His foreign policy was less consistent, ranging from the cautious in Italy to the chimerical in Spain; yet it was at the expense of Aragon that he regained title to Roussillon and Cerdagne.
For all the costly failures, however, the appeal of millennialism remains, and generation after generation of devotees have sought the chimerical kingdom.
Last, some centralized governmental institutions willing to enforce slave laws had to exist, or else the property aspects of slavery were likely to be chimerical.
Such unity, however, proved as chimerical as the Khilāfat movement's hope of preserving the caliphate itself, and in December 1920 Mohammed Ali Jinnah, alienated by Gandhi's mass following of Hindi-speaking Hindus, left the Congress Party session at Nagpur.
Jan Smuts' United Party, while defending its commitment to white supremacy, argued that complete segregation was chimerical and that some permanent black urbanization was an inevitable consequence of economic development.
These chimerical pretensions (described by a contemporary as "fantastic stuff which won't last long") very soon came to be unveiled as such.
Spinney spends most of his time on set in a shirt and avian leggings, but before Brian Finke took this picture for The New Yorker, he had not posed for a photographer in this chimerical state.
It's tempting to suggest that the movie's failure at the box office proves just how chimerical and obsolete that notion of a natural mainstream is.
Germany in 1914 would have triumphed if it had continued to be the productive, industrializing country that it was; the notion that Germany needed, or would benefit from, colonies in Africa or a vast naval presence was chimerical.
And, once it became plain that all hope was chimerical, the armies did break.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet This vision forms the novel's bright heart: "the American girl," beloved of Howells and James, the chimerical creation of the new continent, looming at the threshold of the American century with her captivating innocence and perilous freedom.
