The Sopranos famously ended with a moment of supreme irresolution.
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The result has been an irresolution that has leached support from both constituencies.
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Her sentences, filled with phrases like "at the same time," signal her embrace of irresolution.
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The Russia story is more like Beckett—a mystifying tragicomedy that may drift into irresolution.
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This compounds the message of irresolution sent earlier this year by removing missile defenses and closing down diplomatic facilities.
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" Spicer called the attacks "heinous" but added that they were the "consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution.
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" At the same time, Trump blamed the "heinous actions" of Assad's regime on the Obama administration's "weakness and irresolution.
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"These heinous actions by the Bashar Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution," Trump said.
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"These heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution," Trump said.
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On April 6, without consulting Congress, the administration attacked Syria, with the surreal explanation that Mr. Obama's "weakness and irresolution" made it necessary.
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My guess is that Demos and Ricciardi concluded Making a Murderer on a point of irresolution both because releasing their film was the best way to reopen Avery's trial (by spurring public demands to do so) and because irresolution would hopefully make us think about what we'd just watched and about what Avery had to endure in the legal system.
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"These heinous acts are a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution," Trump said in a statement put out by the White House.
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"These heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution," Trump said in a statement.
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This isn't the majestic air of paradox that gallops through her writing on photography or Camus or camp but, rather, an aching, moving irresolution.
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"These heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the last administration's weakness and irresolution," Spicer said in the statement.
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It is in the nature of big cliffhangers to be trapped in a state of irresolution, to be re-judged after their resolutions arrive.
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Gradually, though, we come to realize that this apparent irresolution is a deliberate means of offering us as readers the same psychological experiences as Sneed's characters.
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"Half the Battle," featuring Mr. Rosenwinkel, is a shadow-realm prowl suspenseful in its harmonic irresolution, an excellent disquisition on the dark grandeur of the unknown.
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But at Douthat's moments of greatest alarm, he seems determined to set aside the surprises, the reversals, and the lingering irresolution that one finds in that history.
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"These heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday.
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Here, Piffaretti leaves much of the canvas bare, establishing a relationship to the irresolution employed by American counterparts like Matt Connors, Mary Heilmann, Joe Fyfe, and Patricia Treib.
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Faustine and White reposition the relationship between image, the artist, and the viewer, and in doing so, they create a discursive third place of indeterminacy, possibility, and irresolution.
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In "Interstices," a strong show at Bureau on the Lower East Side, Patricia Treib's festive abstract paintings combine pictorial sophistication with an unexpectedly gratifying irresolution, almost an unease.
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This just smacks of fear and irresolution and contempt, not just for the hard-working bullpen, but of the responsibility of the administration to hold itself to account.
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Mr. Speed is a tenor saxophonist and clarinetist who can find the logical strand in an abstract canvas, and turn wobbly irresolution into a form of riveting suspense.
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But something about that constant sense of messy irresolution, of the inability to fully understand what had truly happened in many of those storylines, struck me as fundamentally right.
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Like all of their work to date, it explores emotional terrains of uncertainty and irresolution, where well-deep and halogen-bright synthesizers creep and dart between streetlamps and shadow.
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The vagueness and irresolution in this episode could be taken as a warning, reminding us that endings can take longer to play out than we might expect — or hope.
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JAZZ Mr. Speed is a tenor saxophonist and clarinetist who can find the logical strand in an abstract canvas, and turn wobbly irresolution into a form of riveting suspense.
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While it may be a classic sign of a story well told, that yearning also arises from the sense of irresolution that permeates Sneed's fiercely meditative and unnerving short fiction.
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Conflating the American story with his own — "This is who we are" — the president conveyed, even in policy irresolution, an unshakable sense of his and America's place in the world.
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Wiener, who lived within yet strains to see from without, is never sure where she stands—an irresolution that's less Didion at a startup and more the ditherings of an upstart.
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Assad's guilt as a war criminal is clear and is a telling measure of the irresolution of international political and judicial organizations that are not even considering measures towards indicting him.
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These sculptures also offer a chance to attune ourselves to her care for the accumulation of often-overlooked patterns, and how monuments have embedded in them the perpetual irresolution of overlapping histories.
