Word: utterness
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...pristine condition, tower around you in tall, menacing stacks. There are less than 24 hours until your exam begins and you realize—as the nonchalance of reading period crashes and burns around you—that you have learned absolutely nothing all term. You are an utter failure...
Dobson, James •followers of are told by that "there is nothing you can do" to combat "the utter evil that's coming out of the United States Congress...
...some fairly strong ideas about law and order, has been able to intimidate its way back into control of some areas. Karzai has an excuse: his country has suffered through 30 years of war, although the alleged participation of his brother in the Kandahar-province opium trade and the utter corruption of the Afghan civil service don't help his reputation much. Zardari has no excuse at all: his country has a brilliant, educated intelligentsia and governing class, but it has been entirely unable to provide the rudiments of civil society to the Pakistani masses, a remarkable indictment. (See pictures...
Even in the academic community, where copy-conservative litigators seem convinced he belongs, Nesson’s image doesn’t stand still. It is, rather, a continuous tug-of-war between sheer brilliance and a series of lesser qualities—childish compulsion, utter laxity, idealistic extremism—that shimmer on and off, sometimes apparently part and parcel with the brilliance, sometimes apparently harmful to it. Nesson is either the most intelligent man in the room, or he is the most insane, it often seems. Sometimes he is probably both...
Chase, Chevy •utter and total lack of public demand - or even, really, tolerance - for the return to network television of is ignored by NBC, which announces plans for the weekly infliction on viewers of in the new show Community, whose ratings are guaranteed to be miniscule at first and shrink dramatically once audiences are exposed to the noxious presence...