Ben, far from being a dedicated seeker of truth and justice, is a smug, arrogant manipulator who exploits his connection with Diana (the underused Anna Kendrick), a college hookup who now works for the F.B.I., to gain privileged information.
The reason, Mr. Ridley suggests, is that Crick "saw himself as a dedicated seeker of great truths who had worked very hard, with long hours of reading, calculation, and intuition, to get to the point where he could make a great discovery; yet the world would now learn about the quest as if it had been just another soap opera".
Cars can't get to this hidden bay, which means only a few dedicated sand-seekers share the scenery here.
Both books cover the ground you'd expect: a small band of dedicated truth-seekers face a foe with vast resources and almost magical technological capabilities.
From the terrifying Blue Fire 0-100kmm in 2.5 seconds) and the Silver Star (130kph) to the all-wood Wodan Timbur coaster, there's enough to churn the stomach of the most dedicated thrill-seeker.
One can still argue the numbers and universality of women's ski jumping, which is still restricted to a small coterie of dedicated thrill-seekers, all of whom were celebrating Wednesday in various time zones: from the Savoy in France to the Wasatch Mountains in the United States.
An amateur when it comes to conflict, this dedicated peace-seeker took the escape route when it came to trying to change her husband.
Prosecutors could trace the course of Taylor's instructions and payments to his favored faction (RUF, or the Revolutionary United Front) in the 1991-2002 civil war only because assiduous fact-finding and analysis was contributed by these untold ranks of dedicated truth-seekers.
ON A scorching Sunday afternoon, in an open-air pavilion in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas's leading Republican office-seekers dedicated themselves to proving Tip O'Neill wrong: that afternoon, all politics was not local but national.
"We have to turn people away," said Russ Finkelstein, associate director of Action Without Borders, which holds such seminars across the country and runs Idealist.org, a site dedicated to helping job seekers find positions with nonprofit groups.
