the last sentence
i loved the last sentence the most, but the whole piece is refreshing .
director jan troell on the set of “the last sentence. ” photo courtesy of music box films .
a picture caption on june 15 with an article about the director jan troell misstated part of the name of his new film. it is “the last sentence, ” not “the final sentence. ”
she was familiar with the words of the last sentence, and was delighted when allowed to act them out .
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torgny segerstedt (jesper christensen) in jan troell’s “the last sentence. ” photo courtesy of music box films .
maja forssman (pernilla august) in jan troell’s “the last sentence. ” photo courtesy of music box films .
a pakistan military court had awarded the death sentence to kulbhushan jadhav last month for alleged espionage and subversive activities for india .
top image: torgny segerstedt (jesper christensen) in jan troell’s “the last sentence. ” photo courtesy of music box films .
neither makes “the last sentence” an especially great movie. it’s a thoughtful and workmanlike portrait, but a less than profoundly moving one .
“the last sentence, ” starring: jesper christensen, ulla skoog, pernilla august, björn granat. in swedish with english subtitles .
pernilla august dancing with jesper christensen in “the last sentence, ” a portrait of the swedish newspaper editor torgny segerstedt, directed by jan troell .
amazingly, troell still operates his own camera .
the last sentence
was made digitally, and his attention to detail is remarkable .
if you begin your quotation of an author in the middle of a sentence, you need not indicate deleted words with an ellipsis. be sure, however, that the syntax of the quotation fits smoothly with the syntax of your sentence :
‘i was there the day he said he’d written the last sentence. he came in like he’d won the world cup! then he explained that though he’d written the last lines, he still had half the book to write. ’
with
the last sentence ,
veteran swedish director jan troell serves up a well - mannered biography of a man known for anything but his restraint .
at last the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last battalion came onto the bridge .
■ international court of justice (icj) at the hague begins hearing on indian national kulbhushan jadhav’s death sentence by pakistan .
■ india calls for immediate suspension of kulbhushan jadhav’s sentence and accuses pakistan of violating vienna convention of consular access .
according to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the night .
the conversation and the examination of the accounts with mitenka did not last long .
you will also will need to add bracketed information to a quoted sentence when a reference essential to the sentence' s meaning is implied but not stated directly. read the following paragraphs from robert jastrow' s
toward an intelligence beyond man' s
:
a leading swedish newspaper editor who staunchly opposed hitler' s fascism and his own nation' s neutrality during wwii is the subject of jan troell' s
the last sentence .
at last the emperor stopped beside his last partner (he had danced with three) and the music ceased .
he stood and tossed the last bite into his mouth, washing it down with the last of his milk .
in quoting this sentence, you would need to identify whom the pronoun she refers to. you can do this inside the quotation by using brackets :
the last made me realize the great disappointment to the dear child more than before .
ultimately, the last sentence, despite the great performances and awesome visuals, gets too preoccupied with its own interpersonal drama and soap opera dynamics, eventually forgetting to address some of the bigger moral implications it hints at .
the regiment passed through the village and stacked its arms in front of the last huts .
“the execution of the death sentence cannot be done while this court is hearing the appeal. else, it will be a violation of the vienna convention, ” lead attorney harish salve said .
jan: the title is a quotation from the icelandic saga, the hávamál: “your cattle will die, your friends will die, you will die too — but the one thing i know, that will never die, is the judgment of a dead man” — the reputation of a dead man, the last sentence. i like that title very much, because it refers to hitler, segerstedt also uses it in the film in reference to the king, and finally, segerstedt uses it against himself, in judgment of his own life. “dom över död man” means judgment or sentence over a dead man. “the last sentence” has a double meaning .
for mr. quijada, a student at gavilan college, a community college in gilroy, a lot was riding on the video and his possible sentence .
the messengers went on until they came at last to the island of rhodes .
alex was sitting in their room the last night they were at the hacienda .
