But actually, on occasions, they do manage to merge seemingly disparate influences: Hold Me Down, from their excellent self-titled debut album, sounds at the start like a lost Thom Bell/Linda Creed composition for symphonic soul maestros the Stylistics, before the singing starts and it goes all woozy like a Sly Stone slowie - "ballad" has the wrong romantic connotations.
In a moment that did make the video, the comedian explains that Rocky Balboa actually lost to Apollo Creed in the second "Rocky" movie.
When word gets out that Donnie is a long-lost Creed, it makes for the perfect showdown.
Unlike liberalism, social/moral conservatism is essentially a creed of lost causes.
(He lost to Sylvester Stallone in "Creed").
Or, true to his size-matters creed, he can brag about losing certain demographics by the hugest majority in American Presidential history.
Once a civilization loses its reverence for the human person, every person, no matter what creed, color, or country of origin, that civilization loses its soul, forsakes its humanity, and is already dead -- however impressive its GNP.
The former Creed frontman said the only one he lost faith in was himself.
In A Countryman's Creed (1946) he harked back to a lost world, perhaps even a world that was more of his imagination than it ever was fact.
It is that they have lost the confidence to preach what they practice, adopting instead a creed of "ecumenical niceness".
On the September 4 episode of Impact!, Creed defeated Bashir to gain number one contendership to the X Division Championship, however, Bashir lost the match as a result of referee Shane Sewell kicking his hands off the top rope, which allowed Creed to pull Bashir down for the three count.
