Perhaps the letters, offering a more human side to this woman, as a victim of domestic abuse and historical circumstances, may finally vanquish the historical slut-shaming of Mata Hari.
He separates three large strands in the Biblical writings: the idea that suffering is a punishment for sinful behavior; the idea that suffering is either ultimately redemptive or some kind of test of virtue; and the idea that God will finally vanquish evil and establish his kingdom of peace and harmony.
Harry surrenders, gets killed (omg!), comes back to life, and finally (finally!) vanquishes the Big Bad V for good (maybe??).
After Martin Brodeur and the Devils vanquished the Rangers in the Eastern Conference finals last week, one might have thought that talk of the Devils' loss to the Rangers in 1994 was finally vanquished too.
History faltered at Turnberry today when Tom Watson, bidding to become oldest man (and the first with a hip replacement) to win one of golf's major championships, was finally vanquished by his countryman Stewart Cink at the 2009 Open Championship.
After smacking the last of his 16 winners, the one that finally vanquished Novak Djokovic in the final of the Cincinnati Masters on a warm Sunday afternoon, all he could manage was a double fist-pump.
Having finally vanquished decades of inflation, the economy should be able to grow steadily by at least 4% a year.
By the time Mr. Obama became president, having capitalized on anti-Bush sentiment and the new world of online fund-raising to amass a total of $750 million for his primary and general election campaigns, wealthy liberals were growing tired of electoral politics; having finally vanquished Republicans on every level of government, they no longer felt a need to be invested in the process.
With technology as sophisticated as that now being brought to bear on the problem, it can only be a matter of time before the oil spill is finally vanquished.
