Word: mereness
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...weirdly authoritarian effect--in a high-backed chair upholstered in floral chintz. Painted darkly in homage to Manet and preceded by some of the most beautiful head studies in Cezanne's early work, it depicts the stunted Emperaire as a parody king, an "emperor," but with compassion; no mere caricatural impulse could account for the averted gaze and the great, sad, liquid eyes...
Princeton made it a clean sweep at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships on June 1, defeating Harvard in the finals by a mere .02 seconds for the national championship...
...says the meetings are often mere formalities...
...Today recently offered a different perspective. It quoted last month a 1995 poll of 502 high school guidance counselors by Collegiate Information Services of Greenwich, Conn. Seventy-two percent of the counselors say colleges don't pay enough attention to career training, while a mere 45 percent say colleges do not sufficiently emphasize a classic liberal arts education...
Even if Harvard students have doubts about the value of our college education, we know that for a mere $100,000, we can stamp the Harvard name on our resumes. We hope that will be enough. But what if it is not? And what about other liberal arts schools, such as Swarthmore or the University of Chicago, where the curriculum is just as good as Harvard's (if not better), but whose names do not spark the same recognition...