It was a calm sail, though, and I seem to have been an unusual case.
Under fire and with the wind too calm for sailing, Barlow ran out oars to try and pull his brig away from the French batteries.
The Arizona Cardinals needed an identity and an influence to calm the sails of a franchise that has been veering off course for most of its existence.
Career: Customer sustainability director, Coca-Cola Europe, Commercial leadership manager, Coca-Cola Europe, Region manager Americas, Jeyes Group plc Likes: Cycling, sailing, calm Dislikes: Perfectionists and pessimists (especially people with both traits) Book: The Wheel of Life –John Blofeld Film: Kikujiro (Japan) – since I watched it with my boys Album: Mostly singles these days –very eclectic.
Oliver Postgate, its creator, fully expected his infant audience – tomorrow's space generation – to absorb lines such as "this calm serene orb, sailing majestically among the myriad stars of the firmament," voiced over a tracking shot of the cosmos, an intertextual allusion to the Powell/Pressburger film A Matter Of Life And Death.
"The Philharmonic is a secure ship, which will continue to sail calm waters, and with Maestro Rattle it really has something to offer," he said.
And I could tell you how I drew her close then and how her surrender was no surrender but something more, a materialization of the heart, the deeper heart that lives in dreams — or once it did — that roams out in the hills among the trees, that sails calm seas in the sun-light; that sings in the stillness of star-cast night...
Despite the seriousness of the situation, Riou remained calm, using the sails to pull clear of the ice, and then taking stock of the damage.
Our conductors are either unaware of the danger, of for some unknown reason, want to keep the passengers calm as we sail over the precipice.
