Right from the start of his career Truffaut had the sly gift of holding our attention while appearing to be doing almost nothing, just moving at his own casual pace away from the traditions that dogged him and toward something that might have looked to him as huge and vague and daunting as the ocean.
After icebergs and the perils of the southern ocean, San Francisco Bay would seem a much less daunting prospect, but it was where Simpson died May 9, with Peyron, one of the two helmsmen, following the team's AC72 in a chase boat when the capsizing occurred, trapping Simpson under the wreckage.
After icebergs and the perils of the southern ocean, San Francisco Bay would seem a much less daunting prospect, but it was where Simpson died on May 9, with Peyron, one of the two helmsmen, following the team's AC72 in a chase boat when the capsizing occurred, trapping Simpson under the wreckage.
It seems daunting and improbable to find tiny boxes in a huge ocean, especially with the precise crash site still uncertain, but searchers almost always recover them, air safety experts said.
In one of the more daunting estimates of decline, a study published a year ago by Oceana, which promotes ocean conservation, said that of the bloc's 27 countries, 13 had been getting more subsidies than the value of the fish that arrive in their ports.
The rest of the state could be daunting, with its successive mountain chains rising like crests on a flash-frozen ocean.
No, there is not yet a golf course here, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, just a daunting expanse of rough and the world's most challenging water hazard — an ocean that holds one of the largest remaining oil reserves in the United States but buries it in ice and darkness for much of the year.
Spanning almost one-third of the earth's surface, the Pacific presents a daunting challenge to anyone seeking to generalize about it, whether this refers to its geology, its ocean, its islands, or the peoples who inhabit them.
But daunting obstacles remain.
