| Viewed in this framework, all scientific theorisations are basically waiting for the black swan. |
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| The focus of the investigation should not be on how to avoid any specific black swan, for we don't know where the next one is coming from. |
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| The great financial crisis of 2008 to 2009, whose consequences still blight our economy, is sometimes portrayed as a black swan. |
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| The prospect of a black swan event is interesting and worth thinking about. |
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| One day, I took a short-cut across St James's Park and saw, in the lake, a black swan. |
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| Both The Fountain and black swan had their own exhibits, the latter of which Sidhu also assisted on. |
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| The Fountain was one long fight, The Wrestler was divorce, and then we reconciled on black swan. |
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| Does Nina murder Lily before triumphing onstage as a very scary black swan? |
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| Natalie Portman The black swan Oscar winner rapped on SNL with The Lonely Island. |
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| The black swan concept focuses on an individual event instead of the cumulative probability of the numerous events that will lead to the same outcome. |
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| A related black swan is the fragmentation of the European Union, which would also damage U.S. strategic interests. |
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| As a ballerina, to embody the duality of the Swan Queen and the black swan can be a fiendishly difficult task. |
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| The natural history of Australia was little recorded in early Dutch voyages of the seventeenth century, although there were observations of wallaby, quokka, and black swan. |
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| The mute swan is a familiar sight on the river but the escaped black swan is more rare. |
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| Knowing that a black swan might be out there disciplines activity. |
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| According to Taleb, historical experience is of little use in predicting this type of event: before a black swan was seen for the first time on the Australian coast, it was believed that all swans were white. |
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| Gilles Jobin takes to the philosopher Karl Popper the image of the black swan which symbolizes an extreme destabilization of our perception of the reality. |
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| But the main draw is the iconic dual role of the white and black swan, performed with featherlike fragility and breathtaking strength by company legend Tamara Rojo. |
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| The refreshingly younger torch-bearers of York jazz continue their regular jam sessions on Sunday night at the Black Swan, Peasholme Green. |
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| From 1.30 pm Joan Whitehead sings jazz standards and your jazz Sunday winds up in jam session style at the Black Swan, Peasholme Green. |
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| Our Black Swan was, according to Lloyd, an annual visitor to the East Pond for at least a few years. |
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| Although Black Swan was itself vertically integrated, vertical integration had drawbacks. |
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| Black swan events only exist if we focus on causes instead of outcomes. |
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| She completed the difficult series of fouettes in the coda of the Black Swan pas de deux which even more senior ballerinas sometimes cannot manage as well. |
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| Early versions of this idea were developed in his previous books Fooled by randomness and The Black Swan. |
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| Another top contender in the Oscar race is Barbara Hershey, as the smothering mother of fragile Natalie Portman in Black Swan. |
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| Local tradition holds that she also housed her clerical guests in the Black Swan Inn at Peaseholme Green, where the Queen's agents were lodged. |
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| Mansell has also contributed the score to HBO's Voyeur and Aronofsky's Black Swan. |
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| I can honestly say it is up there with The Black Swan at Oldstead, which you gave six stars, with not an ounce of pretentiousness or snootiness. |
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| The first prize winner will receive a Black Swan hoodie, jewellery box, candles, necklace and perfume atomiser and there are two runners-up packages. |
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