■ india demanded the immediate suspension of kulbhushan jadhav’s death sentence, expressing fears that pakistan could execute him even before the hearing at the international court of justice (icj) was over .
the last sentence makes for a great companion piece to jan troell' s 1996 flick hamnsun, but sort of the opposite end of the spectrum. hamsun was about a norwegian novelist (played by max von sydow speaking in his native swedish tongue for some reason) who was too stubborn to outright denounce nazism while the last sentence is about a swedish journalist (played by jesper christensen speaking in his native norwegian tongue for some reason) who was too stubborn to ease his stance against nazism. the two films are also on their own polars stylistically; hamsun was traditionally directed and structured, shot in color and has terrible image quality but the last sentence was neatly…
“the last sentence, ” a biographical drama about swedish newspaper editor torgny segerstedt (1876 - 1945), exists for two equally valid reasons: its subject’s honorable public actions and his semi - tawdry personal life .
the agonizing memories ruptured to the surface at last, forcing a long overdue reaction .
using brackets use square brackets whenever you need to add or substitute words in a quoted sentence. the brackets indicate to the reader a word or phrase that does not appear in the original passage but that you have inserted to avoid confusion. for example, when a pronoun' s antecedent would be unclear to readers, delete the pronoun from the sentence and substitute an identifying word or phrase in brackets. when you make such a substitution, no ellipsis marks are needed. assume that you wish to quote the bold - type sentence in the following passage :
though “the last sentence” was shot digitally, a first for mr. troell, it is also of a piece with his earlier films in a technical sense. like films as far back as “the emigrants” and “the new land, ” “the last sentence” is full of interior scenes that have been shot close - in, with “the richness of depth and detail in every image” that, said andrew nestingen, a professor of scandinavian and cinema studies at the university of washington, characterizes mr. troell’s work .
they then crossed the hollow to semenovsk, where the soldiers were dragging away the last logs from the huts and barns .
the bustle and terror of the rostovs' last days in moscow stifled the gloomy thoughts that oppressed sonya .
maybe the last situation was what gave her the courage to speak up when the inheritance tension came back .
like any other sentence, a thesis includes a subject and a predicate, which consists of an assertion about the subject. in the sentence
lee and grant were different kinds of generals ,
lee and grant
is the subject and
were different kinds of generals
is the predicate. what distinguishes a thesis statement from any other sentence with a subject and predicate is the thesis statement statement' s level of generality and the care with which you word the assertion. the subject of a thesis must present the right balance between the general and the specific to allow for a thorough discussion within the allotted length of the paper. the discussion might include definitions, details, comparisons contrasts - whatever is needed to illuminate a subject and carry on an intelligent conversation. (if the sentence about lee and grant were a thesis, the reader would assume that the rest of the essay contained comparisons and contrasts between the two generals. )
she hung the last garment and changed into jeans and tennis shoes before leaving the house .
the third company was the last, and kutuzov pondered, apparently trying to recollect something .
at last bagration' s orderly came with the news that the prince could not attend .
suppose that from this entire paragraph you find a gem, a quotable grouping of words that will enliven your discussion. you may want to quote part of the following sentence :
the hague / new delhi: india on monday called for immediate suspension of its national kulbhushan jadhav’s death sentence and accused pakistan of violating the vienna convention by denying its 16 requests for consular access .
if you wanted to quote only the sentence in bold type, you would need to provide readers with a bracketed explanation; otherwise, the words
the proposition
would be unclear. here is how you would manage the quotation :
though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive .
he managed to follow only the last words of the statutes and these remained in his mind .
it was the last spiritual struggle between life and death, in which death gained the victory .
men esteem truth remote, in the outskirts of the system, behind the farthest star, before adam and after the last man .
neutrality and appeasement are the tenets that most people associate with sweden and its citizens during the second world war. the last sentence, a biopic from preeminent swedish director jan troell, shines the spotlight on one of sweden’s iconoclastic heroes of that time, torgny segerstedt, a journalist and editor who used the power of the pen and press to alert his countrymen of the dangers of hitler and nazism. while segerstedt is a well - known figure to swedes who experienced the second world war first - hand, were it not for the film the last sentence, segerstedt might have remained unfamiliar to us here in the united states, as well as to european contemporaries .
if the pronoun you want to identify occurs in the middle of the sentence to be quoted, then you' ll need to use brackets. newspaper reporters do this frequently when quoting sources, who in interviews might say something like the following :
ten years later, in somalia, the last natural case of smallpox occurred .
we left the city last thursday night, and arrived in brewster friday afternoon .
last night i looked at the campfires and there was no end of them .
