The myth of the Islamic State's invincibility has been shattered.
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Some, like Satya Nadella at Microsoft, even project vulnerability, not invincibility.
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However, Facebook has a similar invincibility today, but it's just disguised.
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It was the latest blow to his battered aura of invincibility.
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"Gone is Trump's aura of invincibility and inevitably," the editorial declares.
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And he will stop at nothing to maintain his veneer of invincibility.
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Then, hit Tab-G to grant yourself invincibility from every jumping doggo.
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With every loss in primaries and caucuses, Trump's invincibility comes under question.
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"Every year, Kadyrov's assurance in his own invincibility grows stronger," Yashin wrote.
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A legion of natty angels, felled by the hubris of fraudulent invincibility.
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Only occasionally does Mr. Trump let slip his mask of unreflective invincibility.
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UConn's invincibility was perceived to be as simple as an uncontested layup.
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It was also the latest blow to Djokovic's battered aura of invincibility.
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She still remembered her belief in her own invincibility, her shocking confidence.
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It was a cold Inauguration Day, but there was an air of invincibility.
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Earlier this year Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, had an air of invincibility.
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She doesn't have that aura of invincibility about her that she had before.
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A loss on Collins's high-profile bill would dent its reputation of invincibility.
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"They are obviously online more than anybody else but have a feeling of invincibility."
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Strawweight champion Joanna Jędrzejczyk has the aura of invincibility that Rousey carried circa 2014.
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This vote, in the solid red south, pricks the bubble of Trump's magical invincibility.
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Enjoy this fleeting moment of invincibility while it lasts, and lean into the cliché.
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If hip-hop has historically focussed on invincibility, this generation is fixated on mortality.
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Life gradually dismantles the illusion of invincibility, through injury or illness or mere exhaustion.
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Gone was my sense of invincibility and in its place a sense of urgency.
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A year later Nixon was gone, a victim of his own sense of invincibility.
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He won a shocking upset in 20163, which lent him an aura of invincibility.
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Still, the whole episode pokes holes in the invincibility the duopoly once seemed to possess.
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And what excuse do many in the media have for promoting Trump's invincibility for weeks?
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By meeting every challenge, by surviving every scare, Tottenham has cultivated an air of invincibility.
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"The unconditional bond their managers had gave them an aura of invincibility," Mr. Cooper said.
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He demands that we marvel at his invincibility even as we tremble at his degradation.
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Did Ryan Lochte feel a sense of invincibility that led him to concoct a sensational story?
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Our behavior may have been intensified by the stubbornness and sense of invincibility all teens feel.
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Terry's special moves can gain speed, invincibility, and power if you use the arcade-style input.
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Before the U.S. Open the air of invincibility that once surrounded Williams had all but vanished.
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His stubborn belief in his own invincibility remains, though, despite the chorus of voices foretelling his doom.
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There is no healthy pad of invincibility, health, or armor between the bandit's shotgun and my character.
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It created a false sense of invincibility in America and paved the way for resentment in Russia.
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Auras of invincibility can be strangled into nothingness by rear-naked chokes and shattered by high kicks.
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We love our children so much, it's easy to mistake the strength of that feeling for invincibility.
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The fight, coupled with the previous loss to Holyfield, brought the end to Tyson's aura of invincibility.
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And he has lost the aura of invincibility given by four terms and 13 years in power.
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A sense of economic invincibility Ten straight years of economic growth has helped create a sense of invincibility that fuels Trump's case even as the opposition party in government tries to use the gravest weapon given to it by the Founding Fathers to declare him unfit for office.
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Since its sudden surge across Iraq in 2014, ISIS has always tried to project an air of invincibility.
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They all had access to a special move that worked like an invincibility star in Super Mario Bros.
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While still an undeniable force, Phelps no longer competes with the aura of invincibility that once surrounded him.
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The beat also totally sounds like the trademark Mario invincibility music, which really ties the whole thing together.
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There was an inevitability to those teams, an invincibility that no threat apparently could—let alone would—pierce.
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Through seven games over a span of 15 days, they often looked well shy of their supposed invincibility.
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Though the Red Sox created an air of invincibility in 2018, one weakness kept peeking through: their bullpen.
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Gibson had worked in the sheriff's office for twenty-eight years, and he cultivated an aura of invincibility.
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But this sense of invincibility eventually turned into hubris and decades of corruption and mismanagement finally boiled over.
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Jenny and Emily are 14-year-olds, as curious and convinced of their invincibility as any ninth graders.
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Some of that is standard-issue teenage invincibility, but the rest is blind faith that Nico can protect them.
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That doesn't stop companies from advertising the capability as if it's some sort of invincibility trait for your phone.
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And we always knew we had this gap between the perception of invincibility and the reality of the primary.
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If Trump was to admit a mistake and apologize for it, he'd shatter his own narrative of eternal invincibility.
