Word: pyrrhic
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...nothing can withstand the relentless oil thirst of the "Outside." Yet the Pyrrhic stand has its effect: progress is stopped long enough for the reader to appreciate the value of natural Utopias-and a fiction that salutes them...
This spring's undergraduate straw vote in favor of the Dowling plan, Boylan adds, "was really a pyrrhic victory" because it demonstrated at least as much indifference (only about one-third of the student body bothered to vote in three days of polling in the dining halls) as support (71 per cent of those voting favored the plan). Moreover, 82 per cent of those voting indicated they would like "more student autonomy" in areas like housing and meal plans...
...assortment of his sociological writings from 1960-80, they are also his personal favorites. These essays not only compose an impressive body of knowledge and rhetoric, but also evoke a classical dilemma--the role of the intellectual. While Bell fights, and wins, war in the abstract, his victories seem pyrrhic. By the end of his 17 essays, any reader will beg for a solution to the problems he has raised. Although each essay contains a trace of hope, Bell always falls short of an answer, or even advice, leaving the reader in despair...
...marked our foreign policy under your leadership." Then he listed the accomplishments for which he wants to be remembered. Yet even that recitation -by which Vance meant to console both Carter and himself-has a melancholy ring. It is a list of what may well turn out to be pyrrhic victories, noble failures and unfinished business...
...Stratford ventured to Elizabethan Boston Arena, he would have noticed an "untimely ripped" women's hockey, which strung Pyrrhic victories together, but, zounds, came up empty-handed...