then, think about how far we have come in the last fifty years .
it would not be the first time, or the last, that ignorance in the world exacted a high price .
incorporating the quotation into the flow of your own sentence once you' ve selected the passage you want to quote, work the material into your paper in as natural and fluid a manner as possible. here' s how we would quote hutchins :
he had not finished the last verse before the young people began to get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery .
the first sentence of this conclusion is a summary, and from it the reader can infer that the paper included a discussion of shull' s techniques for the hybrid breeding of corn. the summary is followed by a two - paragraph discussion on the significance of shull' s research for feeding the world .
she wandered around the house with a foreboding that this was the last time she would see it .
ah, may the devil take you and evewybody ,
were the last words rostov heard .
this was the last french attack and was met by soldiers who had sheltered in the village houses .
three weeks after the last evening he had spent with the rostovs, prince andrew returned to petersburg .
the conversation was resumed, and no longer in the unpleasantly hostile tone of nicholas' last remark .
the last time he made a business trip to columbia, he had said they needed the money .
the last word ended on the upturn, as if it were a question, not a statement .
the lanterns were beginning to grow dim, and the wizard poured the remaining oil from one into the other, so that the one light would last longer .
like the seventh and last wave that shatters a ship, that last irresistible wave burst from the rear and reached the front ranks, carrying them off their feet and engulfing them all .
the last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel .
at last he saw something in the darkness that looked like two balls of fire .
in fact, she had spent the last two weeks wallowing in self - pity .
our last halt was under a wild cherry tree a short distance from the house .
i often think of the pleasant time we had all together in boston last spring .
surely we shall all find at last the ideals we are seeking... .
they plucked me last night, came denisov' s voice from the next room .
after an hour' s delay they at last moved on, descending the hill .
after many consultations and conversations, the count at last devised means to tranquillize her .
the phrases in italics are called appositives. their function is to rename the nouns they follow by providing explicit, identifying detail. any information about a person that can be expressed in the following sentence pattern can be made into an appositive phrase :
i had an opportunity to speak with the charming jan troell and his aspiring filmmaker daughter johanna at the king george hotel, san francisco, where they were staying when troell was being honored by the mill valley film festival in 2013, for the u. s premieres of the last sentence and johanna’s documentary portrait of her father, a close scrutiny .
here follows the last part, beginning with the great day, april 5th, when helen learned water .
at last she got up, gave me the mug, and led me out of the door to the pump - house .
she was cleaning the coffee pot and alex was reclining in a chair at the table, enjoying the last cup of coffee .
at a screening of the film in copenhagen last year, an audience member asked mr. troell if any modern public figure reminded him of segerstedt, and the director replied yes, edward snowden. asked about that, he mentioned scenes in “the last sentence” in which segerstedt is warned by the swedish prime minister and even king gustav v that his actions damage the national interest, but he nevertheless insists on following his conscience .
the other, from the countess, described their last days in moscow, their departure, the fire, and the destruction of all their property .
■ pakistan is preparing a strategy to “forcefully” defend its position before the international court of justice (icj) over the death sentence given to indian national kulbhushan jadhav by its military court on charges of “spying”, a media report said .
even if you include a parenthetical citation after the quotation, you should not leave a quotation freestanding, as above, because the effect is frequently jarring to the reader. introduce the quotation by attributing the source in some other part of the sentence - beginning, middle, or end. thus, you could write :
i also have an offer to work at the law office where i worked last summer .
while the grand master said these last words it seemed to pierre that he grew embarrassed .
as' twas growing dark last night fell the snow so soft and light ...
pushing the thought from her mind, she focused on allen' s visit last night .
last summer i spent in one of the loveliest nooks of one of the most charming villages in new england .
and the troops retired one more, last, day' s march, and abandoned moscow to the enemy .
princess mary, evidently engrossed by her thoughts, was crossing herself for the last time before leaving the church .
during the last few days many of the men have been seen to throw away their cartridges and their arms .
as april slipped into may and the last threat of frost passed, she began planting them in the garden .
on the last day, the great army which coriolanus had led from antium was drawn up in battle array .
granted that the majority are able at last either to own or hire the modern house with all its improvements .
the lower stakes cracked more and more and at last the wall fell, and with it the men who had been pushing it .
