How To Use Holy grail In A Sentence
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Nuclear fusion is sort of the Holy Grail of energy production, whereby atomic nuclei slam together at high temperatures, fuse and release a great deal of energy.
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Trying to find truth in the blogs is like the search for the Holy Grail.
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For the last few years, the so-called foamless shoe has been the holy grail of the athletic footwear industry.
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Late in the twelfth century stories of the Holy Grail began to be written in France.
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He is a kind of bewhiskered Sir Galahad who goes in quest of Trilby instead of the Holy Grail, and having found her, sits down on her bed and cheers her up while she kisses and caresses him.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
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I now write for this magazine regularly, and this month being the patronal month of the Precious Blood, I was able to research and write about that, and the tradition of the Holy Grail, and Joseph of Arimithea...go on, get a copy.
Archive 2008-07-01
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It tells the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and their quest for the Holy Grail.
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In June 2002, Hasek backstopped the Red Wings to hockey's version of the Holy Grail.
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Rather than pursuing the holy grail of million-selling titles, the company is focused on achieving annual profitability.
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Some people link Mary to the Holy Grail and the Knights Templar.
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The modern quest for this holy grail focuses on hormones and chemicals.
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The Holy Grail of potholing is believed to lie in a remote area of China where prehistoric caves are thought to be almost twice as deep as any previously explored.
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Ladies and gentlemen of the global 1 %, she is the holy grail.
Times, Sunday Times
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In forest economics, that is the Holy Grail.
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But over the centuries, the fate of this now legendary vessel, the so-called Holy Grail, has come to haunt stories ranging from Arthurian legend to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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After having put in practice all chivalries, devout and worldly, gone with Peredur in quest of the Holy Grail and fair ladies, and dreamed with St. Brandan of mystical Atlantides, who knows what it would produce in the domain of intellect, if it hardened itself to an entrance into the world, and subjected its rich and profound nature to the conditions of modern thought?
The Poetry of the Celtic Races. VI.
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People have called Rea asking if he knows the location of the Holy Grail, a cup Jesus is said to have used during the Last Supper.
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Those three are the holy grail for energy policy.
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This was pretty much the starting point of the Arthurian legends with regard to the Holy Grail.
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Since this is something of a holy grail these days, it's probably worth pausing to consider how else you get there.
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This polarity is reflected in cinema as well, with the substance most commonly depicted as either a hilarious holy grail or a gateway to harder, darker substances.
Abe Schwartz: A "Bad Batch" of Pot Brownies in Los Angeles
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Because factoring is so difficult mathematically, it's also pretty much the holy grail of contemporary cryptanalysis.
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The holy grail for a curler, equivalent to a seven-ball victory in pool, is to have all eight stones nearer to the house than your opposition but such instances are very rare.
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We all know that the holy grail for people who yo-yo diet is how to keep off the weight that they lose.
Times, Sunday Times
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His name is cited in the four gospels. Legend has it that he obtained the holy grail from the last supper.
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I was amazed when I actually found a copy of German anthroposophist Walter Stein's The Ninth Century and the Holy Grail, which I had assumed Ravenscroft had also fabricated.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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The holy grail for all tobacco companies is the ‘safe cigarette’.
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The holy grail of contemporary word coining — and this is not recreational — is a singular personal pronoun that means he or she.
Sniglets and Slithy Toves
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This was becoming a search of mythic proportions for a Holy Grail.
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Sustained nuclear fusion is the holy grail of the power industry.
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The last is culture - the holy grail of a community, where individuals feel strong levels of identification with both place and people.
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“For birders, the cassowary is their holy grail,” Mick tells me as we share tea on the veranda overlooking the garden.
Birdology
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He says it is the holy grail : the perfect 80 minutes.
Times, Sunday Times
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It promises travellers the holy grail of air travel - no more layovers.
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The discovery is being hailed as The Holy Grail of astronomy.
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But the holy grail is a sighting of the man himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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After having put in practice all chivalries, devout and worldly, gone with Peredur in quest of the Holy Grail and fair ladies, and dreamed with St. Brandan of mystical Atlantides, who knows what it would produce in the domain of intellect, if it hardened itself to an entrance into the world, and subjected its rich and profound nature to the conditions of modern thought?
The Poetry of the Celtic Races. VI.
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We may remember here that the Holy Grail is sometimes considered to be a stone, as well as a vessel.
