(Weir may be alluding here to a very similar speech from the Japanese camp commandant at the beginning of Lean's Bridge on the River Kwai).
The two halves of the Coimbra bridge lean against each other and, in effect, help hold each other up.
His greatest film role was probably Colonel Nicholson, in Lean's The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957), where his quintessentially English stiff upper lip under dreadful Japanese maltreatment and, eventually, obsessive unreasonableness, won him a best actor Oscar and numerous other prizes.
And speaking of BlackBerrys, don't forget to keep them handy; with the PlayBook OS's 2.0 release pushed back until February of next year, you and your coworkers will have to lean on BlackBerry Bridge for trivial things like email and BBM for just a bit longer.
As a child, his favorite film was Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai, which similarly takes place in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
It was taken in 1998 when she was back in rehab after a lapse, and it shows a glittering yellow river, her shadow darkening the surface as she leaned over the bridge to see it.
Cashmere Cat goes to work on the Tunnel Stage as the sun begins to lean toward the Golden Gate bridge.
The four- month-long cash transfer programme was implemented during this period to bridge the lean season.
Atop the bridges people lean against the railings, watching the barges or maybe merely the play of sun and shadow on the water and the quai.
He said he attended Princeton as a biochemistry major and later became a police officer in upstate New York before winding up in a one-room lean-to underneath a bridge.
Lean over the graceful bridges and balustrades of the Venetian and watch the singing gondoliers oar their boats through the mock canals of this Italianate casino.
