Sentences with phrase «remarkable raison»

They were amazingly distressed, with cracking, scratching, gouging and much obvious changes of form... Matisse was always possessed of a remarkable raison d'être, was engaged in meaningful and purposeful action over many decades, dispelling any reputation as a nervous ditherer.»

That was the raison d'etre of Juan Pierre, and what a remarkable raison that was for more than a dozen years.

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It operated with remarkable independence and failed, some say, to make itself indispensable to the university that provided its home and original raison d'être.