jim, who was in advance, saw the last stair before him and stuck his head above the rocky sides of the stairway .
i was in the north, enjoying the last beautiful days of the summer of 1896, when i heard the news of my father' s death .
kutuzov alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the invincibility of the french, and the minister of war does not even care to hear the details .
the last backwash of the movement from the west occurs: a backwash which serves to solve the apparently insuperable diplomatic difficulties and ends the military movement of that period of history .
set amidst the political turmoil of wwii - era sweden, the last sentence tells the extraordinary story of torgny segerstedt, a journalist who embarked on a one - man crusade against hitler. bravely challenging the nazis, and his own government’s policy of neutrality, segerstedt (jesper christensen), editor - in - chief of a major newspaper, fought a literal life - and - death battle over the fate of sweden. at the same time, segerstedt’s uncompromising nature led to an equally tumultuous private life, involving a scandalous love affair that crippled his family and ultimately led to tragedy. directed by swedish master jan troell, the last sentence is a complex and gripping, warts - and - all account of the man and the hero .
whenever you quote a sentence but delete words from it, as we have done, indicate this deletion to the reader by placing an ellipsis mark, three spaced periods, in the sentence at the point of deletion. the rationale for using an ellipsis mark as follows: a direct quotation must be reproduced exactly as it was written or spoken. when writers delete or change any part of the quoted material, readers must be alerted so they don' t think that the changes were part of the original. ellipsis marks and brackets serve this purpose .
when the troops reached their night' s halting place on the eighth of november, the last day of the krasnoe battles, it was already growing dusk .
at last, just as the blacksmith was in the midst of a stirring song, he rose quietly and went out into the darkness .
military heroes of the last several centuries, such as the aforementioned lafayette and hamilton and travis, were not bloodthirsty .
i hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run over ,
anna pavlovna continued .
of the three objects mentioned by the rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, especially appealed to pierre .
lawyers are beginning to submit biographical videos when their clients are sentenced, and proponents say they could transform the process. defendants and their lawyers already are able to address the court before a sentence is imposed, but the videos are adding a new dimension to the punishment phase of a prosecution .
her father wrote to her last summer that the birds and bees were eating all his grapes .
the last weeks passed in her mother' s bedroom had strained natasha' s physical strength .
certainly, you don' t want the whole world to know where you were last night .
at last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and rostov saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement .
pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in petersburg .
when eureka' s captor had thrown the kitten after the others the last gargoyle silently disappeared, leaving our friends to breathe freely once more .
well performed and educational film about journalist torgny segerstedt, who wrote provocative anti - hitler articles during the second world war, thus endangering the neutrality of the swedish nation. based on a biography the last sentence is likely to be quite accurate in its portrayal, hence a very good source for educating yourself in the political climate of the 1940: s. this fact, in combination with the solid auteurship of troell, constitutes the main value if this award winning film .
when the train at last pulled into the station at boston it was as if a beautiful fairy tale had come true .
the point is that it is now illegal in every state, with louisiana being the last to outlaw it in 2008 .
the russian troops were passing through moscow from two o' clock at night till two in the afternoon and bore away with them the wounded and the last of the inhabitants who were leaving .
after one last look around to see if she was being watched, she started into the woods .
in the last thirty years there has not been a single smallpox death or even a single infection .
i received the letter which you wrote to me last summer, and i thank you for it .
this is the first opportunity i have had to write to you since we came here last monday .
not till midwinter was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son' s handwriting .
this is the last great day !
cried others; and they knelt down and waited .
that last evening was so delightful that the boy will never forget it as long as he lives .
their telephone conversation last night concluded with the decision that connie would pick her up at the end of the drive today at 11: 30 am .
notice how this call for further study locates the author in a large community of researchers on whom she depends for assistance in answering the questions that have come out of her own work. the author summarizes her findings (in the first sentence of the paragraph), states what her work has not shown, and then extends her invitation .
i told morino last night that i would look at them before we left .
at a quarter past ten they at last got into their carriages and started .
when left alone at last he opened and read his wife' s letter .
it was last sunday they took me, out of a hospital in moscow .
as the garage door lifted, sunlight reflected off the polish she and her siblings had applied that last day of their lives .
