Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee began trying to jam the revolving door between Government and private law offices. When a Government lawyer entered private practice, the committee proposed disqualifying his entire law firm from any case that the newcomer had handled while on the public payroll. The idea produced "sheer panic" in many legal quarters, Government and private alike. Prospects for significant change are considered slim...
...like sinologists--what is the significance of this wall poster, that party member's rehabilitation? And it is my private contention that what Dylan gave us in Renaldo and Clara is the greatest two-hour concert film of all time, spliced together with and wrapped around two hours of sheer garbage...
...this cynicism and lassitude still leaves Greene stranded, it does serve to throw a lot of weighty-sounding words into the air: piety, belief, hope, despair, loneliness, love...By sheer dint of having bandied these concepts about for so many years, Greene has gained a reputation for possessing a dose of profundity. Yet Greene's is a worldly wisdom that is never fully-earned. It is a posture of knowing pessimism that we are expected to take as an a priori supposition, and which Greene keeps us from questioning too deeply with his fleeting, almost cinematic prose; he gives...
...grateful that the script does not explain Max's self-destructiveness with handwringing, Freudian sermons, Straight Time might at least have explored the existential meaning of his criminal joyrides. The movie chooses instead to rub our noses in the sad predictability of Max's life, as if sheer gloom were its own reward...
...happens every year, Members of the Harvard tennis team head south with sheer optimism for their calling card, only to encounter tough southern teams that have been playing outdoor matches since February, before returning home with a couple of wins and a couple of frustrating losses...