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Three Texan brothers have discovered the holy grail of paint jobs - one that can change colour completely at the flick of a switch.
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This article intends to trace the Holy Grail theme from a set of motifs in medieval romance to the modern genre of grail literature and to focus on the resulting interface between literary and popular culture.
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Now there's growing talk of Dixon graduating to Formula One, the Holy Grail of motor racing.
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But like the quest for the Holy Grail, SEO is also sheaved in myth and misinformation.
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Today's proliferating new technologies seem to offer advertisers the chance to reach this holy grail.
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~ Why the rumored discovery of the Higgs boson is bad news for particle physics -- Some call the Higgs boson the Holy Grail of particle physics.
Speedlinking 6/4/07
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Getting something for nothing is the holy grail of the consumer.
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It be thy Holy Grail, Myrddin, where thee bade the Goddess to store thy knowledge.
THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
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For Ellington enthusiasts, those acetate pressings are our Loch Ness Monster, our Holy Grail.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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It tells the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and their quest for the Holy Grail.
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The fabled holy grail of gaming is letting the player do whatever they want - full interactivity.
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It was like the search for the Holy Grail, but more like the Monty Python film version.
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Right here they were dealing with the Ascot Gold Cup, the Holy Grail for the stamina racehorse.
BARRACUDA 945
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All about me were nobleness of purpose and heroism of effort, and my days and nights were sunshine and starshine, all fire and dew, with before my eyes, ever burning and blazing, the Holy Grail, Christ's own Grail, the warm human, long-suffering and maltreated but to be rescued and saved at the last. '
Chapter 5: The Philomaths
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They announce that they have found the holy grail.
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Getting beyond the first stage of a major tournament is the holy grail.
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Clad in a tight-fitting suit that seems one size too short, and clutching his briefcase as if it contained the Holy Grail, he exudes an almost saintly goodness.
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Or this, further, it may represent, in striking and inspiring way, -- that the pure in heart shall win the victories in life; that the guileless are the valiant sons of God; that the heart that resists evil passion and is touched by pity for the world's woe is the heart that reincarnates the passionate purity of the Christ and can reveal again the healing power, the Holy Grail of God.
Parsifal A Mystical Drama By Richard Wagner Retold In The Spirit Of The Bayreuth Interpretation
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Legend has it that he obtained the holy grail from the last supper.
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Now, it may seem odd to focus on letter spacing, but it's been a holy grail of the printing industries since the beginning.
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This is based on the idea that the original French sangraal, which is usually taken as san graal Holy Grail, should properly be rendered as sang real—the royal blood, which they took to mean a bloodline.
The Templar Revelation
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It was always a myth, like the holy grail, or the elixir of life, that I was searching for.
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Others sought the Holy Grail, Dad stalked the earth in pursuit of the perfect pyjama.
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Perhaps it was an illusion, or a myth, like the Holy Grail, but she searching for it all the same.
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The holy grail for any magazine is hitting your target market bang on the nail.
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Kynge Arthur, of his noble knyghtes of the Round Table, theyr mervayllous enquestes and adventures, the achyevying of the Holy Grail, and in the end the dolourous deth and departyng out of thys world of them al. Whiche book was reduced in to englysshe by Syr Thomas Malory knyght as afore is sayd, and by me enprynted and fynyshed in the abbey
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"
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The longer term holy grail of 3D bioprinting is the ability to be able to print viable human tissue for grafting or implant into the human body.
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I think it's safe to assume, dealing with the Knights Templar, the Holy Grail will be involved somehow, and while not necessarily SF, the whole Grail/King Arthur/Templar mythos is just too interesting to pass up (see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade).
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But the holy grail is a sighting of the man himself.
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Friends and acquaintances consistently tried to talk me out of seeking this holy grail.
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Sustained nuclear fusion is the holy grail of the power industry.
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After finding out the freeware is your holy grail of software, I now understand how you failed on this one.
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It is the best hope we have of this much sought after holy grail - peace in our time.
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At the heart of the fight between the two big parties is the holy grail of the public sector, those mystical ‘savings’.
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Look for Rebel Yell, Holy Grail, and all those cool t-shirts that cost a bundle.
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A polymorphic batch file appears to be a holy grail to some virus writers, perhaps because of how insanely difficult it is to produce one.
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`We'll find it, wherever it is,' promised Joan fiercely, as if this mission was the search for the Holy Grail.
