Word: mereness
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...topic, determines whether a conversation is interesting or not. It's simply a question of finding an exciting approach; the subject matter is secondary. To prove that style can salvage or transform almost everything, we give you several ways of talking about the weather. Take them as mere suggestions, come up with your own, and go crazy in the dining halls...
...mere presence of other writers in the writing classes is of great benefit to the writer. The value students derive from being in an environment with other writers is analogous to learning a language in an environment that speaks that language. The workshop environment that the creative writing classes provide is ideal for the young writer's development...
...stretching across 500 million light-years of space; the Great Attractor, a mysterious concentration of mass hauling much of the local universe off in the direction of the constellations Hydra and Centaurus; Great Voids, where few galaxies can be found; and galaxies caught in the throes of formation a mere billion years after the Big Bang, when they should not yet exist. "If we really trust the data," exclaims Stanford astrophysicist Andrei Linde, "then we are in disaster, and we must do something absolutely crazy...
...that unlike younger appropriators, Kitaj is in no sense a conceptual artist. He didn't and still doesn't care about teaching us what theoretical limits can be assigned to art. But he does care passionately about the life and health of painting, as distinct from the mere evocation of image haze; and as a draftsman, colorist and all-around creator of plastic sensation, he has no rivals in the American generation behind his. After so much photo-based figure painting in which the actual scrutiny of the living body, in all its resistant complexity, played no part...
...bounding line-wiry, emphatic-and the crusty soft bloom of light on the model's back and buttocks. Kitaj is a greedy, sexy draftsman, even when he is not drawing women. And his prehensile take on the world through drawing gives his fantasies and allegories a strength that no mere montage of photographic quotation could supply...