Not exact matches
While the ship, with room for more
than 3,500 passengers and 1,300 crew, is in port, the limited power and overflowing waste call to
mind the Carnival
Triumph, which was left adrift in the Gulf of Mexico last month after an engine room fire.
Far more
than is usually acknowledged, the security and well - being of the human community are dependent upon that great
triumph of the symbolizing
mind, bookkeeping.
The popularity of the expression «the bottom line» reveals a larger story
than merely the
triumph of economic modes of thinking in the modern
mind.
Scores of passages come to our
minds: «Joy unspeakable and full of glory»; «Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and redeemed his people»; «Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory»; «Mine eyes have seen thy salvation»; «We are more
than conquerors»; «We rejoice in the hope of the glory of God»; «Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift»; «Thanks be to God who causeth us to
triumph in Christ»; «God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts.»
Instead, Hoffman has
triumphed over Scozzafava in public opinion polls, despite, not the local Republican Party, but local Republican Party leaders (a very different kettle of fish), who clearly misread the
mind and mood of the electorate when they imperiously chose a candidate who is evidently closer to Nancy Pelosi in her ideology
than to Joe Lieberman, let alone George Pataki.
It is a
triumph of art direction and a disaster of screenwriting, and the eyes appreciate it more
than the
mind.
It is as if scientific truth equals the sum of all the papers produced on a scientific subject divided by their number, and that for truth and democracy to
triumph, he just has to precis a sample of them, and distribute them between the categories of «worse...» or «better
than previously thought», so that our
minds can be made up by the law of averages.