Like a lot of poets who are more interested in the spirit of the art than its technical felicities, Gilbert sometimes inflates lines into life lessons: "Grief makes the heart / apparent as much as sudden happiness can".
His deep but independent faith in the religious myths, unrestricted by any rules of the Counter-Reformation, is apparent as much in the striking sketch of The Council of Trent, executed for the Doge Da Ponte, as in the altarpiece of San Trovaso, executed in 1577 for Milledonne, a participant and historian of the Council, with the seminude women who tempt St. Anthony.
"Now, it's apparent not as much effort has been put into it".
The word is that he will captain the one-day side and then leave the Test matches to Alastair Cook, his heir apparent in as much as he is vice-captain.
As I surfed from site to site, it became apparent that as much as journals can break stereotypes, some patterns are crushingly predictable: the cheerleaders post screen grabs of the Fox TV show "The O.C".; kids who identify with "ghetto" culture use hip-hop slang; the geeks gush over Japanese anime.
The apparent motivation was as much as 40 million euros, or $58.4 million, in European Union subsidies.
What's apparent is that as much as Federer wants to beat Roddick, he realizes that joining him in a new-age rivalry is his ticket to enhanced visibility in this land of marketing opportunity.
It's not that we think women are necessarily apparent or speaking as much as men, but that we expect them to be, relatively speaking, invisible and not speaking, so, by comparison, any appearance and speech is "too much".
It is becoming apparent that perhaps as much as half of the genome of the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni is constituted of mobile genetic element-related sequences.
But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason… on what principle is it that, when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?
This season's winner, New York City's Bob the Drag Queen, was all but coronated in the first few episodes as finalists Naomi Smalls and Kim Chi struggled to catch up, a seeming repetition of the rise of last year's heir apparent, Violet Chachki, known as much for her masochistic corsetry as for her personal story.
