As Sampson wrote, "it reassured [them] that they were part of a universal drama".
Despite all its dangers, apocalyptic millennialism offers immense rewards: believers find themselves at the centre of the ultimate universal drama in which their every act has cosmic significance.
What might have been a narrow and macabre novel turns out to be a universal drama of hope and passion and loss.
With Smokin' Joe gone and Foreman discredited, Ali would find it increasingly hard to invest his doings with a sense of universal drama.
Contrasting the tale's action with the young man's self-justifying narration, Rohmer attaches the universal drama of love and lust to the specifics of one little snippet of Paris, seen through doors, out windows, and along streets.
Contrasting the tale's action with the young man's self-justifying narration, Rohmer attaches the universal drama of love and lust to the specifics of one little corner of Paris, down to the view through doors, out windows, and along streets.
A reviewer from About.com said that it is "contemporary retelling of... an) engaging and timeless tale rich with human emotion and universal drama".
They are vaguely reminiscent of abstract Bayreuth Festival opera sets from the 1950's, which sought to present Wagner operas as universal comic dramas.
At No. 4 was "Changeling" (Universal), the drama starring Angelina Jolie and directed by Clint Eastwood.
R.U.R., in full R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots, drama in three acts by Karel Čapek, published in 1920 and performed in 1921.
"Changeling" (Universal), the period drama starring Angelina Jolie, rounded out the Top 5 with $4.2 million $27.6 millionn over all).
