Word: sheerness
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...those nations for exercising their most central freedom of speech. Muslim newspapers routinely criticize and offend Jews and Christians in both Israel and America; unlike Jyllands-Posten, which ran the cartoon to spark discussion about self-censorship of Islam, these newspapers often print their anti-Semitic material out of sheer anti-Semitism. This entire debacle highlights the problems that arise when a movement, bound together by a dogmatic faith, faces the seeming horror of a pluralistic democracy in which everyone has the right to blaspheme, offend, and shock others. To repress speech in the interest of curtailing blasphemy would...
...angry foreigners and their pets, if Mr. Canaday can so easily bypass the John Harvard statue and all its accompanying mayhem. But the tyrannical rampage of random privilege does not stop at housing. Mr. Canaday’s well-endowed muscular frame puts my own to shame. The sheer, intimidating perfection of his figure is a testament to the abhorrently unfair process of DNA distribution. In the interest of leveling the social playing-field, I support dragging Mr. Canaday down to the level of the genetic proletariat: scar his face, knock out his front teeth, surgically remove his bulging biceps?...
...sheer directing virtuosity, Spielberg was at the top of his game. But this category is not worth a full paragraph. The Angster...
...right on that call.” Besides the taunting of Crimson players—which was continued by a smaller group of boisterous students after the game, who were kept at bay by police as Harvard filed onto the team bus—the sheer noise level in the arena undoubtedly became a factor, with the decibels growing as each of the nine three pointers Yale used to bury the Crimson passed through the net. The Bulldogs’ band, packed in behind the basket next to Harvard’s bench, was a key contributor to that sonic...
Besides the taunting of Crimson players—which was continued by a smaller group of boisterous students after the game, who were kept at bay by police as Harvard filed onto the team bus—the sheer noise level in the arena undoubtedly became a factor, with the decibels growing as each of the nine three pointers Yale used to bury the Crimson passed through the net. The Bulldogs’ band, packed in behind the basket next to Harvard’s bench, was a key contributor to that sonic influence as well...