In her novel "Once Upon a River," Bonnie Jo Campbell may have provided "utterly convincing" details about sharpshooting to Jane Smiley ("Survival Skills," July 24), but not to anyone who's actually been hunting.
These chapters by Mr. Bergen provide an utterly devastating indictment of the Bush administration on all levels — from its failure to heed warnings about a terrorist threat, to its determination to conduct the war in Afghanistan on the cheap, to its costly, unnecessary and thoroughly misguided invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Doesn't this provide an utterly compelling and vivid image of the NSA?
It still, that is, has the power to defy conventional expectations about what a movie should be while providing an utterly captivating moviegoing experience.
The Chilcot report provides an utterly devastating indictment of Tony Blair's preparations for and conduct of the Iraq war, the most lethal and grotesque aspect of his legacy.
But on the north side, facing what was by then the Runk house, Stein provided an utterly blank wall of common brick — love thy neighbor!
"This report provides an utterly damning indictment of Mexico's handling of the worst human rights atrocity in recent memory," said Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas Director at Human Rights Watch.
Attempting to provide a synopsis is utterly futile, but here goes: 25 years after being confined to the purgatorial dark-space known as the Black Lodge by his evil doppelganger, Kyle MacLachlan's heroic FBI agent Dale Cooper embarks on a pan-dimensional odyssey to return to his previous form.
The creditable cast features Henry Winkler, John Ritter and, most notably, Jan Maxwell, who provides something otherwise utterly lacking here: emotional verisimilitude (1 40).
Many times the light was turned on and the old answers provided for me utterly failed.