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Williams is still the dominant female player, but her air of invincibility has cracked in the last three majors.
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But later, like everyone else, I fell victim to the popular myths about the invincibility of the Obama coalition.
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Not long ago, Iranian terror mastermind Qassem Soleimani was traveling around the Middle East with a sense of invincibility.
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" – "He may have illusions of invincibility and truly believes that he can undertake and accomplish more than is realistic.
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"This aura of invincibility around Trump that some of his supporters have bought into seems to be dissipating," Williams said.
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Sometimes it's psychological: the aura of invincibility has been removed, opponents sense weaknesses while the competitor feels it more acutely.
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Hope that the feeling of invincibility that Amazon sometimes exhibits throws it off track or stirs up real regulatory inquiries?
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Even now, the opening riff of "Who Do You Think You Are" conjures up an almost irrepressible feeling of invincibility.
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It's true Rousey is searching right now after having her previous aura of invincibility shattered not just once, but twice.
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Or perhaps it was just the arrogance and delusion of invincibility that plague so many of us, not only journalists.
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Mr. Côté, though, knows what he's doing, deliberately calling attention to the defenselessness and uncertainty beneath the men's apparent invincibility.
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The picture was of a juggernaut of blue state invincibility that mostly dismissed the likelihood of a Trump White House.
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Just a few months ago Mr Abe had an aura of invincibility, having won election after election despite pursuing controversial policies.
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But his first campaign with Trump in the White House has put some wear and tear on that aura of invincibility.
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"They need to preserve the aura of invincibility in their decision-making process." he said in a Tuesday "Trading Nation" segment.
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On the men's tour, the torch of invincibility has been passed around from Roger Federer to Rafael Nadal to Novak Djokovic.
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She relished the sense of invincibility it gave her and began swapping her pills for stronger opioids on the black market.
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The "invincibility and optimism" that leads us to constantly hold out for someone better can eventually leave us out of options.
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Still, recent state election defeats punctured his aura of invincibility, and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has seen ratings slip.
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Although Mr. Foster bears some physical resemblance to Armstrong, the air of imperial invincibility that Armstrong projected so skillfully is missing.
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Instead of finding himself reassured of his invincibility this weekend, Guardiola was given a reminder of his footballing mortality by Tottenham.
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There is also, of course, the risk of defeat, which takes away some of the invincibility of a Triple Crown winner.
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It's about coming down on the way home, the invincibility you felt an hour ago ebbing as you ride the bus.
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The distance between the rule and its fall is, apparently, just one generation — and perhaps one dose of a sense of invincibility.
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George Soros argues that a "superbubble" only forms after it has survived a severe test, imbuing speculators with a sense of invincibility.
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Behind a loud, supportive crowd announced at 49,142 at Rogers Centre, Toronto pierced a small hole in the Indians' aura of invincibility.
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Opponents say such a loss cracks the president's aura of invincibility, showing that his grip on power after 16 years is weakening.
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Above all, it has severed humanity from its conceit of control and of the invincibility of its institutions, science, technology and democracies.
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With its narrative of success and invincibility, it recruited thousands of fighters, swelling its ranks, building further on its self-reinforcing momentum.
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Spotify's lead over Apple's music-streaming service in the US is narrowing, denting the air of invincibility around the recently floated pioneer.
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But after he failed to place in the top three in either Iowa or New Hampshire, he lost any veneer of invincibility.
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After threading the 2016 Electoral College needle, Trump has acquired an almost mythic aura of invincibility for most people, election analysts included.
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Though she gained mainstream notoriety as a telegenic athletic who always spoke her mind, her calling card remained her invincibility inside the Octagon.
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In a day and age when CEOs often exude an air of invincibility, complete with chest-thumping braggadocios, Merritt is quite the opposite.
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Still, to the extent that invincibility is a kind of spell, one can never guess when and under what conditions it might break.
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As injury and age chipped away at the aura of invincibility that Federer and Nadal once enjoyed, Djokovic surged into the top position.
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Clinton faces a two-headed Cerberus, an artificial conjoining that occurred in the early 1990s, of wounded Republican invincibility and wounded male prerogative.
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In every empire, there comes a time when, despite all its riches and power and apparent invincibility, a catastrophic downfall seems to loom.
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But the aura of invincibility that surrounded the league heading into this season—and every other season—was firmly lifted on opening weekend.
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Their deaths made me realize life insurance is a no-brainerThese events got me thinking about how absurd my invincibility complex really was.
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They have now lost their past three games when facing elimination, puncturing the aura of invincibility that they — and Lundqvist — had once cultivated.
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Researchers note that helmets don't prevent all concussions and might be making the problem worse, by giving players a false sense of invincibility.
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There are few artists living or dead who can capture the same feeling of invincibility and project it onto a crowd of thousands.
