All right, there are the two arias composed by Bernard Herrmann to expose the tender voice of Charles Foster Kane's favorite artiste, Susan Alexander; there's that terrific, death-dark party scene where the dancing girls come on to tell Kane, "There Is a Man!"; and don't forget the little snatch of "This Can't Be Love" that goes with the dreadful picnic at his lavish Xanadu.
They heard powerful eyewitness testimony of the "terrific, hurtling death" experienced by the thousands of British and Commonwealth soldiers who obeyed the whistles at 7.30am on 1 July, rising from their trenches to be scythed down by German gunners.
This subtle suspicion that everything I did was absurd, that my onward trudge depended on a false refusal to fully comprehend the terrific reality of death's finality, spurred me to consume religion and philosophy.
There are some terrific moments, including a death scene, which initially seems mawkish but then undercuts itself to devastating effect.
But you're wrong, because I think mass death is terrific, and I'm a really nice fucking guy".
"The death of this terrific young athlete shows the corruption of professional sports," said Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, who served as director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy from 1996 until 2001.
Marcus Sakey is a terrific writer, and The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes is a good read.
Weeks later, he wrote, the Franklin was "still smoking & had a terrific list & the smell of death from her was horrible".
Wall-E vs. Panda Death Match -- Two terrific animated films come to DVD.
Deployed thoughtfully, life-and-death moments can be terrific character-building tools.
