Birgitte's was an unexpected, exhilarating rise that at times turned brutal and lonely, and only Kasper, and the viewers, truly shared it.
But then China's exchange rate soared, his workers' wages rose almost tenfold, the authorities started enforcing overtime rules and competition turned brutal.
But there is something indeed glorious about the savants' selfless passion, though it was in service to a naïve idealism — that of a mission to liberate Egypt from the Mamelukes, the dynastic descendants of slave warriors — that ineluctably turned brutal.
Mr. Kony was the focus of the video "Kony 2012" by the advocacy group Invisible Children, which became a sensation on the Internet last year, bringing mainstream attention to the altar boy turned brutal rebel, who often wore wigs and costumes.
A series that frequently turned brutal and bloody had one more moment of physical tension Saturday, when the Lakers Sasha Vujacicc struck the Suns' Goran Dragic in the chin early in the fourth quarter.
A gory satire about former college friends turned brutal enemies might be the goofiest offering at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The tradition turned brutal after Vietnam, and that's when we became obsessed with new forms of masculine violence.
"We're living with a recession that just won't end, political attacks that have turned brutal, and societal changes that are impacting us -- from stupid education 'reform' to an explosion of technology -- all coming together to impact us in ways that we had never anticipated," Pringle said, as EdWeek reported.
In China, the recent outbreak of novel influenza A/H7N9 virus has been assumed to be severe, and it may possibly turn brutal in the near future.
It is an age before tests turn brutal, when a child's life still shines with potential.
A bill on Gov. Mario Cuomo's desk would weaken that discipline; it would guarantee pensions even for officers who turn brutal or corrupt.
