It succeeded in its purpose of making the Saturday afternoon event more interesting than it has been in recent years — after an experiment with a single-lap system — despite the more complicated approach of the new knockout formula.
Written primarily by Thomas Cranmer, the first prayer book of Edward VI was a literary masterpiece but a political flop, for it failed in its purpose.
It was the first national museum in the world but had nothing nationalist in its purpose, and it remains one of the great achievements of the Enlightenment, an enduring statement that the public realm is intellectual and spiritual as well as physical and economic, and excludes nobody.
The First Amendment is pretty direct in its purpose, but it has been at the center of debates for ages.
"It states in its purpose that the United States will not be engaged in large-scale combat operations, but doesn't actually have a practical limitation," he said Monday.
The Pentagon displayed some embarrassment about its dodgy map, but it largely succeeded in its purpose of convincing people that IS is in retreat.
First, it has failed in its purpose of containing Isis, since its fighters are still advancing in Syria and are holding cities such as Ramadi, Mosul and Fallujah in Iraq which they have captured since the start of 2014.
It seemed monastic in its purpose, yet there I was, a high priestess on the run.
It's not didactic - it's very simple in its purpose".
Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but TV is so single in its purpose-selling... To the new generation, what does it matter if a few gestures and nuances are last, when they can watch the parade on all channels at all hours... View Article Pauline Kael wrote for The New Yorker from 1967 until her retirement, in 1991.
Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but TV is so single in its purpose-selling... To the new generation, what does it matter if a few gestures and nuances are last, when they can watch the parade on all channels at all hours.
