The bill is manifestly unpopular when taken as a whole.
What is manifestly unfair is when a proper consideration of your record on screen is sacrificed in favour of character attack.
While this is perhaps true for serious literary criticism, it's manifestly not true when it comes to experiencing a book purely for the pleasure of its characters, setting, dialogue, drama, and the Scheherazadean impulse to know what happens next — which, all apologies to Bloom, is why most people pick up a book in the first place.
Yet, no matter how rickety the scenario, Millhauser's shrewd sense of psychology makes his characters' impulses toward romantic excess manifestly believable, as when the chivalrous Tristan realizes that "if he was going to betray at all, then he had to betray as deeply as possible".
Up until now, they have had nothing but reassurances about the "economic fundamentals" being sound, when they manifestly are not.
Any comedian who purports to be shocked when the manifestly shocking thing that he says gets a lot of attention can't be telling the truth.
But it is pathetic for those who were surprised at the outcome of the election a week ago to act as if nothing much has happened – when it manifestly has.
"I mean, I give it four out of five for entertainment value, but the hype machine got out of control and said it was the new Get Carter, when it manifestly wasn't".
This is manifestly true, except that when someone uses little more than the 200 common word series, they can't dissemble or obfuscate - they haven't the vocabulary for it - and everything they say comes out with a sort of incantatory, prophetic thrust that keeps you spellbound, ever hopeful of eternal truths.
An election like that of 2004 in the US, when a manifestly failed President was re-elected by running against his opponent's lack of symbolic connection with the voters, is simply inconceivable.
