Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cooks] typically are male due to the sheer volume of the cooking," Berry said. "We do what's called production cooking...
...rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our Iynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud." (V.G.); "But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative...
Against the odds, he clawed his way to Leningrad and the Kirov school at age 17 -- very late to start serious classical training. His sheer will and magnetism won the day. Perhaps because he began by playing catch-up, Nureyev was not considered a natural dancer. He was blessed with a high leap and, in addition to athletic vigor, the noble, generous moves that are nearly impossible to teach. But he lacked, say, the sublime coordination of Mikhail Baryshnikov, and he had to work hard for his technique; a former colleague recalls that he was always looking for someone...
...President-elect Clinton might carve out a special Middle East envoy position for Baker. There is speculation that Baker may become Commissioner of Major League Baseball. (Working in the final months of the Bush administration was excellent preparation to deal with baseball's chaos, petty politics and sheer lack of direction.) Most likely, though, Baker will spend most of his time in the near future sitting on a lot of prestigious corporate boards...
...incapable of being confined to any one theme. His dazzling prose and exquisite reworking of oft-prosaic themes reflect a formidable talent, harnessed in the service of sheer pleasure as well as intellectual challenge...