Opponents, however, saw little change in the regime's basic nature.
Rarely has the basic nature of visual perception seemed so frightening.
My observations, I assure you, were of a most basic nature.
Of course, even he recognizes that there is a point where basic nature trumps negotiating skills.
Later, he simply concludes: "My basic nature is going to kill me in six months".
He experimented with glues and designs, drawing basic nature patterns like fan shapes, fish bones, rainbows, wings and legs.
Yet they do not change in their basic nature: in short, not meta enough as they morph.
Van Gundy said: "His basic nature is, coming to practice and the game, he wants to have fun.
"The basic nature of Americans is that we're much more comfortable reaching out than being in a bunker mentality".
"It was huge — I think it would have changed the basic nature of the problem," he told me.
"In terms of changing the basic nature of Lower Manhattan," the official said, "there is probably nothing more important".
