Some of death's terrifying force, his poetry suggests, might be borrowed, and used, for the purposes of life.
It's a path embraced by the wetsuit warriors in "Chasing Mavericks," a surfing movie about men, water and waves, and how and why they sometimes come together beautifully and sometimes collide with terrifying force.
And when one of the most populous, commercially successful cities, in one of the most developed countries in the world, is laid low by a natural phenomenon of terrifying force, it makes you wonder who's getting the upper hand.
Forget those pulsing neck muscles, the terrifying force of his headers surely originates from his rock‑solid rug, a triumph of elite male grooming, styling elevated to the highest peak.
Jones thinks neo-luddism is fed rather by "the idea of technology as a disembodied, transcendent, terrifying force outside the human", which emerged in the mid 20th century, with the bomb and the rise of large-scale computing.
With Brazil, Russia, India and China experiencing just the kind of breakneck economic growth that transformed British society in the 1800s - villages turning into cities, peasants swapping fields for factories, and mass exploitation grinding out higher GDP - Engels's polemic resonates with terrifying force.
Edward Gardner brings out the Bergian echoes in Britten's score with passionate intensity; the choral climaxes have terrifying force, and every solo performance, led by Roocroft and Finley, is etched with the finest dramatic precision.
With incisively observed action, quietly cruel dialogue, and a flood of hallucinatory images, Decker conveys the terrifying force of sexual desire and the violent intimacy of family bonds; as filmed by the cinematographer Ashley Connor, the characters, the wild countryside, and even the sinewy livestock seem to shudder with reckless passion.
