"High Bird" was his Crow name, the imperturbable floating eagle.
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No matter what fate befalls her, she remains remarkably imperturbable.
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While they barked on his behalf, he maintained imperturbable cool.
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Even the imperturbable Pat Sajak seemed really resentful of his success.
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He assumed that he was just dealing with a kindred imperturbable spirit.
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Como a muchos más, me sacudió la imperturbable claridad de su misión.
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It is, to all appearances, a typically Russian scene of imperturbable rural tranquillity.
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Over the past six months, the stock market has gone from inconsolable to imperturbable.
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Clinton, you assume that what lies beneath her imperturbable exterior is an essential decency.
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Robert Mueller can continue his imperturbable march through the Trump family's field of lies.
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The English think of themselves as a tolerant, imperturbable people, given to self-deprecation and understatement.
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That surprised those who knew him well because Mr. Hall had always displayed an imperturbable manner.
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" His poem "Endymion" had recently been savaged by critics, one of whom called it "imperturbable driveling idiocy.
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When Perl calls it "fundamentally imperturbable," he may be saying most of what there is to say.
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Then came a year when Sam—always the steady one, the imperturbable base—almost died of heart trouble.
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Who does take heed is Marcus (a smashing Jeff Bridges), an imperturbable Texas Ranger kicking the doorstep of retirement.
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The imperturbable Pete Buttigieg also demonstrates skill sets that will surely land him in the Cabinet if Biden wins.
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She would not have looked out of place on the set of "Mad Men": poised, perfectly coifed, lipsticked and imperturbable.
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As imperturbable as they were in 1952, they seemed interested but not overwhelmed as their former lives were re-enacted.
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In 6.83, the most imperturbable year of this bull market, VIX spent September in a range of 12.5 to 17.5.
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What distinguishes "Achilles" is its sliding signifiers — the way it correlates a gooey gestural present with an imperturbable, passive, classical past.
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But the imperturbable Mr. Haacke is reluctant to attack collectors' preference for the attractive and uncontroversial over tough work like his.
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"Hal was imperturbable," Gary G. Sick, a former colleague, wrote in "All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter With Iran," published in 19733.
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"Forever" sways in slow motion, with a reassuring soul bass line, imperturbable organ chords and nostalgic "shoo-wop shoo-wop" backup vocals.
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Nathalia Arja, so explosively energetic, and Rainer Krenstetter, elegant and almost imperturbable, were as vivid as the tiresome third movement would allow.
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The camera finds Young, walking and looking more or less as he usually did—imperturbable, or at least unperturbed, poker-faced and tough.
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By instinct or design, the band responded with music that was tidy, systematic and seemingly imperturbable, even as its lyrics hold darker ideas.
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Excited but also imperturbable, Blocboy raps on behalf of all those who decline open hedonism for the perversity of finding joy in coldness and abstraction.
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J.P. The song is a peaceful, folky, fingerpicked waltz, with Bedouine's utterly imperturbable alto, singing and sometimes reciting, at ease amid plush choral and orchestral arrangements.
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Critic's Pick Phileas Fogg, the imperturbable hero of "Around the World in 80 Days," has returned to New York, having taken up residence at the New Victory Theater.
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An imperturbable crewman stepped out with an extinguisher, sprayed down the engine and then announced the plane would leave as planned, trying to block the mass exodus of passengers.
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" Arianna Huffington, who is on Uber's board, brought up Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor: "He dealt with plagues and invasions and betrayals, and he always managed to remain imperturbable.
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Our hero encounters birds with "secrets" and an imperturbable fox, animals nestled in their woodland burrows, nightfall and the wide eyes of an owl in a dim, piney tableau.
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With all eyes on the Olympic Games, murmurs of a possible U.S. military intervention on the Korean Peninsula hasn't quite thrown the famously imperturbable South Korean public into a panic.
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" He envies a certain kind of confident Southern man, about whom he says: "His is a discerning shtick of which the Southerner is king: wicked-sounding but affectionate, droll, imperturbable above all.
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That incapacity, and the hope that it might be cured—the imperturbable perturbed, the ice thawed—was a crucial element of Spock's attractiveness, and not only to women, and not only in a sexual sense.
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" Almost a quarter-century after that experience, Mr. Hill took on the role of the stern, seemingly imperturbable district attorney Adam Schiff on a new cops-and-lawyers series based in New York, "Law & Order.
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Compassion. Sensitivity. Openness. Tolerance. I'd like to think that these are the core values of the Mr. Know-It-All column—the imperturbable foundations on which, every month, I try to build this tiny chapel of words.
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But during her speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, Michelle Obama revealed to America, a little bit, just how much work — and pain — went into putting up a unified front of imperturbable classiness for eight years.
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Yet the indexes and their valuations have stretched enough to the upside while measures of risk-aversion have ebbed to a point where it's worth asking what might, at last, be out there to bother this resilient, imperturbable bull market?
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Mr. Frisell has exerted his influence gently, funneling inspiration from 216s folk rock and 27s free jazz into a sound that's hearthlike and imperturbable, whether spinning through reverb-drenched runs or caressing its way through a slow, major-chord progression.
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They are the latest discontented group to upset the Chinese Communist Party's image of imperturbable dominance: People's Liberation Army veterans who have held protests across several cities in recent weeks over what they say is mistreatment, poor job prospects and inadequate benefits.
