These women — like most of Saramago's — are sensible, warm, and alert, and their presence provides a civilized context, an index of peaceful possibility, for what becomes, between the two identical-looking men, a savage and vengeful war tinged with an atavistic horror of identity theft and a belief in the triumphal content of seducing an enemy's woman.
The aim of our exhibit, aside from our special wish to demonstrate the peaceful possibilities of the atom, was to create good will; we were not trying very hard to sell things.
Though the protests have been mostly peaceful, the possibility of violence remains in the air, along with the possibility that the military will stage a coup, which it did two years ago this month.
We decided to go for preventive detentions to give the peaceful demonstration the possibility to move on". To mark the Global Day of Action on climate change, campaigners were also staging events around the world, including a four-minute "flashdance" with lights outside the Houses of Parliament, with volunteers across London collecting messages from citizens to deliver to MPs.
This planetary sense of globalization affirms the peaceful and sustainable possibilities of globalization while also resonating with the anti-globalization movement and its resistance to the homogenizing and uprooting forces of globalization.
Their streets are straight and well kempt, their deserted building zones are clean and peaceful and full of possibility.
Hopefully, it left the infrastructure of efficient government and the possibility of peaceful normal life in place.
Isṭāsīyyah highlights the possibility of peaceful coexistence between Copts and Muslims at a time when religious tensions between the two communities are a source of worry.
And the second enormous advantage of democracy concerns the possibility of peaceful coexistence, even when people disagree, and that means to respect those who think differently.
For Reich, the Trobrianders' relaxed attitude to sexuality, and correspondingly peaceful culture, showed the possibility of primitive communism, of utopia on Earth.
In interviews, both men said that though they been granted the possibility of peaceful lives, they wanted to obtain justice and hold the Russian and Chechen governments accountable.
