And how did you select the stories that went into Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales From 100 Word Story?
Most years, I celebrate the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior's birthday by reprinting excerpts of his speeches, in an attempt to combat the continued watering-down of his legacy into nothing short of warm fuzzy memories that he was fighting for "equality" in some sort of non-confrontational way.
With that dithering came a loss of credibility, as the demonstrations gathered momentum and coalesced into nothing short of a revolutionary challenge to 30 years of entrenched dictatorship.
Here Stanton Williams has recast what might once have been an anonymous prefab shed, housing a functional stack of labs and pipes, into nothing short of a temple to botany.
In this writer's case, it was the fact that Boucher made a song that, lyrically and sonically, points to nothing but the simple, straightforward joy of making and playing pop music evenhandedly and almost politely at first, then escalating through a series of heavy drops and upward melodic leaps into nothing short of a full-bodied scream.
Everything I touch is frozen solid...It is difficult to eat, the food we have is frozen into nothing short of the same texture as roofing tiles.
When — if — the treaty enters into force, nothing of military significance will be able to elude the completed system.
If your home was recently robbed or broken into but nothing of value was taken, that alone should suggest to you that something is odd.
In it, he can be seen sitting and leaning on stuff in a variety of monochrome ensembles as he stares pensively into nothing, a look of well-styled anguish stretched across his face.
When, that is, you can make out what's happening on the screen, where the actors have a way of suddenly fading into nothing but a pair of illuminated eyes or simply nothing at all, and where the whole mise-en-scène can suddenly turn snowy.
