Professor Bayley and Dame Iris are crustily cruising into a triumphant old age.
I thought, 'That must not be too easy to live with.' " Now crustily cruising into a triumphant old age, this once dark and stormy knight claims work no longer engulfs him.
Hossam Bahgat, the director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, says some veterans of Tahrir Square seem to believe — like so many triumphant insurgents of ages past, from the Jacobins to the Bolsheviks to Muammar el-Qaddafi — that they are the revolution.
In Egypt itself, where the crisis was triggered by Nasser's nationalisation of the Suez canal company, the story belongs to a bygone age: of triumphant Arab nationalism and a charismatic leader tackling imperialist arrogance.
In trying to adapt to an age when triumphant consumerism has become the most powerful force in our society, teams may be going too far in suggesting that the answer to that question is, yes.
On one old Deja Vu FM set from 2004 (available on the free MP3 archive at grimetapes.com), one of the MCs exclaims: "Listen to the instruments singing!"– it's a triumphant example of golden-age pirate radio.
Was it a melancholy testament to the mortifying effects of age or a triumphant assertion of the power of beauty, of the "finer things" — of poetry itself — to redeem the ravages of time?
In these paintings Christ is represented with his head leaning on one side with an expression of pain and his body bending forward in agony a conception differing from "the triumphant Christ" of the preceding age.
His autobiography, "Journey of a Thousand Miles," chronicles the prodigy's progress with a certain predictable cadence: the kind early teacher who saw his talent; the devoted but maddeningly overbearing father; the triumphant first competition at the age of five; an unexpected loss; then more victories, international schooling, and onward into the heavenly present.
It chronicles her beginnings as an aspiring classical pianist, her activism, and her sad decline in old age, and the triumphant legacy of her career.