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Why it matters: Keeping most waivers in place risks signaling irresolution on the part of an administration that has made "maximum pressure" against the Islamic Republic a centerpiece of its foreign policy.
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In an uncanny impersonation of Biden, who led the committee, Greg Kinnear captures Biden's irresolution in dealing with Republicans who were determined to win at all costs — even if it meant destroying Hill's reputation.
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For a studio to move beyond the "franchise" and "tentpole" stages to the vastly lucrative "universe," a comic-book movie must at every turn gesture towards sequels and spinoffs, teasing out loose ends, cultivating irresolution.
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Mr. Richter, even as his auction prices have reached Alpine elevations, has never been certain — and this beautiful valediction, with 60 years of work, affirms the artistic and moral force of his irresolution and skepticism.
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FROM COINAGE: This Is How Much It Would Cost to Paint the White House (And More Crazy Facts) "These heinous actions by the Bashar Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution," Trump said.
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In his scrupulous and perceptive 1999 biography, Ross Macdonald, Tom Nolan makes clear that the ongoing irresolution of those early years was the source of both Macdonald's art and the "deranged" family life he and Margaret created together.
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Twin Peaks, in all of its incarnations, has been a meditation on what it means to live inside the irresolution of grief, especially when that grief is attached to someone whose life shouldn't have ended in her teens.
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Syria then and Syria now When the White House released a statement Tuesday calling a chemical weapon attack by the Syrian government "a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution," Trump's tweets -- from 2013 -- came under particular scrutiny.
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" I see no reason nonfiction cannot be equally open to irresolution or awkwardness, and I certainly don't agree that fiction grants "a more responsible, therefore truthful, epistemology" by allowing for "a more unblurred line between real and not-real.
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What's more, Lynch and Frost have to have known, on some level, that this quite possibly will be the last we see of these characters or this world, and they chose to leave us in a place of supreme irresolution.
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"Today's chemical attack in Syria against innocent people, including women and children, is reprehensible and cannot be ignored by the civilized world," US President Donald Trump said, adding that he thinks the attacks was a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution.
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On that album he ranged from sharp-edged electric fusion dosed with Indian classical influence to ballads of wandering irresolution and on to barreling post-bop, all the while displaying an overwhelming facility and a responsive touch on both acoustic and electric guitar.
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The Lynch work that this Twin Peaks miniseries has most reminded me of isn't the previous two seasons of Twin Peaks but, rather, his 2001 magnum opus Mulholland Dr., which featured a similar drive toward "answers," before an abrupt U-turn toward irresolution at the end.
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This knockout, two-venue show — D'Alvia's first solo outing in New York since 13 — demonstrates the absurdist humor, masterful craftsmanship, and elliptical thinking of an artist for whom working at apparent cross-purposes is an end in itself: embracing irresolution, the banalities of existence combine to form imponderable conundrums.
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In fact, it was sensible and plausible, a middle course between George W. Bush's impetuosity and exaltation of inapplicable idealism over practicalities on the ground, and Obama's feckless irresolution that has often had the character of telling America's allies and adversaries to change roles and places, as in an after-dinner game of charades.
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Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution Syracuse University Press.
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First Article. Royal authority is absolute. Second Article. On softness, irresolution and false firmness.
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Premier Guy Mollet, in the center of it all, havered uncomfortably. Once again irresolution was at the helm in France.
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Zunes S; Mundy J (2010). Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution Syracuse University Press. Retrieved 3 August 2016. He lived in exile in the Sahrawi refugee camps in the Tindouf Province of western Algeria.
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The tone of the reminiscences makes it clear that Keller would have the reader understand that Heinrich has lived through and risen out of his instability and irresolution and sees life steadily and cheerfully at last.
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Jonathan Swift, a confidant of Hill, noted that Hill's friends privately blamed him for his irresolution and lack of leadership. Hill's Tory connections, however, allowed him to escape any check in his career arising from this disaster.
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321, citing Life of the Earl of Clarendon. Vol II p. 37 Meantime he continued to trifle the time with a show of irresolution. The parliamentary commissioners were under strict instructions from Parliament to negotiate only with Charles directly.