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BEIJING — Qian Qichen, an imperturbable Chinese diplomat who as foreign minister and vice premier steered his country on a pragmatic course through the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and bitter quarrels with the United States, died here on Tuesday.
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Barely out of his teens, he shot to fame shortly after World War II with a nightclub act in which the rakish, imperturbable Dean Martin crooned and the skinny, hyperactive Mr. Lewis capered around the stage, a dangerously volatile id to Mr. Martin's supremely relaxed ego.
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"Earshot" (season 3, episode 18) Buffy is infected with the blood of a demon, which makes her telepathic, leading to, among other revelations, the fact that her mom and Giles had sex on the hood of a police car (twice) and exactly what thoughts lurk behind Oz's imperturbable exterior.
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Instead, Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Emanuel Ax) and Symphony No. 2 had all that familiar, staunch certainty that Mr. Haitink has in the classics: that firm warmth of sound, that lucidity of argument, that length of line, that gentle guidance, that imperturbable onward tread — calm, resolute, on.
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If 1994's Speed, in which he starred as an imperturbable bomb squad cop, embodied the optimism and humanism of the '90s, then 1999's Matrix, along with other iconic films from that year like Fight Club and The Blair Witch Project, marked a turn toward new millennium-related unease.
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But finding, in consecutive paragraphs, Miranda's imperturbable aunt described as "a slab of granite" and a pair of twins characterized as "identical as peas" and "walking mirror images" may mean that we find ourselves reading not for the pleasures of language but more simply out of curiosity about what will happen next.
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On the new EP "Arrive Without Leaving" he collaborates with Arji OceAnanda on flutes, percussion and mbira and with the Texas electronic trio Dallas Acid, who edited a six-hour group improvisation into the 36 minutes of music on the EP. The imperturbable rhythmic pulse comes from the zither, as washes of synthesizers and wisps of flute melody only enrich the music's much-needed serenity.
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With Attorney General Loretta Lynch neutered by her tarmac twosome with Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonThe magic of majority rule in elections The return of Ken Starr Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress MORE, the imperturbable Comey stepped up and delivered, leaving many of us wondering about the vast gulf between the letter of the law and the spirit of its application to the Clintons.
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Simenon's cleverly structured detective story is rejiggered to emphasize the mental chess match between the imperturbable Maigret (Baur) and a grandiose medical student (played with appropriate intensity by the Russian émigré Valéry Inkijinoff, a leading player in "Storm Over Asia," Vsevolod Pudovkin's 1928 silent.) The early films are lean; "Un Carnet de Bal," which requires 19763 minutes to detail the quest of a young and most unmerry widow to regain her past, is not.
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But as the news cycle churns on, we have seen Hillary's example play out, again and again and again, an endless film loop of self-debasement masquerading as self-sacrifice: the spurned wife Mary Jo Buttafuoco standing by husband, Joey, at a press conference, her face permanently contorted by his teenage mistress' bullet; Huma Abedin, elegant and imperturbable in pumps and a tailored pencil skirt, stepping out with her husband and their child days after he'd been caught sending lewd pictures to teenage girls in 2013; and, most recently, Camille Cosby, sitting by her husband's side in court, her face fixed in a rictus of what is either permanent defiance or humiliation.
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He was "imperturbable, good- humoured ... few Australian captains have been better liked and respected".
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Thabit () is an Arabic name for males that means "the imperturbable one". It is sometimes spelled Thabet.
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The jocularities referred to have no interest to the solemn, imperturbable Mule save when he is an object of their malevolence.
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The commandant at Beaulieu wrote that De Baissac was "quite imperturbable and would remain cool and collected in any situation... [s]he was very much ahead of her fellow students".
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He was > the personification of intrepid gallantry and imperturbable courage. His nephew was Joseph M. Proskauer a prominent New York attorney, Judge, and founding partner of the law firm Proskauer Rose.
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In J…'s absence, she acted as my Lieutenant. > Shared every danger. Took part in a December reception committee with myself > and some others. Has a perfect understanding of security and an > imperturbable calmness.
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A girl in Paris is alone with a cat. A man arrives in Warsaw, and a woman is there to meet him. She drives him to his parents’ home. An accident, a murder—nothing alters the imperturbable course of life.
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When he entered the interview room, the Chairman of the Panel was reading his CV and looked up at him in astonishment saying "it says here that you have nine children. Are they all yours?" (thinking that some were perhaps stepchildren). "So my wife assures me" came Bruce's imperturbable reply.
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Eichmann then was the Nazi official handling the forced " emigration" of Jews. It was thought that Wijsmuller, as a non-Jewish woman, might be able to get permission from the Nazis for the children to travel to England. Eichmann snarled at her, but Wijsmuller was imperturbable and fearless. She told him why she came.
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He took ill and died less than a week before he was due to stand in a Test match against India. Wisden described him as "a firm and imperturbable umpire". As a player, Ledwidge represented Randwick club in Sydney Grade Cricket, scoring over 8000 runs and taking over 500 wickets between 1946 and 1961.
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David Lloyd George called him "the Artful Dodger" at this time, referring to his refusal to give straight answers about the government's views about Spain, where General Franco's victory was clearly imminent.Jago 2015, p103 Lloyd George intended a compliment when describing Butler as "playing the part of the imperturbable dunce who says nothing with an air of conviction".
