The opener, a piece of Ms. Cohen's called "La Casa del Llano," busily fluttered and then brightly rollicked, but the impression it made was of mere hurriedness.
Randall Stross's "The Microsoft Way" (1996) offered a formula that was strikingly similar to Schmidt and Rosenberg's: "Gates recruited smart people, put them to work on a campus well suited for intense concentration, and maintained their allegiance with stock options whose value made millionaires of mere foot soldiers in the product-development groups.
He took from Francis Bacon both a growlingly bravura technique, with flesh-color paint applied like gelled viscera, and a brazening of erotic appetite and angst as all-purpose fuel for art — never mind the mess they might make of a mere life.
They all believed that they consisted of the very same stuff that the rest of the organism was made of, so that their mere growth, recombination and accumulation en masse would make visible the particular traits for which they were responsible.
Neither rhyme nor reason -- and certainly not socialist reason -- can be made of it, especially when mere transgression is confused with progress.
Others are simple arbors, or arches made of thin birch trees with mere wisps of leaves or blossoms climbing up the poles or forming a lacy awning.
These are vocal utterances in Ms. Monk's patented style, virtually devoid of intelligible words and made of shaped syllables, plosives, hums, even mere breaths.
If I can pull myself away from them, it will be to make this – the work of mere moments and only a handful of ingredients.
How did Beale, a stalwart of the British theatre who has made a mere pocketful of films, achieve this suppurating portrait of malice?
It cannot be stripped of all unpleasantness and made a mere expression of pique, eccentricity, or generalized political frustration.
