"But that would be terrible drama," he comes back.
A terrible drama was being enacted on board the ship, which was hard hit and in a sinking condition.
"Without their sangfroid, we could have been confronted with a terrible drama," he said.
We are living through a terrible drama, everything happening in Spain is terrifying in a way you could never imagine.
But mostly they sat upright in their red upholstered theater seats, watching a terrible drama unfold around an empty stage.
Thank you, ABC, for this wonderful, terrible drama that in the end is as much about unconditional love as it is about high-end commercial real-estate investments.
Chris Huhne may not be in their league, but when reflecting on the terrible drama of his family's breakdown, we should remember that he's not the only loser in this saga.
"The explosion of a residential building in Reims is a terrible drama," the office of President François Hollande said in a statement, conveying his condolences to the victims' relatives.
The American passengers "were particularly courageous and showed great bravery in very difficult circumstances", said Cazeneuve, adding that "without their sangfroid we could have been confronted with a terrible drama".
The killing of the stalwart old banker Thomas Briggs in his first-class railway carriage as he travelled home to his suburban villa in Hackney was thus dubbed by the press of 1864 "this terrible drama of real life".
