It is every kind of party you can describe, at once: cocktail party, dinner party, tailgate picnic party, fraternity and sorority rush, family reunion, political handgrab, gala and networking party-hearty — what might have inspired Willie Morris, one of Mississippi's favorite sons, to declare Mississippi not a state, but a club.
In his "Essay on Freedom," Walser seems to be describing at once his own nature and the mode of his later prose: "Freedom wants both to be understood and to be almost continuously not understood; it wants to be seen and then again to be as if it were not there".
Design Magazine described it as "at once a conversation piece, a rich man's plaything and a functional business machine".
Bridget Cherry wrote that "the sturdy exterior gives little hint of the fantasy (Burges) created inside", interiors which Handley-Read described as "at once opulent, aggressive, obsessional, enchanting, their grandeur border ing) on grandiloquence".
O'Brien's autobiography – Country Girl, published in 2012 – describes her childhood as "at once beautiful and frightening, tender and savage".
Because the multicriterion model ECONOF (ECONOmie de la Formation) and the software associated have to be used at once, they are described at first.
Indeed, the frailty syndrome that Dr. Fried describes is at once simple in its constituent elements and complex in the manner in which those elements interact.
"Orchid," playing on the etymological connection between the flower and the testicles, wittily describes both at once: "Ducking under the puckered anther cap / to glide towards the stiff, / waxy sense of things".
In Thai, sabsung "signifies being revitalized through something that livens up one's life"; In Balinese, ramé describes "something at once chaotic and joyful".
George Packer describes Steavenson's reportage as "at once a disturbing evocation of the world of the departed regime and a moral investigation into personal guilt for collective evil".
