Armitage is not a classical No7, or 8 but he does certain things supremely well, the most obvious being placing himself over the ball at the breakdown.
All during "Spaceballs" (1987, MGM Home Entertainment, 96 minutes, $24.98), Mr. Brooks proudly points out the obvious, the old-hat, the hoary, the supremely stupid: when someone says, "Comb the desert" for outlaws, that's just what they do, take a gigantic comb and run it through the sand.
O'Hagan is a supremely literate composer whose music nods not only in the obvious directions (the Beach Boys, Steve Reich, Ravel) but also pays explicit tribute to less pivotal figures, such as the jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby.
He is the equivalent of a supremely talented left-handed pitcher with a strong arm — and some obvious control issues — that can give whatever team hires him a lot of quality innings.
By the same logic, one should also be supremely reluctant to go to war (except in the most transparently obvious and "just" circumstances, such as when our nation is empirically threatened - not merely perceived to be threatened - by a well-armed and capable adversary).
First of all, his generosity, his wide reading, his scrupulous description, and the joy that was obvious in his writing — he was someone who was both supremely confident and yet had humility.
By Paul Theroux January 28 ,2009 First of all, his generosity, his wide reading, his scrupulous description, and the joy that was obvious in his writing — he was someone who was both supremely confident and yet had humility.
He spent a lot of time and energy trying to find a fix for a logical problem in Watchmen that one character, Dan, uses a completely obvious password to hack into the computer of Adrian, who is supremely intelligent.
And in the way that Žižek puts his two masters, Lacan and Hegel, to work on modern society he is supremely gifted at showing how the internal contradictions of late capitalism make themselves ludicrously obvious – and funny – if, like him, you're good at looking.
That he won amidst the obvious political tensions of the era, against a nation whose chess infrastructure supremely exceeded his own, and with a temperament that could be most favorably described as "smugly eccentric" continue to add to his legend.
