Word: mereness
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...Condit," Kurtz said. But without a corpse - or a word from the congressman - the saga had run up against its limits in May and June, and by August, added Kurtz, the doldrums had clearly set in. "You know things are slow when TV is replaying shark footage and the mere fact that the president is on vacation becomes an opportunity for endless media thumbsucking...
...there are still treasure boats of a sort that ply the Liu Creek, where the armada once assembled. Fan Ping owns one of them, the Sutai Yuyou 503, a small steel ship that doubles as her family's home. It's just 10 m long; the engine a mere 20 h.p. But the 49-year-old matriarch uses the modest craft to ply the waterways for riches. She finds oil spills, sucks them up with a powerful hose and resells the fuel. Cruising along the Liu Creek, looking for bounty, we stand together on the cramped deck, imagining what...
...Blank months pass, entirely Gore-free. Then Gore is sighted in far-off lands, with beard. How weird. Never mind: It is time in the desert of obscurity, sackcloth, mere tourist raiment, monkish hirsutism...
...easy to grasp the wall's meaning. Junior high school students now read about the Berlin Wall in their history texts. But it was built, flaunted, condemned and destroyed before they were born. But in my time, it was far more than just a barricade, far more than a mere symbol, it was a a very real threat to freedom for all the years it endured...
...unadorned, unspun, real stuff that is supposed to be a primary ingredient in a life story: What really happened. Clinton, a genius of self-presentation, may, when pressed, only seem to get real: He will produce sows' ears with sequins on them, shimmering accessories so lovely, in fact, that mere silk purses will go out of fashion...