When Heracles had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it ( this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians ), but the earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the wife of a god for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind.

Postmodern theory asserts that the attempt to canonise modernism " after the fact " is doomed to undisambiguable contradictions.

Many see an attempt to model a system as complex as a modern economy by a mathematical model as unrealistic and doomed to failure.

And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.

The law has been described as an attempt " to legislate against the law of supply and demand ", which made it doomed to fail.

In the liner notes to the Police's box set Message in a Box, Summers explains: " The attempt to record a new album was doomed from the outset.

For him, Alvy " is the victim of a tendency toward overdetermination of meaning -- or in modernist terms ' the tyranny of the signified ' -- and his involvement with Annie can be viewed as an attempt to establish a spontaneous, intellectually unencumbered relationship, an attempt which is doomed to failure.

Their routed forces were driven north of the River Severn and south of Bath where it appears they began the construction of the defensive earthwork called the Wansdyke in a doomed attempt to prevent more territory from being lost.

A similar attempt to privatize PRTC in 1988, under then Governor Rafael Hernández Colón, led to a similar strike which doomed the sale.

He made a serious attempt to gain the Republican presidential nomination in 1860, but discord within his party in Massachusetts, a residence in a " safe " Republican state, and his Know-Nothing past doomed his chances.

The rest of the novel then picks up from where the opening chapter left off, and from then on is basically a dual narrative telling the story of the old Rougon couple and their increasingly Machiavellian machinations to get themselves into a position of fortune and respect in Plassans, juxtaposed with Silvère and Miette's continuing love story and the doomed republican militia's disastrous attempt to take the town back.

" For de Ligt, and all anarchists, violence is inherent in the capitalist system and any attempt to make capitalism pacifistic is doomed to failure.

In these conditions an attempt to win a second Jemappes with numerical odds of 11 to 10 instead of 2 to 1 in favour of the attack was doomed to disaster, and the repulse of the French Revolutionary Army was the signal for its almost complete dissolution.

Worf speculates that this is an attempt to discredit his friend General Martok, who is forced to command many of these doomed offensives.

However, the Panic of 1857 doomed the attempt at a cooperative farm and community and left Donnelly deeply in debt.

However, the attempt to defend Crete was as doomed as that to defend Greece had been.

Joanna Dark was criticized by Trigger Happy author Steven Poole, who described her character design as " a blatant and doomed attempt to steal the thunder of Lara Croft ", and argued that she illustrated the challenges of injecting characterisation into the protagonists of first-person shooters.

However the attempt to achieve a competitive edge in microchips against the research and development resources of the entire western world – in a state of just 16 million people – was perhaps always doomed to failure, but swallowed increasing amounts of internal resources and hard currency.

The local market, once a local attraction, is now closed after a doomed attempt to upgrade the facilities led to the regular clientèle finding other pitches.

The Squadron's Hurricanes saw little action throughout 1941, but did attempt, unsuccessfully, to escort the Fairey Swordfish biplanes of 825 Naval Air Squadron during their doomed attempt to stop the German warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen during the Channel Dash on 12 February 1942, and then carried out a number of night intruder operations before being deployed overseas.

Instead they, and the USFL as a whole, were doomed by the ill-advised attempt to move the playing season to the fall in direct competition with the more established league.

Later, Alexander founded a city on the site of the battle, which he called Nicaea ; as long as this city has not been discovered, any attempt to find the ancient battle site is doomed, because the landscape has changed considerably.

Both of the published books feature a " doomed heroine ", much in the style of the 18th-and 19th-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant.

Even the remote access functionality was doomed by feature interaction.

Hal Ashby, the film's director, shared certain ideals with the era ’ s youth culture, and in this film he contrasts the doomed outlook of the alienated youth of the time with the hard-won optimism of those who endured the horrors of the early 20th century, contrasting nihilism with purpose.

