Word: mereness
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...Cincinnati is a place where even the authorities--black and white--suspect that authority works against them. In a city where even fellow officers don't entirely trust one another, no wonder mere citizens raise their antennae during police encounters. Reports of racial profiling have taught many of us to be suspicious of cops. But if we act suspicious, cops notice. And when cops get scared--is that guy reaching for a wallet or his gun?--the whole process of distrust and fear can all too easily spiral into danger...
Unnecessary? Had we not all agreed that it is unethical, a violation of the elementary notion that we don't make of the human embryo a thing--to be made, unmade and used as a mere instrument for others? Dr. Michael Soules of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine was even more appalling. He saw nothing wrong with the procedure, except the "timing." Meaning, I suppose, that it would have been better if this news had remained hidden until President Bush had decided whether to fund stem-cell research, believing, falsely, that only discarded embryos were being used...
...time, I was getting divorced. As I lived through the fear and the regimen of radiation, I came to re-evaluate my life. I longed for a caring and supportive relationship that was above mere physicality. I thought how comforting it must be to have a marriage with history and meaningful texture, with children raised together--especially when you confront something as horrible as cancer. But I had never understood the sacrifices that were necessary for that kind of relationship. I was of the generation that wanted to have it all--love, career, children. When I was young, I felt...
...social thinker Ernst Becker said, a protest without a program is mere sentimentality. Some of the demonstrators are just migrating loons, for whom a WTO meeting offers the political equivalent of the mosh pit. Others are violently sentimental idealists whose program is to provoke Authority into retaliation, so that Authority may be discredited and, ultimately - they think, they project, they fantasize - brought down...
...DiBenedetto dredged up the names of literally hundreds of Einhorn's international coterie of friends and true believers, and he went after every last one of them. The mere thought of the task was daunting, but DiBenedetto, an amateur sculptor and book collector, has no problem with long stories. He owns multiple copies of the Iliad - six or eight, he can't remember which. Einhorn didn't have some burned-out patronage stiff after him. The Unicorn was being tracked by a hard-boiled, law-and-order renaissance...