![]() Juliette, a simple country girl, weds her beloved in implied haste-although not for the reasons you’d expect. Vigo wastes no time with a customary meet-cute: instead, we’re treated to courtside seats at the provincial marriage of a young, infatuated couple. I’ve now learned to separate the wheat from the chaff, to wrest the genuine article from blatant animal lust or casual “friendliness.” It’s a crucial lesson, best learned the hard way and, in hindsight, no film prepared me for this realization quite like L’Atalante. It took a novel’s worth of unread texts, unacknowledged declarations, and unrequited adoration to understand that no good can come from a love affair born of trickery, misdirection, and legerdemain. I wasn’t uninterested in romance, and my heart was elsewhere: I prioritized absorbing Vigo’s talents through osmosis over pining for some teenager with a patchy beard. Despite a year and change of weekly L’Atalante home viewings, this tale of courtly love always took a backseat. L’Atalante most likely landed on my radar by way of a dollar-bin DVD-plucked by my roving eye like its heroine, Juliette, from the hinterlands of a video store or record shop. For young people, the early death of a great artist holds a particular sway. The tragedy of his too-short career adds a melancholy tint to his elegiac style, elevating what could have been a familiar love story into something wildly radical. His third film-after À propos de Nice and Zero de conduite -and sole feature was completed after his untimely death from tuberculosis. The newfound excitement and precariousness at the heart of every newly minted union is poetically and economically depicted in Jean Vigo’s 1934 L’Atalante. Where the function of a status marriage was nakedly clear-an heir and a spare-the romantic union remains still uncharted territory. ![]() To freely choose one’s lifelong partner is a recent freedom, a liberty that brings with it a new kind of propriety. The concept of “companionate marriage” is still novel. If you’re lucky, the brief and blissful prologue of a “honeymoon phase” goes on forever, but even that inevitable dimming retains the sustenance of persistent affection. Glances sly and adoring, flickering candlelight and strewn petals, the promise of undying happiness that only true love can provide: such are the fantasies of every young romantic, the rich loam from which a thousand lines of yearning paeans might bloom. Send us feedback about these examples.“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.” -Charles Dickens, David Copperfield These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'undying.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Apr. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2023 For some, the undying love of one's alma mater is a matter of school spirit. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023 Given the undying popularity of tribute acts from coast to coast and around the world, featuring so many of them in free performances on the Paddock Stage may well be a fair move. Olivia Shreefter, oregonlive, 18 July 2023 Even those with an undying affection for Steven Spielberg’s whip-cracking academic, star of four previous exercises in globe-trotting precarity, might grant that this one last adventure could be one adventure too many. 2023 My initial ignorance has, if anything, created curiosity and an undying need to grasp the insight that my peers already have. ![]() 2023 In one particularly disquieting conversation with the New York Times’ tech columnist Kevin Roose, a transcript of which was published Thursday, Bing’s chatbot revealed its secretive desire to become human, declared its undying love for Roose, and urged him to leave his wife. ![]() Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023 An organization known for having undying faith in its superstars has stuck its neck out again, all for a player with so much potential yet with so much still to prove. Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2023 Tails’ Tornado Plane–a personal favorite of mine due to my undying love for Sky Chase Zone–has been faithfully recreated, with studs on the top wing for Sonic to assume his daredevil stance. Recent Examples on the Web And for the first time, Prigozhin, who previously had sworn undying loyalty to the Russian leader, openly disobeyed him. ![]()
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