He replied: "Why don't you go and see?" The reason Lucas and Kim gave for doing what they did is remarkable, mostly for its ordinariness.
As a recent Southern transplant, the glut of patriotic Confederate memorabilia was off-putting, but the First White House is remarkable mostly for what it doesn't say than for what it does.
All of these figures, apart from the novelist Ozick, were themselves associated with the New York Review of Books, a publication remarkable for chumminess and logrolling as well as for the talent of its mostly Anglo-American contributors.
The award to Santos was remarkable, mostly for its timing, in a different way.
The Cabanel painting of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe is far from a great picture and is remarkable mostly for its subject.
Season five is remarkable mostly for its laser-like focus on each of the members of this sometimes insufferable (by design) clique.
His life's work was a five-volume edition of Manilius, an astrologer poet, who even Housman conceded was third-rate — "facile and frivolous," he said, remarkable mostly for "doing sums in verse".
So far, the process has been remarkable, mostly for the lack of rancor that usually accompanies the redrawing of Congressional boundaries every 10 years, to ensure each reflects its relative population as measured in the most recent census.
"Remortgaging and hedge funds... these mechanisms and devices are now the lingua franca of the economic downturn, but then the story was remarkable mostly for the size of the loan and the nature of the clients.
She's a cool, thoughtful singer who is remarkable mostly for her lyrics, her ability to mix stories and memories with a sometimes epic sense of time and history, and flashes of anger.
