"By all odds my great success in my life was that play, " Welles told BBC interviewer Leslie Megahey in 1982 . " Because the opening night there were five blocks in which all traffic was stopped.
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Alvin Plantinga described Jellema as " by all odds & the most gifted teacher of philosophy I have ever encountered and obviously in dead earnest about Christianity; he was also a magnificently thoughtful and reflective Christian .
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When an office holder or a campaigner utters the phrase " the American people " ( by all odds the most-uttered phrase on the Sunday interview programs ) it is in tones of respect shading into reverence.
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He was, by all odds, the most enigmatic president of this century, a man of ability who was never widely liked or trusted even before his fall, a man who understood power and then fatally misused it.
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"Today's battle was by all odds the best of the series _ a tightly played, fiercely fought engagement in which Bridges, superbly supported, outpitched incredible Dizzy Dean, " declared Mr . Jones.
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It is by all odds the best design on any American coin . " Saint-Gaudens did return the flying eagle to American coinage, but his design was used for the reverse of the double eagle rather than the cent.
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Robert E . Lee, on being asked ( by his cousin, and recorded by his son ) who was the ablest general on the Union side during the late war, replied emphatically : " McClellan, by all odds !"
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Yet reviews were not consistently good : " Opera " magazine reported on a Metropolitan Opera performance of " Barber of Seville " in which Merrill delivered " by all odds the most insensitive impersonation of the season ".
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"Mozart " is another in Viking's Penguin Lives series, brief biographies of major figures by contemporary writers, and it is by all odds a signal achievement . ( Skube, Atlanta Journal-Constitution ) . 25.
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By all odds, its most interesting part is McCain, a Navy pilot who was shot down and imprisoned for 5 { years, and whose heroism there " is truly breathtaking to read about, " in former Navy Secretary John Lehman's words.