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They were forced to strip naked before being taken to the gallows. The camp was liberated two weeks later by American forces. Fabian von Schlabrendorff, one of the few senior anti-Nazis to survive the war, described Oster as "a man such as God meant men to be, lucid and serene in mind, imperturbable in danger".
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Ernest gets lost and enters Linda's room by mistake. She proposes that he stay the night with her, but beats a hasty retreat and persuades the imperturbable Syd to share his room. When Ernest goes to use the toilet, someone tries to stab the sleeping Syd, then desists when he speaks up. Ernest starts playing "Chopsticks" on the organ.
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Gerlando Alberti at a Mafia trial in the 1970s. Gerlando Alberti (; September 18, 1927 – February 1, 2012), nicknamed ("the imperturbable one"), Lodato, Quindici anni di mafia, pp. 47-50 was a member of the Sicilian Mafia. Morto Gerlando Alberti detto 'U paccaré', ADN Kronos, February 1, 2012 He belonged to the Porta Nuova family in Palermo headed by Giuseppe Calò.
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But this sort of good-natured person, exemplified by Eldon, is, if one scrutinises the case, good-natured out of selfishness: "tread on the toe of one of these amiable and imperturbable mortals, or let a lump of soot fall down the chimney and spoil their dinners, and see how they will bear it."Hazlitt 1930, vol. 11, p. 142.
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256 He lingered on, his symptoms relapsing and remitting for many days. Wilbur died, at age 45, at the Wright family home on May 30. His father wrote about Wilbur in his diary: > A short life, full of consequences. An unfailing intellect, imperturbable > temper, great self-reliance and as great modesty, seeing the right clearly, > pursuing it steadfastly, he lived and died.
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" John Gibson Lockhart writing in Blackwood's Magazine, described Endymion as "imperturbable drivelling idiocy". With biting sarcasm, Lockhart advised, "It is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the shop Mr John, back to plasters, pills, and ointment boxes".Extracts from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 3 (1818) p519-24". Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts, Part 4.
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When Patty Went to College is Jean Webster's first novel, published in 1903. It is a humorous look at life in a women's college at the turn of the 20th century. Patty Wyatt, the protagonist of this story is a bright, fun-loving, imperturbable young woman who does not like to conform. The book describes her many escapades on campus during her senior year at college.
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Sharp was born in Chinook, Montana, and named for Ulysses S. Grant, who was married to his grandmother's sister. Raised in Fort Benton, Montana,The Imperturbable Admiral, TIME Magazine August 14, 1964 he graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1927. He is also a 1950 graduate of the Naval War College. During World War II, he commanded the destroyer in the Pacific Theater, earning two Silver Stars.
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Born in the goldfields town of Clunes in Victoria, Robbie MacDonald moved to Brisbane in 1881 with his mother and his stepfather, Justice A. B. Noel. After attending Brisbane Boys Grammar School MacDonald studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania, where he excelled. He was the first Queenslander to graduate as a doctor of dental surgery with honours. In cricket, MacDonald had a reputation as an imperturbable defensive batsman.
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This put the laboratory under great pressure. Hans Bethe recalled that "There was a lot of controversy in Los Alamos in those days, and Carson always was imperturbable and stood in the middle of it and had a balanced judgment." When Stanislaw Ulam finally came up with a workable design, it was Mark that he approached first. Mark took the Ulam design to Bradbury, and they put the idea to Teller.
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The British attacked the 6th Army near Arras on 9 April 1917, advancing behind a creeping barrage for almost , capturing the heights of Vimy Ridge, which gave their observers a commanding view over the Douai Plain.Meyer, 1981, p. 67. On 11 April, Loßberg was made chief of staff of the 6th Army. He found the defenders in chaos but in the Crown Prince Rupprecht's words he was "almost superhumanly imperturbable".
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Secretariat and Chenery were greeted with an enthusiasm that Chenery responded to with a wave or smile; Secretariat was imperturbable. A large cheer went up at the break, but as the race went on, the two most commonly reported reactions were disbelief and fear that Secretariat had gone too fast.Woolfe, pp. 121–122 When it was clear that Secretariat would win, the sound reached a crescendo that reportedly made the grandstand shake.
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O'Halloran was still Opposition Leader when he died suddenly of a pulmonary embolism in Adelaide. Upon hearing the news of O'Halloran's death, the normally imperturbable Playford publicly wept. The Premier served as one of the pallbearers at O'Halloran's state funeral (the first state funeral for an opposition leader in South Australian history). In his eulogy on that occasion, Playford said that he had greatly respected O'Halloran as a man who always told the truth.
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Sunday the same day. About 8 P.M. Evans prepares the office for its new occupant. As Garnett queries each member of his staff about the next day's operations, he clearly seeks justification to order an easy mission. Dennis enters to see if there is any further news about Martin's fate, and commiserates with Garnett, stunning him with the disclosure that their seemingly imperturbable predecessor, Joe Lucas, actually died a suicide after repeatedly ordering men to their deaths.
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Neville Cardus—his former critic—praised Morris's performance during The Invincibles tour as "masterful, stylish, imperturbable, sure in defence, quick and handsome in stroke play. His batting is true to himself, charming and good mannered but reliant and thoughtful." Morris's form peaked in The Ashes, heading the Test averages and aggregates with 696 runs at 87.00. Bradman (502 at 72.57) and Denis Compton (562 at 62.44) were the next closest; nobody else scored more than 360 runs.
