Unless the recentness is critical to the story, I would recommend leaving “recently convicted” out. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Sharpening Your Concept With a Two-Sentence Synopsis] Reference
Taking a cue from Mrs. Coulter, some bullets of recentness, and a couple of links. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Burt: A Reintroduction of Sorts] Reference
It only matters based on the scummimess factor, weighted by recentness and likeability. From Wordnik.com. [He cheated on his wife, so we can't trust him. Is that the rule you want?] Reference
Even so, despite the comparative recentness of the outrage, it was already starting to fade a little in the minds of a small but growing segment of the population. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
Many Canadians dislike Harper, though the recentness of the 2008 election, lack of viable alternatives and likely prospect of an even more dysfunctional parliament do not have people clamoring for an election. From Wordnik.com. [Harper: “No one wants another election” - Need to know - Macleans.ca] Reference
With 125,000 people packed into 2.7 of the city's 469 square miles, Koreatown is typical of this polyglot city where more than 100 languages are spoken and nothing is typical except recentness: 46 percent of the residents are foreign-born. From Wordnik.com. [Trickle-Down Misery in L.A.] Reference
I can only attribute Mr. Stoppard's failure to appreciate the significance of Housman's intellectual and methodological insights to the relative recentness of his "discovery" (as he referred to it in Philadelphia) that Housman had been a classicist at all. From Wordnik.com. ['The Invention of Love': An Exchange] Reference
Of that highly patrician class of bibliographies which offer their services exclusively to the collectors of rare, curious, and costly books, there are so many notices dotted over this volume, that I shall only stop here to mark the recentness of their appearance in literature. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Or are recentness and page load time more important?. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Malaysia] Reference
This episode adds more support for the recentness of the first contact with humanity. From Wordnik.com. [Pretty, Fizzy Paradise] Reference
Syndicate Building, his name came last -- and, in the newest lettering, suggesting recentness of partnership. From Wordnik.com. [The Grain of Dust] Reference
How often had he faced a widowed mother and her daughter, in mourning so deep as to suggest the recentness of their loss. From Wordnik.com. [Cobwebs and Cables] Reference
The astonishing recentness of much of our most important knowledge is nowhere better illustrated than in the case of typhoid. From Wordnik.com. [Preventable Diseases] Reference
But first, in order that this colossal adventure may be fully grasped, the recentness and the remoteness of Alaska must be emphasized. From Wordnik.com. [Revolution, and Other Essays] Reference
I did not, till now, advert to the recentness of his appearance among us, and to the obscurity that hung over his origin and past life. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
Firstly, we assign each poll a weighting based on that pollster's historical track record, the poll's sample size, and the recentness of the poll. From Wordnik.com. [Thinking on the Margin] Reference
Still a close race overall, Apple's victory is nevertheless even more impressive considering the relative recentness of its entry into the digital books arena. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0]
Besides these primary laws of association, various secondary laws are enumerated, such as the laws of frequency, vividness, recentness, emotional congruity, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
At present, their minds are somewhat unsettled by the recentness of their progress; and in the exuberance consequent on such a state, some danger is to be apprehended. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler in France] Reference
There are meander designs, lightning, and drawings of cows and horses; but the latter were doubtless put on after the walls were demolished, and their general appearance denotes recentness. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan] Reference
I'm not going to comment generally on 'Europe', or even in detail on the UK, except to say that the most obvious difference is the relative recentness of large-scale non-white populations in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Heraclitean Fire] Reference
In the list of names upon the outer doors of the firm's vast labyrinthine suite, on the seventeenth floor of the Syndicate Building, his name came last -- and, in the newest lettering, suggesting recentness of partnership. From Wordnik.com. [Grain of Dust.] Reference
Weber might change this by persuading a consular officer otherwise, but "because of the seriousness and recentness of the events that led to the refusal, the consular officer did not recommend that you be eligible to apply for a waiver," the letter told her. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
It wouldn't result in an immediate exit, as the recentness of implementing NVIDIA chipsets into nearly all Macs means some models will keep their existing designs for a long time, but could already result in some comparatively near-term updates shedding the NVIDIA platform. From Wordnik.com. [O'Grady's PowerPage - Your Mobile Technology Destination] Reference
Now the family of Queen Catharine had risen to rank and distinction within a moderate period; and though she was, as Queen of France, on the very pinnacle of human greatness, she would naturally be vexed at any remark which would remind her of the recentness of her elevation. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History] Reference
I then ended with a bit of research couldn’t help myself, talking about AAUWs’ findings, especially in Behind the Pay Gap, as I knew the recentness of the report would have a greater impact. From Wordnik.com. [Pay Equity — Ancient History? « AAUW Dialog] Reference
I observed with much interest that the provision for closing the entrances from the street was not swinging doors of wood, but either metal bars, such as we had seen in Tizoc's house, or else a metal grating, that was arranged like a portcullis to slide up and down in a groove; and I attributed the absence of wooden doors less to a desire for stronger barriers than to the comparative recentness of the acquisition of the knowledge of wood-working tools. From Wordnik.com. [The Aztec Treasure-House] Reference
Burning late at night, and the recentness. From Wordnik.com. [TV] Reference
A source that does seem to have three-letter (as well as ISO 3166 numeric codes) is http: / / www. davros.org / misc / iso3166. html, but of course I have no idea of the validity or recentness of this source. From Wordnik.com. [LinuxChix aggregator] Reference
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