If he wins, you'll see an enormous amount of triumphalism.
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This triumphalism was misplaced and would later backfire on America.
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His bid for the presidency is all triumphalism, all superlatives.
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The triumphalism of those who think they prevailed is disturbing.
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But Mr. Li tried to douse any sense of triumphalism.
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The museum repurposes all this imperial triumphalism to celebrate immigrants.
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But his triumphalism apparently has not deterred its loyalists from regrouping.
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Roger Cohen There's a mood of confidence in Moscow bordering on triumphalism.
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But I would add a note of caution to this kind of triumphalism.
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"A certain level of triumphalism ... brought Modi to power," analyst Ajai Shukla told NDTV.
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There was a note of triumphalism, even a bit of swagger, in the air.
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Trump has revealed and confirmed deeply disturbing facts about America which should preclude any triumphalism.
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Even the current triumphalism of Mr Erdogan's hard-core followers is tinged with wary mistrust.
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Meanwhile, inside China, Xi is being accused of triumphalism and unnecessarily picking fights with America.
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And San Francisco's diet of championship teams and dot-com triumphalism has become artery-clogging.
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Many Britons today believe that the poppy is charged with a kind of military triumphalism.
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Mr Macron has started well, with a sober acceptance speech that evoked unity rather than triumphalism.
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Another way would be to reinvent the House of Lords as a bulwark against meritocratic triumphalism.
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There's an end of history-style triumphalism in much of the liberal commentary about Donald Trump.
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It is a rebuke to the liberal triumphalism which followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Improvement couldn't come fast enough for a generation steeped in postwar triumphalism and dreams of liberty.
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But the triumphalism around the "first openly gay character" headlines irked me and plenty of others.
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Although the event pushed a sense of triumphalism, the mood among the audience was more skeptical.
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A year on, though, Mr. Xi's speech and other official warnings show that triumphalism has receded.
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The second trend, exacerbating the first, was the triumphalism that spread after the end of communism.
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More to the point, his worldview couldn't be further from the triumphalism so prevalent in Silicon Valley.
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But the age of neo-liberal triumphalism coincided with the age of concentration of power in London.
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But at his own campaign stop in Philadelphia on Monday, Mr. Kasich tamped down Mr. Cruz's triumphalism.
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I hope I'm not unfairly detecting a note of triumphalism: We're winning because our ideas are better.
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Moore's critique of Christian triumphalism seems well suited to this not very triumphant time for his church.
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There is the implicit suggestion that players and fans would do well to yield to numeracy triumphalism.
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Toledo's melodies are strong, grand, soaring, sincere, as they invite fist-pumping and radiate major-key triumphalism.
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They wanted to curtail Theresa May's "Brexit means Brexit" triumphalism, not install a far-leftist in Downing Street.
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But we should be equally aware of the media tendency to capitulate in the face of Trumpian triumphalism.
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A rise in intolerance has been attributed in part to the postwar triumphalism of some Sinhalese majority politicians.
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And yet, for all the triumphalism, Klopp was not the only observer to strike a note of caution.
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In conversations with Australian businesspeople and college students, economists and government officials, I detected no sense of triumphalism.
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Correspondingly, data triumphalism must not be allowed to crowd out political intuitions like those that propelled Trump's primary win.
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American triumphalism strikes them as especially offensive, coming from a country whose lands didn't absorb a drop of blood.
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It seemed that the triumphalism of post-World War II America that President Kennedy had symbolized could be restored.
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Wendy has her moments, certainly, but she remains frustratingly undeveloped and uninvolving, despite the clamor and the score's triumphalism.
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He was elected on a promise of restoring American triumphalism, but he appears preoccupied by the fear of defeat.
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Although Marini's nudes remain weighty and solid throughout the war, an anxiety antithetical to Fascist triumphalism takes increasing hold.
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God-on-our-side triumphalism brooks no contest with competing moral claims, the very debate a healthy democracy requires.
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There was a nasty undertow of cultural triumphalism in the hard-hitting, hypermasculine music used to humiliate foreign prisoners.
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No one who wants the best for Britain should treat their probable persistence under Brexit as a cue for triumphalism.
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It's precisely this kind of presidential post-truth triumphalism that has America's NATO allies concerned about the Trump-Putin summit.
