Word: utters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been manipulated into a state of worshipful dependency on a father who despised and defied conventional society. Dan's foster mother testified that his father became "his hero, his ideal, his superman." Defense Lawyer Steven Ungar asserted that the elder Nichols in effect "hypnotized" the son into utter obedience...
That outlook may work for CBS and The Washington Post, but how about the smaller news organizations who have to contend with high insurance premiums and the threat of utter bankruptcy? Do you think that the specter of multi-mill, a dollar law suits will, in practice, chill them...
...fault is not his but his haughty wife's, who, Rose notes acidly, "made war on ease by every word she said." The young Aubreys come away convinced that Mr. Morpurgo will seek a divorce. Their mother is shocked at the notion: "Divorce! You are too young to utter the word, and there is no reason why you should, for you know nothing about it. You have never known anybody who was divorced. I don't think I ever have, except of course Cosima Wagner." The scene shifts, in a downwardly mobile fashion, to a Thamesside public house...
...policeman. The elderly were wary of talking to an American, the young relatively eager. Nearly all gave a strikingly uniform response: they knew little about their country's leaders and were not unduly concerned about what they did not know. "I'm afraid it is all a matter of utter indifference to me," shrugged one woman. A sampling of other reactions...
...such an angle, is duckbilled; the eagle and owl, with their strips of meat, look stuffed. And yet the jungle--that lattice of leaves and fronds, each carefully turned toward the eye to display its full shape--is a majestic, formal green machine that fills its animal signs with utter conviction...