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Former host Barbara Frum once interviewed Cookie Monster from Sesame Street. Another well-remembered interview was with a hard-of-hearing but imperturbable British farmer who had grown a prize-winning giant cabbage. The 1976 interview was conducted by an increasingly frustrated Frum, who could not get the farmer to give any kind of coherent replies to her straightforward questions; by mid- interview, Frum was stuck repeatedly asking the question "What did you feed your cabbage?" a little bit louder each time.
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Hassett returned to his normal form away from the sticky wicket, scoring 127 and 28 not out against Queensland between Tests. It was his third century in as many matches for Victoria. In the Second Test at Melbourne, "Australia owed much to the imperturbable Hassett", as he top-scored with 52 in the first innings. Australia won another low-scoring match by 28 runs; Freddie Brown was the only other player to post a half century in the match and no team passed 200.
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Prange writes, 'Spruance inherited his Chief of Staff from Halsey, who "thought he was wonderful." Browning had the disposition of a snapping turtle and Spruance admitted freely that "during the war in the Pacific people hated his guts." But "Browning was smart and quick", and Spruance was not running a charm school. Browning had the aviation know-how that Spruance needed, which was all that concerned the imperturbable admiral. Browning estimated that the Japanese attack planes would complete their strike and return to the carriers about 0900.
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The word literally means 'blown out' (as in a candle) and refers, in the Buddhist context, to the blowing out of the fires of desire, aversion, and delusion, and the imperturbable stillness of mind acquired thereafter.Richard Gombrich, Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benāres to Modern Colombo. Routledge In Theravada Buddhism the emphasis is on one's own liberation from samsara. The Mahayana traditions emphasize the bodhisattva path, in which "each Buddha and Bodhisattva is a redeemer," assisting the Buddhist in seeking to achieve the redemptive state.
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Appearances are often, however, deceptive, and in this case the solid imperturbable exterior hid a considerable amount of frustration resulting from the disastrous course of the First World War. As so many German and Austrian ex-service men, Weitzenböck became a hard-core revanchist, and an implacable enemy of France. But whereas Brouwer actively campaigned for the rehabilitation of German scientists, Weitzenböck refrained from political activity. However, after the ‘Anschluss’ of Austria in 1938, he started to vent his approval of Hitler’s policies in private conversations.
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The Official History records that 'Many of the imperturbable Westcountrymen, ignoring their dangerous situation, went to sleep in the afternoon sunshine'.Falls, Vol II, pp. 197, 201–2, 205–6. When the battalion resumed the advance through the winter rains it was down to a strength of just 250 men, but was reinforced in late December. After the Capture of Jerusalem 232nd Bde took part in a minor operation on 15 December to gain positions from which the artillery could reach enemy positions.Falls, Vol II, pp. 266–7.
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In addition to having incredible strength, he is famous for being uncompromising and imperturbable. It’s been said that overthrowing the Church of the God of Light would be easier than trying to change his mind. Despite his obstinacy, the Stone Knight is the only member of the ‘cold-hearted’ faction to handle diplomacy. Aivis Stone (The 38th generation Stone Knight) :Stubborn as his persona, Aivis is amiable and enjoys teasing his fellow Holy Knights. In his training years, his charisma led to him nearly being deemed unsuitable as the Stone Knight’s apprentice and replaced.
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Cricket Writers' Club presidency Not a robust man, he had spells of depression, once spending some time in a psychiatric hospital. He also had a drink problem (which was the reason he was dropped from Test Match Special)."Obituary", Wisden 1998, p. 1431–32. His reports for The Times often referred to his regular appearances at 'The Star' public house in High Littleton, where he lived, and reports of matches involving Gloucestershire invariably mentioned the GRIP - the Gloriously Red-headed Imperturbable Pamela, the barmaid in the main pavilion bar at the County Ground at Bristol.
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In retrospect, he spoke of Averescu as an "imperturbable and incorruptible" figures, chosen by providence to enact a program of "prosperity and order".Scurtu, pp. 57–58 Streitman was nominated for an eligible seat in a Jewish circumscription, in the newly attached region of Transylvania. Goga campaigned in his favor, telling Jewish voters that "a Jewish intellectual of the Old Kingdom" would be best positioned to advance their demands; Streitman failed at convincing them, probably because Transylvanian Jews wished to be considered separate from the Old Kingdom Jews.
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Hobbs' biographer Ronald Mason summarised the association of Hobbs and Sutcliffe thus:Mason, p.193. > Behind them were nine years of wonderful attainment, 26 opening partnerships > of 100 or more; a legendary technique and repute unequalled by any other > pair; the lean, active quizzical Hobbs and the neat, wiry imperturbable > Sutcliffe, who set a standard that can serve as a guide, but defied all > attempts at emulation. Hobbs and Sutcliffe made 15 century opening partnerships for England in Test matches, including 11 against Australia, and 11 in other first-class matches.Hill, pp.211–214.
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In one episode, he compares his nerve strike knowledge to that of a woman (Katmandu) while both use Ralph as a training dummy. In subsequent episodes, he out-dueled an expert fencer and mangled a gangster's prosthetic iron hand with one fist. Meanwhile, more sympathetic characters idolize Fonzie due to his success with women and his imperturbable "cool." Despite the respect he has earned, several people still antagonized him – including Officer Kirk (Ed Peck), an overzealous police officer who sometimes (though never successfully) tried to frame Fonzie or run him out of town.