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He blasted what he described as Western "triumphalism," saying it remains a key factor in tensions between Russia and the West.
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The Church itself had to resist triumphalism and spiritual worldliness, he added, calling them "the most treacherous temptation threatening the Church".
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They even made team owner Joe Lacob's late-season triumphalism look...well, it still looked awfully cocky, but not necessarily wrong.
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"There was a mood of triumphalism at the end of the Cold War that was shared by many Americans," he said.
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Mr. Trump's aides warned him not to react to the findings with a sense of triumphalism, people close to him said.
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The deaths of scores of Palestinians from Israeli sniper fire at the Gaza border barely distracted from his feeling of triumphalism.
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But it's hard not to see Silicon Valley triumphalism behind his decision to abandon the only professional team he has played for.
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But they believed in sacrifice, and they probably imagined that they could muddle through somehow, borne aloft by my mother's surging triumphalism.
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" The other day, a cousin who had "Trump proclivities" put a post on Facebook that she described as "all about Trump triumphalism.
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The triumphalism of Islamic State's media certainly grates on the Western viewer, but what exactly makes their execution videos so self-evidently unshowable?
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And immediately, within that bumptious exclamation mark, an internal voice notes the telltale whiff of baby boomer triumphalism, of Generation X moral irresponsibility….
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There is no siren wake-up call such as the "Sputnik moment," or sense of victorious relief such as post-Cold War triumphalism.
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But Trump's triumphalism is not based on concrete commitments by Kim that were established by his own administration's expectations setting before the talks.
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I wrote about when we first corresponded, back in the days of textual triumphalism, and I casually mentioned a possible trip to Rio.
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Mr. Modi last week sought to contain the triumphalism, ordering leaders of his party to avoid "chest thumping" over the strikes, Indian newspapers reported.
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But while there are many positive lessons to be drawn from the recent elections, triumphalism, which leads to complacency, would be dangerous and misplaced.
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If history, in his telling, has finally shifted his way, however, any sense of triumphalism is tempered by the dynastic fall-out with his daughter.
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"How the tides are changing/As you liberate me now/And the walls come down," Troye Sivan sings on his humblest tones, refusing any triumphalism.
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And, as Mr Bandurski puts it, the genie of hype and triumphalism may not in the end be so easy to coax back into the lamp.
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His strategy of gloating and triumphalism, however it might delight his supporters, does raise the question of whether his approach is storing up future political problems.
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He may not see a hero in Mr. Putin, but he uses his perspective to challenge neoconservative American triumphalism about the Cold War and its aftermath.
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But the series has gotten so much better at punctuating its darkness with brief glimmers of light while also not turning those brief glimmers into needless triumphalism.
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They throw sparks into the air, when the air is charged with the fuel of nationalism, triumphalism and authoritarianism; when calls for revenge can pressure political leaders.
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Although dismayed by Western triumphalism after the Cold War, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called it a "myth" that Western leaders had promised not to enlarge NATO.
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Blake's sparse palette and moody introspection seemed a plausible alternative to dubstep's masculine triumphalism, as if electronic music's artificial qualities were somehow compatible with depicting interior spaces.
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The loss to such a small, underdeveloped and outgunned nation was a tough pill for Americans to swallow, many still basking in post-World War II triumphalism.
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"We need to leave behind the habit of triumphalism, stridency and formalism in broaching the topic of national news," he said at the 2011 Communist Party Congress.
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Cumulatively, those decisions might mean an end to the triumphalism that has animated us for centuries—trading the promise of progress for the project of bare survival.
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Initial Russian triumphalism after the summit turned sour however as anger over what some U.S. lawmakers saw as an over deferential Trump performance galvanized a new sanctions push.
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Sunnis in Baghdad—those that remain, that is, after years of communal violence that has driven many of them out—find such Shia triumphalism distasteful, even deliberately intimidating.
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The magazine's hopeful globalism, meanwhile, fit with the end-of-history triumphalism that permeated the late '73s, in the wake of the Cold War but before September 11.
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One is the tartly aggrieved message-pushing of a political campaign, and the other is the sort of metastatic triumphalism on display in Super Bowl-occupied San Francisco.
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The ignominious disgrace of the evacuation of Saigon in April 85033, with the American ambassador fleeing the advancing North Vietnamese Army, was the final blow against American triumphalism.