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In addition to making them all look like Dead Space rejects, the new armor gives each of them 30 minutes of invincibility per day.
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The 150-minute screen time is devoted to melodrama and peripheral characters, all of whom try to build up the invincibility of the hero.
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The myth of his strategic invincibility is long gone — for the GOP bosses, at least, if not yet for his beloved "poorly educated voters."
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Handling big sales and lots of cash gives some dudes a feeling of invincibility (and that's before the drugs kick in), Ashley* told VICE.
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She watched as Mr. Trump hurried to remove "TRUMP" from the facades of suddenly failing casinos, lest they undermine his claims to financial invincibility.
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Despite his seeming invincibility, the Night King was easily taken down by the show's beloved Arya Stark in a way that some fans criticized.
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I was more curious than scared, and I remember the sense of youthful invincibility that being armed at all times made me feel overseas.
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Snowden's new autobiography, " Permanent Record " (Metropolitan), is the autobiography of a gamer, pale and bleary-eyed and glued to his screen, longing for invincibility.
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Throw in some youthful pride masking as invincibility, the fun of a new environment free of parents and teachers and a dash of hormones.
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To attack healthcare from a snide position of virtuous invincibility is one hell of a disgusting way to rob Americans in service of the rich.
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Mr. Cruz has trailed well behind in recent New Hampshire polls, but Mr. Trump, his aura of invincibility gone, could prove vulnerable there as well.
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Surviving when you're sure you're going to die can inspire a sense of invincibility that may or may not be warranted by the underlying facts.
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One of the SPD's deputy leaders, Ralf Stegner, said it would be a mistake to underestimate Merkel but that the "myth of invincibility" was over.
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"They've always had this attitude of invincibility, and perhaps promising more than their cars can deliver," said Joseph Phillippi, president of the consulting firm AutoTrends.
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An upraised glowing fist grants invincibility and a rose (the symbol of the Democratic Socialists of America) allows the player to toss roses like fireballs.
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Three corruption investigations and the Israeli attorney general's announced intention to charge Netanyahu with fraud and bribery have also chipped away at his seeming invincibility.
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Until recently, Mr. Abe and his party behaved with an air of invincibility, shored up by their two-thirds majority in both houses of Parliament.
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There is also a growing sense of invincibility among many top White House officials who have watched as past efforts to investigate Trump have floundered.
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The bloodshed exposed vulnerabilities of the Guards, custodians of clerical rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, who have sought to project an image of invincibility.
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Nelson Mandela, who read it on Robben Island, said it "kept our spirits high and reinforced our confidence in the invincibility of the cause of freedom".
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He wouldn't work for a promoter without settling on what level of invincibility he was going to possess, then he held that promoter to his word.
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"[The coalition has] reduced ISIL's territorial control, undermined its brand and aura of invincibility, and destroyed much of its war-fighting capability," Dunford told the committee.
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This mix of mental instability and superhuman near-invincibility seems like a dangerous mix, but I can see how it might be beneficial to the mob.
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It gave the Cubs a 3-0 advantage in the second inning, but it carried even greater heft: an anvil blow to Bumgarner's aura of invincibility.
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The Warriors kept their air of invincibility intact with a 118-113 victory that put them on the brink of their second championship in three seasons.
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Gone now is his aura of invincibility, an imaginary suit of armor that made the very thought of sharing a ring with him a scary proposition.
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In recent decades, with the comparative invincibility that he felt great age bestowed on him, Mr. Zhou was also an outspoken critic of the Chinese government.
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Iran mocked Netanyahu's tough words, saying Israel's reputation for "invincibility" had crumbled after one of its jets was shot down following a bombing run in Syria.
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But ordinary folk, a Russian bear handler discovered this week when he was mauled during a circus performance, do not share the president's aura of intimidating invincibility.
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Bill, for his part, loves drinking to the point of peeing himself — "It's a small tax for the feeling of invincibility I get from alcohol," he observes.
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As is, though, "Cloak & Dagger" merely demonstrates again that when it comes to churning out mediocre programs, even the Marvel name doesn't provide a cloak of invincibility.
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At the Rio Olympics, the Americans kept firing, burnishing their veneer of invincibility with a 57-point thrashing of China and a 44-point rout of Venezuela.
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Perhaps, some hoped, his aura of invincibility would finally be dispelled — and his supporters in New Hampshire would suddenly view him as a "loser" and abandon him.
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If nothing else, the new numbers are a reminder that no one involved in America's trade diplomacy should negotiate with a belief in the nation's economic invincibility.
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The aura of invincibility was not quite shattered — the autocrat had survived long enough to see those who revolted against him imprisoned, killed or forced to flee.
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Those victories gave the A-Team something of an air of invincibility, said three people familiar with the matter, and that ultimately led some to make missteps.