i am going to use this with the eal children in my class to reinforce the concept of first and last in maths .
the last act affected us most deeply, and we all wept, wondering how the executioner could have the heart to tear the king from his loving wife' s arms .
it was probably the last thing he expected to hear, and yet, he knew it was true .
she killed three of my lambs last night ,
said the one whose name was david brown .
no face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth .
as she picked up one of his shirts, she smelled the same odor she had smelled last night .
she did not even cry when, on taking leave, he kissed her hand for the last time .
at last, far in the east, he came to a land of which he had never heard .
the last were not england' s best men and women; only, perhaps, her best philanthropists .
one man still preserves the horns of the last deer that was killed in this vicinity, and another has told me the particulars of the hunt in which his uncle was engaged .
the squirrels also grew at last to be quite familiar, and occasionally stepped upon my shoe, when that was the nearest way .
he was conducted from that room along passages that turned backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the lodge .
mind, the last... concluded the prince, in a tone which showed that nothing would make him alter his decision .
as he prepared to sentence mr. chatwal, judge i. leo glasser said he had watched the video twice, including once the night before. the judge, echoing some of the themes in the video, recounted mr. chatwal’s good works. judge glasser then sentenced mr. chatwal to probation, much less than the four to five years in prison that prosecutors had requested .
sophia: there is a scene in the last sentence where marcus wallenberg, of the prominent wallenberg family, mentions that he has been approached by a german friend to encourage a big swedish paper to write about the harassment of jews in germany. marcus comments that “there are excellent jews in sweden, but that is not the case in germany. if the jews were exterminated, the country would lose good will. no foreign debtors would have their debts repaid. ”
jan troell' s latest film the last sentence is the story about torgny segerstedt, a swedish news editor who was known for his strong criticism of adolf hitler before the outbreak of the war. his strong opposition towards nazi germany was met with great concerns from the government, who thought segerstedt was threatening the swedish neutrality. and at one point his life was in danger. but as the war came to an end, he was regarded as a hero and a defender of free speech .
at a little distance from the palace we might easily mistake it for a mountain whose peaks were mounting heavenward to receive the last kiss of the departing day .
two were misdirected and the shot went too high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and knocked three of them over .
then a place was assigned to pierre, he was shown the signs of the lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down .
at last a ship happened to pass that way and robinson was taken on board .
he died last saturday at my home in tuscumbia, and i was not there .
having gone nearly three miles he at last met an acquaintance and eagerly addressed him .
as you, dear reader, are about to realize, if i was to make a film about the last sentence in a journalism article, then it would be about as long as the usual jan troell film. troell must have had his own issues with writing on this project if the final product came out under, what, three hours or so, but no matter how dramatic the title is about a single sentence, the lead' s issue is by no means writer' s block. you couldn' t keep this journalist from understandably running his mouth about how bad the nazis are, which was kind of easy to do when you were living in one of the few countries in europe that hitler didn' t assault…
mr. troell, who is about to turn 83, has vivid personal memories of the war years. “the last sentence” was shot in black and white, in part to evoke the newsreels he remembers seeing as a child, and as an 8 - year - old he was even evacuated from his hometown, malmo, after the nazi seizure of norway and denmark, when it appeared that sweden might also be invaded .
but “the last sentence” is also timely, ms. lindqvist said, because it is part of an “accounting or reckoning with the past, ” specifically the true nature of nordic involvement in world war ii, underway in recent years. “troell is often called a film poet because his cinematography is so striking, ” she said, “but at the same time, he gives us an artistic spin on deeply political material. ”
the soldiers in their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up .
segerstedt’s brave, sometimes heedless rhetoric brought death threats at home and put him at the top of the nazis’ hitlist for postwar reprisal. but the larger events that background “the last sentence” are relegated in visual terms to brief archival newsreel clips, and auds are not afforded any direct exposure to the swedish public that segerstedt’s vehement sentiments roiled. instead, the pic stays almost entirely shut up in the rooms where segerstedt interacted with peers or lived a somewhat messy personal life that gets far too much attention here .
it looked as if nature no longer contained the breed of nobler bloods, but stood on her last toes .
ah, it can' t be avoided !
thought nicholas, for the first and last time .
but the countess would not agree to his going; he had had a bad leg all these last days .
