Indeed, a number of megadonors have written checks to Mr. Romney's various PACs that total in the realm of $100,000.
Among them they compose what is called the vajra-dhatu, which means, roughly speaking, "the realm of total reality".
By the end, as the hero took savage reprisals on both his daughter and the baby, we went into the realm of total madness.
This sounds routine enough, until we realise how much was at stake: in the 14th century, wool duties contributed one-third of the total revenues of the realm.
Buddhism, from its very beginning, established a total distinction between the realm of life and individual (saṃsāra), which it identified interiorly as the arena of pain and suffering, and the goal of the Buddhist way, Nirvāṇa, which is understood in wholly negative terms as a final and total release from saṃsāra.
"Wolfe has constructed this very elaborate life for himself inside his brownstone, and within his own realm he has total control.
"It's a religious place, which opens the realm of holiness: this total other, the transcendent".
Throughout the performance I was in awe, and felt as if I had been in the presence of absolute musical perfection: maestro, orchestra, soloists had transported us to a magical realm wherein beauty held total sway.
The total effect is riotous, hallucinatory, of another realm.
