The idea of meeting a fan for a drink at the Ritz, mooted for publicity purposes, struck her as "quite fatuous".
A 500 pound general-purpose bomb struck the battleship's bridge, killing her commanding officer, Rear Admiral Otsuka Miki as well as the executive officer and at least nine other men.
It is in this context that Philo is understood to "reverse" his opposition to the design argument and concede to Cleanthes "that the works of nature bear a great analogy" to human productions and that a "purpose, intention, or design strikes everywhere the most careless, the most stupid thinker" (D, 12.2/214, 12.6/216 7 – my emphasis; cp. NHR, Intro.1, 15.1).
Their range of purpose is striking.
The actual purpose, it strikes me, is literally to create the hole that is already metaphorically there".
LOOKING at a copy of a manuscript of "A Christmas Carol, David Greethamm, a distinguished professor at the CUNY Graduate School, made a perfectly sensible observation about Charles Dickens the editor: "The strike-throughs are so bold, so opaque — they achieve their purpose of striking out.
Ms. Donald gave her son's death purpose by striking a permanent blow against organized racist terror in America.
He grants Cleanthes that "a purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the most careless, the most stupid thinker" (DCNR 12.2/89).
It gave him new purpose as he struck deals with Congressional Republicans on deficit reduction and changes in a bloated welfare system, but also offered a new foil that he railed against with regularity.
Ahly were rewarded for their purpose when Gedo struck on 43 minutes after good work down the left from Hamdy Al-Sayed, who shook off a defender and cut the ball back from the goal-line.
Read ironically, Philo could be saying that while "careless and stupid" observers are struck by purpose, intention, and design in the universe, careful, critical, intelligent ones are not.
