Word: mereness
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...chattering classes voluble but unconfident, and in real suspense. The man who puts a premium on loyalty (or fealty) has also put a premium on control - control of the pace and pitch of information, and thus of speculation, surrounding his vice-presidential choice. And in waiting not for a mere announcement or a leak to be confirmed (that would seem spinnish, and besides that comes later) but for The Man to Decide, we are supposed to think of this man as presidential, or at least someone who runs a tight ship, like the good old days...
Undergraduates who commit a similar alcohol-related offense generally face a mere warning or probation...
...explain it? Passing into boreal regions may tend to make a person tediously provident and literal-minded, as if the impending killer winter were too serious a matter to permit a trifling play of mere imagination. I was once trapped for three congealed hours (he actually locked the door) in the office of the director of the Port of Duluth, Minn., as he explained to me (as 'twere Toronto's utility rates) the hateful, intricate bureaucratic problems of his work. I escaped by simulating cardiac arrest...
...amplified Clinton. But for his own Veep, he may not want a mere clone...
Hussein Chalayan has fashioned clothing of unrippable paper that can be folded into envelopes, a dress designed like a kite that can actually fly and a coffee table of malleable wood that swirls into a skirt. What saves his fanciful designs from unraveling into mere novelty is the fact that Chalayan, 29, an exquisite tailor, uses the show pieces to inspire his eminently more wearable clothes. "These pieces might not sell," he says, "but they express the concept behind each collection." The result is feminine clothes that are spare, clean and architecturally constructed to create volume without frills...