after the last two days spent in solitude and unusual circumstances, pierre was in a state bordering on insanity .
after them other couples followed, filling the whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses followed singly .
when they had gone by, the same stream of soldiers followed, with the same kind of talk, and at last all stopped .
at last an old, cross looking footman came and announced to the rostovs that the prince was not receiving, but that the princess begged them to walk up .
listening to the story of the struggle between love and duty, pierre saw before his eyes every minutest detail of his last meeting with the object of his love at the sukharev water tower .
anatole, with uniform unbuttoned, walked to and fro from the room where the witnesses were sitting, through the study to the room behind, where his french valet and others were packing the last of his things .
for i came to town still, like a friendly indian, when the contents of the broad open fields were all piled up between the walls of the walden road, and half an hour sufficed to obliterate the tracks of the last traveller .
from “high noon” to “silkwood” and “the insider, ” the courageous loner who stands up to evil at great personal risk is a familiar film figure. now the swedish master jan troell has added to that gallery with “the last sentence, ” his portrait of torgny segerstedt, a swedish newspaper editor who was an early, ferocious and persistent critic of hitler, defying both nazi threats and his own government’s pleas not to undermine its neutral stance .
but “ the last sentence, ” which opens friday, is anything but a hagiography. the rectitude and fearlessness of segerstedt’s public stances contrasted sharply with a messy and conflicted private life, which mr. troell also mines: segerstedt was haunted by his mother’s early death, treated his wife with indifference, even cruelty, and flaunted his relationship with a morphine - addicted mistress who was the wife of his closest friend .
one of the last of the philosophers - - connecticut gave him to the world - - he peddled first her wares, afterwards, as he declares, his brains .
range after range of mountains began with a mixture of sharp green that gradually faded until the last range was wrapped in the haze of distance .
his health was better in the winter, but last spring his wound reopened and the doctor said he ought to go away for a cure .
it comes over me that in the last two or three pages of this chapter i have used figures which will turn the laugh against me .
our friends were greatly surprised to see us, as they had not expected us before the last of this month .
at last sleep surprised me, and when miss sullivan returned she found me wrapped in a blanket by the hearth .
he mustered his last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and reached the bushes .
at last we have a man! said he, glancing sternly and significantly round at everyone in the drawing room .
among the old guard disorder and pillage were renewed more violently than ever yesterday evening, last night, and today .
taken together, those findings suggest that almost all economic growth in the last 120 - plus years was from technology .
it has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country .
all kinds of artists have come and gone in the last four centuries, popular in their time but forgotten now .
the morning had been fine, but it was growing warm and sultry when at last we turned our faces homeward .
this makes sense, so she spends her last $ 2000 in savings to buy ads .
but i must not forget that i was going to write about last summer in particular .
his face looked sad, and he had grown still stouter since natasha last saw him .
at last i fell asleep with a new doll and a white bear in my arms .
a leading swedish newspaper editor who staunchly opposed hitler’s fascism and his own nation’s neutrality during wwii is the subject of jan troell’s “the last sentence. ” this biographical drama, shot in crisp black - and - white, offers a potentially intriguing study in high - minded political / moral obstinacy, but feels too claustrophobic — and, finally, tediously like a one - man window on [ … ]
the skin of a woodchuck was freshly stretched upon the back of the house, a trophy of his last waterloo; but no warm cap or mittens would he want more .
and, in fact, the last letter he had received from mack' s army informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the army was very favorable .
qui s' excuse s' accuse ,
* said julie, smiling and waving the lint triumphantly, and to have the last word she promptly changed the subject .
this last sentence is our thesis for this section. based on this thesis, we, as the authors, have limited the content of the section; and you, as the reader, will be able to form certain expectations about the discussion that follows. you can expect a definition of a thesis statement; an enumeration of the uses of a thesis statement; and a discussion focused on academic material. as writers, we will have met our obligations to you only if in subsequent paragraphs we satisfy these expectations .
the few glasses of wine he had drunk and the conversation with this good - natured man had destroyed the mood of concentrated gloom in which he had spent the last few days and which was essential for the execution of his design .
but at last his army was beaten; his men were scattered; and tamerlane fled alone from the field of battle .
