Better health status is associated with higher levels of satisfaction for all dimensions of the pure outpatient encounter, whereas no association seems to exist concerning the radiographic and laboratory scales.
In fact, I had spent years slogging through tropical backwaters in search of empty surf, looking for the purest possible encounter with the remotest possible waves.
You may not find gorillas, despite estimates of 35,000 in Gabon, but if you do, it'll be a pure and authentic encounter.
On another occasion Auden said that he had only once encountered pure evil in a person, and that was when he met Yeats.
"Tiger in a Trance" is a road novel, and Jason is the latest incarnation of an American character passed down from Walt Whitman to Jack Kerouac: the soulful rebel with an enormous appetite for life, a kid who hits the pavement in search of experience and fulfillment, rejecting the phony and exalting the pure as he encounters it.
"Brandenburgs," which has not been in the repertory for several years and seems more abundant and brilliant than at its premiere, is pure dance; "Brief Encounters," which is new this season to New York City, is a dreamlike series of changing dance dramas.
In the novel Nausea (1936) Jean-Paul Sartre described a bizarre course of experience in which the protagonist, writing in the first person, describes how ordinary objects lose their meaning until he encounters pure being at the foot of a chestnut tree, and in that moment recovers his sense of his own freedom.
Another airline encounter was pure fluke.
At one point in "The Problem of Evil," for instance, Costello suddenly remembers her first encounter with pure evil, when a man who picked her up at a bar beat her with childish, malicious glee, breaking her jaw.
The encounter is pure Tanizaki, at once comic, transgressive and suffused with carnal menace: "Defeated as a woman, I wanted to win her over again as a man, and to revel in the victory.
