Word: mereness
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...nowhere town where all the men are brutes or louts, and all the women worn out trying to survive. That these Dust Bowl wallflowers are played by some of the most sophisticated actresses around (Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner and Melinda Dillon) suggests role playing weirder than any mere gender switching. It's as if a PBS cast of The Three Sisters got stranded in Oskaloosa...
...junior running back, all 5'10" and 195 pounds of him, spent last season--to the surprise of many--confounding defensive coordinators and cutting through defensive lines the way superheros demolish mere mortals in Hu's beloved comic books...
...Fuhrman tapes follows a well-established pattern of denial about the virulence of racism that extends far beyond the field of law enforcement. In part be cause of the conservative backlash against affirmative action, it has become fashionable to dismiss black and Latino complaints of discrimination as either mere pleading for preferential treatment or hallucinations, until an incontrovertible piece of evidence such as the Fuhrman tapes comes along. Then, inevitably, a surge of moral condemnation washes across the country like a cathartic wave--and subsides without any lasting effect. By the time the next ugly story surfaces, we're right...
Compared with Edward Robb Ellis, Samuel Pepys was a man of few words. In the nine years (1660-69) covered by his famous diary, Pepys produced about 1,250,000 words. That would be a mere warm-up lap for Ellis. In 67 years of recording his life and era, he has filled 35,000 or so pages with more than 20 million words, thereby gaining entry to the Guinness Book of World Records as author of the world's largest diary...
...Angeles district attorney Ira Reiner explains: "It is not that the tapes should influence the case by any objective standard. The issue is subjective importance. They will overwhelm the jury. If those tapes come in-and they are as advertised-acquittal is a probability. A hung jury becomes a mere possibility...