Kaschak and Glenberg (2000) demonstrated that meaning in language is not purely syntactic: when presented with innovative denominal verbs constructed from nouns, participants were quicker to read sentences as sensical when the affordances of the noun were consistent with the action implied in the sentence.
I say "purely" because, when seen in context – even a tiny bit of context – there was nothing offensive about what he said.
Ben Bernanke's much-quoted "helicopter money" speech in 2002, in which he spelled out how quantitative easing might work, seemed purely academic when it was delivered.
This is purely because, when he took me to see it in 1985, I immediately embarked upon such a sustained series of full-volume terror-fits that we were forced to leave halfway though.
As in this story, "& Sons" takes an unexpected turn from the purely naturalistic when A. N. Dyer reveals what he claims to be the true story behind his son's birth.
Still, a proviso in the theater's program uses such apparently essential words as fictional and purely coincidental when it comes to resemblances to "persons, alive or dead, events or locales," while conceding that the play is "based on actual circumstances and facts".
It can easily be observed from the characteristic equation (6.1) that the roots become purely imaginary when (tilde{a}_{11}=0), i.e. (beta=beta_{c}= 1-frac{1}{K}[frac{d}{lambda c-dh)}{lambda c-dh{2c-n(c-dh)}{c-n(c-dh)}]).
If Apple wants to quibble about technicalities, that's fine, but doesn't that kind of seem to you like they're trying to stifle innovation?" The ad is well-done, though, and the take-away point is almost purely visual when they put their old touch-based handhelds on a timeline.
Jesus, I sound like some kind of bloated 18th century prince, I don't just purely indulge when I'm in Berlin you know.
She signed up to cater the event without knowing that the royal couple would be in attendance, she said on NBC's Today Show, but was "purely excited" when she found out they were coming.
