In other hands, this triumph-over-tragedy plotline could have come across as bogus; a honeyed Hallmark sympathy card.
This triumph-over-the-odds fantasy is precisely what happened to Charlie Kaufman -- the screenwriter best known for his deadpan surrealist comedy "Being John Malkovich" -- when he handed in the screenplay for "Adaptation," which is scheduled to open in New York and Los Angeles on Friday.
Pitts describes this triumph-over-adversity trajectory in his memoir, Step Out on Nothing, and will talk about it during his keynote address.
He managed to bag a couple, according to the newly published diaries of the Telegraph's Scottish editor, Alan Cochrane, to whom the prime minister confided this triumph over dinner.
If there are nicer reasons for a building's celebrity status than its surpassing ugliness, at least this triumph, over some impressively ignoble contenders, acknowledges local disbelief when the scaffolding came down, at the sheer scale of developer cynicism.
I think I've figured it out: Saudi Arabia and its Arab neighbors want the U.S. to decapitate the Iranian regime and destroy its nuclear facilities so they can celebrate in private this triumph over the hated Persians, while publicly joining with their people in the streets in burning Uncle Sam in effigy, after we carry out such an attack on Iran — which will make the Arab people furious at us.
This triumph over West Ham, their first back-to-back wins since December, was testament to a vastly improved second half.
When Jesus brings the man back to life the crowd are astonished, but what delights them more than this triumph over death is the meaning of the miracle.
Politics appears to have triumphed over logic.
Giuliani triumphed over a tired left-liberalism.
Passion, as it usually does in this life, triumphs over the mediocrity of complaining, and deep tech and its shufflers rolled on.
