Word: unlikelihood
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...Just go with it,” my mom managed, though she too was a tad skeptical. The extreme unlikelihood of blindly stumbling upon an uncharted town in the hills of the southern Italian province of Calabria, right where the boot of Italy cinches in at the instep, had given my father no qualms...
...movement is fractured. Colorado Right to Life has a mailing list of 10,000 and a $100,000 budget but is no longer affiliated with the National Right to Life Committee - "kicked out," says Enyart. He explains that the NRLC has refused to back "personhood" for decades, citing the unlikelihood that it would pass muster with the U.S. Supreme Court. The "purists" of the movement are so opposed to anything that even hints of approval for abortion that one new coalition of anti-abortion groups took out full-page ads in national newspapers criticizing evangelical leader James Dobson after...
...Ecstatic because of the unlikelihood of two Harvard players being on NFL sidelines, let alone the same...
...With Carey's fictional engines at full throttle, it seems petty to point out that Manolo Blahniks were virtually unknown in 1980. Or the unlikelihood of someone like Boone receiving a museum retrospective at 30, then falling into obscurity a few years later. And the early-'80s New York art scene was a little livelier than the moribund one his characters inhabit. But Carey isn't so much interested in the art world as in creative enterprise itself. "Shame, doubt, self-loathing," admits Boone, "all this we eat for breakfast." Perhaps we can allow Carey his moments of doubt. After...
...voluntarily moved in the banlieue, and few could ever scale the invisible barriers to departure thrown up by deplorable education levels and the unlikelihood of finding work. Periodic efforts to fix the banlieue have been launched repeatedly over the years, but the fecklessness of such initiatives-and the underlying attitudes of the wider society that views as alien even France-born and -raised banlieusards-failed to halt further festering. This month's violence appears to finally have driven home the message that the crisis of the banlieue can no longer be ignored...