Although it was based on a 1905 story written by Heinrich Mann, the film is often seen as topical in that it depicts the doomed romance between a Berlin professor and a cabaret dancer, reflecting the popular image of the city during the era.

In 1986, his international fame grew as a result of his performance as a doomed, hunchbacked farmer in the film Jean de Florette.

Many critics and film historians consider her performance as the doomed courtesan Marguerite Gautier in Camille to be her finest.

She starred in the 1981 TV film, Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story, playing the part of the eponymous doomed Playmate.

The film starred Jane Fonda as Hellman and Vanessa Redgrave as her best friend Julia, a doomed American heiress who forsakes the safety and comfort of great wealth to devote her life to the anti-Nazi cause in Germany.

His memorable film roles thereafter included portraying the husband of Joan Crawford during her Oscar-nominated role from 1947's Possessed and the doomed publishing tycoon Gail Wynand in 1949's The Fountainhead, opposite Gary Cooper.

She was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and the following year gained another nomination for her performance as the doomed Sibyl Vane in the film The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1945 ).

Novarro and Vélez were cast as Native Americans-a decision that doomed this film to failure even before it was begun.

She moved to Los Angeles and immersed herself in acting — starring as the doomed love interest in the film Lobster-Man.

A similar set of events to those that doomed Star Dust also caused the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in 1972 ( the crash made famous in the film Alive ), though there were survivors from that crash because it involved a glancing blow to a mountainside rather than a head-on collision.

* According to John Madden's 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, the play that became Romeo and Juliet was originally intended as a comedy, but developed into the tragic play we know due to a doomed love affair which Shakespeare himself underwent at the time.

Amongst the highlights in the version are a flashback between the doomed lovers, Charles and Angelique Collins ; two new scenes featuring menacing groundskeeper Gerard Stiles ; several romantic interludes between Quentin and Tracy ; a candlelit ‘ exorcism ’ sequence in the gallery-the film ’ s original climax ; and notably, the ‘ hanging ’ sequence, as well as several other scenes with intensity on par with an R-rated film.

Keach excelled in this role, portraying a character who shows maturity and perspective during the outlaws ’ doomed career, but who is ultimately imprisoned by fraternal ties .. Long Riders included brothers playing brothers and Stacey's brother James Keach played Jesse James ; the Carradine and Quaid brothers also starred in the film.

The success of Bray Productions, driven entirely on assembly-line methods, simultaneously guaranteed the survival of animated films in general and at the same time doomed them to near-extinction by the end of the silent film era.

* The film is also referenced in an episode of the British sketch comedy TV series Big Train, where three separate doomed pilots get their wires crossed with each other while talking to the female radio operator.

" Bakshi had developed the film as a mix of comedy and horror that he described as " a hard R-rated story " but Paramount wanted a PG-13 film, one of the reasons for the doomed and angry relationship between filmmaker and studio.

It was Sternberg's second film with the German actor Emil Jannings as the doomed Professor Rath.

She gained attention with a starring role in 1987's Less Than Zero, as the friend of a doomed drug addict played by Robert Downey, Jr. She also starred in the 1987 film The Lost Boys as Star, the " half vampire " girlfriend, with Kiefer Sutherland and Jason Patric.

It uses the conventions of film noir – the alienated, doomed hero, the cynical private detective, the femme fatale, universal corruption and moral breakdown – to portray a dystopian vision of capitalism run riot.

So laden is the film with the innumerable coincidences of Basquiat and Schnabel's enthusiasms ( among others, for pajamas and surfing ) that the movie should be more appropriately called My Basquiat … To a remarkable degree, the movie succeeds, by dint of its authorial slant, in popularizing the myth of Basquiat as a young, gorgeous, doomed, yet ultimately transcendent black male artist, even as it extends and reinflates the myth of Schnabel as a protean, Picassoid white male painter … Yet for all one's apprehension about the very idea of Schnabel making such a film, Basquiat turns out to be a surprisingly good movie … It is also an art work.