JUST BETWEEN US
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It be thy Holy Grail, Myrddin, where thee bade the Goddess to store thy knowledge.
THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
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Neither doctor manages to find the holy grail of a cure, but their quest lays bare the foundations of contemporary thinking on the subject.
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The holy grail of theoretical physics is to find a single unified theory that describes the four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces.
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The plot proper, however, is the Big One - a quest for the Holy Grail.
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A vaccine for malaria has become something of a scientific holy grail.
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Japan, as the most style-conscious market on the planet, represents the holy grail in fashion terms.
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The holy grail of acoustic swath mapping is to use backscatter more quantitatively; that is, to transform the image into estimates of seafloor properties.
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What do you do when you have found the holy grail?
Times, Sunday Times
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The upshot is that there is no obvious genetic holy grail defining what it means to be human.
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Our holy grail is the standardized test, even though these tests have been shown to be laughable in tracking student knowledge, biased towards those with more wealth and cultural capital, and destructive in narrowing and dumbing down the curriculum as schools focus on test prep to avoid closure.
Rick Ayers: It's Time to Decriminalize Learning
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Simulating protein folding is often considered a "holy grail" of computational biology, he added.
Boing Boing: October 20, 2002 - October 26, 2002 Archives
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Like the Holy Grail, it is a dream, a tantalising illusion.
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The couple's Holy Grail was a huge mansion in the verdant English countryside.
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This may well become the new Holy Grail of financial economics.
Times, Sunday Times
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The team get very excited by the tale of Sir Lancelot and the Quest for the Holy Grail and decide to relive his adventures.
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It's the holy grail of foundation!
The Sun
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Soon I was hunting for the Holy Grail: a genuine spring-wound Victrola.
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“If we are successful,” he says, “it will be the holy grail of postharvest fruit biology.”
The Fruit Hunters
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Nuclear fusion is the Holy Grail of energy production.
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So the Holy Grail really is to try to design athletic footwear that is very light, that is very flexible, that has specific areas of high shock absorbency or shock attenuation, whatever you want to call it.
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It has been suggested an underground vault contains the Holy Grail, a cup from which Christ drank, and the Ark of the Covenant.
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In most of these romances the grail is a cup used at the Last Supper and there are several actual vessels that claim to be the Holy Grail.
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Mrs. Whitaker gave fifty pence to Marie, who gave her ten pence change and a brown paper bag to put the books and the Holy Grail in.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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Like the Holy Grail, it is a dream, a tantalising illusion.
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An object referred to as the grail and later as the Holy Grail occurs in a number of medieval romances written between the end of the twelfth and the end of the thirteenth century.
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For the smart set, thalassotherapy is the medi-beauty holy grail.
Times, Sunday Times
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I remembered all these numbers, but all these can possibly cause cervical cancer, sort of the Holy Grail of this, to try and prevent as many cervical cancers as possible, is to produce something called a multivalent vaccine.
CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2002
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Nuclear fusion is the Holy Grail of energy production.
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Through a mouthful of pear and custard, `We've decided to make you a knight of the Holy Grail ," Morris said.
LOHENGRIN
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Gilliam Directing The Holy Grail [ with Jones ] was my lucky break.
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In 1190, no one had ever heard of the Holy Grail: fifty years later, it was a central theme of half a dozen romances, familiar to anyone interested in the stories of Arthur and his knights.
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Nuclear fusion is the Holy Grail of energy production.
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Both resorts offer the holy grail of Caribbean property: beachside homes.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the last few years, the so-called foamless shoe has been the holy grail of the athletic footwear industry.
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OLEDS are far superior in brightness and in their compact nature. the holy grail is to make them last more than a few thousand hours. there is also a lot of hope for carbon nanotubes. — dave kliman
Jumping on the L.E.D. Bandwagon - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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Nuclear Fusion Nuclear fusion - the process which powers the sun - is the Holy Grail of energy production.
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The discovery is being hailed as The Holy Grail of astronomy.
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The Holy Grail is actually growing an organ, because people need livers, they need hearts, they need pancreases; how far down the track is that?
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After years of searching, I have found my holy grail: the ultimate pub quiz.
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Nuclear fusion is the Holy Grail of energy production.
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For decades it has been acclaimed as pop music's lost masterpiece, the holy grail of rock and the best album never made.
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The holy grail for retail developers is turning shopping into a leisure pursuit.
