It is a vision of a company that did not stay the course when the going got tough, succumbed to the trendy and then saw even its reversal upended by the cold logic of dollars and cents.
We have a great need to live with the illusion that we and those we love are immune to mortality, but inevitably, somewhere along the line, even if we ourselves are spared from illness, something cracks open — a father or a friend gets cancer, a mother succumbs to Alzheimer's, a husband has a terrible accident, a child dies — and what Virginia Woolf once called "extreme reality" floods in.
Conor Reardon, 23, who was on the team with Mr. Clark, said that he and other teammates got Mr. Clark to succumb to a baseball rite of passage, chewing tobacco.
But this group of fathers must also come to live with the notion that their sons were lost doing jobs they helped them get, and succumbed to the very perils that they themselves had managed to avoid.
More and more people are getting and succumbing to cancer and so many auto immune diseases.
Serena started the year trying to better herself, to find a proper job and start trying to grow up, but as soon as things got difficult, she succumbed to manipulating her friends, sabotaging her relationships and once again, stealing her best friend's boyfriend out of spite.
We could list writers from Dylan Thomas on down who have succumbed and don't get me started on journalists.
It was a dozen years later, in 1968, that she finally got her way, quickly succumbing to double pneumonia.
The bad: Never really got it going before succumbing to a nerve issue that caused numbness in his pitching hand.
Zuckerman, who has yielded to any number of "rash moments" by leaving his rural retreat for New York and then deciding to stay there, tries unsuccessfully to get Jamie to succumb to one by taking an interest in him, if not in real life, at least in his playlet "He and She".
Zuckerman, who has yielded to any number of 'rash moments' by leaving his rural retreat for New York and then deciding to stay there, tries unsuccessfully to get Jamie to succumb to one by taking an interest in him, if not in real life, at least in his playlet He and She.