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Fully embracing his own invincibility, Mr Trump once boasted that he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue in New York and not lose any voters.
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With Charlotte's unstoppable rise coinciding with both Cena's career and Roman Reigns' invincibility, it was hard not to worry that Charlotte would fall into the same stultifying sameness.
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"There's an attitude of invincibility, of thinking, This won't happen to me, that leads young people to take risks, and it's a disaster waiting to happen," he says.
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But it can be even more satisfying to see the job done by a hero without laser vision or invincibility or even much in the way of muscles.
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But other than a crucial win over the Chargers in Week 240 that essentially saved their season, the Chiefs have not matched their early appearance of near invincibility.
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In four Grand Slam finals since that 2017 Australian Open win, she has failed to take even a single set, exposing serious cracks in Williams's aura of invincibility.
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Along with Spaniard Marin, Ratchanok has repeatedly pricked China's aura of invincibility at high-profile tournaments in recent years and has no fear of the Chinese at Rio.
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I too was young when I donated — 26, clearly more mature than 18 (98 percent of donors are older than 18) but still feeling a certain youthful invincibility.
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When Trump threatened to link the "One China" principle with Chinese concessions in a number of issue areas, he was rolling with a sense of invincibility after the election.
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Though the former veep still leads in South Carolina and nationally, Biden's aura of invincibility might be undermined by hints that he can't cut it on the campaign trail.
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Having won power in 2014 on a wave of hope for change, Mr Modi's government had begun to lose momentum and the prime minister himself his aura of invincibility.
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But a two-factor setup—which for most users requires a temporary code generated on, or sent to, your phone in addition to a password—isn't an invincibility spell.
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Djokovic's aura of invincibility was pierced by Querrey and then by a healthy Juan Martín del Potro in a stunning and teary-eyed first-round defeat at the Olympics.
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Then, last November, she got knocked out by Holly Holm, losing her belt and her air of invincibility in the process, and it was like a light went out.
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But he is pacing himself, he said, only too aware of how a feeling of invincibility, and an insatiable drive to do it all, led to injury and despair.
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This one may apply especially to teenagers and older kids, who may feel a certain adolescent invincibility even in the face of a virus that has many people scared.
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Trump was acting as if he were invincible; Congress has to remind him and the world that invincibility is not a principle that the law recognizes in this country.
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It has dispelled the aura of invincibility that surrounded the BJP and diminished the personal authority, built up over years of vigorous and uniformly successful campaigning, of Mr Modi himself.
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Playing at home for the first time this series, Cleveland notched a commanding 120-90 win and stifled Golden State's air of invincibility ahead of Game 4 on Friday night.
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They remember only one type of feeling the day after a presidential election: the euphoria of a history-making victory, coupled with a sense of invincibility from beating the odds.
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"This election cannot weaken the government's position, but it can weaken faith in its invincibility," said Zoltan Novak, an analyst at the Centre for Fair Political Analysis, a think tank.
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The public persona, the apparent invincibility of the special agent, did create an aura, but there, slightly below the surface, lurked racism that tore at the core of the agency.
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Narcissists' stress—combined with their characteristic impulsivity, sensation seeking and invincibility complexes—may also instigate unhealthy coping in the form of substance abuse, aggressive driving, eating disorders or unsafe sex.
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The worry I have for these guys is that the path they're going down with the expectation of anonymity and invincibility can be hugely detrimental should their underlying identities be exposed.
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It's this idea of endurance that Rouvre seems to capture so well for the TPAB cover through his claustrophobic framing of the group that projects an aura of invincibility and fortitude.
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The scopes in Battlegrounds aren't as flashy as invincibility stars or double-jump boots, but they change how you interact with enemies and the environment in just as potent of ways.
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Tune in for immaculately executed dodge rolls, a deft understanding of invincibility frames, and the acquisition of a big-ass claymore that makes my character's blade look like a safety razor.
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Black Rock, the modernist skyscraper designed by Eero Saarinen that has been CBS headquarters for more than half a century and symbolized the network's invincibility, is being considered for a sale.
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But the Buckeyes may not carry the same aura of invincibility that they had built this season by steamrollering through a schedule whose only ranked teams had been Wisconsin and Cincinnati.
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Cruz, seeking to shake the narrative of Trump's political invincibility in the race's closing stages, chose Fiorina as his running mate even though he significantly trails Trump in the GOP delegate count.
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Despite his commanding lead nationally, his second-place finish in the Hawkeye state stripped away the veneer of invincibility around his campaign and raised questions about the efficacy of his ground game.
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But the attacks and her impressive ability to dodge them seem to lead to a sort of Wonder Woman syndrome, in which the evasion of calamity creates an expanding sense of invincibility.
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But the Car Wash team itself, which for years had Brasilia holding its breath as it brought down a string of business leaders and power brokers, has lost its aura of invincibility.
