Word: pyrrhic
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...lead actors with incredible cliches. Each of the other characters represents a segment of society rather than a person. As the ship breaks apart and its passengers choose between life and death, Titanic achieves an epic grandeur that the film may not deserve. Overall, the film is a pyrrhic victory for Cameron, --Jeremy Ross...
Even as men saluted the greatest and most grimly Pyrrhic of victories in all the gratitude and good spirit they could muster, they recognized that the discovery which had done most to end the worst of wars might also, quite conceivably, end all wars--if only man could learn its control...
...apart and its passengers choose between life and death, Titanic achieves an epic grandeur that the film may not deserve. The division between the rich and poor that dominates the early scenes gives way to a more complex dichotomy between suicide and self-preservation. Over-all, Titanic is a pyrrhic victory for James Cameron. But even if the film does not achieve its grand ambitions, a gem of a movie is still to be found within all of the excess
...gets stares in public, she also gets accolades. Recently, while she was attending a baseball game near her hometown of Powdersville, South Carolina, some little girls approached her and asked, "Are you Shannon?" When she nodded yes, they squealed, "We want to be like you!" Thanks to Faulkner's Pyrrhic victory, someday they can do even better...
Moreover, the White House scored a sort of Pyrrhic victory. In two days of House and Senate hearings, Republicans could unearth no evidence that Clintonites used the files to construct a Nixonian enemies list. In fact, the Republicans could not establish that any officials above a rather low level had seen the files. G.O.P. probers who began last week thinking they might uncover a Watergate-size scandal ended up focusing on a less momentous query: Who hired Craig Livingstone...