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Still officially called the Royal Museum for Central Africa, but better known as the Africa Museum, it cannot help but ooze colonial triumphalism, despite recent protestations of egalitarian diversity.
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For all Trump's triumphalism, the speech comes against a discouraging backdrop that has kept a pall on morale among many in the administration: Robert Mueller is sending ominous signals.
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For Mr. Putin, the collapse of the European project would be payback for what he views bitterly as Western triumphalism when the Soviet empire dissolved in the early 1990s.
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For pro-immigration liberals it's the predictable cultural triumphalism: The arc of history is long, but thanks to immigration we won't have to cater to heartland gun-clingers any longer.
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Would the VA yield to the usual critics, who decry such statements as "Christian triumphalism" or whatever other invective they hurl at every vestige of Christianity in the public square?
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But now that Republicans have taken control of both legislative houses, home rule is becoming a casualty of the sort of political triumphalism that President Trump is brandishing in Washington.
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Which is why even though this song echoes mid-2010s Drake triumphalism (and also mentions Drake, for good measure), Cole cuts the arrogance with commitment to granular, almost mundane narrative.
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"1917: Total War in Flanders" took the war's futility seriously and offered a model American institutions could learn from: how to mourn the dead and to understand their loss, without triumphalism.
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But Ms. Regev is the wrong person to promote this change — and so is her right-wing governing coalition, which prioritizes controversy over efficiency, bluntness over measured discussion, triumphalism over humility.
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Since last year's election handed Mr. Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party another term in power, many Indians feared a resurgence of communal violence, sparked by Hindu triumphalism and Muslim desperation.
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For Westerners caught up in post-Cold War triumphalism, it was easier to take note of the new liberties than of the new anxieties, which were profound for millions of Russians.
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Even so, shaping a drama around a newspaper that didn't break the story seems an odd path to Hollywood triumphalism, though the scrappy Post was itching to be a national player.
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Books of The Times Time has a way of sanding off the rough edges of historical memory, turning even the most convulsive, contentious lives into opportunities for national triumphalism and self-congratulation.
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Even in the Pakistani media, which has suffered from intense repression by the security forces and initially was introspective about the military's relationship with militant groups, skepticism has given way to triumphalism.
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Its defining trait, as writing, is a sort of oracular triumphalism that springs from the specific sort of self-infatuation that is only available to people with very large and very diversified portfolios.
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Today is Defenders of the Fatherland Day in Russia, a public holiday and a celebration of all things military: triumphalism about the latest weapons, about operations in Syria, about the seizure of Crimea.
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The worship service in Sweden was billed by its sponsors, the Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation, as a "commemoration," not as a "celebration," in order to avoid any inappropriate note of triumphalism.
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But perhaps the most notable part of Mr. Obama's statement on Sunday was its absence of triumphalism and its warning that problems with Iran over ideology, Syria and regional ambitions were not over.
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But I think there was an element of minority triumphalism, just a simple game of mathematics: Hispanics aren't going to vote Republican again, neither will sexual minorities, women are increasingly turned off, etc.
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Look through the rah-rah triumphalism of the piece, however and you'll see that far from succumbing to some irresistible activist push, incumbents Google and Facebook craftily shaped the legislation to suit themselves.
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After the "rainbow nation" triumphalism of the 1990s, the privileged were still mostly smug, the underprivileged were still mostly angry and the collective was still thoroughly traumatized by 350 years of racial division.
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Instead of seeing the new building as pure triumphalism, another "capital project" in a sinking city, I'd grown aware of a genuine exploratory current—a mixture of boldness and caution, strength and flexibility.
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It was laced through with hope and triumphalism, with a sense that the series was always about five seconds away from having star Elisabeth Moss flex her bicep in a Rosie the Riveter pose.
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And in season one, early in the Donald Trump administration, it was easy for progressives watching The Handmaid's Tale to believe that hope and triumphalism could exist side by side with worry and sadness.
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All divisions between people, the national and the sexual included, might be fancied as obsolete, though of course they persisted—and intensified, even—in the American triumphalism and the masculine pathos of Abstract Expressionism.
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From the distance of history, we can tend to forget this, ascribing a kind of triumphalism to the end of the war and fooling ourselves into thinking that the "good guys" will always win.
