But then this bloody Jim rings, and Mr Stevens changes his mind about crushing Phil.
You don't win hearts and minds by crushing dissent or disagreement.
Having made up its mind to crush the rebellion, the British government sent General Howe and his brother, Richard, Admiral Lord Howe, with a large fleet and 34,000 British and German troops to New York.
He oppressed a free nation; he declared himself its enemy; he abused the laws: he must die to assure the repose of the people, since it was in his mind to crush the people to assure his own".
Before it kills all the cells in a body, it imparts anxiety and depression to the mind, and crushes the spirit of its victims, the children, spouses, mothers, fathers, and siblings it leaves in its wake.
And with that phrase, your child is resurrected, and for a moment god has answered your prayers, but you are a parent and the woman from the hospital is on the phone, so your mind quickly crushes the relief by writing dozens of different endings to that sentence: Your child is okay, but he was in an accident.
In Soderbergh's film, the mind-crushing dullness of Liberace's performances is inseparable from the lifelong pressure on him to construct a public identity in radical contrast with his own desires.
I have had this condition since I was 10 and it ebbs and flows, interweaving itself into the tapestry of my pretty nice life to create what I can only describe as intermittent, mind-crushing crises that knock the wind out of my sails, rendering me useless.
Am I in Galway, at the very lovely Cúirt festival, surrounded by still-trembling and weeping participants who had to get here in the non-flying, convoluted, mind-crushing and spine-warping ways that I now take for granted as an inveterate airport avoider?
First, it reduces the mind-crushing pain of exercise and allows me to go to a place in myself where I can avoid the boredom of exertion.
