Word: utterly
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...begged to differ, and implored the Prince to consider the new, entrepreneurial, street-cred economy being created at that very moment in the clubs and streets, the fashion houses and TV studios and advertising agencies of Soho and Covent Garden. I remember to this day the look of utter incomprehension on the Prince's face as I made my case. Only later did a colleague point out the obvious; that with the exception of visits to the Royal Opera House, it was highly unlikely that the Prince had ever visited Soho and Covent Garden, much less wandered its streets picking...
...notion of change. "But when they suddenly start thinking about all the economic uncertainty we're living under now, then change of leadership is a lot less appealing." Florida GOP Chairman Al Cardenas concurred: "People in Florida realized at the end of the day that Jeb Bush has their utter confidence." As for the national effect of the landslide, Cardenas added, "It was the Democrats who called [the Florida governor election] a plebiscite on George W. Bush's presidency. They'll have to live with those words...
...instead just tried to be good. It was very difficult. I struggled to overcome my selfishness, inflexibility and pride. To the extent that I succeeded, I found in myself a desire to serve rather than to demand, an inexhaustible feeling of always having something to give and an utter certainty of the reality of the divine. It was like becoming privy to a set of fantastic secrets that gave one superhuman powers, stripped the world’s miasmas of their potency and made life joyful and whole...
...error occurred while processing this directive]Another lure is the population's utter devotion to hospitality. I experienced this immediately after arriving on my late-night flight, when a female airport employee insisted on seeing me all the way to my homestay...
...monumental canvas invites you to stare until your soul merges with its utter blueness. Barnett Newman painted Ulysses in 1952, after the failure of his first two solo shows. But instead of making his art more accessible - his paintings had been criticized as "nearly blank" - he traveled farther into abstraction. Ulysses and its companions, the inkier Day Before One (1951) and the sable Prometheus Bound (1952), strike the viewer with the primeval and inexplicable force of Stonehenge monoliths. These works need to be seen to be believed. "There is no substitute for the personal experience of these paintings," says...