Caravaggio's life after he became a murderer was a tragic adventure.
A picture of everyday life or a tragic adventure; building a Crannog in medieval Scotland or a struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic world".
I was wondering if the Greek Prime Minister, who boasted about his success in agreeing to bring 50,000 refugees to Athens, using the city of the Gods as a vestibule to separate them into "useful" and "useless" for his European partners, has given a thought to the tragic adventure he is creating for his impoverished country?
The Epic of Gilgamesh, etched on clay tablets sometime before 2000 B.C., recounts the tragic adventures of a Sumerian king and his best friend.
Saddam Hussein has dragged the people of Iraq, and to some extent the rest of the Arabs, into several tragic adventures in the past three decades.
Shot in black-and-white 16 millimeter in a quasi-documentary visual style, with sensitive framing and attentively hand-held camerawork, the film follows the tragic-comic though more often than not comic-tragic adventures of two bosom buddies, Lloyd and Frank, wonderfully played by Lou Perryman (above, left, in a scene from the film) and Sonny Davis.
Yet she has kept on writing for grownups, too—"Radiance," a complicated tale of lunar filmmakers and Venusian whalers, came out last year, and it is among the most quotable, and most delightful, of tragic interplanetary adventures, as if Ray Bradbury and James Tiptree, Jr., had been the same person.
Now, most folks recognize how tragic and costly that (mis)adventure was.
"His peculiar charm, his extraordinary good looks, his bountiful success, the tragic end of his great adventure.
We don't have one movie called "Titanic," starring Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, about a tragic love and a doomed adventure, and another called "Olympic," a musical comedy starring Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, about a happy voyage over.
One rumored version of the script has Zabel interrupting this morning routine to resolutely jump under a subway train as a tragic figure in the further adventures of Gordon Gekko.
