Word: mereness
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...title track, which kicks off the album, sounds like greased lightning with legs; imagine a guitar equivalent of Blues Traveler harpist John Popper, and you're halfway there. But it's not mere flash; the songs hold up on their own even as they provide showcases for the guitarist's highly evolved style. The lyrics reveal Landreth's deep preoccupation with his Louisiana heritage, and most of the songs revolve around a kind of Cajun mythology, with an occasionally felicitous turn of phrase like "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile"; musically, Landreth filters the zydeco and Crescent City traditions through a more modern...
...time for petty bickering between the Midwest and New York is over. Because Will, admit it, your last column was mere bravado. You didn't really believe your side had a chance, did you? And deep down in my heart, I actually believe St. Louis and its surroundings to be a gee-Will-ikers swell place. Plus it provides me with beer...
...third debate. I suppose that there have been more dispiriting presidential races in the past; I know there have. In fact, the choice last time, in 1996, was unappetizing enough. But something in me this year has snapped. The debate almost had me throwing things at the television. The mere sight and sound of these two men has grown odious; the election has come to seem the dead end of some massive hoax...
This goes beyond the mere fact that the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers have been dissolved into one blue-and-orange unit, playing on the outskirts of Queens beneath the deafening roar of airplanes leaving LaGuardia Airport. The 2000 Mets and Yankees are both very talented and playoff-savvy teams, I grant you, but neither of them actually belongs to the City of New York...
...Mets fans are left to direct their vicious wrath--and it is vicious--in the direction of the Bronx, where the Yankees' 25 championships outnumber the Mets' two titles. But don't equate mere jealousy with a real rivalry...