Sentences with phrase «grail quest»

For true fans, wanting to know why an artist disappeared for 5 years would be a Holy Grail quest.

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... We have seen The moon in lonely alleys make A grail of laughter of an empty ash - can And through all sounds of gaiety and quest Have heard a kitten in the wilderness.

Granted, perfection is unattainable, but like the holy grail it must be sought, if for no other reason than that the quest itself is a goad, pushing the earnest...

Granted, perfection is unattainable, but like the holy grail it must be sought, if for no other reason than that the quest itself is a goad, pushing the earnest reader to the library or the bookstore.

The image of Tupperware rarely evokes philosophy, spirituality, or ethics, much less salvation, yet Marion Montgomery addresses all of these as he explores Walker Percy's sardonic comment on the plight of the believing Christian writer, who at the end of his artistic quest is more likely to find himself at a Tupperware party than in the presence of the Holy Grail.

The quest for the grail — the chalice used at the Last Supper — was a consuming fascination in medieval culture.

The plot involves a quest for the holy grail that begins with a bizarre murder in the Louvre, races through the streets of Paris and the surrounding countryside, and eventually moves to the streets and churches of England.

The quest for a unified field theory, which would unite the four fundamental forces of matter in a single set of equations, is the Holy Grail of modern physics.

Complex manifestations of the quest, according to Torrance, characterize tribal peoples of Central Asia, West Africa, and the Amazon, extending also both East and West in our own time, appearing in the shamanistic processions of Japan, in the search for the Taoist islands of immortality or for Eldorado or the Holy Grail, «for the philosopher's stone or the elixir of life; in pilgrimages to Benares, Jerusalem, Mecca, or Rome; or in the mystical aspirations of Muslim Sufi, Jewish kabbalist, Catholic saint, or Protestant Pentecostalist» (xii).

Ever since, I have been on a part - time quest for the grail of the perfect shoe: something at once so comfortable and light and durable and magical that it would confer the speed of a Tommie Smith and the endurance of a Ron Clarke on an ordinary runner.

Ever since his first book, Whatever It Takes (2008)-- the inspirational story of one man's quest to boost educational achievement in Harlem — made headlines, Tough has become something of a seeker after the holy grail of child - development.

You see, this is my problem with New Labour's coming grail - quest to re-invent itself.

While there is no guarantee that metformin will be successful, the research is part of the quest for the Holy Grail in the fight against aging.

Indiana Jones is on a quest to find the Holy Grail with his dad, Dr. Jones, Sr..

Saddest of all, they often waste YEARS of their lives on a misguided quest for the holy grail of weight loss or muscle growth, when they could have reached their goals with a better work ethic and a little bit of persistence.

The quest for exercises that stimulate the inner part of the chest is much like the search for the holy grail for many bodybuilders.

Mascara has long been the holy - grail of my natural beauty quest.

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It hasn't so much been redeemed with time as recognized as quintessential Huston: a motley gang of eccentrics and specialists, a quest in search of a certain grail, a culture of betrayal where human life as a disposable commodity, and a perfectly Hustonian twist that makes all their sacrifices meaningless.

This quest for the Holy Grail involves the use of pistols, semiautomatic weapons, swords, a ship rudder and other weapons that result in death and bloody injuries.

They find a wax model of Sir Lancelot (Dan Stevens) that actually thinks it's on a quest to find the Holy Grail and return it to Camelot (His attempt to find that castle leads to the sole scene in the movie that is genuinely funny, featuring a pair of cameos from actors interrupted in their performance of a Lerner and Loewe musical).

Indeed, The Night Before sees the gruff goofball take almost every illegal substance known to man as he embarks on a quest with Joseph Gordon - Levitt and Anthony Mackie to gatecrash the holy grail of Christmas parties.

It's a rousing tale of a lowly boy rising to become beloved King, a tragic love story, a thrilling adventure and an inspirational spiritual quest to heal the wounds of war and hate by finding the Holy Grail.

It's true that screenwriter David Franzoni (Amistad, Gladiator) has discarded or downplayed the most romantic elements of the Arthurian legend — there's no quest for the Holy Grail, no Camelot, and Merlin is just a weird old king instead of a sorcerer — but much of what he's put in his script comes from the oldest versions of the myth, not from new scholarship based on fresh archaeological findings.

Bridges plays a former radio shock jock reconstructing his life after a scandal, and Williams is a homeless man on a quest for the Holy Grail — which he believes to be hidden somewhere on the Upper East Side.

Robin Williams gives a great performance as the Professor turned crazy homeless guy who gets Jeff Bridges broken - down shock jock to help him quest for the Holy Grail.

He's quested for the Holy Grail, dived headfirst into Hunter S. Thompson's sixties excess, turned La jetée into a Hollywood action epic (a good one!)

James Peyser, chairman of the state Board of Education, says the quest to eliminate those differences is «the Holy Grail of education reform.»

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New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell has written his masterpiece, a roiling saga about love, honor, belief — and, above all, about bravery in its many forms — in which a young warrior's religious heritage sets him on a quest for a mysterious treasure rumored to be the Holy Grail itself.

This is what fuels the futile quest for some «Holy - Grail» trading system, then when traders realize there is no perfect trading system they simply revert to gambling because they simple can't stop trying to get rich quick.

If any gaming series which can be forgiven the endlessly repeated quest for a «Holy Grail», it's Tomb Raider.

As you square up to the best of the bigger pieces — # 79 and # 116 are the ones to look for — you're plunged into the final moments of a quest narrative with a happy ending, in which Diebenkorn discovers his version of the true grail in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, and American abstract painting takes another bow.

Under the Frankfurt School's reductive Inquisition, dreams, synchronicity, the occult, and the irrational led directly to Himmler's Grail Castle, and the notion of the artist's inner life as a spiritual quest was reduced to a psychopathology.

A better estimate of sensitivity is the holy grail of climate research, but it is time to «call off the quest», according to a commentary published alongside the paper.

Well, in its own quest for the Holy Grail, Fastcase is today launching a major initiative, a publishing arm called Full Court Press that will produce law journals, legal treatises, deskbooks, forms, checklists and workflow tools.

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In the quest to drive traffic to their law firm website, many regard search traffic as the Holy Grail.

Society's continued globalization compels the quest for diversity, which to many constitutes the «Holy Grail» of legal education.

Getting your resume to the hiring manager's desk is a modern day, professional equivalent of the quest for the holy grail to some.

Young corporate knights with spiked hair, skin balm and pastels, are moving out of the lower mainland of B.C. in a grail - like quest to find franchisees unsullied by the past.

REAL Trends conducted their 2013 Online Performance Study which included findings from their quest for «the holy grail of quantity, value, and the true source» of real estate leads.