Generally speaking, by the time a subculture such as steampunk secures the attention of major media, resulting in extensive coverage of the craze, said phenomenon is already on the way out.
We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
I had a difficult time getting my arms around Einstein's work, even when I was a physics major at one of the top universities in India.
The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed servic...
If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
T-Bird: Somebody stuck his blades in all his major organs in alphabetical order.
Major Strasser: What is your nationality? Rick: I'm a drunkard. Captain Renault: That makes Rick a citizen of the world. [all laugh]
Captain Renault: Major Strasser has been shot... round up the usual suspects.
Major Strasser: Perhaps you have already observed that in Casablanca human life is cheap.
Major John Reisman: You know what to do, free the French and shoot the Germans!
Major Motoko Kusanagi: I mean, have you ever actually seen your brain?
Major General Colt: Get the hell out of here Bonzer, we got the game on.
Jackson Bentley: What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally to the desert? T.E. Lawrence: It's clean.
Major Tom Baxter: I thought you weren't ready to kill. General Hummel: I'm warmin' up.
If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.
In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature.
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.
Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.
More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.
And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
