It's not that the arc of your career never quite reached the apogee that you hoped for.
The event was created for the first modern Games in 1896, and its habit for creating scandal and legend, which was to reach its apogee that warm summer's day in London, had been immediately evident – the third-placed finisher in Athens, Spyridon Belokas, was disqualified for travelling part of the course by carriage.
They were treated by Bennett to a hands-on description of the amazing One, the Apogee marvel that fits in your pocket — the size of two iPhones layered together — and gives anyone at home (or on the street) the equivalent of a professional sound studio and is designed to work with Apple's Garage Band & Final Cut.
Bacall was only thirty-two athehe time, and, strange to say, her career reached its apogee at that moment.
But their elegant restaurant and simple, solid dishes, strike me as something like an apogee of that revival.
The apogee of that phenomenon has, in past years, been ESPN's full-throated rollout of the Presidential bracket — or, as it is known, Baracketology — an event that always causes one to wonder if the network is the Fox News of the Obama Administration.
ISO was launched by an Ariane 4 rocket on Nov. 17, 1995, and was placed into a highly elliptical 24-hour orbit with a 70,000-km (43,400-mile) apogee so that it spent most of its time both far from terrestrial thermal interference and in communication with the control centre at Villafranca, Spain.
Hatless, I take off My cycle-clips in awkward reverence These last two lines from the opening stanza of "Church Going," his first great poem, present us with the apogee of that muttering, moping persona we'd soon come to describe as "Larkinesque".
The $73.7 billion merger of Exxon and Mobil, announced in 1998, which created the world's largest public company, was the apogee of that wave of mergers and acquisitions, creating the world's first truly global oil company.
"Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" is Tweedy's apogee, an album that was notorious even before it was released; it skates the border of brilliance and pretense, filled with memorable songs that are constantly subverted, or perhaps augmented, by electronic mayhem.
The theory of gravity had too many loose ends, the most glaring of which was a factor of 2 discrepancy in the mean motion of the lunar apogee, a discrepancy that undercut the claim that the Moon is held in orbit by an inverse-square force.
