And that means it's harder for us to pay attention to the quiet, the subtle, the understated.

Furthermore, we have listened with concern as some delegations have understated the value of the new Declaration.

The importance of addressing the root causes of conflict and devoting greater efforts to conflict prevention cannot be understated.

One way to change our genes is to make new ones, as Craig Venter has so elegantly shown.

And this is just so elegantly mysterious, it's just it really kind of holds its cards a lot tighter than say, a tuna.

On the other hand, the document understated the need to further improve the democracy of decision making processes within multilateral organizations such as the WTO.

But the reason that I mention it is that early on, Rabassa offers this elegantly simple insight Every act of communication is an act of translation.

Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy and just world, with clean air, clean water, soil and power economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed, period.

Nabokov's family fled Russia. How could the young Nabokov, sitting innocently and elegantly in a red chair, leafing through a book and butterflies, imagine such displacement, such loss?

So that means anything you do, or anything you make, you produce a sequence of steps and I think Lego in the '70s nailed this, and they did it most elegantly.

In fact, the UN s contribution to peace and development should not be understated, though its successes clearly do not receive the publicity they deserve. For example, UN peacekeepers were recently deployed successfully in Mali.

As we can already see, it will not be easy to overcome the obstacles posed by vertically integrated ministries and agencies. Institutionalization will take time and the importance of its success cannot be understated.

At his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled profits while turning the traditional take make waste industrial system on its head. In a gentle, understated way, he shares a powerful vision for sustainable commerce.

Mechanisms of the immune response for just one kind of lymphocyte take up thousands of pages of scholarly journals. An iPod's elegantly simple appearance masks underlying technology that is understood by only a tiny percentage of its users.

She walked elegantly, like a giraffe on the African savannah, holding the flag on her shoulder. I jogged behind on my tiptoes holding the flag on my extended arm, so that my head was actually under the damn flag.

Just as Facebook has educated people, clumsily, about privacy controls, so marketers must educate people, ideally more elegantly, about tracking controls. I hope it won t take ten years and a lot of bad publicity for advertisers to figure that out.

At that time, Angela Merkel rejected a Europe wide guarantee, insisting that each country should guarantee its own institutions. Interestingly, interest rate differentials widened only in 2010, when the newly elected Greek government announced that the previous government had vastly understated the true fiscal deficit.

But the report plainly understated the degree of public support for change. Given what has happened in the last few weeks, Leung could quite properly give a new report to the authorities in Beijing focusing on two issues not proscribed by Hong Kong s mini constitution, the Basic Law.

In short, the paradox of choice (as elegantly described in an eponymous book by Barry Schwartz) is that too many choices confuse us and raise the possibility of regret how can we be sure that we are getting just what we want, and that something else would not be better?

Worse yet, the burden of banking losses that will sooner or later be socialized, and that of future unfunded public pension and health costs, are often understated in official debt figures. Moreover, the problematic finances of some sub national governments, for example in the US and Spain, will place pressure on central governments for fiscal aid.

But the European Central Bank, notably by ECB board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, has elegantly spelled out the case against debt reduction a case that is politically significant and deeply moral. Indeed, the principle of not reneging on public debt is deeply intertwined with the development of legal security, representative government, and modern democracy.

Vargas Llosa argued eloquently and elegantly that he could not vote for the daughter of a corrupt and repressive former president currently serving a 25 year prison sentence for human rights violations. But nor could he abstain or call for others to do so, since this would not only favor Keiko, but would also be a de facto abdication of the intellectuel engagé s responsibility.

Black men ski. Black men ski. Black men ski. Some kids I'll describe as friends say I am race obsessed. The luxury of your opinion shows that you are blessed. See, I have poems about sunsets flowers and the rain. I've read them to policemen but it was all in vain. So black men ski. Black men ski ... elegantly.