All 15 Uses of
utter
in
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
- My difficulty arose from the fact that the clips were utterly overwhelming.†
Chpt 1 *utterly = completely or totally
- The disturbing thing about the test is that it shows that our unconscious attitudes may be utterly incompatible with our stated conscious values.†
Chpt 3
- But that was an utterly conventional kind of war: two heavily armed and organized forces meeting and fighting in an open battlefield.†
Chpt 4
- What is terrifying about improv is the fact that it appears utterly random and chaotic.†
Chpt 4
- And all of the ballyhooed techniques used by the armies of market researchers at CBS utterly failed to distinguish between these two very different emotions.†
Chpt 5
- On the screen, Kaelin moved forward to answer the question, and in that fraction of a second, his face was utterly transformed.†
Chpt 6
- The police procedure, in other words, is for my benefit: it means that the only way the officer will ever draw his gun on me is if I engage in a drawn-out and utterly unambiguous sequence of actions.†
Chpt 6
- The officer's account is a beautiful example of how a high-stress moment—in the right hands—can be utterly transformed: It was dusk.†
Chpt 6
- Two towering white men, utterly out of place in that neighborhood and at that time of night, have confronted him.†
Chpt 6
- Ted Williams could hit a baseball as well as anyone in history, and he could explain with utter confidence how to do it.†
Chpt 2
- It's why picking the right candidate for a job is so difficult and why, on more occasions than we may care to admit, utter mediocrities sometimes end up in positions of enormous responsibility.†
Chpt 3
- "You cannot prejudge people in this business," he said over and over when we met, and each time he used that phrase, his face took on a look of utter conviction.†
Chpt 3
- They acted with utter confidence, because their Operational Net Assessment matrixes told them where Red Team's vulnerabilities were, what Red Team's next move was likely to be, and what Red Team's range of options was.†
Chpt 4
- The opposite was true: they seemed to talk only to heighten their anticipation of the next bite, and when the next bite came, their faces took on a look of utter absorption.†
Chpt 5
- Finally, they saw what they were looking for: when Mary's doctor asked her about her plans for the future, a look of utter despair flashed across her face so quickly that it was almost imperceptible.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)
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(2)
(utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, and archaically, utter can mean to let out.