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The novel is a story of a Georgian outlaw of the Imperial Russian period, a very popular theme in Georgian literature, and combines thrilling escapades with Dostoevskian dealings with the fate of an individual and national soul. The story is narrated by a Russian gendarme, Count Szeged, who frequently passes the story-telling on to other characters. The novel follows the life of outlaw Data Tutashkhia, who spends years eluding capture by the Tsarist police. They are led by Data's cousin, his detached and imperturbable double, Mushni Zarandia.
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Woodward, 1998, p19 One of Maurice's daughters, Nancy, was the long- term secretary and mistress of Edward Spears, eventually marrying him in 1969 after the death of his first wife Mary Borden. Spears later wrote of Maurice in Prelude to Victory "As imperturbable as a fish, always unruffled … a rather abrupt manner. A little distrait owing to great inner concentration, he simply demolished work, never forgot anything … [a] most efficient if not outwardly brilliant second. No man ever wasted fewer words nor expressed himself when he spoke with greater clarity and conciseness".
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Known as the "Chief Justice" he was, in Jack Pollard's view, "a softly-spoken, imperturbable character … precise, unemotional, lacking in sentiment … He was a stickler for decorum … [and] highly regarded by all players for his accuracy and impartiality." Johnnie Moyes, who knew him well, "appreciated his skill, his modesty, his love for cricket" and ranked him in the top three umpires he had seen, along with George Hele and Mel McInnes. In 1900/01 in the match between New South Wales and Victoria at Sydney, Crockett no-balled the New South Wales fast bowler Jack Marsh 19 times for throwing.
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Single tickets twenty-five cents, to be had at the door on the evening of the oration." Pratt would appear in "threadbare coat,""Dan Pratt Dies: The Great American Traveler's Career Closed: His Earthly Wanderings Ended by Paralysis in the Boston City Hospital — The Old Man's Eccentricities." Brooklyn Eagle June 21, 1887 "battered tall hat, seedy attire, and imperturbable solemnity of countenance"Mitchell, Edward P. Memoirs of an editor: fifty years of American journalism New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1924, pp. 70–71 and deliver his talk, "characterized by a dazzling faculty for word-creation, a complete mastery of the non-sequitur, and a lambent humor.
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He was also "a fair shot, a very painstaking billiard-player, and a dignified person, who was equally imperturbable whether sitting as a Justice of the Peace or watching a close boat race".Vanity Fair Ducker 8 April 1897 In 1898 McLean collaborated with William Grenfell in authoring Rowing and Punting, the fourth and final volume for The Suffolk Sporting Series on Sport. The work was commissioned from Bertram Fletcher Robinson and edited by Henry Howard, 18th Earl of Suffolk.Bertram Fletcher Robinson On 28 March 1900 McLean joined the 69th Sussex Company Imperial Yeomanry with the rank of lieutenant in army, and took part in the Second Anglo-Boer War.
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Fleury was imperturbable in his demeanor, frugal and prudent, and he carried these qualities into the administration. In 1726 he fixed the standard of the currency and secured French credit by initiating regular payment of interest on the national debt, with the result that in 1738/39 there was a surplus of 15,000,000 livres instead of the usual deficit. Fleury's stringencies were enforced through the contrôleur général des finances Philibert Orry (who remained in office until 1745). By exacting forced labor from the peasants (see corvée) he improved France's roads, though at the cost of rousing angry discontent, which later found expression in the French Revolution.
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At the outbreak of World War I on 2 August 1914, von Kuhl became Chief of Staff in General Alexander von Kluck's First Army which was the crucial right flank of the swinging door in the Schlieffen Plan. Kluck regarded him as > a notable man, of most energetic character and wide views. Mentally and > physically he was imperturbable, and, in addition to an extremely cultivated > mind, he possessed a personal bravery on the battlefield which from time to > time evoked a caution from the Army Commander. By adroit staff planning they squeezed their 320,000 men through a strip of land between Liege and the Dutch border.
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Frustrated by the lack of agreement among and hardening positions adopted by Lutyens, Baker, and Aitken, Ware turned to Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, director of the British Museum and a highly respected ancient languages scholar. Kenyon not only had expertise in art and architecture, but he was imperturbable, systematic in his work methods, businesslike, and practical. He was also a lieutenant colonel in the British Army and had served in France, and he and Ware agreed to emphasize his military rank as a way of keeping disputes in check. Kenyon's appointment was one of the first actions taken by the IWGC at its inaugural meeting on 20 November 1917.
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Slowly recuperating from her illness, Evelina agrees to accompany her neighbour, a sarcastically tempered widow named Mrs. Selwyn, to the resort town of Clifton Heights, where she unwillingly attracts the attention of womanizer Lord Merton, on the eve of his marriage to Lord Orville's sister, Lady Louisa Larpent. Aware of Lord Orville's arrival, Evelina tries to distance herself from him because of his impertinent letter, but his gentle manners work their spell until she is torn between attraction to him and belief in his past duplicity. The unexpected appearance of Mr. Macartney reveals an unexpected streak of jealousy in the seemingly imperturbable Lord Orville.
