In part, I think Seinfeld's definition of what constitutes a "bomb" changes: perhaps he never tells a joke that meets outright silence, but when he tells a joke that elicits only tittering, I bet it sounds like silence to him.
I meet with outright hostility – "who gave you my phone number?" and sometimes unimaginable kindness.
BURBANK — With dual-meet supremacy already in their back pockets, the Crescenta Valley High girls' and boys' swimming teams reaffirmed their dominance of the Pacific League championship meet, clinching outright titles at Burbank High on Thursday.
The great flash point, of course, was the attack on Manchester City's team bus outside Anfield before last year's meeting in the Champions League quarterfinals, an act met with outright and understandable fury by City.
A plot involving Chris's getting his driver's license for the first time was met with outright disbelief.
My questions, although harmless, necessarily involved family and were met with outright hostility and scorn by Vanessa.
Inside Uganda itself however, the move was met with outright hostility from a range of human rights and civil society organisations and traditional leaders.
And despite the blessing of the bank's shareholders, some regulators remain skeptical that Mr. Dimon and JPMorgan can truly overhaul a bank and a culture where requests from regulators were sometimes met with outright resistance.
When pitching for business, the fact she is the chief executive of her own company is regularly met with outright disbelief, and it hasn't been uncommon for clients to refuse to pay for work carried out.
PI says that it has exhausted all domestic legal remedies because its freedom of information request for the document, detailing how the UK's security services collaborate with the National Security Agency NSAA) in the US and other foreign intelligence agencies, met with outright refusal.
