Word: mereness
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...person in each, dominate Hopper's landscape; gray office buildings and solitary Cape Cod houses illuminated by eerie winter light are de rigeur. His colors are often lurid, with chartreuse green on a living room wall where the floral wallpaper should be, and his subjects' eyes are often mere black dots...
...familiar story of the scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for youth and the love of Marguerite, a chaste beauty. Gounod's music is as extravagant and emotional as the story demands, but the emotion is produced through charming melodies and dazzling orchestration rather than mere central...
There are quite a few students at Harvard who are from mixed descent. These students often feel that they are overlooked, simply because they don't fit the profile of any of the specific cultural clubs which already exist. Further-more, the mere presence of these clubs often pressures students to choose a label. And so to maintain their biraciality, students prefer not to become at all involved with these clubs. Feeling left out, students take measures like forming clubs similar to HAPA. Why do students feel that forming a club is the only method by which they can achieve...
...film is least able to convey. In Amanda Root's Anne, for example, the sense of an active critical mind is often missing. Anne seems so afflicted, so desperate, that we rarely feel that she is her family's superior, always judging them; rather, she seems to be a mere victim of their mistreatment. And that mistreatment is portrayed so luridly-Nicholls' Elizabeth, especially, is a snickering ghoul-that Walter and Elizabeth Elliot seem closer to the wicked step-family of Cinderella than the conceited fools of Austen's novel. Likewise, Ciaran Hinds' Wentworth, while he cuts a fine figure...
...must be true--nothing else makes sense. Yesterday's win over New Hampshire was too perfect for a mere mortal to conceive...