My pending application got me thinking about great instances of meh in literature.
And just as easily, we can ignore all the great instances of compassion, ingenuity, and innovation that are changing lives and communities.
It is one of the great instances in literature of our ability to delude ourselves -- of intelligent men and women believing that the lives of others orbit around their own -- to believe that others exist only to serve us or define our own lives.
But within the C.I.A., the exposure of Ms. Plame is now considered an even greater instance of treachery.
He is, with de Gaulle, the greatest instance in modern times of the romantic-conservative temperament in power.
'It was probably the greatest instance of word of mouth that I'd ever seen,' said Gary Fisketjon, McInerney's original editor at Knopf, of the novel's success.
The colors in the book were dim and blurred, and so Mr. Thanh was using his own judgment as he painted -- perhaps the greatest instance of personal creativity among all the painters working on this summer evening.
But, of course, nothing ever truly severs their relationship, which is the "atmospheric tumult" in Yorkshire: part romance, part ghost story, entirely elemental, and, after Lear on the heath, the single greatest instance of psycho-meteorology in Western literature.
In part it is a consequence, as the journalism of the Guardian's George Monbiot has revealed, of the rise of neo-liberalism since about 1980 with its worship of the magic of the market and its ideological unwillingness to acknowledge that climate change represents, in the words of Nicholas Stern, the greatest instance of market failure in the history of humankind.
We define a notion of greatest instance type for each occurrence of an expression, which is used in the definition of a standard dictionary-passing semantics for core Haskell based on type system derivations, for which coherence is trivial.
Distinct occurrences of an expression can have distinct greatest instance-types.
