Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes is at once complete, always in the process of becoming (with a little help from the reader) and necessary (on its own combinatorial terms) – the signatures of the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or Potential Literature Workshop (OuLiPo) launched by Queneau and François Le Lionnais in 1960.
Rock in Rio III was at once impressively organized and a complete mess; a music-booking triumph and a musical insult; a social-improvement project and a giant corporate advertisement.
Reflecting just how many charges the GOP is prepared to throw against the wall when it comes to making the Kagan hearings as uncomfortable as possible, Sessions insisted that the current solicitor general was, at once, decidedly liberal and a complete enigma (owing to her scant written record).
In "Digging for Fire," he begins with an impulse, a sentiment, an experience, and elaborates it into a vision that's at once dramatically complete and utterly natural; he conveys an inevitability that makes it seem as if it has always been there, like a cinematic song, and that appears, for exactly that reason, too self-evident, simple, and straightforward to be as furiously original as it is.
But in conversation as in her writing, Hepola is measured and nuanced; alcohol can be at once a harbinger of complete destruction, and also, she concedes as we chat about stress management, a more streamlined tactic for calming nerves than yoga.
In some television appearances, Ivanka seems to present a simulacrum of herself — a for-public-consumption version that is at once both poised and guarded, complete with a breathy, unplaceable accent.
Full of critical judgments, scabrous anecdotes, descriptive sketches, literary gossip, and thumbnail portraits, the complete Journal is at once a revealing autobiography and a monumental history of social and literary life in 19th-century Paris.
Of course, Maude, who has long chestnut-colored hair, a pale delicate frame and a face that is at once cherubic and knowing, is not a complete nobody.
The new house – the first to be built in a century – will cost around £18m to construct and may be worth up to £40m once completed (since it is at the more modest end of the street where houses are a little smaller).
Evidence that the outer stone circle at Stonehenge was once complete has been found, because a hosepipe used to water the site was not long enough.
At best, scenarios, once completed, are periodically revised.
