He knew about maintaining appearances and placating benefactors, and he invests the scene of Victoria's conversion (which we've included in this clip) with an extraordinary, nearly mind-bending intensity.
Holy crap; remember when the App Store surpassing 1 billion downloads was a nearly mind-blowing feat?
You'll feel like Captain Picard (because you're on a spaceship) combined with the nearly mind-over-body control of Professor Xavier.
As for Lola, she spoke her lines correctly but casually, and sometimes smiled inappropriately at some private thought, determined to demonstrate that her nearly adult mind was elsewhere.
The grappling he does with his nearly blank mind is the most engaging part of the book; how he wound up in the hole and what defined his previous life are mysteries neither he nor we ever solve.
King's previous novel, "Duma Key" (2008), was a subterranean first-person trip, in the vein of "Misery" or "Bag of Bones": Edgar Freemantle, rehabbing on the Florida coast after a construction accident that cost him his right arm and nearly his mind, starts banging out left-handed paintings whose Dalí-esque motifs have freaky real-world effects.
Despite mountains of reporting — not nearly enough, mind you — and evidence, people found ways to disregard allegations as rumors, and cited his 2008 acquittal on child pornography charges as a reason to leave the matter be.
With two languages in the mind, nearly everything has two labels (words) and nearly everything can be expressed in two different kinds of sentences (grammar).
However, it is likely to provoke questions about why it took so long to finalise bearing in mind nearly 10 months have passed since McClair left the club for a new role at the Scottish Football Association.
Instead of finding happiness, he nearly loses his mind.
