(These sections may be the oddest part of the report: lawyerly discussions about terms like "negro" and "blackie" and "negre" and "noir," and when and where it might be fine to use an expression and when it would be patently offensive to use the same word. Even more jarring are the matter-of-fact and liberal use of unprintable obscenities in a lengthy legal document).
("That's pretty gay," says Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair, and patently not a salad eater, when I mention my meeting with Remnick).
That's patently silly and patently unfair," he says.
"That's absolutely ridiculous and patently false," he said.
At a time when black Americans were denied basic fairness across the board, the theory that hard work could trump racism was both noble and patently false.
(Israel's public-information officer, when presented with a list of claims made by people I've spoken to, described them as "shameful, baseless, and patently false").
This is the counsel of despair and patently nonsensical.
"The 2010 Pavie is absurdly overripe, unpleasant to taste and patently out of balance.
That project's forced wit and laborious execution are echt Kippenberger: faintly amusing and patently obvious.
It's inconvenient, insulting, and patently silly.
It is staggering that after 3 years of brutal austerity the electorate, according to recent polls, believes even more than in 2010 that Osborne's policy of incessantly cutting expenditure to balance the books is both necessary and right, when patently it is neither.
