Word: sheering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Over a number of years, I have met Queen Elizabeth both on formal occasions and less formally at family weddings and horse races. I have the greatest admiration for her sheer professionalism and charm but also for her sense of fun. She has the ability to put everyone at ease and has a phenomenal memory for places and people. The Duke of Edinburgh is still a ball of energy and, yes, thankfully, still positively flirtatious - though not inappropriately. They have given a lifetime of service not only to Britain and the Commonwealth but also to the whole world by their...
...Ocean from the 1,500-m Point Lookout platform, is just one of the joys awaiting hikers in New England National Park www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au - an ecological wonderland of soaring cliffs and World Heritage rainforest. If time is limited, the 2.5-km Eagle's Nest circuit, along the edge of a sheer drop, offers adrenaline in a jiffy...
...family via instant message or email, we’re increasingly able to keep in touch without face-to-face contact, or indeed without working particularly hard at relationship-building at all. While before we may have had fewer deeper friendships—those select few enabled by sheer force of will to last over great distances—now we have many weaker ones: people we talk to once in a blue moon when our schedules align (who hasn’t gone through their buddy list at 3 a.m. while putting off a paper?) but otherwise go months...
...school gave way to a more fluid, molten hyperrealism. The widespread conviction that truth has become stranger than fiction triggered a kind of strangeness inflation, an arms race of exaggeration, wherein novelists satirically augment and amp up and overclock their fictions in an attempt to keep up with the sheer implausibility of real life...
...women’s issues on campus. Her job as a writers’ assistant entails everything from fleshing out ideas in notes recorded during meetings to getting coffee. She hopes to become a writer for a television series in the future, although she cautioned that “sheer talent” is not enough to make the transition from Harvard to Hollywood. “If you’ve got talent, that’s great. But you have to work your ass off to make things happen out here,” says Thomason...