Word: mereness
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...best-selling Angel fragrance, Thierry Mugler has introduced La Parte des Anges, a perfume extract. Treated in the manner of cognac, La Parte des Anges is the result of aging Angel in a cherrywood cask for 23 weeks. Intensely concentrated, each of the numbered bottles contains a mere...
...year tradition maintains only a tenuous grasp on our collective imagination. While we certainly pay it lip service—even competing to outdo one another in antipathy toward Yale—the substance of the rivalry has long since eroded. For most, Harvard-Yale has become another mere excuse for collegiate revelry, which even the local authorities have recently conspired to expunge...
...overcome for Israel to trust Syrian intentions. Shortly after declaring independence in 1948, Israel was invaded by Syria along with five other Arab states. In the Six Day War of 1967, Israel conquered and holds to this day the strategic Golan Heights, once-Syrian territory that is a mere 35 miles from Damascus. A surprise Syrian-initiated war in 1973 on Yom Kippur, the holiest Jewish day of the year no less, added to the enmity. Though peace negotiations seemed close in the 1990s, Israeli-Palestinian accords soon gained primary importance in Israel, the United States, and the rest...
...already featured music, Scanlan always thought it didn’t quite fit. For a director whose greatest concern with Beckett is achieving “formal perfection,” Scanlan says that finding the right scores is just as important as finding the right cast. More than mere background melody, music plays an important role—even becoming a sort of character—in the first of the three pieces. “For me, music is a novelty with Beckett,” Epstein says. Needless to say, it is for the audience as well...
...then there is the question of proving original ownership. Sometimes a group can show it has been on a given tract of land since records began. But this situation is rare. Often a claim is just that, a mere assertion unbacked by documents of any kind, made by Aborigines who live in an entirely different area. This infuriates some Australian graziers, especially those whose stations (ranches) are on land they do not own outright but hold in lease from the Crown. A native title claim on their land, even a weak one, can freeze their assets and put bank loans...