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The Australian Test captain Joe Darling said, "Thoms was about the only umpire in England who was not afraid of Grace or anyone else."Quoted in Derek Birley, The Willow Wand, Simon & Schuster, London, 1989, p. 34. The weekly magazine Cricket said: > He was universally regarded as the umpire of the period, imperturbable, > accurate and prompt in his decisions, and a great authority on the laws of > the game. Unlike most umpires who, when they have given a decision, decline > to argue or discuss the matter, he had a habit of explaining just what had > happened, and as he very seldom made a mistake, his comments were always > heard with respect and often admiration.
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Retrieved 4 November 2018 Study II is considered the most artistically successful of the series, and is described as consisting of "broad strokes of pink and mauve, with which Bacon establishes an equivocation between waxen mask and human flesh, drag pain and loneliness and imperturbable spirit in their wake.""Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake)". Tate Britain. Retrieved 4 November 2018 Blake was around fifty years old when the cast was made by the sculptor and phrenologist James De Ville, whose method and approach were influenced by his teacher, the English sculptor Joseph Nollekens, who to avoid suffocation provided his models with straws while submerged in the casting material."NPG 1809 William Blake".
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It is possible to isolate similar tendencies (and similar concerns from the accusers) as those condemned in the seventeenth century "Quietist" controversy in earlier periods. In Hellenistic philosophy, the state of imperturbable serenity or ataraxia was seen as a desirable state of mind by Pyrrhonian, Epicurean, and Stoic philosophers. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, an analogous dispute might be located in Hesychasm in which "the supreme aim of life on earth is the contemplation of the uncreated light whereby man is intimately united with God". In early Christianity, suspicion over forms of mystical teaching may be seen as controversies over Gnosticism in the second and third centuries, and over the Messalian heresy in the fourth and fifth centuries.
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A conceit of these backstage glimpses is that the singers themselves are made to resemble the characters they are playing.See , For example, prior to Papageno's first entry, there is a cut to Håkan Hagegård (Papageno's actor) backstage in his dressing room. Suddenly, to be ready for his cue, he jumps up out of his bed and rushes to the wings where he plays the appropriate notes on his pipe, is then helped into his birdcage by a stagehand (dressed as one of the bats Tamino encounters later on in act 1), and thus succeeds in making his entrance in the nick of time. Thus Hagegård is seen as just as unreliable, and imperturbable, as Papageno.
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Carr et al. 2006, p. 182. To decorate the king's new palace, the Palacio del Buen Retiro, Velázquez painted equestrian portraits of the royal family. In Philip IV on Horseback (1634–35), the king is represented in profile in an image of imperturbable majesty, demonstrating expert horsemanship by executing an effortless levade. The large The Surrender of Breda (1634–35), also painted for the Palacio, is Velázquez's only extant painting depicting contemporary history.Carr et al. 2006, p. 38. Its symbolic treatment of a Spanish military victory over the Dutch eschews the rhetoric of conquest and superiority that is typical in such scenes, in which a general on horseback looks down on his vanquished, kneeling opponent.
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The early Vedic literature bears no direct reference to the concept of 'five thieves'; the terms moha, kama, krodha and aham do occur in the Vedic texts, but they are not explicitly enumerated as a series of "thieves". However, each of these is separately condemned in various sections of The Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads. We observe that ascetic sages of both the Vedic and non-Vedic tradition propounded the philosophy of renunciation and the methods of sense- control. In the Bhagvad Gita, the control of one's senses, as well as being imperturbable in the face of kama, moha, krodha and aham, are among the marked traits of the Shresta Vyakti (the Perfect Man) and Yogi (Knower).
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But anybody whose last vision is of a tile pattern on a bathroom floor, I don't know what kind of genius they are." Describing his career Miller stated, "It's all been built on arcane references, precision of language, and a reasonably imperturbable nature on TV. The basics are there, but I've been getting paid, making a living and having fun with it for next to 25 years, and you know that blows my mind that I've stuck with it. That's my favorite part of showbiz, hangin' in, knowing that something good is coming along. ... When I was starting, I thought I'd have to have a sword-in-the-stone moment of inspiration where I'd have to lay around for it to be visited on me.
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In 1860, Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee relieved Major Heintzelman at Fort Brown, and the Mexican authorities offered to restrain "their citizens from making predatory descents upon the territory and people of Texas ... this was the last active operation of the Cortina War". Rip Ford, a Texas Ranger at the time, described Lee as "dignified without hauteur, grand without pride ... he evinced an imperturbable self-possession, and a complete control of his passions ... possessing the capacity to accomplish great ends and the gift of controlling and leading men." When Texas seceded from the Union in February 1861, General David E. Twiggs surrendered all the American forces (about 4,000 men, including Lee, and commander of the Department of Texas) to the Texans.
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Solomon "Sol" Star (John Hawkes) is Seth Bullock's best friend and partner in the hardware business and the only Jewish resident of the camp. He is originally from Vienna, Austria. Imperturbable, reliable, and sensible, Sol becomes a rising force in the camp; originally seeing the potential wealth in providing tools to the prospectors in Deadwood, the second season sees Sol set his sights on forming the first bank in Deadwood in partnership with Alma Garret. Though mocked by Swearengen at every turn for his being Jewish, particularly during the initial phase of buying the future site of the Bullock and Star hardware store from the saloon owner, Sol never rises to the bait, showing not only his business acumen but his levelheadedness as opposed to his friend's occasionally rash nature.
