Anyone who expects Roy Hodgson and his flawed squad to secure such immortality in Brazil next summer really hasn't been paying attention.
Psy reckons he already has this covered, although he has yet to reveal the full force of the gyration he hopes will secure pop immortality.
The obvious thing would be to open a temple of fine dining that would declare his ascension into the chef firmament, preferably an eponymous temple that would secure his immortality in the public mind, but the idea made him sick.
The story flashes back from the late 1650s, when Molière and his troupe arrive in Paris after many successful years touring the provinces and he begins writing the plays that will secure his immortality.
It was the Roman civil war that secured her immortality.
Senator Kennedy said drug makers had exploited a 1984 law to secure "near-immortality for drug patents," thus delaying the sale of generic drugs that were just as safe and effective as the brand-name products.
And the first great American fiction writer, Edgar Allan Poe, secured his immortality by packing more sensation into a few pages than most of his contemporaries could manage in a volume.
These interests are of two types, and include theoretical goals of achieving completeness and systematic unity of knowledge, and practical interests in securing the immortality of the soul, freedom, and the existence of God.
In Milton's Peculiar Grace, Fallon argues that Milton writes about himself to gain immortality, secure authority for his arguments, and exert control over his readers' interpretations.
Sometimes charity reflects a sense of mortality (as Joan Weill kindly reminded her husband: "shrouds don't have pockets"); sometimes, a vain hope of immortality, secured by your name on that university chair or hospital wing.
