While her performances are hardly unemotional — indeed, she radiates feeling — those emotions lack specificity and bite.
Alas, the early signs this year on the economic front are hardly fresh – indeed they seem gloomily repetitive of last year.
Intellectually, this position is hardly outlandish; indeed, Ball's case is very similar to the case Olivier Blanchard made three years ago, just stated more forcefully and with more evidence.
Yet, although Sivakami may stay at home, she is hardly isolated; indeed, she remains in intimate contact with the rest of the little world around her. Viswanathan offers an appealing but hardly idyllic picture of the South Indian village of Cholapatti, full of the plotless chatter of daily life.
The influence of the mystic notions of Platonism, especially of the Symposium, and of the popular mystery cults on Philo's attempt to present Judaism as the one true mystery is hardly superficial; indeed, Philo is a major source of knowledge of the doctrines of these mystery cults, notably that of rebirth.
While a conversation about the role of fathers is long overdue, the idea that a strong, "confident" male figure is crucial in the development of happy and well-behaved children is hardly new; indeed it invokes age-old stereotypes about wise old patriarchs and off-the-rails teenagers who would have been all right if it hadn't for the absence of a strong male role model.
The idea of sharing your favorites is hardly new — indeed, it was one of the only things you could do all those yours ago in the initial version Facebook.
Indeed, hardly anyone knew how to fire a cannon.
Its deepest concerns have hardly faded, and indeed seem freshly urgent.
Indeed, hardly a day passes without some new speculation about the form such events may take.
