Word: outerness
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...talents. . . . His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant. . . . He which had received the one talent came and said, Lord . . . I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth. . . . His lord answered, Thou wicked and slothful servant. . . . Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth...
...known that the temperature of the radiation from the surface of the sun is approximately 6,000 degrees centigrade," Menzel and Goldberg pointed out, "But the condition of atoms in the sun's outer atmosphere indicates that temperatures of over 1,000,000 degrees centigrade prevail at some distance from the sun. This and other indirect evidence suggest that there is an unexpectedly large quantity of ultra-violet radiation from the sun's surface...
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 (Reformation) (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 7 sides). One of Mendelssohn's least attractive symphonies, in which the brassy ponderousness of the two outer movements smothers the charm and simplicity of the woodwinds in the two inner movements, done as attractively as possible by Sir Thomas. Performance: good...
...Dante condemns the lukewarm, those "miserable souls . . . whom infamy and honor both forgot," to wander in a no man's land beyond the outer circle of hell...
...Patriarch mounted the rostrum in the middle of the nave. Acolytes ceremonially stripped him of his outer robes and crown. Then over the Patriarch's shoulders they draped three layers of bright, resurrection-season vestments-scarlet and gold in place of silver, a crown of gold and rubies for the pearl-and-diamond one. As each vestment was presented to him on a velvet-covered silver salver, the Patriarch reverently kissed it. For the last time the acolytes came forward with the salver. Typically Russian pomp turned to typically Russian casualness. The Patriarch did not kiss the object...