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Neither embracing nor completely skirting the sinkholes of the recovery narrative — among them sanctimony, sentiment and backslapping triumphalism — Mr. Van Sant (adapting Callahan's 1990 memoir of the same name) marshals a number of countervailing strategies.
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But like most of the 1967 anniversary events, this one is expected to be modest, with little of the unconflicted triumphalism of the celebration of the nation's founding, and little clue about what is next.
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But the scores he achieved in successive rounds of voting this spring do not leave much room for illusion, and indeed the mood in his camp was one of sobriety, not triumphalism, after the vote.
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He is healthy and has done everything right for a change in New York — wasting no opportunity in the early rounds, squandering no sets and avoiding any hint of triumphalism in his French-language news conferences.
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The glow of post-World War II triumphalism had given way to the Bay of Pigs, the murderous resistance to civil rights activism, mounting Cold War anxiety, the assassination of J.F.K. There was too much dread.
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Meanwhile, the tastemakers who fussed over flatness, of the picture plane, American-type painting, dramatic gestures, American triumphalism, and signs of angst, would not have been able to see her work, their eyes fogged over by rhetoric.
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As their population in the United States surged from 35 million in 20123 to nearly 57 million, Latinos became the subjects of a feel-good political story that bathed a marginalized minority in the glow of demographic triumphalism.
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Roaring over bouncy basslines and harsh keyboard blares, Lizzo's songs share the same resounding triumphalism, the same insistence on uplift, although the focus has shifted: she's describing and enacting confidence rather than aiming to write universal motivational anthems.
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Speaking on the outskirts of the Boao economic forum in China, de Villepin said that Tuesday's events would only create more fear and said that there should not be any "triumphalism" when known terrorists are caught by police.
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But Trump's triumphalism will do little to improve relations between Europe and the United States, which are now more challenged than they were during the acrimony over the invasion of Iraq in 2003, which many European states opposed.
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But the more season two wore on, the more it stripped away the hope and the triumphalism, the more I realized that these flaws were part of why the show was able to break out in its first season.
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Not wanting their experiences of the Euros to be submerged in an ocean of English triumphalism, I went to meet the capital's Gareth Bale aficionados at one of London's prime locations for Welshness, the Famous Three Kings in Fulham.
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Then came an American mistake: triumphalism, rather than congratulating the Russian people on their victory over authoritarian rule, and using a short window of opportunity to offer Russia sufficient economic aid to ease the pain of a collapsing economy.
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" Despite that, Greenberg warned that the "Senate will still be hard after that," as long as the party's presidential candidate continues to voice what Greenberg called "President Obama's (and Hillary Clinton's) metropolitan triumphalism that drives away all working people.
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Johnson, who had produced a stunning array of legislative accomplishments in civil and voting rights following John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE's assassination, had in effect presided over what would be the final year of America's post-World War II triumphalism.
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But initial triumphalism swiftly turned sour as anger over what some U.S. lawmakers saw as an over deferential performance by Trump and his failure to confront Putin over Moscow's alleged meddling in U.S. politics galvanized a new sanctions push.
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Following the market triumphalism launched here during the Clinton era, they cut social services to the bone, lowered taxes, celebrated public-private partnerships, and enthusiastically embraced the idea of limited government—eliminating hundreds of civil service jobs in the process.
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Britons could be forgiven for a bit of triumphalism themselves after Queen Elizabeth II cut a blue ribbon this week to formally open the $19643 billion Queensferry Crossing, which connects Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, to the north of the country.
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But when Leonardo DiCaprio's character, an actor, uses a flamethrower to burn one of those women to death — becoming the hero he has always played onscreen with a fiery spew — Tarantino is exulting in an unmistakably phallic form of brutal triumphalism.
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As errors turn into catastrophes, Connie grows increasingly feral, becoming a character who is a biliously funny reproach to the American triumphalism that suffuses superhero flicks and indies alike and insists that success isn't just inevitable but also a birthright.
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So, instead of being forced into, say, rationalist triumphalism (there is no God, and science is His prophet), he can expand the definition of the secular life so that it incorporates many of the elements traditionally thought of as religious.