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He was an author of neo-expressionist poems about irresolution and fear of contemporary man (Požgana trava, Ubijavci kač), poetical dramas based on Slovenian folklore (Mlada Breda, Voranc, Jaga baba, antique and other motifs (Otroka reke. Paris: Les Éditions de l'Amandier, 2003. Traduit par Jana Pavlič).
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Her usually keen judgment and her diplomatic tact again and again recalled Peter the Great. What sometimes appeared as irresolution and procrastination was most often a wise suspension of judgment under exceptionally difficult circumstances. From the Russian point of view, her greatness as a stateswoman consisted of her steady appreciation of national interests and her determination to promote them against all obstacles.
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Since August 1982, the highest office of the republic has been the President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, a post held by the secretary-general of the Polisario Front, presently Brahim Ghali,Zunes S; Mundy J (2010). Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution Syracuse University Press. Retrieved 3 August 2016. who appoints the Prime Minister, presently Mohamed Wali Akeik.
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Warszawa: Instytut Wydawniczy PAX. pp. 69–79. Although Skrzynecki was remarkable for his personal courage (albeit some accused him of cowardice) and made an excellent general of division, he was unequal to the heavier responsibility of supreme command, and did much harm in that capacity by his irresolution. He wrote Two Victorious Days (Warsaw, 1831); and Mes erreurs (Paris, 1835).
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The history writer Simon Schama describes de Launay as a "reasonably conscientious if somewhat dour"Simon Schama, page 399, "Citizens", functionary who treated prisoners more humanely than his predecessors had done. The Marquis de Sade who had been transferred from the Bastille to another prison shortly before 14 July, commented that de Launay was "a so-called marquis whose grandfather was a servant". Bernard-René de Launay The officer commanding the Swiss detachment sent to reinforce de Launay, Lieutenant Deflue, subsequently accused his late superior of military incompetence, inexperience and irresolution,"I could see clearly from his perpetual uneasiness and irresolution, that if we were attacked we should be very badly led": Deflue quoted by Ruth Scurr on page 84 of "Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution" which he had allegedly displayed before the siege.Quétel, Claude, 1989.
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Under the Radar analyzed it has a "coloring-in of atmosphere signifying experimentation with the capacity of [analog synths]." Also like the band's previous releases, RR7349 "explores emotional terrains of uncertainty and irresolution, where well-deep and halogen-bright synthesizers creep and dart between streetlamps and shadows," Thump analyzed.Kinkel, Oliver (September 21, 2016). "S U R V I V E Are Already Onto Even Stranger Things". Thump.
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Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle said, "Though the acting, direction, and production values of Avati's stylish Italian mystery are solid, the tight build-up of the first half only deteriorates into irresolution and incoherence." Glenn Kay, who wrote Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide, said that the film "stands out a little by actually trying to generate suspense and not completely repulsing its audience".
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" In considering the characters, Hazlitt emphasises the importance of their interaction, the way in which a major character's behaviour helps define that of another. This is especially true of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, locked together in a struggle against all Scotland and their fate. Macbeth, as he is about to commit his bloodiest deeds, is "assailed by the stings of remorse, and full of 'preternatural solicitings.' [...] In thought he is absent and perplexed, sudden and desperate in act, from his own irresolution.
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Bayer will also assign $1.25 billion for future claims, an action that needs approval from the US District Court, Northern District of California. The settlement, according to the company, does not admit either liability or wrongdoing, but brings an end to irresolution in the case. The settlement does not include three cases that have already gone to jury trials and are being appealed. In July 2020, the California Court of Appeals denied the appeal but reduced the damages owed to $20.4 million.
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During the Cold War, Morocco was one of the Soviet Union's most important trading partners in Africa.Stephen Zunes/Jacob Mundy: Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution, Syracuse 2010, p. 85. In the early 1960s, Soviet- Moroccan relations were developing very well.Saadia Touval: The Boundary Politics of Independent Africa, Cambridge 1999, p. 128. During the 1964 Moscow protest, approximately 50 Moroccan students broke into the embassy of Morocco in the Soviet Union in Moscow and staged an all‐day sit-in protesting against death sentences handed down by a Moroccan court in Rabat.