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Bertie states that he saw the normally imperturbable Jeeves come "very near to being rattled" for the first time when the sight of Bingo Little in a false beard caused Jeeves to drop his jaw and steady himself with a table in "Comrade Bingo".Wodehouse (2008) [1923], The Inimitable Jeeves, chapter 12, p. 123-24. In Joy in the Morning, Bertie claims that the only occasion on which he had ever seen Jeeves "really rattled" was when he first met Bertie's friend Boko Fittleworth, who wears turtleneck sweaters and flannel trousers with a patch on the knee; Jeeves "winced visibly and tottered off" to recover his composure in the kitchen, where Bertie supposes Jeeves pulled himself together with cooking sherry.Wodehouse (2008) [1947], Joy in the Morning, chapter 6, p. 52.
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They eventually hit upon the idea of "negative access", illustrating the church by provoking a reaction from it. As Tim Robey of The Daily Telegraph puts it, contrasting it with the more methodical Going Clear by Alex Gibney, "where Gibney circled the movement right from its beginnings, seeking to analyse its methods and impugn its motives, Theroux just gets right in there and jabs it in the ribs, that imperturbable mask of irony driving its partisans even more bananas than usual." The Hole at Gold Base, where some re-enactments in My Scientology Movie are set Theroux and his team sought to take "inspiration from the showbusiness trappings of Scientology itself". With the help of various actors, they recreated events related by ex-members in the church's Gold Base and its punishment facility, The Hole.
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As an actor in England, Mathews held an unrivalled place in his unique vein of light eccentric comedy. He had an easy grace combined with "imperturbable solemnity", a combination which amused people; his humour was never broad, but always measured and restrained. It was as the leading character in such plays as the Game of Speculation, My Awful Dad, Cool as a Cucumber, Patter versus Clatter, and Little Toddlekins, that he especially excelled. Mathews also used his time in the U.S. to collect impressions of American types and dialects, resulting in A Trip to America, a one-man stage review in which Mathews performed mimicries in character, including some in blackface. After Mathews' return to England with his second wife, in 1861, they gave a series of "At Home" tabletop reviews at the Haymarket Theatre.
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Cannon has been described as "a beautiful horseman with the lightest of hands" and "imperturbable, a shrewd technician and a wonderful judge of pace." Amongst his colleagues, he was regarded as a "polished" performer, and a peerless handler of young horses and, as he demonstrated with his multiple Oaks and 1,000 Guineas victories, of fillies. In 1887, it was said of Cannon: Conversely, what some saw as perfect finishing, other saw as the main fault in his riding - his habit of trying to win races by a narrow margin to protect a horse's handicap mark, which, when he got it wrong, was known to cost him winners. In contrast with some of the racing characters of the time, Cannon himself was a man of "irreproachable character" and, unlike his contemporaries, he was sparing with his use of the whip.
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The reception among press reviewers was mixed. In France critical observations included a view that the disparate elements of the film did not blend together satisfactorily or throw sufficient light upon each otherMichel Delain, in L'Express, 17-23 mai 1980: "...l'homme à la caméra et l'homme au microscope - l'un qui ne s'applique surtout pas à illustrer les thèses du biologiste et poursuit, imperturbable, son récit, et l'autre qui, de la même façon, laisse cheminer sa réflexion et ne se contente pas de commenter un film." ("... the man with the camera and the man with the microscope - the one who above all does not try to illustrate the arguments of the biologist and imperturbably pursues his narrative, and the other who, in the same way, lets his thoughts follow their path and does not content himself with commentating on a film.").Emmanuel Decaux, in Cinématographe, no.
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The action unfolded in fairy-land, peopled with good and bad spirits who both advanced and impeded the plot, which was interlarded with comically violent (and often scabrous) mayhem. As in the Bakken pantomimes, that plot hinged upon Cassander's pursuit of Harlequin and Columbine—but it was complicated, in Baptiste's interpretation, by a clever and ambiguous Pierrot. Baptiste's Pierrot was both a fool and no fool; he was Cassandre's valet but no one's servant. He was an embodiment of comic contrasts, showing > imperturbable sang-froid [again the words are Gautier's], artful foolishness > and foolish finesse, brazen and naïve gluttony, blustering cowardice, > skeptical credulity, scornful servility, preoccupied insouciance, indolent > activity, and all those surprising contrasts that must be expressed by a > wink of the eye, by a puckering of the mouth, by a knitting of the brow, by > a fleeting gesture.In La Presse, August 31, 1846; tr.
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A woman of elegance and refined mannerisms, it is said by The Fool that she has an imperturbable aura, very much like Ryu has although she does not seem to be a psychic. Although she has good intentions at heart her overprotective, one-sided view of things leads her to assume things above the students based on sheer prejudice like believing Yushi was suffering and in need of affection due to his family situation, despite the fact he is moving onwards with his life with the residents of the apartment, or believing Yamamoto was bullied by the English Club for leaving crying for a fight she started. This in turn leads many students very angry without her knowledge, but decide to simply go with the flow as they know trying to convince her will be pointless. Yushi notes that when compared to Ryu's strict but present kindness, Aoki's is uncalled and irresponsible.