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Mr. Netanyahu is Israel's first prime minister-elect to be unable to form a coalition after an election, seriously denting the aura of invincibility he has cultivated over a decade in office.
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She doesn't have dragons like Daenerys, but she uses the exceptional abilities granted by her memory of crimes committed against her over the past 30 years—and robot invincibility—just as explosively.
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Many liberals view the centrist generals as the only real match for Mr. Netanyahu, who has led the diplomatic campaign against Iran on the world stage and has acquired an aura of invincibility.
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Harnessing a certain Sarah Connor coldness and invincibility, Dolores is Caleb's key to understanding his own humanity and how he fits into a society that really has no interest in him at all.
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A surge of immigration and a widening inequality gap threaten to crack Ireland's perceived invincibility to the alarming wave of far-right nationalism crashing on the shores of so many of its neighbors.
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Gone are the cinematic speed and the air of invincibility—all that glorious impossibility—replaced by all-too-human fragility and a heightened sense of the waning of skills and the passing of time.
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"They are actions that have to be creative, have high impact for communication, dent the government's sense of invincibility, transmit a message ... and reduce fear," said Emilio Grateron, Popular Will's national head of activism.
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Ever since he became the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, Donald Trump has shrugged off the complexities of appealing to a general-election constituency as irrelevant to a man possessed of political invincibility.
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Margaret Thatcher survived a no-confidence vote in 1989, but her aura of invincibility was punctured by the ordeal, and she withdrew from a new challenge under pressure from party leaders the following year.
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But even if the Patriots' sense of invincibility has been challenged, they are still a better team than the Eagles (5-4), who look like strong contenders some weeks and fall apart in others.
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The series grew out of the image above, which combines the famed Hamilton logo — featuring Miranda as Alexander Hamilton standing atop a star — with the familiar invincibility star from the Super Mario Bros. franchise.
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Some who have worked closely with the president in the past said that while it is not surprising Mr. Trump is trying to create an impression of invincibility, it could ultimately hurt his re-election.
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But when ISIS began to lose its caliphate — its territory chipped away by Kurdish groups, Shia militias, the Iraqi army, and US-led airstrikes — the narrative of victory and invincibility began to collapse as well.
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Looming corruption charges - he has denied any wrongdoing - have also chipped away at Netanyahu's seeming invincibility, 10 years into consecutive terms as prime minister marked by a sharp focus on security that resonated with voters.
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His character has grown stale over the past eight months—there's just not a lot of narrative juice in total, immutable invincibility—but he's still probably the biggest personality WWE has on tap right now.
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"The way we do this, I think we have to deliver a very hard blow against ISIS in the Middle East so that there is no sense of invulnerability or invincibility there," Mattis told the panel.
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Turkey's opposition has dealt President Tayyip Erdogan a stinging blow by winning control of Istanbul in a re-run mayoral election, breaking his aura of invincibility and delivering a message from voters unhappy over his policies.
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Sanders fans might argue that these numbers don't factor in his recent victories, and that by chipping away and Clinton's aura of invincibility (or at least inevitability) he'll change the narrative and convince people to switch.
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But the Huskies have lost the sheen of invincibility, especially to Notre Dame, which played the Huskies, its fiercest rival, as many as four times a season when they both belonged to the Big East Conference.
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The Iranian government was aware many weeks ago that it had a problem on its hands, but paranoid and determined at all times to project a false image of invincibility, it did what it typically does.
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Three nights later, Davis made an even larger imprint with his home run, which, viewed through the prism of time, seems to have had an enduring impact in another way: It pierced Chapman's veneer of invincibility.
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The N.R.A.'s aura of invincibility was fading, and New York regulators were already investigating Carry Guard, an N.R.A.-branded insurance plan for shooting incidents, which the organization had seen as a key new revenue source.
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" When people combine stimulants with alcohol, Karpyak says, the rush of energy and seeming invincibility leads them to consume significant amounts of alcohol—much larger than they're used to or normally capable of, which leads to "miscalculations.
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Some Cubans say they miss the charismatic leader who accompanied them for decades, holding forth on topics from nuclear energy to farming in famously long speeches, lending the revolution moral authority and him a sense of invincibility.
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They have also stripped him of a reputation for invincibility acquired at the European elections in 2014, when his party took more than 40% of the vote in a ballot that saw other centre-left parties routed.
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I'm sure that like myself, many people out there drink the two beverages even though they cause upset, and while you sometimes regret the decision, this mug will accurately articulate your feeling of invincibility in the moment.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Mo Farah's aura of invincibility after six years of unrelenting success was finally cracked in his very last major track race on Saturday as he lost his world 0003,2000 meters title to Ethiopia's Muktar Edris.