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Yeltsin defiantly opposed the coup plotters and called for Gorbachev's restoration, rallying the Russian public. Most importantly, Yeltsin's faction led elements in the "power ministries" that controlled the military, the police, and the KGB to refuse to obey the orders of the coup plotters. The opposition led by Yeltsin, combined with the irresolution of the plotters, caused the coup to collapse after three days. Following the failed August coup, Gorbachev found a fundamentally changed constellation of power, with Yeltsin in de facto control of much of a sometimes recalcitrant Soviet administrative apparatus.
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Staniford and Dunham are very interested in knowing more about Lydia and they want to make sure that she feels comfortable on the ship after finding out that she will be the only woman on board, they even comment on her unmistakable beauty to each other. However, they do not think too highly of Lydia because of where she is from in Massachusetts. Staniford is traveling to Europe because of his “irresolute mood” and he believes that “Europe is the place for American irresolution.” Staniford wants to move to California or Colorado when he returns.
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According to the Whitney Museum of American Art, Majoli's "figurative paintings from the early 1990s to the present have depicted scenes of sexual fetishism." Majoli's work Investigates "themes and rituals of identity, intimacy, and mortality" and "is both a site for catharsis and an admission of its irresolution." In her early works, she focused on oil painting on panel indebted to European painting of the 16th to 19th centuries in a method of layering binder and oil paint developed in Northern Renaissance painting. She used this method and style to create highly detailed and realistic homoerotic scenes and depictions of her own body.
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The irresolution and divergence of interests usual in Sixth Coalition armies found in him a restless opponent. Knowing that if he could not induce others to co-operate, he was prepared to attempt the task at hand by himself, which often caused other generals to follow his lead. He defeated Marshal MacDonald at the Katzbach, and by his victory over Marshal Marmont at Möckern led the way to the decisive defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig. Blücher's own army stormed Leipzig on the evening of the last day of the battle.
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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez has written: > One has to recognize that in the battle at Arquijas, the victory would have > been the Carlists' had it not been for the skill and daring of Oraá, who > knew how to extricate himself from a dire situation, as General Córdova had > shown lamentable irresolution retreating from the battlefield before > hostilities had ceased.Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Historia de la Revolución > Española (La Enciclopedia democrática, 1891), 645. He served as Governor-General of the Philippines from February 14, 1841 to June 17, 1843. He put down two Filipino rebellions, led by Apolinario de la Cruz (Hermano Pule) and Sergeant Irineo Samaniego, respectively.
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In 2011, in a essay called Abstract Painting: The New Casualists, published in The Brooklyn Rail, Butler coined the term "casualism" for a new type of abstraction that featured a self-amused, anti-heroic style with an interest in off-kilter composition and impermanence. She suggested that artists' interest in irresolution reflected wider insights about culture and society. Many younger artists responded positively to the essay, embracing the notion of "casualism," while others rejected the term, suggesting it "whiffed of 'labelism,' and 'crypto-institutionalism.'" Subsequent interviews and art reviews of Butler's own work made clear that ideas for the original article were rooted in her own painting practice and artist statement.
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Let me summon as my witnesses > our grandfathers Rusticus and Apollinaris, whom like fortunes and aversions > united in a noble friendship. They had a similar taste in letters, their > characters were alike; they had enjoyed similar dignities and undergone the > same dangers. They were equally agreed in detesting the inconstancy of > Constantine, the irresolution of Jovinus, the perfidy of Gerontius; both > singling out the fault proper to each person, and both finding in Dardanus > the sum of all existing vices. If we come down to the years between their > time and our own, we find our fathers brought up together from their tender > youth until they came to manhood.
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"1974-"A Popular but Controversial Biography'", Jefferson's Blood: Chronology, 2000, PBS Frontline, accessed 29 February 2012. "The New York Times Book Review staff made Brodie's biography an "Editor's Choice", calling it "a fascinating, and generally convincing, speculative study focusing on Jefferson's inner life, especially his tragic irresolution about slavery.""Garry Wills savaged Brodie's work in the New York Review of Books: > "Two vast things, each wondrous in itself, combine to make this book a > prodigy--the author's industry, and her ignorance. One can only be so > intricately wrong by deep study and long effort, enough to make Ms. Brodie > the fasting hermit and very saint of ignorance.
