty, disease, and many of the other tribulations that remain endemic despite human progress.
Scientists would be wise to learn from the tribulations of our humanities brethren.
It doesn't shy away from political turmoil -- the Syrian civil war and refugee camps, the Iranian Revolution, China's Cultural Revolution -- that turns the lives of musicians, like everyone else, upside down, but shows how the human spirit perseveres in the face of tribulation.
Tribulation can be lifted by a human exchange, obviously inverted here, but that would not seem to justify suffering either, would it?
