But never one to let spirits be dampened, he today has his eye on Hermès, perhaps the grandest French status label of them all.
And until local spirits were dampened by the Canadian hockey team's loss to the United States, a large section of downtown was overrun nightly by boisterous, hollering celebrants, an astonishing number of whom were drunk.
People often talk about spirits being "dampened" by the weather, they don't talk about them being drowned by the weather.
Under a Labour government the British Spirit was dampened.
When the executives in Grosse Pointe and Cranbrook started making decisions that were profit-based and not product- and worker-based, quality dropped, the foreign auto market stepped in and the Spirit was dampened.
moods are dampened by it.
But inside the Bayern camp, spirits have been dampened by the 5-2 drubbing at the hands of Borussia Dortmund in the German Cup final last Saturday.
Hollywood's spirits have been dampened by the unprecedented cyber attack on Sony and theater threats that prompted the studio's controversial cancellation of the Christmas Day release of "The Interview" amid fears that moviegoers would stay away from the year's holiday movies.
On this, the long-anticipated official opening day of Brooklyn Bridge Park, no spirit would be dampened — drizzle or no, they said, it was a sunny, sunny day for New York and the world, a celebration of Brooklyn's present, a harbinger of its future.
Monk's side had opened with three successive wins, but the manager says spirits have not been dampened by back to back league defeats.
The democratic spirit has already been dampened by the Pakistani authorities as they moved to deport Declan Walsh, the Times bureau chief in the country.
