Yet it feels true enough in what it does choose to say, and in the reticent intimacy of this group of working-class men and women, with their shared everyday reality of coffee mugs, paperwork, grabbing a smoke out back, pulling over a truck with a flapping retread, peril, death and cleaning up afterward.
Wet-plate was first detailed by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851, less than three decades after the dawn of photography, and was known ominously as the "black art", partly on account of the potential perils - death from cyanide explosions and blinding from silver among them.
Here are high adventure, low comedy, tales of peril and death and lessons to live by.
I love how incomprehensible those concepts would be to a dog ("future peril"; "avoidable death").
The duel's basic vision — of disputes bearing down hard on reputation and being finalized through peril of death — maintained a dark and dramatic hold on the imagination.
And if Jews kicked out of Spain clung, at peril of death, to a religion with such an ultimately inclusive faith in the redeemable nature of humanity, who I am to reject that view?
Not just embarrassing or humiliating pranks, but physical abuse and serious physical peril, even death.
Zimmerman is expected to invoke the state's Stand Your Ground law, which gives wide discretion for the use of deadly force to citizens who feel "a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily harm".
Under Florida's Stand Your Ground law, a person can use deadly force to protect herself if there is "a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another".
The "Stand Your Ground" law, also known as Florida Statute Chapter 776, deals with justifiable use of force, holding that a person has conditional claims of self defense in situations in which they may have "held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily harm to himself or herself".
You also, apparently, see some appeal in a vehicle that has nearly one foot of ground clearance and can get you through not only every blizzard, but also every bridge-out-don't-go-this-way-on-peril-of-death natural disaster that might be thrown at your suburban nook or Rockies/New England country estate.
