Back in the day, the late, great Carroll Shelby often summarised one particular meeting with Ford president Lee Iacocca as: «So, Lee, you want me to make a race horse (the GT350) out of a mule (the standard Mustang GT)?» (autoclassics.com)
«I really like your designs and this one in particular met most of our objectives quite well. (maxhouseplans.com)
Much of history is, of course, universal and abstract; yet real history also contains at its core the memory of the concrete and particular meeting between I and Thou. (religion-online.org)