The university itself remains a distant, never-seen goal, but as such it still exerts its considerable presence.
With all this said, the Academy Awards is still the biggest and best Awards show we've got, and eighty-plus years after its relatively humble beginnings, it still exerts a disproportionate amount of buzz and fascination, both inside and outside the movie business.
Such is the aura that Woods created in his glorious time at the top - and he was a player like none other, playing a way no other man could - that it still exerts some of its old grip.
The Fed still has its harmful monopoly on the currency – it still exerts an unhealthy influence on bank reserves – it still acts as the system-wide lender of last resort to deadbeats – and it still controls short-term interest rates, thus the all-important shape of the Treasury yield curve.
If its fiercely blazing modernism no longer feels of this age, it still exerts more power than many considerably younger ballets.
But while JonBenét's murder may well never be solved, there has never been any mystery about why it still exerts such a fascination.
Morose yet beautiful indie rock isn't the trend of the moment, but it still exerts a hypnotic pull, and the Seattle-based Silkworm does it as well as any band out there right now.
But even when the list, or the listicle, has nothing really to do with useful information, it still exerts an occult force on our attention — or on my attention, at any rate.
And even if the play has the faintly over-workshopped quality you often find in American drama, in which all the rough edges are planed down, it still exerts a fiercely intelligent grip.
But even when the list, or the listicle, has nothing really to do with useful information, it still exerts an occult force on our attention or on my attention, at any rate.
