Word: mereness
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...fair, everyone procrastinates to some degree. None of us start our assignments the day we receive them, and few of us have a strong enough work ethic to forgo everything in the name of papers and exams. But such examples are mere kid’s play for the exceptional procrastinators among us, who have perfected the particular lifestyle and who swear by its efficiency and success rate...
...particularly appropriate for Harvard students, most of whom couldn’t admit to any grade but an A for something that they really put their best effort into. It’s much easier for a student to accept a B or a C on a paper written mere hours before the due date because he, obviously, would have done much better if he had started earlier—and if he cared enough...
...Mailer's screenplay and incorporates some of Mailer's imagined scenes. If his serviceable prose were any match for Hanssen's intricacies, this might be a book to be reckoned with. But Schiller's real gift is for gathering information. And in the face of Hanssen's spectacular contradictions, mere facts drop to the floor...
...only way to visit these unheralded jewels is on foot or by bike?in many cases the tracks are mere goat trails, impassable by car. Most hotels will rent out heavy, iron one-speeds for less than a dollar a day. They might not be high-performance?in fact, most seem to date back to the days of the British Raj?but there is no risk of losing one to theft. The best time to see the temples is during the hours just after dawn?by 10 a.m. the temperature reaches a blistering 42?C, the tour buses congregate...
Elvis Costello once sniffed that "writing about music is like dancing about architecture." The same could be said of writing about drugs. How could any author, no matter how gifted, hope to capture in mere words the genuine rapture of mind-expanding substances, as well as the hopeless abyss that usually follows prolonged abuse? True, a few sharpies?William Burroughs, Irvine Welsh, maybe Terry Southern?have managed to pull it off. But most drug memoirs are pretty much alike?either they're heated Hunter S. Thompson rip-offs packed with hackneyed hallucinations (bats, lizards) and heavily-punctuated (!!!!) rants, or languid...