Word: pyrrhic
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...English language gods would allow it, the Harvard women's soccer team's 1-0 loss to Ivy rival Brown yesterday at Ohiri Field could aptly be termed a "Pyrrhic loss...
...against some powerful forces," he said. "They've got something like 1,000 lobbyists on the Hill working the other side of the question. We've got one lonely little guy here doing it." The Bush strategy left Israel with nothing but the prospect of a Pyrrhic victory. Said a Bush adviser: "If he wins, he wins big, because he beats the Israeli lobby. If Shamir wins, he has to put up with Bush's longevity and hard feelings...
...nominees to the court. Even when Biden and Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy teamed up four years ago to defeat Robert Bork, it looked as if the Democrats could only briefly prevent the Reagan White House from seizing control of the Supreme Court well into the 21st century. That proved a Pyrrhic victory...
...seems like a rather perverse use of language--what about reading them? It's a sort of Pyrrhic victory, if it's a victory at all. I doubt if it is. There is an attempt to cast out all language. I would say that at the extreme of the language pool people seem to be collaborating when they are consciously producing, trying to produce, directing all public discourse towards bubble-gum, whether empty language under the idea that at least empty language can't be used by the establishment. It seems to me a silly idea because it is precisely...
...that measure, Bantam is the latest big winner. Whether its victory turns out to be Pyrrhic, however, will depend on what General Schwarzkopf has to say -- and whether the American public, with its fleeting attention span for celebrities, still wants to hear...