Participants were asked to view a highly distressing video showing the real-life aftermath of road traffic accidents (RTAs)(compiled by Steil, 1996) and now, referred to as the 'trauma film paradigm' (Holmes & Bourne, 2008; Holmes, Brewin, & Hennessy, 2004).
TRAGEDIES are often dispatched in short order, and most of life is aftermath.
In real life, the aftermath of an overdose isn't usually pretty, but Hester's dainty bout of vomiting is almost fetching.
The painting first erupts in flames, then the modern-day tribulations come to life: the aftermath of a suicide bombing in a Pakistani market; Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, giving a speech; an American soldier talking about the music he listens to "when we're killing the enemy" in Iraq.
They extend from human pleasures (a new 3 percent "cabaret tax" on establishments that offer live music, dancing or other entertainment while serving alcohol) to nonhuman ones (pet boarding and obedience classes) and even to life's aftermath (the cremation certificate fee increases to $150 from $40).
As a result, the book has an eerie restrained quality, not so much absorbed with its own darkness as it is a calm exploration of the emotional texture of the difficulty of life and aftermath of the end of it, a catalog of understandings, though each of them almost museum-like, at once warm and cold.
But it's the robotics competition and its life-changing aftermath that informs most of the narrative.
Originally called Half-Life 2: Aftermath, the game was later renamed to Episode One after Valve became confident in using an episodic structure for the game.
In March, The New York Times published an article chronicling the life-changing aftermath of a sexting episode in Washington state, where a nude photo an eighth grader texted to her boyfriend made its way onto the cellphone screens of hundreds of students.
Life in the aftermath of the Matthew Propp case, anyway.
Newton tasted the excitement of London life in the aftermath of the Principia.
