Word: utterly
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...managed to construct an entire parallel universe of lies, more real and more politically efficient than the truth. As the historian Alan Schom has written: "On returning to France... much to his utter astonishment, the thirty-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte found himself greeted by a madly exuberant French people who knew little of his phenomenal disasters and instead saw only the man who had captured Malta, the Pyramids, and Egypt, the latter-day republican crusader who had taken Cairo from the heathens...
...last two efforts have suffered from a lack of structure (_Snake Eyes_) or moments of utter incomprehensibility (_Mission: Impossible_), and the trend isn't stopping anytime soon. Not if his latest effort, _Mission to Mars_, is any indication. What De Palma improves on his previous problems is negated for rampant use of overdone sci-fi conventions...
...Despite the often melancholy edge to his music and lyrics, I left the show with a contented feeling in my soul and a giant smile on my face. With the utter waste land of music present today, it's nice to know we still have Morrissey stubbornly performing however he pleases and doing a damn good job of it. Yes, I can confidently say I want it that...
...Your treatment of comedy writers coming out of Harvard was fundamentally flawed. It would seem that most of your arguments were simply begging the question. Your attempt to emulate Balzac reveals only the extent of your utter boobery. It's an issue of semantics vis a vis Chomsky's Universal Grammar, really...
...long and arduous task of rebuilding the organization once known as the student government. The "impeachment" controversy has obscured the more important tasks of the council. In particular, the council needs to take a critical look at its election commission that, by all accounts, performed its task with utter ignorance and surprising incompetence...