Portnoy's infamous complaint was neither his masturbatory inclination nor the immoderate attentions of a Jewish mother but — in the book's quasi-medical definition — "a disorder in which strongly felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings".
Kyl's remarks are another sad indication of the state of the congressional minority, of a Republican Party that bizarrely continues to insist on a strategy of perpetually bringing the extreme into the mainstream.
Leonard's Rita seems like a more courageous version of Ibsen's Hedda, perpetually driven to extremes: she alone is swathed from head to toe in black after Eyolf's death.
After 8 generations cultured in normoxia, they were re-introduced to a 5% or 4% O2 environment, and again, the majority (>80%) of the flies completed their development and could be maintained in this extreme condition perpetually.
Perhaps the most notable feature of Mitchell Johnson's series-shaping performance to date has been his sheer relentlessness: moustache perpetually aquiver, offering not only extreme pace but instant left-arm fury on tap, anger to order from a fast bowler for whom every straw appears to be the last straw.
Abe is an itinerant scholar, a perpetually restless malcontent who has experimented with extreme experiences, whether external (such as an extended mission in Darfur) or internal (drugs), and seems unchanged by them.
It's cinematically sublime, set in a perpetually twilit landscape filled with pretty people clad in extreme outdoor-wear, who are generally up to no good.
Jupiter's axial tilt is very small, so its seasonal variation is minimal; Uranus, on the other hand, has an axial tilt so extreme it is virtually on its side, which means that its hemispheres are either perpetually in sunlight or perpetually in darkness around the time of its solstices.
The 28- by 22-inch polypropylene trays trap air underneath themselves as well, insulating plants from extreme temperatures and catching moisture evaporating from the earth to create a perpetually moist soil pocket around the roots.
Although often only fleetingly, buses perpetually appear in American literature, music, and film, associated with urban and rural extremes; minutely mapped city spaces and unknowably vast (often western) open ones; working-class transformation and middle-class disorientation.
The site of a devastating earthquake last May, Sichuan is an area of extremes: mountains and plains, industry and farms, the newly rich and the perpetually poor.