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Nearly a generation after Jesse Owens shattered the myth of Aryan invincibility by sweeping four gold medals in Hitler's Swastika-draped Olympic Stadium in Berlin in 1936, United States athletes faced another challenge on the world stage.
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And while Mr. Trump's upset victory in 2016 — defying the pre-election polls that showed Hillary Clinton leading in key battleground states — has given him the sheen of invincibility, his victory was not impressive by most standards.
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After I noted the Five's growing invincibility last year, the biggest pushback I got from people at these companies had to do with the moniker I had given them: Why hadn't I called them the Fabulous Five?
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Not only has Mr. Trump's aura of political invincibility been shattered, but without killing the Affordable Care Act, Republicans will be unable to rewrite the tax code in the sweeping fashion that the president has called for.
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The trio's powers — immortality, for Africa's antiquity; invisibility, for maroon cunning; invincibility for the endurance of enslaved African-Americans — allegorize the diasporic strands united by the country's history: Who needs Wakanda when Liberia already has it all?
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For thousands of years, those in power have known that a single crack in the public image of invincibility is a wedge that can destroy the image of control — and the loss of real power follows soon after.
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Golden State still has a two-games-to-one series lead heading into Game 4 here on Friday night, but the Cavaliers — with each ferocious dunk and every high-arcing 3-pointer — stifled the Warriors' air of invincibility.
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She was nominated to her role not last July at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, but in 1992, when her husband destroyed the myth of Republican invincibility and Hillary Clinton was anointed the feminine face of evil.
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The boy king reaches this decision because he's being manipulated by the High Sparrow and the Faith Militant — who are alerted to the invincibility of Cersei's would-be champion the Mountain when he pulls off a Sparrow's head.
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Mr. Lieberman, whose party scraped through the last election with just five seats, strode into a news conference on Thursday with the air of a winner, appearing relaxed and self-confident, having dented Mr. Netanyahu's aura of invincibility.
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This sense of invincibility has been at least partly rooted in the widespread belief, based on early data out of China, that COVID-19 causes the elderly to suffer the most and spares younger people with milder symptoms.
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His near invincibility at the crease scuppered our other prediction before the Ashes: that thanks to a dearth of batting talent, "there are unlikely to be many remarkable [team] innings extending deep into the fourth or fifth day".
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This energy is stirred when Mars enters Pisces on November 15: Aggressive Mars is the warrior planet, and when it's in peace-and-love water sign Pisces, it creates a kind of "can't be bothered" attitude bordering on invincibility.
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Camille's desire to belong is palpable and Skate Kitchen maps this journey: awkward miscommunications, fumbling first times (Camille's love interest is a rival skater played by Jaden Smith), and the invincibility you feel when you've finally found your tribe.
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Conversely, it's hard to showcase gleaming accouterments like SS belt buckles, Hitler Youth bugles and ebony daggers without glamorizing the Nazi penchant for using bold iconography on flags and uniforms to convey an aura of romance, power and invincibility.
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But in beating world number one Novak Djokovic to the Rome title last week, his first title of the season, the reigning champion ensured that once again he will arrive at Roland Garros wearing his usual cloak of claycourt invincibility.
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IN 2007 Lucas Braun and Ryan Robinson emerged from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with such a sense of "professional invincibility" that they decided not to return to their old jobs in a consultancy and a hedge fund, respectively.
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Similar with this, nobody was trying ... KS: I think the issue is, a lot of them act like they're so confident, and when they make ... They project an aura of invincibility and competence, and lots of things have been badly designed.
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In repudiating China's sweeping claims over the South China Sea, the tribunal handed the government a credibility problem not only abroad but also at home — where the population has been treated to a steady diet of Chinese invincibility over the waterway.
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In the case of the F-35, the promise of invisibility to radar is so pronounced that it has colored much of the jet's employment doctrine, lending an air of invincibility to the weapon: The enemy never saw it coming.
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MORE FROM REUTERS COMMENTARY Maysam Behravesh: The real deal Trump has to make on Afghanistan Paul Wallace: Don't be fooled by Merkel's aura of invincibility Any call for the respect of rights in Trump's speech was reserved for nations, not people.
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But since last week, as the political turmoil rattles investors, it is spending sometimes a billion a day, even on the sly, to support the currency, the lira, as well as the waning aura of invincibility around President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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I was 26 years old and although I had no clue that I would eventually embark on a career in science writing, I rushed headlong into this adventure with an athlete's conviction of physical invincibility and a twentysomething's faith in improvisation.
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"In my opinion the result has hurt Salvini's aura of invincibility," said Lorenzo De Sio, politics professor at Rome's Luiss University, adding that he would now find it harder to win a raft of other regional ballots due this year.
