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n. 1 red tide (gloss: type of algal bloom) 2 (context euphemistic English) menstruation
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Crimson Tide is a 1995 American submarine film directed by Tony Scott, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. It takes place during a period of political turmoil in the Russian Federation, in which ultranationalists threaten to launch nuclear missiles at the United States and Japan. It focuses on a clash of wills between the new executive officer ( Denzel Washington) of a U.S. nuclear missile submarine and its seasoned commanding officer ( Gene Hackman), arising from conflicting interpretations of an order to launch their missiles.
The film was scored by Hans Zimmer, who won a Grammy Award for the main theme, which makes heavy use of synthesizers in place of traditional orchestral instruments.
Usage examples of "crimson tide".
Then all was swept away by the crimson tide that rode madly in Conan's soul, as he crushed fiercely in his iron arms the slim white body that shimmered like a witch-fire of madness before him.
His heart pounded and he was Outside, his stomach churning in nausea, his back aflame with pain, his legs hanging uselessly, a cripple, and still he persisted, though the numbness now lapped at his brain, an unstoppable crimson tide, and still he strove, long after his last inhalation, his lungs deflating, pulse surging vainly—.
It sprang from the ruddy strand, leapedthe crimson tide, and dropped three miles away upon a precipitous, jaggedupthrust of rock frowning black from the lacquered depths.
The crimson tide had spread to the further reaches of the huge crowd, and the entire twenty thousand had simply vanished.
Each time he drew it out again a bright crimson tide followed the steel.
Now that the furious crimson tide of anger had receded from his face, Mark saw how beautiful was the child, as beautiful as the mother, and he hated it, he hated it with a bitter sickening feeling in his stomach, and a corrosive taste in his mouth.
There was a soundless flash of lurid light, and the defenders dropped behind the embankment as a crimson tide swept out from the Tree like a surging breaker.
The sighting of a waterspout, or a great sea turtle, or a crimson tide.