Thus, the films showed sweat dripping off skinned noses, savage line clashes in slow motion, and a fatigued player on the bench looking like the Indian warrior in sculptor James Earle Fraser's "End of the Trail".
The sprint stages bookend the race, with a relatively benign opener south from Glasgow to Castle Douglas and a repeat of last year's three-pronged circuit race in central London, where Viviani was awarded victory last year after a dramatic finish-line clash with Greipel.
Barmy scale, wonky lines, clashing colours, misspelt words (well, it makes them fit) all put together to create an irresistible command to buy, eat or do everything that the seaside has to offer.
As a result, however, the rival dynastic lines clashed, often violently.
As the two lines clashed, the Turkish auxiliaries, reassured that this was not a ruse, descended from their camp upon the Athenian army, panicking and routing what remained of it.
With Phil Mickelson and Brandt Snedeker pulling out of the first of this season's world championships Lowry, winner of the 2009 Irish Open as an amateur, was in line to clash with second seed Tiger Woods.
With their reputations on the line, the clash of Erdogan and Putin's power politics has led to a standoff with a strong risk of escalation.
Sunday is sunny, meaning an unforeseen line-up clash between a pleasant doze in the rose garden and a performance of a new score to the harrowing silent film Joan of Arc.
A military spokesman said that fighting had halted along most of the front line, but clashes continued near Donetsk airport.
We have all had that dress that may not hold our girls in the best way but is too good everywhere else not to wear, or you might have tan lines that clash with your attire from too much fun in the sun, or maybe if you're like me, you tend to get flushed after the first sip of anything alcoholic, but are not staying away from the margs this time around!
The conflict – which erupted after President Salva Kiir accused his vice-president, Riek Machar, of plotting to overthrow him – has split the country along ethnic lines, sparking clashes between Kiir's Dinkas and Machar's Nuers.
