On Good Friday, continental Europeans commemorate that Christ was crucified and died to absolve our sins and give us eternal salvation. |
But his own description of life's eternal bounciness seems to me much more gaily Rabelaisian than is the novel as a whole. |
A haunting air of regret hangs over each country-tinged waltz, as jaded experience battles with eternal hope in the quest for love. |
This eternal reality may be God, it may be eternal principles of justice or aesthetics, or it may be the ultimate laws of nature. |
They repeatedly insist on the existence of immutable and eternal laws that lend a structure and meaning to the seeming randomness of life. |
This is one of those programs that demonstrates eternal life is not just a religious hope for the next world but a fact in this one. |