Word: unsought
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...Smith improves on this tradition of unsought and unexpected prominence by appearing actively averse to the grandstanding the council has afforded him "I'd like to think that I'd be able to live with whatever the council decides on any question," says Smith. He means to discuss all financial questions with the 89-member group, including some innovative ideas--such as avoiding any blanket restriction on what activities to fund, and possibly depositing the council's budget in a bank where it can earn interest...
...success, and that of this warm, funny, most sincere film is older and more forgotten than any other dream: quite simply, they believe in themselves. Twice each day Rocky stops at the neighborhood pet shop to crack a joke, trying to get the attentions of Adrian, an unmarried, unsought "loser" who stands without a word, feeding the caged birds. "Hey, I hear she's a retard," the loan shark's driver mocks Rocky. But under the fighter's clumsy, tender patience, Adrian emerges from behind her harlequin glasses as an appealing, attractive woman. "I always knew you was beautiful," Rocky...
Chance-the random drip, the unsought image-bulked large as an issue among New York painters then. Liberman built chance into his work in a typically calculated way. He planned his accidents. Two early pictures in the show were done by tossing poker chips onto a canvas, marking where they fell and painting in the dots. The circles vibrate optically; the whole performance suggests a gambler's desinvolture, but preserved, fixed, a gesture trapped under glass. This way of stabilizing chance gives Liberman's early work its unique flavor, both improvised and severe enough to verge...
...wrote something for Leverett House 'cause they wanted it for spring weekend, see? But the professionals bought it and put it on. And then by God, I was a professional!" No, he hadn't tried. But the exposure left its mark. The grain of interest, shoved by unsought accomplishment, gradually snowballed into ambition...
...none of these events occurred, and the result may have been unsought and undeserved martyrdom for a shoe-worker and a fish-peddler who happened to be Italian immigrants with radical sympathies. The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was undoubtedly the most significant of this century. Its world-wide repercussions rivaled those of the Dreyfus case in France. for the larger part of a decade it commanded the interest and emotion of millions of people both here in America and throughout Europe...