We all know the tragic trajectory -- BlackBerry was cool, then rapidly became unhip, uncool, unwanted.
It's Mr. Blakeney's way of trumping the limits of series television, where if the star were to be allowed to be this damaged, he'd be a ridiculously tragic figure or all dry-ice cool.
Not to mention that authors with tragic, curtailed lives always seem the coolest.
This composer is, however, more of an Expressionist than a Surrealist, and in his hands Buñuel's cool, eerie scenario takes on a tragic volatility.
Algeria, for one, with its long, tragic experience of using violence against Islamists, has been cool to the idea all along.
Still, the company boasts some of the most beguiling Odettes around, including the lush, tragic Sara Mearns (this is her signature role) and the cooler and more regal Teresa Reichlen.
Black humor sits alongside mordantly cool accounts of battles, wounds, horrors, absurd and tragic turns of luck.
They were model 1990s cops — cool, professional and interchangeable — and as far from the tragic, tortured cops of "NYPD Blue" as Sherlock Holmes is from an English bobby.
In order to avoid tragic accidents, it's important that you try to keep a cool head when you think there is an intruder in the home.
In between came Sarah Van Patten's cool intensity as she moved between Mr. Helimets and Vito Mazzeo, in a tragic interlude that bore no relation to the rest of the ballet, but which she nonetheless rendered compelling.
His journey — which involves a number of cool cats, including a riff on a jazz man by John Goodman — is humbling, tragic, absurd, revelatory.
