Word: merestly
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...that Pablo Picasso dominated Western art in the 20th century is, by now, the merest commonplace. Before his 50th birthday, the little Spaniard from Malaga had become the very prototype of the modern artist as public figure. No painter before him had had a mass audience in his own lifetime. The total public for Titian in the 16th century or Velazquez in the 17th was probably no more than a few thousand people--though that included most of the crowned heads, nobility and intelligentsia of Europe. Picasso's audience--meaning people who had heard of him and seen his work...
...safety inspector), his epochally exasperated wife (Marge of the mountainous blue hair) and three conflicted kids. Bart, 10, is clever and cunning but addled in class; Lisa, 8, is a near genius whose intelligence deprives her of friends; year-old Maggie expresses frazzled wisdom beyond her years with the merest suck on her pacifier...
...when you link a fantasy culture to the wondrous American inventory of guns, you may now and then get a little terrorist. Guns fire vicious daydreams into the actual. Squint and point, and one magic trigger-finger's twitch, the merest spasm of impulse, may send the world into mayhem. That is a power so seductive that it might even have a little Satan...
...cemetery at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Veterans Day will pass without formal observation; if the weather holds, the 6,827 men, women and children interred there will spend the day under a cerulean sky and pompon trees, and the living around them will give them the merest thought. Cemeteries reward the ironist...
...story is the merest excuse for a rhapsody of textures: of the carpets, the wheat fields, the clouds, the streams in which the peasants dip their dyes. Color is almost a religion here. A charismatic teacher points out a classroom window to "the red of a poppy, the blue of God's heaven, the yellow of the sun that lights up the world," and these colors magically appear on his hands, as if he'd dipped them in a world still damp from Nature's first spectacular paint job. "Life is color!" he shouts, as exuberant as an Iranian Zorba...