Actually, it's more than that: we miss the hits altogether.
To answer that, we need to take an altogether different factor into consideration: the systemic damage that a prolonged recession will do to the United States economy.
We can be selectively deaf, or be so filled with our egotistical desires that we are altogether deaf to our duties.
We become so focused upon a scientific -- or not -- reading of Genesis 1 that we ignore altogether other passages in the Bible.
His thoughts keep returning to Hemingway's story, and at one point he thinks that perhaps even the old waiter's sense of place would break down under the vast empty weight of his world, that we might altogether "have lost our places and are drifting about, unmoored, into time". The story ends with the character realizing what most of us have known all along: "..
We say which had no existence, for we consider that concept altogether fanciful which represents one Congress succeeding to another as members of the same corporation.
Once we say that altogether, we need to provide safety for transit, the product will be in a certain quantity delivered to the consumer.
"They must understand that they have to comply with the decisions that we have taken altogether," he said.
In the preface to The Western Canon, his attempt to define "The Books and School of the Ages", Harold Bloom says: "One mark of an originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is a strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies".
We pray for strength, and light, so that in the coming years we may with cleanliness, fearlessness, and wisdom, do our allotted work on the earth in such manner as to show that we are not altogether unworthy of the blessings we have received.