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The BBC postponed the series. After physiotherapy Horne was able to begin recording Beyond Our Ken in June, in preparation for the broadcast of the first series between July and November. Beyond Our Ken was written around the imperturbable establishment figure of Horne, while the other performers played a "spectrum of characters never before heard on the radio", including the exaggeratedly upper class Rodney and Charles (Williams and Paddick), the genteel, dotty pensioners Ambrose and Felicity (Williams and Marsden), the hoarse-voiced cook Fanny Haddock – a parody of the television cook Fanny Cradock (Marsden), the earthy gardening guru Arthur Fallowfield (Williams), the semi-articulate rock and roll singer Ricky Livid (Paddick) and Hankie Flowered, a parody of the comedian Frankie Howerd (Bill Pertwee). The first episode was not well received by a sample audience, but the BBC decided to back Horne and his team, and the initial six-week contract was extended to 21 weeks.
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Nimoy was invited to be guest of honor at the March 1967 National Space Club dinner and to take an extensive tour of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. The actor concluded from the warm and intense reception he received that astronauts like John Glenn and aerospace industry engineers, secretaries, and shareholders alike all regarded Star Trek, and especially the character of Spock, as a "dramatization of the future of their space program". An asteroid in the Eos family discovered on August 16, 1971 was named Mr. Spock after the discoverer James B. Gibson's cat (which had been named Mr. Spock, who was likewise "imperturbable, logical, intelligent, and had pointed ears"). The character proved inspirational to many budding scientists and engineers. Nimoy has said that many of them, on meeting him, were eager to show him their work and discuss it with him as if he were a scientific peer, as opposed to an actor, photographer, and poet.
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This manoeuvre contained the pursuit of the disorganised forces of the centre and also restored order on the left, where the Polish and German divisions threatened to surround the line completely and to cut off its retreat. There the 2nd division mounted renewed resistance to the advance of the victors, who then tried everywhere to break through this unexpected obstacle that was preventing them making the most of their victory. A large mass of Milhaud's much-feared dragoons charged towards the left, and in that last period of the battle the troops of Vigodet covered themselves in glory. All fought with courage and self-sacrifice: the artillery, firing during withdrawal, covering with shrapnel the heads of the imperial columns; the cavalry, formed by riders of different Corps that went about reuniting the dispersed troops, its steadfastness impressing the very top ranks of the enemy; and the infantry remaining imperturbable amidst the intense fire and the prevailing confusion and disorder.
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All else save this is at the last but manifest perdition and great loss." The highly revered Son of Baha'u'llah, 'Abdu'l-Baha, was an exile and prisoner along with His Father, for more than forty years facing a torrent of various hardships. It is written about him: "So imperturbable was ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s equanimity that, while rumors were being bruited about that He might be cast into the sea, or exiled to Fizán in Tripolitania, or hanged on the gallows, He, to the amazement of His friends and the amusement of His enemies, was to be seen planting trees and vines in the garden of His house, whose fruits when the storm had blown over, He would bid His faithful gardener, Ismá’íl Áqá, pluck and present to those same friends and enemies on the occasion of their visits to Him." When in London He was asked about His time in prison and said: "Freedom is not a matter of place.
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Amédée Ozenfant, Notes sur le cubisme, L'élan, Number 10, 1 December 1916, p. 3. Blue Mountain Project, Princeton University Library And in La peinture moderne, 1923–25, with Cubism visibly still alive and in highly crystalline form, Ozenfant and Jeanneret write: > We see the real cubists continue their work, imperturbable; they are also > seen to continue their influence on spirits... They will arrive more or less > strongly depending on the oscillations of their nature, their tenacity or > their concessions and analysis [tâtonnement] that are characteristic of > artistic creation, to search for a state of clarification, condensation, > firmness, intensity, synthesis; they will arrive at a true virtuosity of the > game of shapes and colors, as well as a highly developed science of the > composition. Overall and despite the personal coefficients, one can discern > a tendency towards what might be imaged in saying: tendency toward the > crystal. The Crystal Cubists embraced the stability of everyday life, the enduring and the pure, but too the classical, with all that it signified respecting art and ideal.
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Thin circles of iron plates, fitted to the curves of their bodies, completely covered their limbs; so that whichever way they had to move their members, their garment fitted, so skilfully were the joinings made. Accordingly, being saluted as Augustus with favouring shouts, while hills and shores thundered out the roar, he never stirred, but showed himself as calm and imperturbable as he was commonly seen in his provinces. For he both stooped when passing through lofty gates (although he was very short), and as if his neck were in a vice, he kept the gaze of his eyes straight ahead, and turned his face neither to right nor to left, but (as if he were a lay figure) neither did he nod when the wheel jolted nor was he ever seen to spit, or to wipe or rub his face or nose, or move his hands about. And although this was affectation on his part, yet these and various other features of his more intimate life were tokens of no slight endurance, granted to him alone, as was given to be understood.
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A much more vulnerable persona than the poised, imperturbable one she played in Cry Wolf, she had a number of heavy dramatic confrontations with the overwrought character played by Joan Crawford (who received an Oscar nomination for the role) and became a lifelong friend of the eighteen-years-older star, and spoke at her memorial service in May 1977, five weeks before her own death. Seeing the young actress for the first time in the latter film, Bosley Crowther described her as "a newcomer who burns brightly ... as Miss Crawford's sensitive step-daughter".Crowther, Bosley. "'Possessed', Psychological Film With Joan Crawford as the Star, Opens at Hollywood", The New York Times, May 30, 1947 In her third film, Warners allowed its new contract player to rise to the level of a co-star. Embraceable You, released in July 1948, had her second-billed to Dane Clark, who played a goodhearted, although criminally inclined, tough guy who falls in love with the victim of the hit-and-run car accident for which he was responsible.
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