Dallas Green was the last executive to infuse the Cubs' operation with an unmistakable sense of purpose.
The space was unimposing — adjacent to a pigeon coop and up a steep external staircase — but the Songlei Musical Theater Ensemble's talent and intensity of purpose were unmistakable.
That unity of purpose was unmistakable and slightly intimidating as they left the Headingley dressing room for the team bus on Saturday evening, pausing only to acknowledge the congratulations of a few hundred lingering supporters.
The first thing we noticed when we stepped off the helicopter in windswept Zabul province was a surprising but unmistakable feeling of pride and purpose among the Afghan soldiers.
Once, the American purpose in Afghanistan was unmistakable: to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and to push out the Taliban, who had harbored Al Qaeda.
But its intent was unmistakable.
Their intent, however, is unmistakable.
In its later years the show became television's first great workplace sitcom, with an expanded role for Betty White as Sue Ann Nivens, "Happy Homemaker" and all-purpose frenemy, and an understated but unmistakable nod toward Mary's growing assertiveness and feminism.
The wound would serve a constructive purpose, however, if it were surrounded by unmistakable signs of the city's resilience.
But the new decade, with its intangible but unmistakable sense of change, brought a new sense of purpose - and opportunity - to the party.
