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* The slangy nature of the term " blockbuster " made it a frequent popular culture reference during World War II, for example the Bugs Bunny cartoon Falling Hare, about a gremlin trying to detonate a blockbuster bomb with a mallet.
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When Willard died suddenly on January 11, 1958, the Tribune Syndicate hired Johnson, who also had a natural gift for funny, slangy dialogue, to helm the strip as Willard's logical successor.
During the development of the pilot chapter of the series, Rurouni, Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story, Watsuki and his editor argued over Kenshin's speech patterns ; they settled for a " slangy " pattern.
slangy and about
The first half of his act was a monologue in a slangy, almost-mumbled punk-kid characterization, telling listeners about his friend Dufo: " What a crazy guy.
slangy and with
Mobsters and criminal-types invariably spoke slangy Brooklynese, and residents of Lower Slobbovia spoke pidgin-Russian, with a smattering of Yinglish.
Articles in ' East Touch ' are written in colloquial Chinese and are often peppered with slangy Cantonese phrases and English words.
Instead, she devoted her time to two projects: preserving Tanguy ’ s reputation through retrospective shows and a complete catalogue of his work, and writing poetry, mostly in the slangy French she had learned in her youth and spoken with Tanguy.
" When we first played this sentimental political campaign song ... there were objectors who thought that juxtaposing the dignified ' of thee I sing ' with a slangy ' baby ' was going a bit too far.
The Twelve, with its " mood-creating sounds, polyphonic rhythms, and harsh, slangy language " ( as the Encyclopædia Britannica termed it ), promptly alienated Blok from a mass of his admirers.
Heckle is more rough around the edges, and speaks with a more informal, slangy vernacular and gruff New York dialect.
slangy and .
Egan must have found it an enjoyable task: his had always been a slangy style.
" Janet Maslin in The New York Times described it as a " film specializing in smoky, down-at-the-heels glamour, and in the kind of smart, slangy dialogue that sounds right without necessarily having much to say.
Violence bursts in every sequence, and the conversation is slangy and corrupt.
: " Esterhazy's prose is jumpy, allusive, and slangy.
The use of the word " rap " to describe quick and slangy speech or repartee long predates the musical form.
nature and term
The K factor, a term used to denote the rate of heat transmission through a material ( B.t.u./sq. ft. of material/hr./*0F./in. of thickness ) ranges from 0.24 to 0.28 for flexible urethane foams and from 0.12 to 0.16 for rigid urethane foams, depending upon the formulation, density, cell size, and nature of blowing agents used.
Spanish advocates predicated the term adoptivus of Christ only in respect to his humanity ; once the divine Son " emptied himself " of divinity and " took the form of a servant " ( Philippians 2: 7 ), Christ's human nature was " adopted " as divine.
To some outside of the realm of this discourse, The term is critiqued as being unclear, unfocused, and / or contradictory in nature
The term chord was selected due to the curved nature of the wing's surface.
The term " Low Fantasy " is used to represent other types of fantasy, however, so while comic fantasies may also correctly be classified as low fantasy, many examples of low fantasy are not comic in nature.
A term that comes closer to Coptic Orthodoxy is miaphysite, which refers to a conjoined nature for Christ, both human and divine, united indivisibly in the Incarnate Logos.
On the other hand, by emphasizing the medical nature of the condition, this term is sometimes rejected, such as by proponents of the autism rights movement.
And the term can denote Godlike nature or character.
The exact term was not used by Marx in any of his works, and the actual presence of " dialectical materialism " within his thought remains the subject of significant controversy, particularly regarding the relationship between dialectics, ontology and nature.
The term glycol is reserved for low to medium range molar mass polymer when the nature of the end-group, which is usually a hydroxyl group, still matters.
Successively, the word elf, as well as literary term fairy, evolved to a general denotation of various nature spirits like Puck, hobgoblins, Robin Goodfellow, the English and Scots brownie, the Northumbrian English hob and so forth.
The term restaurant is credited to the French from the 19th century, as it relates to the restorative nature of the bouillons that were once served in them.
Because Capra's films often carry a message about basic goodness in human nature, and show the value of unselfishness and hard work, his wholesome, feel-good themes have led some to term his style " Capra-corn.
For this reason, the term is often applied to films and plays of a stylised nature with heightened acting, melodrama and theatrical effects such as Sweeney Todd, Sleepy Hollow, Quills, and the Hammer Horror films that went before them.
Gaia philosophy ( named after Gaia, Greek goddess of the Earth ) is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that living organisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment in order to make the environment more suitable for life.
