I think his dark side, the cynicism that almost triumphs in Ikiru, and wins the day entirely in Yojimbo, came from the contrast between an almost feudal childhood and the enormous changes Japan underwent under the McArthur regime after the war.
Bridget Byrne of Boxoffice commented, "The physical and dramatic energy of ... Mulan ... almost triumph over the old-fashioned forces of Disney tradition".
And in the battle between the good and the evil, the former almost always triumphed.
Several years later, in 2004, Lasch produced an installation and video that follows the evolution of his almost-triumph and reuses the original photographs and simulations that he proposed to the city council.
But the deregulated, privatised, market-oriented world she helped to create - rather more successfully than his own efforts - had triumphed almost everywhere.
Saidy, like Kasparov, believes that a fear of losing lay behind the decision, even though Fischer would almost certainly have triumphed.
Despite this, their almost shared intuition triumphed once again, and they were able to lay the tracks down in the space of four days.
On November 6 , 2012 Obama won a narrow victory in the national popular vote but triumphed in almost all the battleground states to win a second term, garnering 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206.
Woods triumphed in almost stoic fashion, playing with shrewdness and determination over the final stretch of holes while the other players who were grouped with him on the leaderboard took turns succumbing to the pressure of trying to win the Masters.
Col d'Èze, 9.6 km individual time trial (ITT) For the final time trial stage, the race returned to the Col d'Èze for a mountain time trial for the first time since 2001 – although the first time since 1995 in its once traditional place as the final stage of the race – when Dario Frigo of the team triumphed by almost half a minute from his nearest rivals.
