"It would be utterly ridiculous to expect career-women on leadership paths to continue to play the role of traditional women.
It is utterly ludicrous to expect universities to offer more for less and even more ridiculous to encourage students to complain at a time when it is clear they are getting a raw deal".
In last night's docudrama about the televising of the 1961 trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann for war crimes, Martin Freeman was, as you would expect, utterly convincing as beleaguered producer Milton Fruchtman, constantly firefighting practical, commercial and ethical problems before and during the four-month trial.
It is utterly unrealistic to expect all those brought up in fundamentalist religious cultures – conservative Islam being the largest, but by no means the only such culture – to be able suddenly and completely to ditch all aspects of the pervasive environment they were brought up in.
Notions like belief, desire, hope, fear, etc. are folk notions and, as such, it may not be utterly plausible to expect (eliminativist arguments aside) that a scientific psychology will preserve the exact contours of these concepts.
Today most agree that it is utterly unrealistic to expect politicians to give up a golden opportunity to posture before the cameras for headline-making political theater.
From the viewpoint of this principled tolerance, it is utterly ridiculous to expect a shrug and "whatever" in the face of disrespect and bigotry against racial or sexual minorities.
Saying it was "utterly inexcusable," he admitted he expected "quite a bit of stuff will go on coming out".
This is a masterpiece of impressionism, and when it was painted its fast, natural, flowing perceptions were utterly removed from what people expected a painting to look like.