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The cynical, fatalistic hardboiled detective novel and film noir of the nineteen-forties and fifties—popular genres that Auster has often invoked—murmured of the suppressed memory of the war's horrors, the trauma and doubt scrubbed out of American triumphalism.
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He was never a great rapper, but he made a style of his enthusiastic clumsiness, surrounding his verses with proud soul samples, on "The College Dropout" (2004); high-res orchestrations, on "Late Registration" (2005); and arena-size triumphalism, on "Graduation" (2007).
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From the boundless optimism of a cornfed post-war empire, cheerfully jingoistic and fat in the coffers, the nation has awoken to a twenty-first century hangover, a long, jittery ride past militant triumphalism and economic overconfidence into endless war and endless uncertainty.
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Though the Greens have worked with Jewish and Catholic leaders not only for the Museum of the Bible but for previous exhibits, Moss and Baden conclude that they've unwittingly facilitated a fundamentally Protestant endeavor—a version of "Protestant triumphalism," they call it.
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The universe simply will not tolerate fiftysomething dads wearing Brexit shirts, and nor will it tolerate an entire repertoire of songs inspired by the triumphalism of sacking off the EU. Never in the history of football – and perhaps mankind – has someone tempted fate this badly.
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It will be hard for some to maintain a sense of nostalgia and triumphalism for Britain's empire after watching "Viceroy's House": Ms Chadha intersperses the drama with Pathé news footage of communal violence and Churchill's dejected newscasts explaining the collapse of law and order.
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But that was the closest Tubbs' Sooners would ever come to the title, and so their legacy is often overshadowed by the tragic saga of Hank Gathers and Loyola Marymount, and the 250 Minutes of Hell triumphalism of Nolan Richardson's early-21994s Arkansas Razorbacks.
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So much of Season 1's visceral pleasures — the cyberthriller sequences, the shocking twists, the anticapitalist triumphalism, the ragtag band of losers, loners, racial minorities and emotional outcasts taking on the system and winning — were stripped away or rendered moot as Season 2 went on.
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While the era was one of Western triumphalism, when it was widely assumed that Russia and other newly freed countries would inevitably embrace liberal democracy — a view most famously expressed in Francis Fukuyama's 1989 essay, "The End of History" — Soros did not share that certitude.
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But the triumphalism of President Donald Trump and the building power struggle in Washington after Robert Mueller's investigation show that while both parties are positioning for the next White House race, the bitter recriminations over Russian election meddling are likely to reverberate for months.
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Lost amid the American triumphalism of the period was the fact, for an entire generation of Russians raised in the certainty of the Soviet system, the end of the USSR was not only a personal financial disaster, it was profoundly painful and socially disorienting.
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In other words the chancellor wants to press home her advantage while she can: binding in Mr Seehofer; daring the CSU to look unreasonable in the eyes of voters; yet avoiding triumphalism in order to give the Bavarians the maximum rhetorical room to back down with dignity.
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But too often, he seems to be trying to summon up energy and dredge up feeling in this movie by glancing back at the first "Independence Day," as when Liam Hemsworth (as a flyboy) punches an alien, an echo of Mr. Smith's "welcome to Earth" triumphalism.
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In fact, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson sounded a rather Trumpian note of triumphalism in his response: "If you must pin the label of 'grand champion' … on China, then we are a grand champion of economic development," Geng Shuang said in an interview with the Guardian.
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"To use the name as a rallying cry for a kind of embodied white supremacy, white nationalism or sense of triumphalism, for taking back the country, as best as I can tell has never been crystallized in the name of a U.S. president," Mr. Muhammad said.
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That movie also ended on a note of triumphalism as all three geniuses earn their fabulous due, leaving the viewer with the strong impression that African-American women would from then on be immune to racism within NASA and, by extension, the great public scientific institutions of America.
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The first chapter of Herself Alone is entitled "Bourgeois triumphalism," a phrase coined (to the delight of the Left) by Peregrine Worsthorne, High Tory editor of The Sunday Telegraph, intending not only Thatcher herself but the vulgar greed-is-good spirit of the newly deregulated City of London.
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MONTREAL — When the United States' own federal trade agency on Friday quashed the Trump administration's attempt to impose duties of nearly 483 percent on imported jets made by the storied Quebecois aerospace company Bombardier, Canadians could have been forgiven for reacting with a decidedly un-Canadian dose of triumphalism.
