Sentences with phrase «few iconoclasts»

So a few iconoclasts in the group had started to flirt with marketplace solutions: give people a chance to turn a profit by being smarter than the next person, they reasoned, and they would achieve things that no command - and - control bureaucrat would ever suggest.

Not exact matches

Bezos & Whole Foods CEO John Mackey: «The two men — who only got to know each other a few weeks ago, people familiar with the matter say — are iconoclasts whose outsize personalities shaped their companies.

The less daring will give their child a name that has become fashionable, because a few bold iconoclasts dared to start a trend.

In a lively and engaging narrative, Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever - combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time; Hamilton, whose audacious manner and deep economic savvy masked his humble origins; Jefferson, renowned for his eloquence, but so reclusive and taciturn that he rarely spoke more than a few sentences in public; Madison, small, sickly, and paralyzingly shy, yet one of the most effective debaters of his generation; and the stiffly formal Washington, the ultimate realist, larger - than - life, and America's only truly indispensable figure.

He is the area's lifeline, one of the few people accepted by the iconoclasts who call the area home, primarily because he's an outcast himself and understands that the residents live this isolated existence for reasons they don't care to discuss.

Iconoclasts has actually been on my radar ever since I tried it out at EGX a few years back, so I'm glad to see that it's finally releasing today.

Iconoclasts, the superb Metroid - inspired platformer that launched for PC, PlayStation four, and Vita earlier this yr, is coming to Switch with just a few additions.

There are plenty of iconoclasts in the wings asking why public collections don't sell off a few old paintings, and frankly this lack of regard for national treasures gives them credence.

The investigation was launched by the Paris Prosecutor's Office, which said that the rock iconoclast was under judicial investigation for «public insult and inciting hate,» just a few short weeks after France bestowed upon Bob its highest award, the Legion of Honor, under the mistaken impression that all these years Dylan was actually singing in French.