As we learn more about the Nobel choice I'm sure there are so many more lessons to take away from the inspiring, contrasting example of these two incredible lives.
Though I want to stay positive, I can't help but close with a note about the contrast between the inspiring best practices lessons of VerdeXchange/ULI-LA with the buzz kill offered by the Debbie Downer who crashed the Designing for Density roundtable.
To me it was symbolised by the contrast between Aretha Franklin's incredibly inspiring version of "America the Beautiful" at the inauguration and Jimmy Hendrick's agonisingly tortured version of "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock.
Mr. Bush's promotion of himself as a congenial, inspiring leader works that vein, especially in contrast to Mr. Gore, who is seen by some voters and colleagues as the ultimate partisan attack dog.
The setting at London's Barbican was already inspiring, with its mix of concrete brutalism contrasting with the indoor jungle.
In contrast, the current stimulus, rather than inspiring a new generation, has focused on bailing out failed corporations, few of which will generate much employment.
In contrast to Riefenstahl's orchestrated exaltation inspiring Germans to imagine the glories of a master race, Bigelow existentially films the degradations that scar humankind.
It's inspiring -- yet painful to watch, because of the sharp contrast with today's mealy-mouthed senators.
"Especially," he says, "to the blonde!" He finds travel-focused stories like these "inspiring" because "a woman immersed in a landscape offers an array of contrasting sketches".
Nor does it contrast the two conflicting views of Mr. Williams: a reformed man and inspiring leader to his supporters, or, as victims' rights groups would have it, a manipulative egotist trying to beat the electric chair.
