Natalie Portman's eyelashes have been the subject of intense scrutiny after a Christian Dior advert for mascara featuring the actress and the "miracle effects" of the makeup was banned for misleading consumers.
Call it what you will -- wishful thinking, a miracle, the effect of the aggressive drug therapy, spontaneous regression or, as Ms. Girard believes, a mentally induced kick-start to her immune system -- but she reports that "the day my hope was first fed is the day I began to get well".
But after a series of procedures a miracle is effected: Lette is not just presentable but eye-glazingly gorgeous.
"Whatever the reality of the decaying bones and nauseous flesh…" Freeman explains, relics were treated as "symbols of faith and the miracles they effected".
The "Reform Bureaucrats" who marshalled the resources for total war from the early 1930s provided the model for bureaucrat-led growth after 1945 the miracle was in effect run on a war footing.
"Her smiling face lifted the spirits of the American people during the Great Depression", eulogises the Sun, adding how US President Franklin D Roosevelt dubbed her "Little Miss Miracle" for her effect on morale.
The suggestion is that Carrie's abilities may not be a freakish miracle but a replicable event — in effect, a metaphysical result of a social problem.
They had agreed to let me sit in on their meetings and get to know the local people who were trying to effect a miracle.
Within, one meets Mary Creed, who "stole a patient's wooden leg and mounted it in an attempt to hatch it like an egg to a limb of flesh and blood, and when she failed to effect that miracle blamed it on the misery of her sex and hanged herself with a strip of her blanket-gown".
Many years after that, I would learn that they were not, as we had thought, the result of a miracle but rather an after-effect of June 4th — the U.S. had responded by helping people leave — a day on which so much had transpired and so little was transmitted, about which so many questions have been raised and remain, to this day, unanswered.
According to Clarke, a miracle is a "work effected in a manner unusual, or different from the common and regular Method of Providence, by the interposition either of God himself, or of some Intelligent Agent superior to Man, for the Proof or Evidence of some particular Doctrine, or in attestation to the Authority of some particular Person" (W 2.701).
