"utterly short" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
It means "extremely short" or "completely short." Example: The teacher's instructions for the essay were utterly short, leaving the students confused and struggling to write a coherent paper.
They were fun and clever but like, many Internet phenomena, seemed utterly short-lived.
What seems to prevail in these attitudes, very often justified, but not always, by the effects these structures could cause in the local situation, is a sort of local egoism, the child of a prevailing identity attitude that is extremely mean and utterly short-sighted.
Nigerian writer Tope Folarin has scooped the Caine Prize for African Writing for his "utterly compelling" short story Miracle [PDF], set among Nigerian expatriates living in the US.
This is a fine idea, though if you can make an event (and an utterly hysterical short film) out of the process, as my neighbor George Motz did, all the better.
Mr. Romney's entire campaign rests on a foundation of short, utterly false sound bites.
The timing is utterly tragic, cutting short Nurkic's career year and undercutting Portland's promising playoff prospects.
In the 1890s, Chekhov utterly transformed the short story to such an extent you could say we're all Chekhovian writers".
One side feels triumphant, the other utterly humiliated.In short, this is a terrible time to begin the most complicated and sensitive internal negotiation in modern British history.
Mr. McConnell is, in short, utterly unapologetic about his defense of what he says is simple free speech, warning that a ban on unrestricted, large-dollar donations to parties would be crippling.
She loves the person she's substantially imagined on the page, making him – though nasty, brutish and short – utterly seductive, witty, multilingual and, two-thirds of the way into her version of his story at least, apparently indestructible.
