Word: obviousness
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Just looking at the numbers, Barry Bonds is a baseball god. He has cracked a record 762 career home runs, clinching baseball’s most cherished record, and won seven awards for most valuable player. Yet despite his obvious superiority over other baseball players, nobody reveres Barry Bonds, and many fans no longer respect him. His name is synonymous with lying, cheating, and infamy. Bonds’ records were achieved with the use of a host of chemicals, used as performance enhancers, and his records will forever be tainted with a proverbial asterisk, and many fans’ faith...
...seems pretty obvious that in any discussion of the various methods whereby the crafty student attempts to show the grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject very well might mean something to the grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions—that is by the use of overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact, it wasn’t obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. This is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...fight was obvious, with each match ending in a tighter score as the weekend progressed. Although the Crimson could not pull out a win, the team was still proud of the good moments it earned...
...about an ending by seeing how long it takes people to start clapping,” he says. “If it happens too slowly, it means that they weren’t ready for it. If it happens too quickly, it means that it was too obvious...