Word: exteriorly
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...tough leathery exterior, but inside he's warm and mushy--you put a pat of butter on top, and you're in business," he said...
...building would make a lobbyist drool. The latest and fanciest edifice in Washington's central commercial district is 1801 L Street, with a red marble exterior and a gold-plated price: $33 a square foot, a third more than neighboring rentals. The biggest tenant: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal agency that is supposed to enforce antidiscrimination laws. Why should taxpayers spend $5.5 million a year to house Government bureaucrats in such lavish premises? For one thing, says EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas, lesser quarters "would be sending the wrong signal" and might even cause people not to take...
Flight Engineer Benjamin Zimmermann, 48, told of accompanying Hammadi to inspect the aircraft's exterior while it was on the tarmac in Algiers a few hours later. "Hammadi pointed to the door and the blood((stains)) running from the sill," said Zimmermann. "He made gestures to the pistol and himself . . . indicating that he was proud of his gun and himself for causing this." Hammadi repeated his denials that he had killed Stethem...
...similar use of ellipsis. "A Small, Good Thing" has the seductively simple ring of Hemingway titles like "The End of Something" and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." And the men in Where I'm Calling From hunt, fish, drink and brawl. But although Hemingway's men adopt a tough exterior in order to hide when life or women get them down, Carver's men remain vulnerable, as husbands or fathers, and risk compassion...
...whiskey is too prestigious, too refined, for mere mortals who are puny and insignificant compared to the grandeur of Glenlivet whiskey. The allure of the unachieveable that the ad plays on is linked with the books that accompany the whiskey on the shelf. These books have an offputting, "artsy" exterior, not to mention that each title remarks on the diminishing stature of humans...