Sandy's death was no longer a senseless act by an uncaring universe.
Even in his later, far more austere films, in which man wrestles with an uncaring universe, Bergman was never much more stoic - and grim.
Let Marla be safe, he commanded the fates, all too aware that an uncaring universe did not always bend to his decrees.
His own sense of moral duty and an uncaring universe have doomed him.
He believed in a meaningless, mechanical, and uncaring universe that human beings, with their naturally limited faculties, could never fully understand.
Which did not mean he had any intention of taking it in the neck as someone's revenge against an uncaring universe.
Humanity would continue out here in some form or other, whatever adaptations the random, uncaring universe forced upon them.
Fuchs screamed to an uncaring universe.
'How could so few souls endure another day in our immeasurable, uncaring universe?'
By whatever gods there might be in a bleak and uncaring universe, why...?