The result came as a shock to Democrats, who were left pondering the future of their party after not simply losing the presidency but also failing to regain a majority in either chamber of Congress.
Seldom, at least in recent years, had any Mets fan seen such a bizarre scene: a player not simply losing count of the outs but gracefully offering a live ball as a souvenir to a fan.
Mr. Ferriss offers advice about so many disparate things — not simply losing weight and building muscle and improving sex and living forever, but learning to hold your breath longer than Houdini and hit baseballs like Babe Ruth — that paging through "The 4-Hour Body" is like reading the sprawling menu in a dubious diner, quite certain the only thing you'd dare order is the turkey club.
"Leakers do not simply lose their jobs at Apple.
And not even fail, not simply lose the election, but many long to see her publicly humiliated.
This is our war against "pests" and "weeds," and, like our war against "evil," a.k.a., terrorism, or whatever, and our determination to impose an economic and political monoculture on the whole planet, we're not simply losing, we're destroying ourselves.
However, this all indicates that Vladimir Putin hasn't simply lost his marbles, as some people, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have suggested.
After all, the Terps didn't simply lose a scrimmage when they fell to the Greyhounds in early February.
McKee credits himself with inventing the language of Hollywood – with its talk of the "mid-point climax", the "inciting incident" and the "negation of the negation", a phrase that originated with Hegel, but in movies means something like "the ultimate negative": a fallen hero who is not merely defeated but wants to die, or a character who doesn't simply lose faith in God but begins to hate God.
Many Americans have begun to wonder whether or not we've simply lost our appetite for bold policy solutions.
