The fundamentalist, by my lights, is a being utterly and categorically steeped in belief.
London is both perfectly English and utterly international, modern and steeped in history.
In the course of 20 books that have sold more than three million copies in 20 languages, O'Brian created a strangely seductive yet utterly persuasive fictional world, steeped in meticulous period detail and arcane knowledge, in which the drudgery and hardships of shipboard life in the British Navy are melded with vivid adventures on land and sea.
Utterly casual, disdainful of sycophancy and steeped in american culture, King Abdullah II is one of the Three Kings of what optimists might call the new Arab progressivism.
Far from Paris's couturiers, Neapolitan tailors and London's Savile Row, Vienna is an unsung paradise for modern-day dandies — and ladies — seeking to be perfectly dressed, literally from top to toe, in utterly bespoke pieces made by labels steeped in decades of tradition.
But it is utterly typical of the Rouxs, a family steeped in the noblest and Frenchest gastronomic traditions, who have probably influenced the British understanding of French food more than anyone in the past century.
The day before, Greg Smith, an executive director in the company's equity derivatives business, announced his resignation, in an Op-Ed page article in The New York Times, declaring that the previous decade had left Goldman's culture so steeped in avarice and self-interest, so utterly disdainful of its clients, that he no longer found it morally tenable to work there.
It remains, one suspects, a group steeped in a strong national performing tradition and utterly committed to the Czech repertory.
An instant classic last spring, "Concerto," named for its tumbling Shostakovich score, looks just as marvelous now: steeped in Soviet ballet traditions and evoking styles as richly diverse as Jerome Robbins and Busby Berkeley, yet utterly contemporary and utterly itself.
We are steeped in violence.