helen has learned to tell the time at last, and her father is going to give her a watch for christmas .
selivanov, now, did a good stroke last thursday - - sold flour to the army at nine rubles a sack .
haven' t you robbed people enough - - taking their last shirts ?
said a voice addressing the publican .
that was the last thing she remembered until she opened her eyes again and found all three of them hanging over her .
after receiving communion and unction he quietly died; and next day a throng of acquaintances who came to pay their last respects to the deceased filled the house rented by the rostovs .
she has nearly finished colburn' s mental arithmetic, her last work being in improper fractions .
pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend' s company and at last became silent .
in those last moments when it was too late, she had decided to go with them .
throughout a career that spans more than 50 years, mr. troell has shown a predilection for what today are somewhat dismissively called biopics. “the last sentence” is based on kenne fant’s biography of segerstedt, and mr. troell’s credits include films about figures as celebrated as knut hamsun, the nobel prize - winning novelist from norway arrested on charges of treason after world war ii, or as obscure, at least in the united states, as the early swedish aviator elsa andersson .
again, perhaps, nature will try, with me for a first settler, and my house raised last spring to be the oldest in the hamlet .
at last he rose, kissed the icon as a child does with naively pouting lips, and again bowed till he touched the ground with his hand .
i had made my homeward journey, talking constantly to miss sullivan, not for the sake of talking, but determined to improve to the last minute .
mr. von sydow has appeared in seven of mr. troell’s films, and was offered the lead in “the last sentence, ” but declined, according to mr. troell, because, at 85, he felt “he was too old. ” but mr. christensen has also recently been part of mr. troell’s de facto repertory company, having appeared in mr. troell’s previous film “ everlasting moments ” from 2009 .
a little later, when the rush and heat of achievement relax, we can begin to expect the appearance of grand men to celebrate in glorious poetry and prose the deeds and triumphs of the last few centuries .
at last the conversation gradually settled on some of the topics at first lightly touched on: their past life, plans for the future, pierre' s journeys and occupations, the war, and so on .
sonya stood ready dressed in the middle of the room and, pressing the head of a pin till it hurt her dainty finger, was fixing on a last ribbon that squeaked as the pin went through it .
at the last post station before otradnoe he gave the driver a three - ruble tip, and on arriving he ran breathlessly, like a boy, up the steps of his home .
rostov and ilyin gave rein to their horses for a last race along the incline before reaching bogucharovo, and rostov, outstripping ilyin, was the first to gallop into the village street .
i deem it my duty to report to your majesty the condition of the various corps i have had occasion to observe during different stages of the last two or three days' march .
in the 1968 book the lessons of history, will and ariel durant calculated that ,
in the last 3, 421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war .
and yet over the last century, we also have seen colonies gain their independence and become nations, and nations peaceably divide .
there is a tradition that under this tree king philip, the heroic indian chief, gazed his last on earth and sky .
do you think he can last till morning ?
asked the german, addressing lorrain in french which he pronounced badly .
torgny segerstedt was one of the leading journalists in sweden in the 20th century. he fought a one man battle against hitler and the nazi regime until his death in 1945 and during these tumultuous times his private life was marked by a world in chaos, as he falls in love with his friend' s wife while married himself. the last sentence weaves together the story of a psychological love story with a portrayal of the political situation sweden found itself in during the second world war. a gripping, dramatic and poetic tale about a man, who could not be silenced .
to clear up this last point for himself, prince andrew, utilizing his position and acquaintances, tried to fathom the character of the control of the army and of the men and parties engaged in it, and he deduced for himself the following of the state of affairs .
it was the unexpected realization of the fact that he still valued life as presented to him in the form of his love for natasha, and a last, though ultimately vanquished, attack of terror before the unknown .
last year, my second year at radcliffe, i studied english composition, the bible as english composition, the governments of america and europe, the odes of horace, and latin comedy .
at austerlitz he remained last at the augezd dam, rallying the regiments, saving what was possible when all were flying and perishing and not a single general was left in the rear guard .
oh, my dear fellow, we' re in such a stew here these last two days .
since prince andrew had last seen him kutuzov had grown still more corpulent, flaccid, and fat .
