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He was an exponent of the commentator's curse, noting in an interview that he might say how well a driver was racing or that they would probably win the race, only to have them retire or crash out of the race shortly thereafter, hence his catchphrase "... Unless I'm very much mistaken ..." which might lead shortly after to a correction "... And I am very much mistaken ..." to introduce the correction of the foregoing comment if it turned out in the event to be incorrect.
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For many years he was a member of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, pastored from 1905 to 1926 by Social Gospel exponent Henry Sloane Coffin, while his wife and daughter belonged to the Brick Presbyterian Church.
He was also a leading exponent of the fianchetto development of bishops.
He was eclipsed only by the school's most admired exponent, Callimachus ; their learned character and intricate art would have a heavy influence on the Romans.
A third and more radical group founded the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party or RSDLP in 1898 ; this party was the primary exponent of Marxism in Russia.
Before 1820, Adams was best known as an exponent of American nationalism.
Freddie Green, guitarist in the Count Basie orchestra, was a noted exponent this style.
Dudley was a patron of John Shute, an early exponent of classical architecture in England, and began the process of modernising Kenilworth.
Lyonel Charles Feininger ( July 17, 1871January 13, 1956 ) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism.
Like Andreas Karlstadt, he was at first a leading exponent of the older type of scholastic theology, but under the influence of Luther abandoned his Aristotelian positions for a theology based on the Augustinian doctrine of grace.
Rossini's Guillaume Tell helped found the new genre of Grand Opera, a form whose most famous exponent was another foreigner, Giacomo Meyerbeer.
An exponent of this style of bowling was " Flat " Jack Simmons who played for Lancashire in the 1970s and 1980s.
The most famous exponent of the haiku was Matsuo Bashō ( 1644 – 1694 ).
Structuralism was a broad philosophical movement that developed particularly in France in the 1950s, partly in response to French Existentialism, but is considered by many to be an exponent of High-Modernism, though its categorization as either a Modernist or Postmodernist trend is contested.
If anything, if a part of objective reality, theorization and systemization to Post-structuralists was an exponent of larger, more nebulous patterns of control in social orders – patterns that could not be encapsulated in theory without simultaneously conditioning it.
Four presidents are affiliated with Unitarian churches, and the fifth ( Jefferson ) was an exponent of ideas now commonly associated with Unitarianism.
He was a great legislator, standing out in the eyes of his people as a high-minded sovereign and a magnanimous exponent of justice ".
Its most famous exponent was Milarepa, an 11th century mystic.
A renowned exponent, Sakya Pandita 1182 – 1251CE was the great grandson of Khon Konchog Gyalpo.
" A spirited foreign policy " has always been popular in England, and Pitt was the most popular of English ministers, because he was the most successful exponent of such a policy.
He was also spiritually influenced by H. P. Blavatsky ( 1831 – 1891 ), the best-known exponent of theosophy.
The older style zarzuela fell out of fashion, but popular Spanish tradition continued to manifest itself in shorter works, such as the single-scene tonadilla ( or intermezzo ) of which the finest literary exponent was Ramón de la Cruz.
Whilst Barbieri produced the greatest zarzuela grande in El barberillo de Lavapiés, the classic exponent of the género chico was his pupil Federico Chueca, whose La gran vía ( composed with Joaquín Valverde Durán ) was a cult success both in Spain and throughout Europe.
The most successful exponent of British Rococo was probably Thomas Johnson, a gifted carver and furniture designer working in London in the mid-18th century.
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In the fall of 2004, the phrase " proud member of the reality-based community " was first used to suggest the commentator's opinions are based more on observation than on faith, assumption, or ideology.
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Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.
Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.
In the end of the story, the arrival of Christianity dissolves the old curse that traditionally was to endure until Ragnarök.
Thus the pagan curse was finally dissolved by the arrival of Christianity.
Genesis tells us that the earth was cursed because of Adam's sin, 3: 17 but the author of John writes that in the New Jerusalem, " there will be no more curse.
Despite being attached to the curse, Colavito said that he never placed a curse on the Indians but that the trade was prompted by a salary dispute with Lane.
He was on the New York Giants coaching staff for some of those years in the 1980s when the Giants bought into the curse.
Although Cephalus was already married to Procris, Eos bore him three sons, including Phaeton and Hesperus, but he then began pining for Procris, causing a disgruntled Eos to return him to her — and put a curse on them.
The bull recounts that the Fathers interpreted the angel's address to Mary, " highly favoured one " or " full of grace ", as indicating that " she was never subject to the curse and was, together with her Son, the only partaker of perpetual benediction "; and they " frequently compare her to Eve while yet a virgin, while yet innocence, while yet incorrupt, while not yet deceived by the deadly snares of the most treacherous serpent ".
And when he realized that I was determined to study in privacy in some obscure place, and saw that he gained nothing by entreaty, he descended to cursing, and said that God would surely curse my peace if I held back from giving help at a time of such great need.
Kemp was also outspoken on immigration on around this time: according to Kemp's interpretation of a scientific index that he and Bennett support, " immigrants are a blessing, not a curse.
The cause of the riots was based on a conflict over two performances of Macbeth, and is usually ascribed to the curse.
Rashi interprets his father's statement of the naming of Noah ( in Hebrew נ ֹ ח ַ) “ This one will comfort ( in Hebrew – yeNaHamainu י ְ נ ַ ח ֲ מ ֵ נו ) from our work and our hands sore from the land that the Lord had cursed ”, by saying Noah heralded a new era of prosperity, when there was easing ( in Hebrew – nahah – נחה ) from the curse from the time of Adam when the Earth produced thorns and thistles even where men sowed wheat and that Noah then introduced the plow.
In the 18th and 19th centuries the view that Ham's sons in general had been literally " blackened " by the curse of Noah was cited as justification for black slavery.
She was also the mother of " starlike " Asterion, called by the Greeks the Minotaur, after a curse from Poseidon caused her to experience lust for and mate with a white bull sent by Poseidon.
You are the gateway of the devil ; you are the one who unseals the curse of that tree, and you are the first one to turn your back on the divine law ; you are the one who persuaded him whom the devil was not capable of corrupting ; you easily destroyed the image of God, Adam.
Because the animals were considered sacred and laws protected them from labor, receiving a gift of a white elephant from a monarch was simultaneously both a blessing and a curse: a blessing because the animal was sacred and a sign of the monarch's favour, and a curse because the animal had to be retained and could not be put to much practical use, but cost a significant amount to maintain.
The curse of lycanthropy was also considered by some scholars as being a divine punishment.
The werewolves used to live specially in the region of Transdanubia, and it was thought that the ability to change into a wolf was obtained in the infant age, after the suffering of abuse by the parents or by a curse.
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