J.G. The darkest, angriest and most improbably entertaining work in the Sondheim canon.
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There are red, gold, and green striped kitten heel mules, saddlebag purses, and, perhaps most improbably, quilted snow boots.
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The heiress turned reality star turned world's most improbably successful DJ was quick to tweet her admiration for the new banger.
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Her poems are finically, even excessively observant, and scrupulously formally structured, with, on occasion, the most improbably outrageous of end-rhymes.
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" Most improbably, it is even recited by Rocky Balboa when he mourns the passing of his beloved trainer, Mickey, in "Rocky III.
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I don't care about HBO's financial obligation to drag the most improbably popular fantasy program in history out for as long as possible, I just love a ragtag crew.
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You could see several people, in the stands, making the Wayne's World "We're Not Worthy" gesture (this, as it happens, is one of the most improbably persistent cultural memes of our time).
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I just returned from Vietnam, where smart and sustained diplomacy has accomplished what a decade of war never could: developing a dynamic capitalist society, opening an American-style university with the promise of academic freedom and, perhaps most improbably, strengthening ties not just between our people, but also between militaries that once saw each other as enemies.
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Meanwhile: Margaret Schlegel most improbably marries Henry Wilcox (the patriarch); Helen Schlegel even more improbably sleeps with Leonard Bast and becomes pregnant; Jacky turns out to have been Henry's mistress; Leonard dies of heart failure after an attack by the eldest Wilcox son, who then goes to jail; and the book ends with all the major characters living happily ever after at Howards End.
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84 In his memoirs, he admitted that he deliberately misled both Hanna and the audience to prevent a Liberal victory.Matthew Parris, Chance Witness, p.348 > 'had I not lied in an interview with the late Vincent Hanna, a BBC pollster > carrying out a poll which most improbably suggested that Labour and not the > Liberal Democrats[sic] were the challengers in this by-election, [the > Liberals] would have won. I knew what I said was false.
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In one of the most improbably successful voyages in known history, Orellana managed to sail the length of the Amazon, arriving at the river's mouth on 24 August 1542. He and his party sailed along the Atlantic coast until reaching Cubagua Island, near the coast of Venezuela. The BBC documentary Unnatural Histories presents evidence that Carvajal's chronicle of Orellana's expedition, rather than being a hugely exaggerated fantasy as previously thought, was correct in its observations that an advanced civilization was flourishing along the Amazon in the 1540s. It is believed that the civilization was later devastated by the spread of smallpox and other diseases from Europe.
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" Publishers Weekly found splendid storytelling from a true master, specifically "O'Brian is at the top of his elegant form here." They highlighted Aubrey's challenges in the blockade and with his wife; Maturin scheming with Chilean independence leaders; and the "wealth of sly humor (Navy officers' talk is "really not fit for mixed company because of its profoundly nautical character"), some splendid set pieces (a bare-knuckle boxing match, lively sea actions), characters who are palpably real and, as always, lapidary prose." John Balzar writing in the Los Angeles Times said that ″Essential to the gift he (O'Brian) gives is authenticity″. He commented on the series, the "most improbably wonderful series of grown-up literary-historical flights of escapism.
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Hao said that Not One Less marked the beginning of Zhang's transformation from an outspoken independent director to one of the government's favorites.. "从《一个都不能少》开始，张艺谋开始按照政治上的主导意识来安排自己影片中人物的动机发展和行动的走向与结局。该片剧作的转折点力量（爱民的电视台台长）的编排具有中国语境内的政治保险性。" Overall, critics were impressed with the performances of the amateur actors, and Jean-Michel Frodon of Le Monde called that the film's greatest success. Peter Rainer of New York Magazine praised the scene of Wei's interview on TV as "one of the most improbably satisfying love scenes on film". The film also received praise for its artistic merits and Hou Yong's cinematography, even though its visuals were simplistic compared to Zhang's previous films; for example, A.O. Scott of The New York Times praised the "richness" displayed by the film despite its deliberate scarcity of color. Reviewers also pointed out that Zhang had succeeded in breaking away from the "commercial entertainment wave" of popular film.. Noel Vera of BusinessWorld writes that the film concerns itself mainly with emotional impact, at the expense of visual extravagance, making it the opposite of earlier Zhang Yimou films such as Red Sorghum.
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