Word: sheerly
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...Despite the sheer amount of creative writing that gets published at the college," the article reads, "there has been almost on discussion of this work in pages of student publications and very little informal discussion outside the narrow circles of workshop students and magazine staffs." Let Dartboard translate: although my friends and I have managed to hijack the Advocate and spread our mediocre juvenilia around campus, on one writes about us. Boo hoo. Up until now, we considered it useless to comment on an issue about which the campus feels roughly unanimous. And as for Mr. Canner's last point...
Unfortunately, the technical problems of the musical impede the presentation and examination of the situation. Although the orchestra plays from the upper balcony of the Agassiz Theater, the acoustics of the auditorium and the size of the orchestra overwhelm the singers nonetheless. Their sung words remain buried under the sheer volume of the instruments; since the musical has little spoken dialogue to clarify the characters' identities and actions, much of the plot goes unexplained...
Other politicians came and went, but Nixon was always coming back. By sheer endurance, he was the most important figure of the postwar era. Nixon put the country through some of its worst times, leading the red-scare politics of the 1950s, escalating the war in Vietnam in order to end it, trying with all his enormous energy and guile to defeat the legal processes that closed in on him during the Watergate scandal. Yet an outsize energy and determination drove him on to recover and rebuild after every self-created disaster that he faced...
This is a story that confounds objectivity, partly because of its sheer complexity and partly because of the impossibility of knowing all the facts. One is convinced that Chafetz's story was, at least, pursued in good faith, that he was honestly searching for the truth of the matter. He is forthright about his sympathy for psychiatry, and he liberally admits uncertainty and ignorance when uncertainty and ignorance are warranted. McNamara, on the other hand, is far too certain. She never spoke to Bean-Beyog (whereas Chafetz did) and almost never admits the possibility of her innocence...
...spell and those who did not. Berenger (Dan Goor) is a simple, middle-class alcoholic who fights to keep his friends from turning into rhinos when an invasion of the horned mammals threatens to transform everyone in town. The disease, as Berenger sees it, can be conquered by sheer willpower, so he encourages his best friend, Jean (Chris Terrio) not to give in, not to want "rhinoceritis." But as more of his friends begin chanting empty slogans and droning justification for a new way of life, Berenger slowly realizes that apathy and indecision are likely the disease to take over...