If, however, we must plight some troth to the cult of Gaia, this is how I imagine her, as the poet Paul Claudel saw the ornamental sandstone dancing maiden in the jungles of Cambodia, one of those apsaras that André Malraux tried to steal -- smiling, writes Claudel, her "Ethiopian smile, dancing a kind of sinister cancan over the ruins".
The demolition, which would affect more than 4,500 housing units, represents for some the plight of a poor, black underclass displaced by Hurricane Katrina and struggling to return.
The goal, in other words, is to carve out exceptions, at least for the moment, for people who have the most obvious routes to challenge the order in court and for some whose plight is particularly conspicuous, such as translators who worked for the U.S. in Iraq, to whom many in the military (and beyond) feel a debt of honor.
To some, his plight represents a tragic problem facing the music business: Lifelong musicians struggling to pay the bills as they age.
But some said the plight of the minister was a sideshow to the greater problem of a lame duck government.
Few protesters were at the canal today, but some took their plight before the county commission and to a local mall for a town meeting this afternoon.
Scout, Dill and the others were all outsiders in some sense, a plight at the core of "Mockingbird" and its lessons.
By any measure, Gilbert works hard, and in some ways, the plight of the men, Gilbert's ex, as well as her fiance, seem just as difficult.
This fits with the religious motivation in other targeted IS campaigns against ethno-religious minorities, some of whose plight, despite documentation by human rights monitors, have not received as much international recognition as Nineveh's Christians or the Yazidis.
He argued that blacks bear some responsibility for their plight.
