"Sure, we can make the fleet seaworthy again," he said as Lady Katie awaited fresh winds of life.
Then there are the true stories that still breathe, susceptible to the fickle whims and winds of life.
"You also have to learn how to change altitude in the winds of life to find your way: different ways of thinking, different ways of reacting, different ways of understanding situations," he said.
You know the type: urban, and usually urbane, neurotic guys who always seem to be recoiling slightly before the winds of life (and hurricane-strength women), their bodies on the bias and their faces a combination of tickling fear and anxious hope.
If I struggled with it, and outlasted it, I thought that I might lose a piece of myself, but that perhaps I would gain something in the process, something that would go deep and hold fast when the winds of life howled.
The winds of life are shifting.
Do not allow yourself to be moved along by the winds of life like a tiny feather.
And yet, sitting there, I understood that their love, like all loves, would be tested by the winds of life and by storms, by the inevitable hurts, misunderstandings, trespasses and challenges that are part of the fallible experience of human relationship; that forgiveness, sorrows, tears, and patience must have their say if their love is to last.
The Universal collection builds to two major films by Douglas Sirk, neither in the extravagant manner of the Technicolor melodramas ("Written on the Wind," "Imitation of Life") for which he is best known.
Paterniti argues that his digressiveness is faithful to the wending and winding rhythms of life as it is lived in old Castile.
