Ophuls spoke both German and French; he also directed a Dutch film and an Italian film, plus four English-language films during an eight-year stay — largely frustrated, sometimes deliciously fruitful — in America.
It's a surprisingly fruitful metaphor, largely unexplored in the medium, for what it feels like to be a video game player who is joyfully complicit in a series of morally dubious actions.
Again, I am putting this crudely, but feminism started out as a protest movement, so made a lot of noise; a process of persuasion has put feminists and their aims at or near the centre of governments, in many countries, so of course the protest element has been largely replaced by constructive, fruitful political engagement, which takes place with much less fanfare.
He seems very confident here, comfortable with himself as an artist when he pulls everything together he makes some of the best music of his long, fruitful, yet largely unacknowledged career".
It has only been very recently that the global climate change movement has generated a fruitful political tactic, largely through the work of US activist, Bill McKibben and his global political movement, 350.org, whose genesis is outlined in his new book, Oil and Honey.
All this changed, thanks largely to an unlikely but immensely fruitful partnership between Harold Macmillan and Ernest Marples.
This has produced a split with our European allies and, if these policies are pursued, will mark a deviation from some 50 years of fruitful collaboration that has largely produced peace and considerable prosperity for Europe and the United States.
Jewish law has turned out to be supportive, largely based on the biblical charge to "be fruitful and multiply".
The working relationship with Jerry Finn had been so fruitful that the same team was largely engaged for Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, with Finn producing and Joe McGrath engineering.