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Yet when the royal proclamation was issued commanding the use of the book, the order was made with the approval of Angus. On the final suppression of the book he was one of those members of the privy council who addressed a letter of thanks to the king. Judged by his vacillation in this matter Angus would seem to have had a large share of that spirit of irresolution which was the chief characteristic of the political careers of his half-brother and nephew and the third and fourth dukes of Hamilton. Angus was appointed an extraordinary lord of session 9 February 1631, and not long afterwards signed the covenant.
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Tammy Wynette and George Jones, on the other hand, did have a relationship." Like many of the duets that the two recorded when they were still husband and wife, 'Golden Ring' resonated with an authentic sense of romantic tragedy and irresolution that was hauntingly similar to the real-life timbre of their troubled, on-again-off-again love affair. Jones, who at the time made no secret of the fact that he still carried a torch for his ex-wife, later addressed the issue of re-teaming with Wynette in his 1996 memoir by insisting, "That wasn't my idea. In fact, I hated to work with her.
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Records of cases before Atkins while judge-advocate reinforce contemporary criticisms of his irresolution and unfamiliarity with law...The most prominent of his adventures on the bench was the trial of John Macarthur in 1808, an incident having an immediate part in the deposition of Bligh. Bligh precipitated the end of his government in adopting Atkins's recommendation that members be charged with treasonable practices. Major Johnston forthwith hastened to Sydney where, urged on by a petition which Macarthur sponsored, he arrested Bligh and took command. Atkins was immediately suspended, but soon made his peace with the rebels, though it was "from necessity alone" that in December 1808 Lieutenant- Governor Joseph Foveaux reinstated him.
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Richard Simmons and Yukon King in 1955, publicising Sergeant Preston of the Yukon The early reputation of the force was shaped by journalistic accounts published in the 1880s and 1890s, followed by various biographical accounts written by retired officers. The initial press response to the mounted police was mixed, particularly among Liberal newspapers, and focused on what the historian Michael Dawson describes as accounts of "inefficiency, irresolution and impropriety" within the new organization. In contrast, police memoirs promoted an image of a tough but fair force, focused on maintaining order in the wilderness. Quite quickly, however, a more heroic, romantic tone came to dominate newspaper accounts and a powerful myth was built up around the mounted police.
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Murong Bao (; 355–398), courtesy name Daoyou (道佑), Xianbei name Kugou (庫勾), formally Emperor Huimin of (Later) Yan ((後)燕惠愍帝), temple name Liezong (烈宗) or Liezu (烈祖), was an emperor of the Chinese/Xianbei state Later Yan. He inherited from his father Murong Chui (Emperor Wucheng) a sizable empire but lost most of it within a span of a year, and would be dead in less than three, a victim of a rebellion by his granduncle Lan Han. Historians largely attributed this to his irresolution and inability to judge military and political decisions. While Later Yan would last for one more decade after his death, it would never regain the power it had under Murong Chui.
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In its extreme, the Golden Liberty has been criticized as being responsible for "civil wars and invasions, national weakness, irresolution, and poverty of spirit".Philip Pajakowski, in Michał Bobrzyński (1849-1935), Peter Brock, John D. Stanley, Piotr Wróbel (ed.), Nation And History: Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War, University of Toronto Press, 2006, , Google Print, p.150 Failing to evolve into the "modern" system of an absolutist and national monarchy, the Commonwealth suffered a gradual decline down to the brink of anarchy because of liberum veto and other abuses of the system. With the majority of the szlachta believing that they lived in the perfect state, too few questioned the Golden Liberty and the Sarmatism philosophy until it was too late.
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Christison has described the ideological shift she made from "Reagan Republican" to foreign-policy critic as "a slow evolution" that was facilitated by the move she and her husband made away from Washington, D.C. to New Mexico. In her book, Perceptions of Palestine, Christison examines how perceptions, attitudes, and policies of the United States government towards the Palestinians and Israel over the last century have contributed to the irresolution of the conflict. The United States' special relationship with Israel is said by Christison to have undermined Palestinian political claims and downplayed the seriousness of their tragedy. According to the Arab Studies Quarterly, the questioning of this lack of moral equality in American responses and treatments of both Arab and Jewish tragedies is a major theme of Christison's book.
