But Li Ning's spacewalk with the torch during the Opening Ceremony was both utterly original and deeply inspiring.
Learning of these defiant acts awakened in me something utterly primitive and deeply personal, a wave of awe, humility and admiration.
"It would be utterly unacceptable, and deeply serious, if it turns out that this information was deliberately kept from MPs at the time of the renewal vote for the Trident weapons of mass destruction programme," he said.
It's at once a familiar, utterly strange and deeply American story in which the period trappings long beloved by Hollywood — the paternalistic gentry with their pretty plantations, their genteel manners and all the fiddle-dee-dee rest — are the backdrop for an outrage.
I wonder where Abbas Kiarostami's "Shirin" is (I've seen a thematically related short film of his, which is utterly ingenious and deeply moving); I'm amazed that there isn't a single American, independently produced narrative feature, such as Josh and Benny Safdie's "Go Get Some Rosemary," which amply deserves inclusion.
Writing in Fast Company magazine, she says: "When I saw the pictures that she [her mother] had been posting on Facebook for years, I felt utterly embarrassed, and deeply betrayed.
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Australia's finance minister, Mathias Cormann, said the Australia Institute's claims were "factually incorrect" and "deeply and utterly wrong".
Hilarious and deeply emotional, utterly compelling and believable". "This is a thrilling, highly entertaining and moving examination of males and sexuality in all its fascinating complexity.
"All we can say is that we are utterly devastated by his actions and deeply saddened by the legacy of pain he has left behind.
For when "Tool Is Loot" comes together, and that is most of the time, it is utterly original, deeply comic and deviously beautiful.
