The movie, which has now sold $148 million in tickets in North America, has shown remarkable hold on moviegoer attention at a time when most big summer "tentpole" pictures open to huge results (thanks largely to megawatt marketing campaigns) and then fade quickly.
This explains, in part, Elizabeth's remarkable hold on the imagination of England.
By now, Putin has inspired, provoked and otherwise provided fodder for shelves of books seeking to explain his remarkable rise — and even more his remarkable hold on power.
This is due largely to its remarkable hold over the imaginations of people all over the world who acquire proprietorial feelings about the city and see it as their mission to deliver it intact to future generations.
Of course it no longer has the remarkable hold upon the national consciousness that it had in the mid-twentieth century, when almost anyone would have known the name of the Derby winner.
At a remarkable conference held at the Aspen Institute in 2011, General Michael Hayden, a former head of both the NSA and the CIA, said something very interesting.
Clijsters, who dropped serve in four straight games from the end the first set, staged a remarkable turnaround, holding serve to open the deciding set and breaking Li's service to take a 2-0 lead, just as she had in the opening set.
"This city is so divided that I just don't see how government works anymore, how Washington works anymore," said Mr. Kean, who has for 19 months led -- and to a remarkable degree, held together -- the independent bipartisan panel that investigated the 2001 attacks.
This Warner Brothers film has shown remarkable holding power over the last month, selling a total of $227.7 million in North America.
Her voice is still remarkable, holding girlish joy along with grown-up regrets; she moves through traditional and pop songs, riding the bounce of South African township rhythms.
