A Mr Redgrave, in a speech to the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1876, said that the midden closet represented "... the standard of all that is utterly wrong, constructed as it is of porous materials, and permitting free soakage of filth into the surrounding soil, capable of containing the entire dejections from a house, or from a block of houses, for months and even years".
The story went that deep beneath Edge Hill was a labyrinth of beautifully constructed, utterly pointless tunnels.
The problem may have been that Saturday Night Fever made disco, reviled by 70s rock fans as much for its gay roots as its sound, unstoppable because the songs they contributed to it were utterly undeniable: perfectly formed, tightly constructed, melodically rich.
With the help of pal Nate Berkus, she utterly transformed the newly constructed residence, and the pair got especially creative when it came to reimagining her existing furnishings in their new context.
The New York Times reviewed it favorably: although in their description the book was "constructed along utterly anarchistic lines, with each episode and anecdote left pretty much on its own", they asserted that "It also has the flavor of life in it, and it is marked by an exhilarating revolt against the custom of arranging catastrophes and triumphs under neat chapter headings".
Political language is utterly debased; to construct narratives of hope (or of any emotion whatsoever) from the ruined language is foolishness.
The scenic juxtapositions and shifts of focus — from Aidan to Neil to the local coroner, Opal Mix — provoke an utterly contemporary questioning of the constructed nature of event and situation.
"It's exclusive!" The resulting images, she says, are utterly fake, "luxurious and exclusive but constructed for the moment.
As brilliantly constructed as it is, this utterly impactful reimagining is felt in the heart before the brain.
I don't know about you, but for me the most upsetting moment in "An Inconvenient Truth" came long after Al Gore scared the hell out of me, constructing an utterly convincing case that the very survival of life on earth as we know it is threatened by climate change.
