Word: obvious
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...actually cold outside or not, you see signs of cold everywhere. The street in front of my house, for example, is very badly frost-heaved, so it has big waves in the street. Looking in the mountains that I can see outside my window, there is very obvious glacial erosion that creates these beautiful U-shaped alpine valleys. And the wildlife around here, of course, is all adapted to the cold. What better topic to write about than something that's right in your face all the time? (Read about identifying the great blob of Alaska...
...seems to have gambled with the choice of L’Aquila for the July G8 summit in order to draw attention away from recent accusations that his social life resembles that of a sordid playboy’s. Since people use symbols to convey something beyond the obvious, Berlusconi’s political symbolism at the G8 summit might be cynically viewed as having a particularly hollow and manipulative motive...
...outcome of the trial was unsurprising. "I'm afraid the verdict will be painfully obvious," Suu Kyi was heard to say in court last month. But she isn't going to prison. According to recent reports, she was stockpiling Winston Churchill's biographies and other books in anticipation of jail time. "If you are going through hell," Britain's wartime leader famously said, "keep going." Suu Kyi and her supporters can do little else...
...concocted statistics such as this one: "The average racist murderer in this country is 40 times more likely to be a member of an ethnic minority than the other way round." It's safe to say that a resemblance to India's icon of peaceable nationalism isn't immediately obvious. The link turns out to be distributism, a philosophy opposed to big government and big corporations alike and a formative influence for both men, according to Griffin. "[Distributism] took Gandhi in a very similar direction - mutatis mutandis obviously," he says. "I'm not going to wear a loincloth...
...obvious that Plaintiffs have chosen to slander Mr. Prince rather than raise legal arguments or actual facts that will be considered by a court of law." - Statement released by Xe on Aug. 6 in response to the allegations...