Word: sheerness
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...Arctic will be owned by the new species that will evolve after the speedy extinction of the greedy human race. The dinosaurs did not have a choice, as a celestial accident put them to rest. But the human species is accelerating its own demise, and for what? Sheer greed. Instead of worrying about the perils of global warming, nations and corporations are eyeing the benefits that arise out of it. The new and more intelligent species that should evolve after our extinction will have the impossible task of figuring out why humans were lost to corporate bottom lines. Jagmohan Rathi...
...enforce the legal drinking age, nor will it disburse funds collected from the $75 student activities fee prior to the UC’s submission of receipts for a given event. On the other side, the UC seems to have lost all faith in University Hall. Beyond a sheer lack of diplomacy, in the eyes of the UC, the College has failed to show any respect to an ostensibly autonomous UC—“ostensibly autonomous” because since the UC was created by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it is presumably also subject...
Reams have been written on the differences between Islamic and Western societies, but for sheer pithiness, it's hard to beat a quip by my former colleague, a Pakistani scholar of Islamic studies. I'd strolled into his office one day to find him on the floor, at prayer. I left, shutting his door, mortified. Later, he cheerfully batted my apologies away. "That's the big difference between us," he shrugged. "You Westerners make love in public and pray in private. We Muslims do exactly the reverse...
Luckily for the Crimson, the sheer talent of a player like Akpan has helped the team along that path...
...wasn’t just the SportsCenter-worthy highlights that made this game historic; it was the way the Brazilians dominated possession not through sheer athleticism, but rather through actual soccer skill and finesse (imagine that?) that serves as a metaphorical reminder to the U.S. women that their ship has indeed sailed...