Of the ten "Legalist" texts in the Han imperial catalogue, six ceased circulating more than a millennium ago; two arrived at our days relatively intact, and of two others only a few fragments survived vicissitudes of time.
Better yet, he has a way with dance; few choreographers capture the vicissitudes of contemporary life as smartly and poetically as he does.
Few writers have explored the vicissitudes of female friendship with as much acuity as Atwood does here: the intimacies, the rewards, the rivalries and the shockingly casual cruelty of little girls.
From the privileged check-in process to the comfortable lounges to fine French wines, these lucky few are shielded from the vicissitudes of modern travel as carefully as modern technology and old-fashioned TLC will allow.
Over the years my representational painting colleagues have expressed many similar stories, some funny in retrospect, coming as they do from the lucky few who successfully survived the vicissitudes of our academic art institutions.
It is apparent that many top tailors have had to struggle in the past few years: Just look at the vicissitudes of a respected American brand like Brooks Brothers.
More women MPs, fewer late nights and the usual vicissitudes of modernity have put paid to the excesses; most MPs are hardworking, anxiously careerist and mildly health conscious.
We all had some endless series we read where a few kids just like us navigated the vicissitudes of life, teaching us lessons along the way.
Signed and dated, the image of a man famous in his time but now forgotten is in impeccable condition, which further enhances its rarity — few German Renaissance paintings have so well withstood the vicissitudes of time.
In the end, after many vicissitudes, the sisters are reunited: there are few more moving accounts of the effects of time, the passage of history and the slow encroachment of age than this remarkable, epic novel.
