Perhaps the great connection between the American film noir and the French nouvelle vague is best thought of in terms of the philosophical implications of life and death as seen in the disruptions and resumed continuity of the French narratives, which never forsake their graceful ritual.

However, being under the influence of great excitement and a heated brain, the point is soon yielded, which is the first evincement of the undermining of all good feeling.

... the disease altogether, here was an incontestable proof of her goddessship : she had heard their prayer and had saved them from their distress. ...

In Costume in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, M. Channing Linthicum cites two allusions to Polonian, Polonia, or Polony shoes, or to their high heels, in 1611, and two more in 1617 and 1618.