Word: sheerness
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...time in a foreign land by building automated sewage systems out of discarded lead pipes, living in burlap huts, and showering with a hollow gourd. These poor souls inevitably suffer from severe culture shock when they re-enter the United States. They find it materialistic and complain about the sheer surplus of caramel macchiatos. This is not what happened to me when I returned from Bella Italia. If I did experience any culture shock, it was in the jarring lack of fur in the already borderline-gauche clothing worn by denizens of Cambridge. Fur is everywhere in this year?...
...Well, shortly into the proceedings at Cannes, the film stopped for real. My first thought was: Sheer brilliance! They're undermining the most basic cinema convention: that a movie proceeds uninterrupted from beginning to end. In fact, there had been a bomb threat; Cannes had a few of them in those days. The audience was shooed onto the sidewalk for a few minutes while police searched the theater, then readmitted to watch the rest of the film without further incident...
...there has the air of a private party). It's also due to its sequestered location on Tolo Harbour - within sight of rocky islets and earshot of lapping waves - as well as the superb cooking of Gary Cheuk, who presents a changing degustation menu nightly. Then there's the sheer delight of stumbling, with your loved one, upon such a gorgeous little place in the dark: if romance isn't kindled amid the crystal and candlelight of this country hideaway, it may never...
...Part of the opposition must have come from sheer surprise - that political controversy would come from a group with such a friendly, chirpy name. (Dixie? Chicks!? It?s a double affront to political correctness.) And maybe they expected that the two other, older band members would disassociate themselves from Maines. Briefly, in the film, Emily has the attitude of the good student who doesn?t care to be kept after class because the bad girl mouthed off. "If anybody asks me - ?I didn?t say it. Talk to her.?" But that?s not really an option. "We?re a sisterhood...
...there has the air of a private party). It's also due to its sequestered location on Tolo Harbour - within sight of rocky islets and earshot of lapping waves - as well as the superb cooking of Gary Cheuk, who presents a changing degustation menu nightly. Then there's the sheer delight of stumbling, with your loved one, upon such a gorgeous little place in the dark: if romance isn't kindled amid the crystal and candlelight of this country hideaway, it may never...