Risked death? Had septuplets? Welcome to the age of miracles

From: The Independent - London | Date: December 1, 1997| Author: THOMAS SUTCLIFFE | Copyright information

It was, declared the proud parents, a miracle and newspapers all over the world appeared to agree with them, rubber-stamping the delivery of living septuplets with that increasingly familiar cliche for the unexpected (even this newspaper, which usually prides itself on its rational sobriety, joined in). But, as miracles go, this was a rather intriguing one, because it neatly united two incompatible usages of the word. The first of these is by far the more venerable one - the sense of a divine...

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