They're mesmerizing, unconscious byproducts of human activity, which these days dominates even the most indomitable landscapes on the planet.
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There's Nancy Pelosi, who at 793 has proved the president's most indomitable opponent, and her peers in the House: Maxine Waters, 80, the first woman to head the Financial Services Committee, and Donna Shalala, who turns 78 on Feb.
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O'Mahony described Gray years later as the most indomitable man he met in 1848.T.F. O'Sullivan, pp. 403–04 Gray underwent many hardships while eluding capture by both the police and military in County Waterford for four months in the autumn and early winter of 1848. Hiding out in the Knockmealdown and Comeragh Mountains.
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Joly relates in his 1870 autobiography that one evening thinking of economist Abbé Galiani's treatise Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds ("Dialogues on the commerce in wheat") and walking by Pont Royal, he was inspired to write a dialogue between Montesquieu and Machiavelli. The noble baron Montesquieu would make the case for liberalism; the Florentine politician Machiavelli would present the case for despotism. Machiavelli claims that he "... wouldn't even need twenty years to transform utterly the most indomitable European character and render it as a docile under tyranny as the debased people of Asia". Montesquieu insists that the liberal spirit of the peoples is invincible.
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Roszel's final assignment was to the Hillborough Circuit in February 1841. He died on May 14, 1841, in Leesburg, Virginia after a brief illness. After his death, Nathan Bangs said "The qualities of [Roszel's] mind and heart were strong and practical, rather than speculative, beautiful or graceful ... He possessed the most indomitable perseverance ... and there were few men of his day who had an eye and hand more constantly or effectively on the great interest of the Church than Mr. Roszel." The 1841 Baltimore Conference Minutes commemorated him as "a man possessing singular courage, fortitude, constancy, and benevolence," adding that he was "blessed with a strong mind, a ready elocution, and great physical power." When Roszel joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, it had 149 traveling preachers in the United States and 42,000 members.
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In his book Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts (2007), Clive James admired Kovály's "psychological penetration and terse style" and stated: “Given 30 seconds to recommend a single book that might start a serious student on the hard road to understanding the political tragedies of the 20th century, I would choose this one." In their book Thinking the Twentieth Century: Intellectuals and Politics in the Twentieth Century (2012) Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder recommend Under a Cruel Star.Saul Austerlitz, The Boston Globe, February 12, 2012 Writing for The New York Times, Anthony Lewis said: "Once in a while we read a book that puts the urgencies of our time and ourselves in perspective, making us confront the darker realities of human nature." San Francisco Chronicle-Examiner called Kovály's memoir "a story of human spirit at its most indomitable … one of the outstanding autobiographies of the century.
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His 1874 obituary writers summarise his record thus... 'As a jockey Chris Green was one of the best and boldest horsemen of any time' and 'As a cross-country jockey he had few equals, for to the most indomitable pluck he added rare judgment, never being taken aback in a difficulty; he had a firm and at the same time elegant seat, and the finest hands. It mattered not what kind of horse he was put on, for he was equally at home on the puller as on the slug.' Praise for him as a trainer was slightly more muted, but, after the 1871 Grand National victory with The Lamb, a correspondent did comment on him in the following terms: 'Chris Green has not had charge of Lord Poulett's horses more than a twelvemonth, and it is something in the trainer's favour that he was able to win a Grand National on the first time of asking'.
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