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Didion long ago transcended the modest space our culture reserves for writers to become a kind of living metonym for the whole period of postwar American history, from the dark-underbellied triumphalism of the California boom through the seemingly endless succession of social crack-ups that have defined this country ever since.
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A touching triumphalism glitters throughout: Here is a grinning Paul Robeson, a laughing Dionne Warwick, a regal Sidney Poitier, and a determined little girl at an integrated elementary school in Princeton, N.J. Standing at the chalkboard in a white, buttoned-up blouse, she, too, is ennobled as an icon of back history.
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To remember the tumid boomer individualism of Bill Clinton's years in office, or the Wile E. Coyote triumphalism of Bush's, or the studiously cool cosmopolitanism of Obama's, you need only to look at the cultures over which they presided; even the creative work that was conceived and created in open protest against them reflects it.
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Whereas the White House sees the end of the INF treaty as a recognition of reality and the treaty's failure to restrain Russia and China, along with several other countries, from developing the banned missiles, the Kremlin sees it as the manifestation of American triumphalism and a vindication of Mr Putin's inbred distrust of America.
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But the solution is as non-obvious as it gets: the draft-night triumphalism of team president John Elway moving up to pick Lynch seemed to mark the problem solved, but Lynch is a small-school, gimmick-offense prospect; it's incredibly unlikely that he's ready to pilot a Super Bowl champion back to the mountaintop in year one.
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After all, a half-century retrospective for students back then would have evoked equally distant daily headlines about the 1918 global flu pandemic and American triumphalism wrought by Woodrow Wilson's rescue of Europe in World War I. Yet five decades after the demonstrations on the Columbia campus, the reflections of some of the participants reverberate in current events.
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Both are conservative writers who hug the political center, their worldview shaped by the brief period of American triumphalism from the fall of the Berlin Wall to 20153/11, an era where it was possible to believe that the political spectrum was going to narrow to the minor differences between Bill Clinton's triangulation liberalism and George W. Bush's compassionate conservatism.
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His rhetoric was also noticeably lacking in the brash triumphalism and grasping for credit that are a familiar part of his political style -- after all the White House could justifiably argue that its policy of imposing the most rigorous sanctions in history on North Korea, along with more buy-in from China than ever before, has directly led to the diplomatic breakthrough.
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If the idea of moving rightward seems distinctly strange to today's Democrats, it's partially because until this month's rude awakening, much of liberalism was in thrall to demographic triumphalism: Convinced that the party's leftward drift under President Obama and candidate Hillary Clinton was in line with the drift of the country as a whole, and confident that with every birth and death and naturalization and 18th birthday their structural advantage would only grow.
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Later, a collective sense of America as the center of the most spectacular of the postwar world's unfolding dramas was born not just out of chauvinistic triumphalism but out of a realistic appraisal of the undertaking behind the victory of 1945, a feat of human sacrifice, physical effort, industrial planning, managerial genius, and labor and military mobilization—a marshalling of communal morale that would have seemed unattainable during the Great Depression of the previous decade.
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He listens to his party being called "crazy" and accused of "insanity" in editorials by the nation's newspaper of record; finds himself tiptoeing through the watch-your-language world of the American university (where the Free Speech Movement took off during the year of the Goldwater campaign); and endures more and more instances of left-wing triumphalism, such as the New York City Council's recent proclamation honoring Ethel Rosenberg's one-hundredth birthday.
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GUY BENSON, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: It did and it seems like that cancellation that you referenced where it was off for a couple days was maybe a good healthy reality check for everyone involved including at the White House because I think they were some triumphalism and a bit too much excitement and optimism flying around and then there was a reminder that this is actually a very difficult process with a really terrible regime with a horrible history.
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In her poem, "East Berlin 1989," Lorde beat back against the Cold War triumphalism of the times with a dark vision of discord and racial violence, anticipating the surge of far-right hostility that would emerge in the reunified former East: "Already my blood shrieks / through the East Berlin streets / misplaced hatreds / volcanic tallies rung upon cement / Afro-German woman stomped to death / by skinheads in Alexanderplatz…" At a time when the far right is once again on the rise in Europe — and in eastern Germany in particular — the poem feels as trenchant as ever.
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