Word: utters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more important than their theology was the utter failure of their mission. They came all this way from England to find freedom and peace, to build a colony of compassionate, introspective souls...
Richard does have his shortcomings, chief among them his utter inability to beat around the bush. If a teacher is doing a bad job, Richard will say so flat out and not skimp on the details. He'll do the same for transfer students who come from colleges where bad writing gets good grades. Criticism of one's teaching or writing is never easy to take, but it is dished out as fairly in Expos as one is likely to get anywhere else. Richard's language is rich in metaphor and he has a host of stories that he uses...
...weeks ago, I took the LSAT. When you utter the word, you usually face a flood of unhappy lawyer stories. Or, you're bombarded with a stream of statistics about exactly how many lawyers exist in the world (many), as opposed to how many the world needs (Few, they say. Very...
...assorted biographers share pages with tawdry baubles such as John Seabrook's near-hagiographic piece on an obscure art director (whose 15 minutes are ticking rapidly away). And why, oh why do we need to learn anything more about Kate Moss, the waifish model with the look of utter imbecility...
Three weeks ago, an exhibition of the work of the English artists Gilbert and George opened at the National Art Gallery in Beijing. Its catalog bore a fulsome essay comparing the two "living sculptures" to Confucius himself and lamenting the utter decadence of so much Western art, which "seems to have lost any moral significance on account of its fruitless search for formal purity. Meaning and ornament . . . have been marginalized . . . The black square painting is a goal that can appeal only to very few aesthetes. Not only the black square but equally the crushed automobile, the Coca-Cola...