| The sheer absurdity of the situation he recounts would be very amusing were it not so utterly pathetic. |
| People think poetry is waffly, loose and vague but actually good poetry is utterly precise, no word is wasted. |
| He is utterly happy, and so is she, and despite his blindness and being a cripple, she accepts his hand in marriage. |
| This view is utterly independent of my views on the merits of affirmative action. |
| All the people in the building were rescued and within a very short time the whole place was utterly ablaze. |
| These artists and craftsmen were utterly unselfconscious of what they did qua artists and craftsmen. |