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In the aftermath of a verbal dispute between Kevin Durant and Draymond Green that still may turn into something more and has already yielded one suspension while puncturing Golden State's aura of invincibility, all eyes are on Durant's free agency.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's opposition has dealt President Tayyip Erdogan a stinging blow by winning control of Istanbul in a re-run mayoral election, breaking his aura of invincibility and delivering a message from voters unhappy over his ever tighter grip on power.
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COLOMBEY-LES-DEUX-EGLISES, France (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron sought to wrap himself in the mantle of war hero Charles de Gaulle on Thursday after a spate of ministerial resignations dim an aura of invincibility that accompanied his first year in power.
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The bearded revolutionary's seeming invincibility contributed to Cuba's subversive mystique, the specter of which helped usher in a spate of reactionary and often U.S.-backed military dictatorships throughout Latin America: Brazil in 1964, followed by Chile in 1973 and Argentina in 1976.
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Bringing a case to the international court before then "could unintentionally lead to the further escalation of impunity, as a prompt dismissal of the case because of its fatal flaws could only give the perpetrators a deepened sense of invincibility," Mr. Bagares said.
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And maybe we would be more worried about Australia's economic future if house prices had kept soaring toward unsustainable highs, or if young people had made economic decisions with a sense of reckless invincibility and engaged in borrowing and spending behaviors accordingly.
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"The fact that the stocks have kept going up despite what the underlying businesses were doing gave them an air of invincibility and made them seem less risky than they are," Mike Huffman, chief investment officer at Vermont-based Rock Point Advisors, told CNBC.
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Angels erase early deficit against Yankees NEW YORK — Mike Scioscia earned a World Series ring in 2002 by presiding over an Anaheim Angels team that began its path to a championship by removing the cloak of invincibility from the dynasty-era New York Yankees.
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Followed by a huge sellout gallery of 17,000, nearly all of whom had eyes for one player only, Woods did not let them down with a performance that conjured up images of the halcyon days when he strutted the fairways with an aura of invincibility.
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I have no doubt his extreme oddness, bookishness, dabbles in the occult, fantasies of invincibility, though they failed to provide him with a proper chemical formula for mummifying his lady's corpse, supplied him copiously with lore, ritual, history, chants, prayers for launching her into immortality.
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This analysis is largely projected—a reflection of the widely shared belief that the Republican Party would thwart Trump's nomination, and that their failure to do so must be a symptom of his invincibility, when it was really just a symptom of the GOP's brokenness.
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If something seems untenable about the NFL's invincibility, both because the people running things are too venal and dumb and because of how cruelly the game burns through the people who play it, that only makes its appeal as a proxy for America more potent.
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But mostly it's the story of her brother, Sam (Jacob Ifan) — a hapless warehouse grunt who, as a 5-year-old, witnessed the shooting death of their father — and the seeming invincibility ignited within him once he finds himself in possession of a gun.
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While Islamic State's defeats in Iraq and Syria have erased its image of invincibility, they threaten to give it greater legitimacy in the eyes of disaffected Sunni Muslims because Shi'ite and Kurdish fighters are a major part of the campaign, some U.S. intelligence officials argue.
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When someone gets an inheritance, "there can be a feeling of invincibility, and when people feel invincible, they don't make good decisions," said Susan Bradley, founder of the Sudden Money Institute, which trains financial advisers to help clients handle windfalls and other financial transitions.
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And as the wins have continued to mount — 15 in a row after Wednesday's 4-0 rout of Swansea City — and as the perfect season inches closer, Guardiola and Manchester City will not be able to avoid thinking about their chance at immortality, and invincibility.
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While Mario Kart games have always been balanced to allow those players performing less well a chance to catch up, most notably by rewarding them with better items like the speed-boosting invincibility star or the opponent-munching piranha plant, these new features narrow the gap further.
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By finishing the fight in one minute and 52 seconds, Maia kept the Fox broadcast mostly inside its two-hour window and made his aura of invincibility glow a little brighter: according to FightMetric, Maia has absorbed only 13 significant strikes in his last four fights combined.
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GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Three of the most dominant swimmers in the world took center stage at the world championships on Monday but only Adam Peaty and Katinka Hosszu maintained their aura of invincibility while Sarah Sjostrom's reign in the 100m butterfly came to an end.
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But his rhetoric toward the press has heightened since the Republican National Convention as story after story—about his insults of the Khans, the dysfunction of his campaign, and the murky Russian dealings of his chairman, Paul Manafort—has chiseled away at his aura of invincibility.
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His defeat in 2018 in a quest for a third term (and in his fourth race in eight years) was a massive victory for national Democrats who had grown to loathe the Wisconsin governor not the least of which for his seeming invincibility to their electoral challenges.
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If every record is a snapshot, this debut captures a band when life was a blur of opportunities and sweaty upturned faces; at that point the stakes were raised to the sun, which even with the bullish invincibility of youth, is a scary-as-hell prospect.
