Rossini's opera William Tell ( 1829 ) marked the onset of the Romantic Opera, using the central national myth unifying Switzerland ; and in Brussels, a riot ( August 1830 ) after an opera that set a doomed romance against a background of foreign oppression ( Auber's La Muette de Portici ) sparked the Belgian Revolution of 1830-1831, the first successful revolution in the model of Romantic nationalism.

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

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

When Primo de Rivera lost the support of the king and the armed forces, his dictatorship was doomed.

Neuburg also pursued a doomed relationship with the actress Ione de Forest, who committed suicide shortly after their breakup.

Despite this setback the example of the French Revolutionary regime and Babeuf's doomed insurrection was an inspiration for radical French thinkers such as Compte Henri de Saint Simon, Louis Blanc, Charles Fourier and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who declared that Property is theft !”.

In childhood he visited the Imperial Court of Russia at St Petersburg and became intimate with the doomed Russian Imperial Family, harbouring romantic feelings towards Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, whose photograph he kept at his bedside for the rest of his life.

After Huntford's book, debunking Captain Scott became commonplace ; Francis Spufford, in a 1996 history not wholly antagonistic to Scott, refers to " devastating evidence of bungling ", concluding that " Scott doomed his companions, then covered his tracks with rhetoric ".

Her story of the doomed trumpet player Rick Martin was inspired, she wrote, by " the music, but not the life " of Beiderbecke, but the image of Martin quickly became the image of Beiderbecke: His story is about " the gap between the man's musical ability and his ability to fit it to his own life.

His " plan " for defending the city raised expectations doomed to disappointment ; the successive sorties made under pressure of public opinion were unsuccessful, and having declared in one of his proclamations that the governor of Paris would never capitulate, when capitulation became inevitable he resigned the governorship of Paris on 22 January 1871 to General Joseph Vinoy, retaining the presidency of the government until after the armistice in February.

He gave up comedy in the early 2000s when he became disillusioned by the business and believed he was doomed to be a cult act with limited appeal who had reached the extent of any potential audience.

* 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.

This theory reached its zenith in 1990, when the factor " predicted " that the Oakland Athletics were " doomed " in that year's World Series, and the A's were swept by the Cincinnati Reds in a stunning upset ( coincidentally, then Reds manager Lou Piniella became the Cubs manager later on ).

Initially, General Motors believed that the restyled 1965 Corvair would be an adequate challenger for the Mustang, but when it became clear that the Corvair itself was doomed, the more conventional Chevrolet Camaro was introduced, going on sale for the 1967 model year, at the time the Mustang received its first major redesign.

Overall, the TL Magna became the oldest Australian-made passenger car offering, doomed in its redevelopment or replacement by the ever-increasing financial crisis that hit Mitsubishi's US operations plus the recall scandal that tarnished Mitsubishi of Japan ( that caused its then partner, Mercedes-Chrysler, to eventually jump ship ).

Future locomotives would follow the direction taken by the EA, E1 and E2, full-size locomotives to pull lightweight but full-size passenger cars ; the TA became the blueprint for EMC's " F " series of freight locomotives, thus proving that the concept of a separate diesel locomotive had finally and fairly decisively taken hold-and that steam was doomed.

However, it is clear from her preface that the suffering she saw around her was the motivational factor for the content of the novel: ' I had always felt a deep sympathy with the care-worn men, who looked as if doomed to struggle through their lives in strange alternations between work and want [...] The more I reflected on this unhappy state of things between those so bound to each other by common interests, as the employers and the employed must ever be, the more anxious I became to give some utterance to the agony which from time to time convulsed this dumb people.

This approach became unpopular in the late 1980s and doomed the brand.

John Gay had been promised patronage by Mrs. Howard, and that doomed his chances of actual preferrment when George II became king, for it earned him the enmity of Queen Caroline.

Numerous other studies pertaining to kin selection exist, suggesting how inclusive fitness may work amongst peoples from the Ye ’ kwana of southern Venezuela to the Gypsies of Hungary to even the doomed Donner Party of the United States.

In his work, Tristan is portrayed as a doomed romantic figure.

Despite a reputation for hard work, Chongzhen's paranoia, impatience, stubbornness and lack of regard for the plight of his people doomed his crumbling empire.

We are not accurately informed how Whiston obtained possession of this work, but it is stated by one of the editors of the English edition " that Mr Whiston, thinking it a pity that so noble and useful a work should be doomed to a college confinement, obtained leave to make it public.

In late 1939-early 1940 Halder was an opponent of Operation Weserübung, which he believed was doomed to failure, and made certain the OKH had nothing to do with the planning for Weserübung, which was entirely the work of OKW and the OKM.

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.

