Word: merely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mere prelude to the flight-of-the-bumble-bee escapade at Carlton Beach a half-hour later. This could have been Katzenberg's idea; as head of Disney animation in its palmy "Renaissance" years (1988-94), he had hosted ever more elaborate industry previews of his films, culminating in a Las Vegas stunt for The Lion King with a live lion onstage. The beast was so fond of Jeffrey, it nearly behaved toward him as another Vegas lion later did to Siegfried's Roy; but Jeffrey escaped basically unmauled. Now, under his auspices, a zillionaire comic would perform a kind...
...travel, we're all expected to take jet lag in our stride these days, and be able to head straight from the red-eye to the morning's first appointment with barely a pause. In an age of deep-vein thrombosis and security scares, to be worried about mere jet lag even seems a little frivolous. But this isn't being fair on our systems: your mind may be jumping from the third coffee you've gulped since landing, but fatigue, dehydration and insomnia are the body's reminders of how testing being strapped into a metal tube, and hurled...
...Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: Imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2(NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read...
...Public Affairs, contained a “vignette” emphasizing that the medical school would insist on “evidence-based” approaches to medical education. Doctors call medical therapies “evidence-based” only if clinical trials–as opposed to mere anecdotal experience–have suggested that the therapies are effective. The medical school wants to establish a new Center for Evaluation to apply the academic gold standard to medical education techniques. “To ensure that curriculum reform is not a faith-based initiative...
...wants to be heard and respected, the UC must explain why mere undergraduates should be involved at the highest echelons of decision-making. I, for one, am not convinced we have either the experience or the objectivity to have a vote on any issues, trivial or crucial. From consultation on summer storage to picking the next University president, the UC has thus far failed to show that they are not themselves an unsuccessful bureaucracy merely lobbying for an elusive raison d’être...