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For starters, any one fish is just so tiny compared to the sheer size of the collective, so it seems that any one individual would have a really limited and myopic view of what's going on, and intelligence isn't really about the individual but somehow a property of the group itself.
She's holding back tons of steel with the sheer force of her little personality, in that crone-ish voice, saying things like, "Back it up, buddy!
Whether they’re herding, hunting, sledding, or slouching the sheer variety of domestic dogs is staggering.
And in fact, the number of conversations they hear seems to matter a little bit more than the sheer number of words they hear.
So again, like the Internet compared to AOL, and the sort of chat rooms and content on AOL at the time, what's happening here is something very different, because the sheer scale of what people can do when they're enabled to do anything they want is pretty amazing.
"Olé!" to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.
But that, along with its location, made the sheer potential for discovery so exciting, and I had so many questions.
By sheer coincidence, one of my daughters has a form of pediatric arthritis.
I managed to stick in both the zeppelin and an ocean liner out of sheer enthusiasm.
Not just because of the cesspools, but also the sheer number of livestock in the city would shock people.
And I remember taking the goggles off my face and looking down at my hands in sheer shock, because my fingers had swollen so much that they were like sausages.
Now, Dr. Soraya was struggling under the sheer demand of her local population, as well as the fact that she wasn't specifically trained in this procedure.
I'd go to Central Park and see the rolling topography of Central Park come up against the abrupt and sheer topography of midtown Manhattan.
And I'm wondering, why do we have this sheer ignorance about the global commons, including me, myself?
What makes ayahuasca fascinating is not the sheer pharmacological potential of this preparation, but the elaboration of it.
All the climbers here are climbing unroped, and the reason is because the drop off is so sheer on either side that if you were roped to somebody, you'd wind up just pulling them off with you.
Man: They'll get an incredible panorama and understand, I think more completely, the sheer totality of the destruction of the place.
For the first time in years, Shi'ites were allowed to make the pilgrimage to Karbala to observe Ashura, and I was amazed by the sheer number of people and how fervently they practiced their religion.
How do you not despair when, with the body ravaged by chemotherapy, climbing a mere flight of stairs was sheer torture, that to someone like me who could dance for three hours?
The other big dynamic of change is the sheer performance of underperforming asphalt.
But what the film lacks in originality it more than makes up for it sheer bloody awfulness.
The implausibility of the plot has been noted by several commentators, particularly the immense amount of trouble Fr McKenna would have had to have gone to, and the sheer impossibility of some of the calculations he would have had to have made, including that Langdon was going to decipher each clue in minutes.
Yet, i've seen this movie several times already and plan to watch several more times because, despite its sheer dumbness, it's very entertaining.
I remember this movie with feelings of sheer . . .
I kept wondering if I had fallen asleep out of sheer boredom and missed how that happened.
No one can make an 'instant cult classic', Joe Minion's previous "After Hours" achieved that by sheer merit & an amazing director, but it wasn't instant.
However Danny harbors a secret, he knows that it was sheer luck that got the terror arrested and even more luck that Danny survived, now a final battle is waged but is Danny ready?
This movie was sheer, slow, plodding torture.
I have spent a lot of time watching a lot of terrible movies just for the sheer joy I get from it, and man, this is one of the worst.
Corey Haim is terrible, of course but the movie's sheer momentum as well as Ironside's imposing presence make this at least a modestly effective film.
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