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Spanning the late 11th and early 12th centuries of Byzantine history, the Alexiad recounts the tumultuous events of Alexios’s reign, and Anna’s own reactions to those events, like bursting into tears at the thought of the deaths of her parents and husband.
These headstrong heroines provide an entertaining anchor for their tumultuous romantic narratives.
It was a particularly tumultuous period for Russia and their family.
He was born in 1957, and you can imagine what his childhood looked like and felt like, and what his life has been like over the last 50 tumultuous years.
Throw in some downright hackneyed scenes of the purest exposition, (try Custer and his wife's learning of the phony "Gold Rush" to excuse the invasion of the Sioux territory, Custer's testimony in front of Congress pleading the rights of the Red Indians and to top it all, Custer's storming into the president's office to beg to return to his post), honestly there's plenty more of the same, some of these scenes almost comical in their corniness... ...And yet, and yet, it's still a great actioner with Flynn as dashing as ever, DeHavilland as beguiling as ever, the young Anthony Quinn getting a start as Crazy Horse and director Walsh as barnstorming as ever in his depiction of crowd scenes and of course the tumultuous action sequences.
In this film, made in the politically tumultuous times of the late 60s where questions of social organization were prime conflicts, asks that question by making a movie that turns the camera away from the action and only begs to reveal the director, William Greaves.
It was clearly political to award this old-fashioned musical so many Oscars after the tumultuous events of 1968.
A project of serious ambition, and perhaps foolhardiness, the filmmaker is able to mend together seven tumultuous years of following around two unwieldy rock groups.
With its tumultuous emotions and net of visions, dreams, and startling images, its effect is both beautiful and unsettling.
This is simply a tumultuous journey through the mind of an insane man.
For The Boys is a film that's about two performers and their almost 50 year association of one kind or another through some tumultuous times in America.
It seems to be a tumultuous place never sure if it wants to be in the West or East.
"If These Walls Could Talk" is a disturbing and yet emotionally powerful film that's set in the same house on the same street over three different decades (the first segment takes place in the early 1950's, the second is set in the mid-1970's and the third in the mid-1990's...all tumultuous eras in which issues affecting females and their bodies have been brought to the forefront).
The story follows the Rancho Carne Toros cheerleading team and their captain Torrance (Kirstin Dunst) as they make their way through the tumultuous world of cheerleading.
On the contrary, Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union is proving a major asset in these tumultuous times.
Piketty argues that this has been the historical norm, except during the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.
But it would also likely ensure that a Musharraf-Bhutto deal does not fully close a tumultuous chapter in Pakistan’s history.
Even if we get through the holidays in relative peace, it’s clear that 2018 will be a tumultuous year.
China’s young people, however, “have lived only during a period of peace and growth in China, and have no experience of China’s tumultuous past.”
But in Germany, which has been remarkably stable for more than a decade and has been a pillar of EU-wide stability during tumultuous times, it represents a highly consequential reversal.
He has already guided the Fed through two very tumultuous years with only one major mistake – the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.
The Next Phase of FinanceWASHINGTON, DC – The decade since the global financial crisis has been tumultuous, to say the least.
Turkey itself emerged from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, and Turkish political life has often been tumultuous, marked by competing visions and aspirations, successes and setbacks.
A False Alarm About ChinaMANILA – To hear some pundits tell it, China’s economic miracle – one that lifted 300 million people out of poverty and shifted the world’s geopolitical center of gravity – is coming to a tumultuous end.
The month-long soccer tournament in Russia offered an enchanted respite from a tumultuous world and revealed the better angels of our nature.
In the long term, today’s other pressing challenges – including Russia’s relationship with the West and events in the tumultuous Middle East – will amount almost to sideshows by comparison.
Our own day and age may seem particularly tumultuous; but the years when Schmidt governed Germany were anything but quiet.
Today, too, a tumultuous world is likely to vindicate its deep and enduring appeal.
That would open a new and tumultuous era in the Balkans, with more than Kosovo at stake.
Yet this prosperous and peaceful Europe is not idyllic; sometimes Europe is not at all an easy place for its citizens to live, as the tumultuous Balkan Wars and painful postcommunist transitions of the past decade demonstrated.
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