Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...liberal school where Tamasin was already boarding. Students worked in the loom house, the pottery barn, the woodwork shop. "I had the happiest days of my life there," he says. "After I left, I struggled for a year and a half in a fog of gloom from the sheer loss of that place...
...Israeli leaders are definitely not objecting to peace out of sheer stubbornness. To do so would be more than irresponsible. It would be treasonous...
...their best (the great Miller's Crossing or the dizzy Raising Arizona) they are brilliant satirists of the national propensity for violence. But here they have deliberately cut themselves off from their best subject. Try as they will to create a vision of corporate (and urban) hellishness through sheer stylishness, theirs is a truly abstract expressionism, at once heavy, lifeless...
...debates, the Administration has been endlessly weighed down by the sheer complexity of its 1,342-page bill. "Sure it's complicated, because it's working with the existing system and the existing system is phenomenally complicated," says Princeton sociologist Paul Starr, an architect of the plan. But that explanation is no help in winning support. Asked if even he comprehends all the details of the plan, a White House aide who is helping develop the Administration's sales pitch replies incredulously, "Of course...
...sheer abrasiveness is indicative of the depths to which some students have plummeted, all in the name of academic discourse. No matter how pointless Mr. Lat found these protests, his branding them as "stupid" or laughable is truly uncalled for and serves no real purpose...