Far from referring to a meteor's brief blip in the night skies or a person whose career follows the same trajectory in German the phrase denotes a glowing ascent to something on a higher level, something that will endure.Germans used to be sure that Rolf Breuer was ein shooting star.
Perhaps most profoundly, in a town, every citizen recognizes that they are creating something that will endure long after they leave, striving for something far greater than themselves.
"It leaves us something that will endure when another generation's questions change," Mr. Cheek said of the series.
Besides, Mr. MacAvoy said, their research is their own effort to leave a legacy, something that will endure.
"The governor has a chance to do something that will endure after him," Dan Cantor, the executive director of the Working Families Party, said in a statement.
"I love the concept in fine art of making a masterpiece, something that will endure," he said, adding that he understood, too, how unlikely that is for anyone.
So Maggi Hambling's oil canvas of the no-longer-young Hodgkin at her untidy desk offers her model of the insulin molecule as something that will "endure forever as evidence of increasingly successful scientific research.
It was something to see, something that really will endure, that half-hour or so on Fox News, when he insisted on an alternate reality to the one described by NBC and CBS and even his own Fox colleagues, who were calling the election, correctly, for President Obama.
Britain's investments in Europe are unlikely to improve soon: the IMF expects the euro area to grow by just 1% in 2014.This suggest the income gap will endure, something which makes its record current-account deficit even more worrying.
Maybe the school will endure as something like the health-care debate's public option, reminding the city that there are some students, and some models, that can't live and die by the free market.
Or something made of a strong material like iron that will endure.