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This was the first aircraft that Israel had lost in combat since 1982, and its air force, its reputation for invincibility injured, responded angrily by striking at the Syrian air defense system, knocking out five batteries, as well as destroying four Iranian communications facilities in Syria.
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The result fractured the invincibility of a strong-willed leader with little tolerance for dissent, who has made Turkey an increasingly prominent force in the Middle East and raised tensions with the United States as he moves his country, a member of NATO, closer to Russia.
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"What has happened in the past several days is the so-called invincibility (of Israel) has crumbled," Zarif, who addressed the conference hours after Netanyahu, said, referring to the downing of the Israeli F-16, which crashed in northern Israel after a strike on Syrian air defenses.
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That aura of invincibility appeared to be in jeopardy on Wednesday, as judges in Paris placed Mr. Bolloré under formal investigation after the police questioned him for two days over accusations that he helped the presidents of two African nations gain power in exchange for lucrative business contracts.
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Add to this the fact that Rousey lost her fight in December to Holly Holm, a fight that demolished the invincibility that Rousey's reputation, and more importantly Hollywood's interest in her, had been built on, and it's not hard to see that Ronda Rousey could be in trouble in motion pictures.
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The woman who stands between the presidency and a hot-head who wants to tear up the world's trading system is losing her air of invincibility, due to an unguarded comment about a "basket of deplorables", a bout of pneumonia and a foolish decision to conceal the illness from voters.
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"Now more than ever, Al Shabab effectively deploys I.E.D.s, complex attacks on both civilian and military targets, blockades to disrupt access, devises sophisticated extortion generating schemes, and utilizes intimidation tactics to afford itself invincibility status aimed at destabilizing Somalia and threatening neighboring countries," said Abdisaid Muse Ali, Somalia's national security adviser.
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Audiences are used to living vicariously through white characters that are above the law, as with the gangsters in "Goodfellas" (1990) and "The Godfather" (1972), or the methamphetamine manufacturers of "Breaking Bad" (2008-2013), and here Mr Poulter offers a compelling performance of a ruthless cop revelling in his own apparent invincibility.
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That is how it felt when Taylor blew his whistle, confirming that Sané's goal had been enough to seal a 2-1 victory for Pep Guardiola's team, enough to end Liverpool's 19-game unbeaten run, enough to evaporate the faint aura of invincibility that had started to attach itself to Jürgen Klopp's team.
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If we credit, for the sake of argument, his critics' favorite but untested hypothesis that his bubble will burst now because it was inflated by the perception of his invincibility, then his own supporters will be discouraged by his second-place finish, and defect to other candidates, or drop out of the electorate altogether.
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The Trump transition team, seeking to create an air of invincibility before the hearings, said in a statement on Sunday that the nominees have spent some 70 hours participating in "mock" hearings, have answered more than 2,600 questions from aides and volunteers posing as senators, and have met with 87 senators — including 37 Democrats.
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It's also newsworthy because Tarverdyan was at the helm for the entirety of Ronda Rousey's career, and ever since her aura of invincibility vanished with catastrophic losses to Holly Holm in 2015 and Amanda Nunes in December—the latter in 48 one-sided seconds—Tarverdyan has been the target of animosity from fans, fighters, and media.
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Albeit on the fourth attempt, after one embarrassing early death, a second run that saw me fall just shy of the maze, and a third on the cheats-enabled "Free Read" mode—you can immediately win fights or those tests of skill and luck, if you choose to—where despite my in-battle invincibility I still got chomped by a wraith.
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Perhaps the biggest loss is not Raqqa but its aura of invincibility: The loss of almost all its territory, and the surrender of fighters who formerly vowed to fight to the death, "really brings into question the core ideology," Doug Ollivant, a former director for Iraq on the National Security Councils in the Bush and Obama administrations, says in an email exchange.
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MORE FROM REUTERS COMMENTARY Peter Apps: The coming robot arms race Paul Wallace: Don't be fooled by Merkel's aura of invincibility Perhaps the most telling sign of Tehran-Taliban collaboration dates back to May 2016, when a U.S. drone targeted a lone vehicle on a desert route in the southwest Pakistani province of Baluchistan, killing the driver and his only passenger.
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Nine years, three bad losses, and five meaningless victories later, with the air of invincibility blown entirely away, who can fault him for finding positive associations in anyone connected to those days, and to wish one of those people (say, a sitting president) would appear again from out of the past, like a talisman and a good-luck charm, to bring back some of the old magic?
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It's got plenty of quirks—I can't tell if the game has invincibility frames, which makes combat unnecessarily difficult at times; the game won't always lock-on to enemies; the level design is purposely constrained to induce tension during fights but comes undone when the camera can't keep track of what's going on; the story is boring—but the satisfaction I'm getting from busting humanoid robots is proving enough.
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