The idea of a safe gun might seem to be the ultimate oxymoron: guns are designed to kill.
As Cunningham explained in his Lapham's piece: "If, as the French epicure Anthelme Brillat-Savarin suggested, we are what we eat, then a final meal would seem to be the ultimate self-expression.
"How do they know, right?" Kau would seem to be the ultimate outsider, his impressions and encounters etching an alternative portrait of a wild frontier country, its unassimilated characters and improvised structures of order.
To the extent that the law can be depicted as an anachronism — a description embraced in much media commentary on the case but one that the briefs filed by the Obama administration and leading civil rights organizations persuasively refute – that would seem to be an ultimate policy judgment for Congress, not the courts.
At first glance, sure, the president-elect might seem to be the ultimate confidence man.
Sex scandals seem to be the ultimate drama and we follow them with as much intensity and opinion as a Shonda Rhimes series.
While addressing student resistance in a classroom when it arises is no doubt a key concern for many instructors, preventing student resistance altogether would seem to be the ultimate goal.
For those who don't know any better, pull ups may seem to be the ultimate test of arm strength.
But the books are literary caterpillars, texts that seem to be seeking their ultimate realization in the form of a motion picture.
James objected that if all our errors and sorrows are in fact reconciled in the Absolute, then finite persons would seem to be exonerated from ultimate responsibility for their actions: they might as well enjoy a lifelong "moral holiday".
The modulus and yield characteristics seem to be almost unaffected whereas ultimate properties undergo strong variations.
