Word: sheerness
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...medical debris--old bloodstained bandages, syringes, broken vials. The garbage bins had no plastic liners and were spattered with coagulated blood, gobs of spit and other fluids. Sweepers came through every hour with dirty mops and pails of brown disinfectant, but their halfhearted labor was quickly overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of patients and visitors. Nobody paid any attention to the NO SMOKING sign, not even the doctors and nurses. Broken windows allowed dust to enter, and swarms of flies buzzed around the patients; we used the X-ray films to swat them away. "All the rules of hygiene...
...According to the New York Observer last week, these sites aren't getting much traffic-yet. But they will. I remember several conversations with Senator Clinton after her health-care plan was killed 10 years ago, and she was clearly pained-nonplussed by the quality of anger, the sheer hatred, directed against her. That experience would be a walk in the park compared to the vitriol if she ran for President. And while I'd love to see someone confront, and defeat, the free-range haters on the right, the last thing we need is a campaign that would polarize...
Reflecting upon personal experience, Petersen said, “as a freshman going through the blocking process, there were definitely people in my entryway I would like to be near, but it is difficult to maintain social relationships just because of the sheer distance...
...Perhaps the primary similarity between Kumin’s poems and Frost’s—even more than their common grounding in the New England pastoral landscape—is their sheer accessibility to lay audiences. “I don’t think it requires any special proclivity to appreciate poetry,” Kumin says. “It just needs for you to be there and to hear...
Especially if you creep behind the sculpture to where thick, white piping connects the semicircles to the building, the sheer enormity of the piece becomes evident. Although its forms seem simple, its size and its interaction with the building make it fascinating and complex...