Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real faults of course are the author's. He has taken the not-too-interesting dilemma of a not-too-enlightened boss and tried to impart a significance that just wasn't there. The result is sheer confusion at worst, (including some chronological impossibilities in Woody's life), and fleeting insight at best...
...experiment of great fascination to political scientists, because it has never been tried before," Hoffmann said. He pointed out that if both the president and the parliament "constantly use the power at their disposal, it will be sheer bedlam...
After the intermission, however, Mme. Crespin seemed much more in the recital vein, and in a Faure and Debussy group she made her musical and dramatic points less through sheer impressiveness of voice than by a happy talent for shading and nuance. An eloquent performance of three of Wagner's Wesendonkleder explained in part Mme. Crespin's great success at Bayreuth; opera audiences must have responded as well to the unmistakable aura of the Grand Manner which hovers about her. In this age of slenderized divas, Mme. Crespin remains a satisfyingly ample woman, and on Thursday night she managed with...
...pine to a 10,000-ft. summit. Here the path plunges dizzily downward to the supply base of Bomdi La on a 5,000-ft. plateau, and then zigzags skyward again to the mist-hung Se Pass at 13,556 ft. Above the hairpin turns of the road rise sheer rock walls; below lie bottomless chasms. Rain and snow come without warning, turning the path to slippery mud. Even under the best conditions, a Jeep takes 18 hours to cover the 70 miles...
...encouraged by the play of his linebackers, which was noticeably deficient the week before. He said earlier this week that if the defense could hold the explosive Princeton attack to two touchdowns, the Crimson would be in good shape. Before the Penn game such a hope would have been sheer folly--Princeton ranks 11th in the country in total offense--but now it is clearly within the realm of possibility...