a leading swedish newspaper editor who staunchly opposed hitler’s fascism and his own nation’s neutrality during wwii is the subject of jan troell’s “the last sentence. ” this biographical drama, shot in crisp black - and - white, offers a potentially intriguing study in high - minded political / moral obstinacy, but feels too claustrophobic — and, finally, tediously like a one - man window on great events — to fully come to dramatic life. lacking the greater emotional breadth and accessibility of the esteemed helmer’s last feature, “everlasting moments, ” this dry swedish history lesson will have a harder time finding offshore takers .
jan troell' s the last sentence tells the story of torgny segerstedt (jesper christensen), the former newspaper editor in sweden, where he spent more than a decade of his wartime tenure penning editorials lambasting nazi germany and the neutrality of the swedish government. the film' s original title is dom över död man, or judgment of the dead man, which seems appropriate given the unusual emphasis throughout on legacies and reputations. toward the end of his life, segerstedt' s chief concern seems to be how he will be remembered by the world, and much of the film is dedicated to indulging his reflections upon the value of his contributions to history. (it' s perhaps worth pointing out here that troell himself, an elder statesman…
will there be a war ?
one character asks segerstedt as the nazi threat grows .
there is war ,
segerstedt replies, calmly. one of the refreshing things about this character is how he makes a big noise while never actually raising his voice. while the movie may be too concerned with immediate swedish concerns to make what american viewers would consider a
universal
statement ,
the last sentence
nevertheless is a remarkably full - bodied and frank character study that illuminates the old saw about the political being personal in a genuinely unusual way .
torgny segerstedt was one of the leading journalists in sweden in the 20th century. he fought a one man battle against hitler and the nazi regime until his death in 1945 and during these tumultuous times his private life was marked by a world in chaos, as he falls in love with his friend' s wife while married himself. the last sentence weaves together the story of a psychological love story with a portrayal of the political situation sweden found itself in during the second world war. a gripping, dramatic and poetic tale about a man, who could not be silenced. written by filmlance international
he had often before, during the last six weeks, remained alone with her, but had never spoken to her of love .
both had changed greatly since they last met and both were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them.
the last sentence ( swedish : dom över död man ; judgement on the dead ) is a swedish film from 2012 , directed by jan troell and starring jesper christensen , pernilla august , björn granath and ulla skoog . it is set between 1933 and 1945 , and focuses on the life and career of torgny segerstedt , a swedish newspaper editor who was a prominent critic of hitler and the nazis during a period when the swedish government and monarch were intent on maintaining sweden 's neutrality and avoiding tensions with germany . the film also deals with segerstedt 's relations with his wife , his mistress , and his mistress 's husband ( who was a close friend of segerstedt ) . the film 's swedish title , dom över död man , comes from a line in the old norse poem hávamál : " cattle die , kinsmen die , thou wilt also die ; but i know one thing that never dies : the judgment on the dead " . 
the last sentence (swedish: dom över död man; judgement on the dead) is a swedish film from 2012, directed by jan troell and starring jesper christensen, pernilla august, björn granath and ulla skoog. it is set between 1933 and 1945, and focuses on the life and career of torgny segerstedt, a swedish newspaper editor who was a prominent critic of hitler and the nazis during a period when the swedish government and monarch were intent on maintaining sweden's neutrality and avoiding tensions with germany. the film also deals with segerstedt's relations with his wife, his mistress, and his mistress's husband (who was a close friend of segerstedt). the film's swedish title, dom över död man, comes from a line in the old norse poem hávamál: " cattle die, kinsmen die, thou wilt also die; but i know one thing that never dies: the judgment on the dead ".
the last sentence (swedish: dom över död man; judgement on the dead) is a swedish film from 2012, directed by jan troell and starring jesper christensen, pernilla august, björn granath and ulla skoog. it is set between 1933 and 1945, and focuses on the life and career of torgny segerstedt, a swedish newspaper editor who was a prominent critic of hitler and the nazis during a period when the swedish government and monarch were intent on maintaining sweden's neutrality and avoiding tensions with germany. the film also deals with segerstedt's relations with his wife, his mistress, and his mistress's husband (who was a close friend of segerstedt). the film's swedish title, dom över död man, comes from a line in the old norse poem hávamál: " cattle die, kinsmen die, thou wilt also die; but i know one thing that never dies: the judgment on the dead ".