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The plot proper, however, is the Big One - a quest for the Holy Grail.
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This is a tale of a young woman named Alice Fell, a teenage American punker who has been having visions of the London Eye all her life (and before there was such a thing), so follows her vision to the UK and falls into a conspiracy that moves through secret societies (and shadowy assailants) all the way back to the origins of the Holy Grail myth.
Feast Your Eyes...
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The question of whether life could have evolved on another planet has always been the big question, the Holy Grail, for astrobiologists and planetary scientists alike.
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That was my Holy Grail, and there could be no real life for me until I found it.
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Illinois: The race between Rep. Mark Kirk (R) and state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias (D) reminds us of that great scene in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" where the black knight is grievously wounded time and again but comes back for more.
The Fix's "Big Senate Six"
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Another generation of Labour leaders, in the 1960s, were still left to search for the Holy Grail of economic planning.
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Only 100 were printed with its central image -- the Curtiss JN-4 airplane -- upside-down, and today a single copy of this Holy Grail of philatelic flubs sells for more than a million dollars.
Michael Sigman: Amazon's Perfect Mistake
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Almost all of us are trying to find a third way, the holy grail of a work/life balance which means having a stimulating career and a family who still remember your name.
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There was no quest for the holy grail of the infallible gloveman who could also make hundreds.
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The couple's Holy Grail was a huge mansion in the verdant English countryside.
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The Vorspiel, or prelude, to the opera takes for its subject the descent of the Holy Grail, the mysterious symbol of the Christian faith, and the Grail motive is the key to the whole work.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
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In fact, perfect information is the unattainable holy grail, but dotcom business brings it that little bit closer.
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SG-1, Baa'l and Adria were looking for the San Gral (hence forth known as "sg") aka the Holy Grail, which is a stone in SG-1 world, not a cup.
Chsturtle Diary Entry
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In his stage show Ken tries to find out the meaning of life and continues his search for the holy grail of comedy, the state of mind in which everything is funny.
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For decades electricity storage has been a holy grail for the industry.
Times, Sunday Times
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A. It is the holy grail of modern menswear - an easy way of dressing that allows you to be comfortable and presentable at the same time.
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This seat was called the Siege Perilous, and was reserved for the knight so pure in heart that he would someday find the Holy Grail, the cup or dish used by Jesus at the Last Supper.
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We all know that the holy grail for people who yo-yo diet is how to keep off the weight that they lose.
Times, Sunday Times
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His field was organic or carbon-based semiconductors, and Schön appeared able to grab every holy grail in the business.
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Today we see him sporting a Monty Python and the Holy Grail T-shirt with a pair of baggy jeans with holes worn in the knees.
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But over the centuries, the fate of this now legendary vessel, the so-called Holy Grail, has come to haunt stories ranging from Arthurian legend to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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A judge at the High Court in London rejected allegations by two historians that Brown had stolen ideas from their book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
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These ancient people bring us the legend of King Arthur and the Holy Grail.
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We are given a wonderful account of visits to Attu, the desolate, westernmost of the Aleutian Islands - and holy grail of birders - to see smews, pochards, and stragglers blowing in from Siberia.
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The holy grail for any magazine is hitting your target market bang on the nail.
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Defined as a computing device that forgoes the usual keyboard as its main input method, numerous vendors have unsuccessfully pursued this Holy Grail.
Why Tablet Computers Will Succeed Now
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Total reusability is the holy grail of space development.
Back to the Moon—For a Fraction of the Old Price
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The Black Knight in The Holy Grail, after being rendered armless, declared, "It's just a flesh wound.
Bob Bowdon: Teachers Unions and Shifting Winds
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And what is King Arthur without Excalibur and the quest for the Holy Grail?
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The myth of the Holy Grail must be one of the most enduring of all human stories.
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Everyone was pursuing the holy grail of the young and trendy listener with the disposable income.
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It has been suggested an underground vault contains the Holy Grail, a cup from which Christ drank, and the Ark of the Covenant.
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But just over the azimuth is the holy grail of mapping, where every imaginable form of location-based information is layered onto an aggregate construct that mirrors the whole world.
MAKING THE ULTIMATE MAP
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I always found the search for the Holy Grail - this cup that was used at the Last Supper - rather ludicrous.
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Bringing together employer and candidate in one fell swoop is pehaps a holy grail, and I’m afraid it will always be so – after all we are talking about people and personalities and god knows they clash much too often.
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