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In this seclusion his weakened faith Anglicanism was shaken by the study of John Milner's End of Religious Controversy, given him by Grant, who had become a Catholic in 1841. Lockhart now realised for the first time what Catholic doctrine was and he saw doubts confirmed in the irresolution of Newman, at this time seeking his Via media between Catholicism and Anglicanism. After a few weeks' hesitation, he declared to Newman that he could not go on for Anglican ordination doubting its validity as he did; Newman sent him to W. G. Ward, who persuaded him to return to Littlemore for three years. About a year later, however, his meeting with Father Aloysius Gentili of the newly formed Institute of Charity (Rosminians), at Ward's rooms, brought matters to a crisis.
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Rupert promptly reported the enemy's presence, and his confidence dominated the irresolution of the King, and the caution of the Earl of Lindsey, the nominal Commander-in-Chief. Both sides had marched, widely dispersed to live, and the rapidity with which, having the clearer purpose, the Royalists drew together, helped considerably to neutralise Essex's superior numbers. During the morning of 23 October 1642, the Royalists formed in battle order on the brow of Edge Hill, facing towards Kineton. Essex, experienced soldier as he was, had distrusted his own raw army too much to force a decision earlier in the month, when the King was weak; he now found Charles in a strong position with an equal force to his own 14,000, and some of his regiments were still some miles distant.
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On the resignation of Malesherbes (April 1776), whom Turgot wished to replace by the abbé Very, Maurepas proposed to the king as his successor a nonentity named Amelot. Turgot, on hearing of this, wrote an indignant letter to the king, in which he reproached him for refusing to see him, pointed out in strong terms the dangers of a weak ministry and a weak king, and complained bitterly of Maurepas's irresolution and subjection to court intrigues; this letter the king, though asked to treat it as confidential, is said to have shown to Maurepas, whose dislike for Turgot it still further embittered. With all these enemies, Turgot's fall was certain, but he wished to stay in office long enough to finish his project for the reform of the royal household before resigning. To his dismay, he was not allowed to do that.
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It is in precisely these > interstices—the distjunctions between the conventional and the radical > readings of the plot – that the early American sentimental novel flourishes. > It is in the irresolution of Eliza Wharton's dilemma that the novel, as a > genre, differentiates itself from the tract stories of Elizabeth Whitman in > which the novel is grounded and which it ultimately transcends. In Redefining the Political Novel, Sharon M. Harris responds to Cathy Davidson's work by arguing that The Coquette can be understood as a political novel; she writes, "By recognizing and satirizing, first, the political systems that create women's social realisms and, second, the language used to convey those systems to the broader culture, Foster exposes the sexist bases of the new nation's political ideologies." Countering Davidson and Harris, Thomas Joudrey has argued that the novel fortifies obedience to a patriarchal conception of marriage.
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In 1797, on the accession of King Frederick William III of Prussia, Hardenberg was summoned to Berlin, where he received an important position in the cabinet and was appointed chief of the departments of Magdeburg and Halberstadt, for Westphalia, and for the principality of Neuchâtel. In 1793 Hardenberg had struck up a friendship with Count Haugwitz, the influential minister for foreign affairs, and when in 1803 the latter went away on leave (August–October) he appointed Hardenberg his locum tenens. It was a critical period. Napoleon had just occupied Hanover, and Haugwitz had urged upon the king the necessity for strong measures and the expediency of a Russian alliance; During his absence, however, the king's irresolution continued; he clung to the policy of neutrality which had so far seemed to have served Prussia so well; and Hardenberg contented himself with adapting himself to the royal will.
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The Queen was also suspected to be the power behind the throne, given Constantine's gradual physical collapse and habitual apathy and irresolution: various sources from Greece from that period (even Royalist sources, whose diaries, journals and extensive correspondence have been a subject of great stuady in Greece) mention that Sophia used to hide behind a curtain in her husband's apartments during Cabinet meetings and private audiences with the King, in order to be informed on the state of affairs, a continued situation which served to alienate herself more and more from Greek populace. The Panaghia of Tinos The King's health declined so a ship was sent to the Island of Tinos in order to seek the miraculous icon of the Annunciation who supposedly heal the sick. While Constantine I had already received the last sacraments, he partly recovered his health after kissing the icon. However, his situation remained worrying and he needed surgery before he could resume his duties.
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