Baltzell's argument — that the honorable rivalry was undone by crass commercialism and the personalities it created — gathers its strength by de-emphasizing or overlooking evidence that would contradict it.
It marked the moment when an industry collectively gathered its strength in support of new talent, in what turned out to be the forerunner of multiple initiatives coordinated by the Council of Fashion Designers of America on behalf of young designers.
Yet the best of his work – Seizure, for instance – gathers its strength mainly through formal qualities.
But Hungary turned the corner with this spring's elections, we learn".In spring 2010, the Hungarian nation gathered its strength once again, and brought about a successful revolution in the polling booth.
It has been the law in Florida for two years now, and the years have been like the hours of the morning before the sun has gathered its strength.
As the annual season of conspicuous consumption gathers its strength for one last swig of fizzy booze tomorrow night, the charity shops must be rubbing their hands with anticipatory glee.
Reformist groups in Iran have tended to wax and wane — the movement that deposed the Shah took nearly twenty years to gather its full strength — but the Green Movement as it stands seems to present little threat to Iran's government.
Like the love affair that is the novel's magnetic pole, "Compass Rose" gathers its quiet strength from a slow accretion of instants of intimacy "both ferocious and serene," moments that bubble up, collapse and decompose in the natural order of things, on their way to becoming the history of a place.
Gather strength to force the candidates to discuss their plans for addressing issues of social and income inequality.
In particular, the battalion assigned the task of destroying the Merville artillery battery was only able to gather up a fraction of its strength before it had to attack the battery, with the result that the depleted force suffered a number of casualties.
