In one of the show's biggest disappointments, the music composed by the terrific Terrence Blanchard is merely a bridge between scenes, squawking in effectively at some key moments but essentially just a mood-setter.
Official estimates of the U.S. contribution had doubled, to a billion dollars, and then rose again, to $2.4 billion, merely to get to "first plasma" — essentially, just turning on the machine.
Official estimates of the U.S. contribution had doubled, to a billion dollars, and then rose again, to $2.4 billion, merely to get to "first plasma"—essentially, just turning on the machine.
For all its simple formal outlines, "Call the Midwife" takes tragedy seriously, dwelling in the promise that medicine might treat human suffering as something essentially spiritual, not merely mechanical.
The problem has been intensified by many attempts beginning with Kant's treatise on religion, Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft (1793; Religion Within the Boundary of Pure Reason)—to interpret religion as essentially morality or merely as an incentive for doing one's duty.
Defenders of psychophysical parallelism (such as Baruch Spinoza and Gustav Fechner) introduced this hypothesis in order to preserve the autonomy of the psyche as the domain of the qualitative, which they take to be essentially different from merely quantitative physical being.
Stephen King's remarkable use of this technology is certainly interesting, but it means essentially nothing to the merely mortal 99.9percentt of authors who hope to sell their work digitally.
This is because anxiety is not merely or essentially psychiatric.
The party's ideology has some enduring aspects, notably a commitment to Irish unity, to the Irish language, and to neutrality, though these commitments are essentially aspirational and occasionally merely rhetorical.
Note that markedly stretched appearance of objects in wide-angle pictures is not considered distortion but merely an essentially unavoidable byproduct of projecting the three-dimensional world onto a rectangle.
