Word: mereness
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...come close to overwhelming the more delicate entree options would be perfectly tailored to accent the richer meat and fowl. Vegatarians need not feel unattended to: the Harvest Risotto of the night and the Sugar Pumpkin and Potato Gnocchi with Brown Butter, Sage and Mascarpone are mouthwatering in the mere description...
...shouldn't. We all know the council, elected by a mere handful of the student body, cannot pretend to represent accurately the sentiments and interests of the campus. For this reason, the council should administer a campus-wide referendum to gauge student opinion on the issue...
...prototype dining chair: $20,000. For those with less extravagant budgets, the home division of Herman Miller, resurrected in 1994 after countless inquiries from the public about where to buy Eames furniture, has rereleased several pieces--this year it was the "erector set" storage unit, yours for a mere...
...these are mere quibbles next to the two things Pleasantville gets absolutely, stunningly right. The first is the visual effects. To describe them further, much as I'd like to, would diminish the surprise and sheer pleasure of watching then unfold; it suffices to say that this is without a doubt one of the most visually entrancing movies you'll see all year...
...fact, behind the very unreality of Pleasantville is yet another allegorical message: what Pleasantville appears to be on the surface is what it actually is--a mere surface, a facade, nothing of substance. Applied to the time period it parodies, it makes fundamentally the same observation that last year's L.A. Confidential did: the golden ideal of the color in Pleasantville becomes a pointed metaphor for color in the racial sense, tying in neatly with the movie's larger lesson that change is inevitable and desirable, if not an unmixed blessing...