Anthropologists and non-anthropologists conducted much of this work in the spirit of salvage ethnography or attempts to record for posterity the ways-of-life of societies assumed doomed to extinction ( see, for instance, the Native American photography of Edward Curtis )

Her television work includes the acclaimed mini-series A Dark Adapted Eye with Helena Bonham Carter as the perfectly poised yet ultimately doomed Eden and the sweeping fantasy, Dinotopia.

According to the San Jose Mercury News, the recording equipment brought to his home did not work at first and " almost doomed the guest spot.

He was perhaps best known for his work on television, including two episodes of The Twilight Zone ; playing Glen Morley, a fictional congressman from Minnesota, based on Windom's own great-grandfather and namesake in The Farmer's Daughter ; the character of John Monroe on the sitcom My World and Welcome to It, for which he won an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series ; as Commodore Matt Decker, commander of the doomed U. S. S.

It is from this work that the tale of the doomed heretic T ' yog is most commonly sourced.

In his work, Tristan is portrayed as a doomed romantic figure.

As a photographer his work is driven by „ tension between totally created surreal images blending with historically grown city landscapes lost places and doomed realities.

But a modern Oedipus who is doomed because he cannot oppose his own childhood is only pathetic, and for renouncing the mystery in favor of psychological truth he gives up the claim on our sympathies.

For this love of the boy for his mother is a hopeless and forbidden love, doomed by its nature.

The spirit of this group was that we were -- and are -- living in a world doomed to eternal punishment, but that God through Jesus Christ has provided a way of escape for those who confess their sins and accept salvation.

Whereas, John Brown has cheerfully risked his life in endeavoring to deliver those who are denied all rights and is this day doomed to suffer death for his efforts in behalf of those who have no helper: Therefore,

It could be argued that any fellowship which centers in residential neighborhoods is doomed to become an expression of the panic for stable identity among the middle classes.

The operation was doomed to fail, and was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.

For his part, Merkle was doomed to endless criticism and vilification throughout his career for this lapse, which went down in history as " Merkle's Boner ".

* Steve-Mentally deficient co-worker, gives a crayoned " X " as a seal of approval, used as a scapegoat for projects doomed to failure

Although female roles were performed by castrati in some of the papal states, this was increasingly rare ; by 1680, they had supplanted " normal " male voices in lead roles, and retained their position as primo uomo for about a hundred years ; an Italian opera not featuring at least one renowned castrato in a lead part would be doomed to fail.

At the end of the 19th century, slavery in the Brazilian Empire was already doomed for many reasons, among them the ever increasing number of slave's escapes and the frequent raids by quilombo militias on properties which still adopted slavery.

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.

If a rebellion failed to quickly seize the capital and control of the military for itself, it was normally doomed to a quick destruction.

If the Sex Pistols ' breakup the previous year had marked the end of the original UK punk scene and its promise of cultural transformation, for many the death of Vicious signified that it had been doomed from the start.

Polyphemus is shown doing all of the things that a proper Roman suitor would do — trims his beard, composes a poem etc .— which encourage the reader / hearer to cheer for him, even though his courtship is doomed to fail.

Baltimore's quest for a championship seemed doomed from the start when starting quarterback Johnny Unitas suffered a pre-season injury to his throwing arm and was replaced by Earl Morrall, a veteran who had started inconsistently over the course of his 12 seasons with four different teams.

St. Patrick was said to have transformed the Welsh king Vereticus into a wolf ; Natalis supposedly cursed an illustrious Irish family whose members were each doomed to be a wolf for seven years.

* In the novel Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, the Xingu River is the location of the doomed Whittlesey / Maxwell expedition responsible for discovering evidence of the lost Kothoga tribe and their savage god Mbwun.

Most notorious was his acquisition of burning houses: when Crassus received word that a house was on fire, he would arrive and purchase the doomed property along with surrounding buildings for a modest sum, and then employ his army of 500 clients to put the fire out before much damage had been done.

In 1842, Deburau was inadvertently responsible for translating Pierrot into the realm of tragic myth, heralding the isolated and doomed figure — often the fin-de-siècle artist's alter-ego — of Decadent, Symbolist, and early Modernist art and literature.

In Vermont, the embargo was doomed to failure on the Lake Champlain-Richelieu River water route because of Vermont's dependence on a Canadian outlet for produce.

Social predation allows some animals to organize hunts of creatures that would easily escape a single predator ; thus chimpanzees can prey upon colobus monkeys, and Harris's Hawks can cut off all possible escapes for a doomed rabbit.

One of the motivations for Balin's doomed expedition to Moria was the possibility of recovering the ring.

A 2 – 10 stretch in March doomed them to missing the playoffs for the second time in three years with a 38 – 44 record.