This term is used pejoratively by its reputation for the introduction of errors and variations into the information transmitted, and it also describes idle chat, a rumor of personal, or trivial nature.
Physics ( from Greek: φύσις physis " nature ") is a branch of science that developed out of philosophy, and was thus referred to as natural philosophy until the late 19th century-a term describing a field of study concerned with " the workings of nature ".
Another term used is Old Horny, in reference to the deity's horns and also to his sexual nature.
The earliest definition of hypnosis was given by Braid, who coined the term " hypnotism " as an abbreviation for " neuro-hypnotism ", or nervous sleep, which he opposed to normal sleep, and defined as: " a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not of an exciting nature.
" Consequently, Marx revises Hegelian " work " into material " labour ", and in the context of human capacity to transform nature the term " labour power ".
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined.
This concept is especially important in continental philosophy, where ' the Subject ' is a central term in debates over human autonomy and the nature of the self.
Although the term " metallic bond " is often used in contrast to the term " covalent bond ", it is preferable to use the term metallic bonding, because this type of bonding is collective in nature and a single " metallic bond " does not exist.
nature and made
After a dinner party for which she had come down to New York, Mrs. Lewis and Casanova arrived to see them off, and Elinor Wylie made tart observations that indicated that Lewis had been less discreet than he had promised to be about the real nature of their separation.
It was also hoped that responses to a mail questionnaire would suggest fruitful inquiries that might be made in subsequent studies of a more detailed nature.
Of other works only fragments and the titles have survived: Messeniakos, advocating the freedom of the Messenians and containing the sentiment that " God has left all men free ; nature has made no man a slave "; a Eulogy of Death, in consideration of the wide extent of human sufferings ; a Techne or instruction-book in the art
Perhaps Capp's most popular creations were the Shmoos, creatures whose incredible usefulness and generous nature made them a threat to civilization as we know it.
The backward nature of expectation formulation and the resultant systematic errors made by agents ( see Cobweb model ) was unsatisfactory to economists such as John Muth, who was pivotal in the development of an alternative model of how expectations are formed, called rational expectations.
The first bridges were made by nature itself — as simple as a log fallen across a stream or stones in the river.
The typeless nature of B made sense on the Honeywell, PDP-7 and many older computers, but was a problem on the PDP-11 because it was difficult to elegantly access the character data type that the PDP-11 and most modern computers fully support.
Each of the hours of the office is composed of the same elements, and something must be said now of the nature of these constituent parts, of which mention has here and there been already made.
Octavian was not present, but at the next meeting made a reply of such a nature that the consuls both left Rome to join Antony ; and Antony, when he heard of it, after publicly divorcing Octavia, came at once to Ephesus with Cleopatra, where a vast fleet was gathered from all parts of the East, of which Cleopatra furnished a large proportion.
Of course, the very nature of " disappearances " made such investigations very difficult.
Almost all other elements found in nature, including some further hydrogen and helium created since then, were made by various natural or ( at times ) artificial methods of nucleosynthesis.
The many radioisotopes that are not found in nature have been characterized from being artificially made.
Adam Smith illustrates this view, saying that a smuggler would be an excellent citizen, "... had not the laws of his country made that a crime which nature never meant to be so.
The chemical nature of catalysts is as diverse as catalysis itself, although some generalizations can be made.
Hindus believe that all of creation, including the human body, is made up of these five essential elements and that upon death, the human body dissolves into these five elements of nature, thereby balancing the cycle of nature.
According to E. K. Hunt, classical liberals made four assumptions about human nature: People were " egoistic, coldly calculating, essentially inert and atomistic ".
Examples of the structural nature of the use of Doublespeak have been made by modern scholars.
These seemingly contradictory discoveries made it necessary to go beyond classical physics and take the quantum nature of light into account.
The Court have emphasised the fundamental nature of Article 3 in holding that the prohibition is made in " absolute terms ... irrespective of a victim's conduct.
For God is has not made nature or the substance of the soul bad ; for he who is good can make nothing but what is good.
All of these films, and indeed others of like nature were shown in the United States, and some them were certainly seen by Edwin Porter, before he made The Great Train Robbery towards the end of the year.
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ.
Cleveland, too, had detractors — Tammany remained opposed to him — but the nature of his enemies made him still more friends.
Secondly, the adolescent audience which feasted on the blood and morbidity of the previous decade grew up, and the replacement audience for films of an imaginative nature were being captured instead by the explosion of science-fiction and fantasy films, courtesy of the special effects possibilities with advances made in computer-generated imagery.
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