I'd been utterly Bestivalled.
He might have guessed I'd be utterly frustrated by White's pedestrian and inaccurate translations of the verse of Rimbaud and Verlaine.
"I'd be utterly amazed if there was any complicity by any Drummond executives," said Charles Haynes, an engineering professor at the University of Alabama who is a friend of the Drummond family's.
"I was 27 and just out of a White House speechwriting job I'd been utterly unqualified for," he recalled of his job with L.B.J., a fluke that opened his eyes to the fact that presidents lie, left him cynical about top-level politics and a little ashamed of his puffball stuff for L.B.J.
It was therefore very pleasing to be invited to a charity fundraiser for Dress for Success recently, and it reminded me that I'd been utterly petrified by the whole business when I found myself looking for work after several years spent bringing up a family.
I'd feel utterly disappointed at the end of each class, but I told myself I'd try again tomorrow.
"Putting myself in the shoes of all those VW diesel owners, I would feel utterly deceived.
I would be utterly addicted; a wet-the-bed, growl-at-strangers, dog-on-a-string drunk, rooting through bins for the dregs of some discarded carton of semi-skimmed; just enough to see me off to sleep.
When I realized, the night of the car wreck, that if Ray died I would be utterly bereft — that it would be far better for me to die with him than to survive alone — I was not thinking of myself as a writer, primarily, or even as a writer at all, but as a wife.
I like to think that this sudden rush of birds shows that I have finally got my eye in, but without David's expert guidance I would be utterly lost, unable to identify 90% of the birds I am seeing.
