For example, the ideas that werewolves are only vulnerable to silver bullets or pierced by silver weapons, or that they can cause others to become werewolves by biting or wounding them derive from works of modern fiction.

By inviting the reader to see modern society through the eyes of Equis, Peri Rossi is using the technique of defamiliarisation to produce a biting satire of today's world.

The severity of life in the newly Socialist Russia is biting and cruel, especially for the people belonging to the now-stigmatized middle class.

In a 2001 interview, Vick told the Newport News Daily Press that when he was 10 or 11, " I would go fishing even if the fish weren't biting, just to get away from the violence and stress of daily life in the projects.

In the final ( noncanonical ) pre-Crisis Superman story, Alan Moore's Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow ?, Krypto sacrificed his life to save Superman by biting the throat out of the Kryptonite Man.

Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane — like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones ; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one ; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short ; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it ; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body ; who mouths justice and invented hell — mouths mercy and invented hell — mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell ; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself ; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all ; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself ; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites a poor, abused slave to worship him!

In real life, the two English-born actresses did not care for each other and exchanged mordant, biting insults.

But the murder in 1515 of his relative Hans von Hutten by Ulrich, duke of Württemberg, changed the whole course of his life ; satire, chief refuge of the weak, became Hutten's weapon ; with one hand he took his part in the famous Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum ( The Letters of Obscure Men ), and with the other launched scathing letters, eloquent Ciceronian orations, or biting satires against the duke.

In fact, At Liberty is in a class by itself, a biting, hilarious and even touching tour-de-force tour of Stritch's career and life.

In one album of drawings the portraits are annotated by the king himself, and his merry reflections, stinging taunts or biting satires, add very largely to a proper understanding of the life of his time and court.

Beginning in the second year of life, a particularly striking feature of LNS is self-mutilating behaviors, characterized by lip and finger biting.

*" You see your mother biting her toenails naked, you should get free psychiatry for life.

" The Spaniard's biting reply: " It is the more remarkable because I was never in one before in my life.

German poet and satirist Heinrich Heine in his Letters on Music from Paris ( 1840 – 47 ) wrote with biting wit on musical life and musicians in the French capital.

Thus Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines and Anita Colby are the women on the ' outside ' whose machinations, wiles or charms accounted for their men being on the ' inside '... Bristling, biting dialog by Richard Brooks paints broad cameos as each character takes shape under existing prison life.

In another myth, the solar eclipse was caused by the magical dog of heaven biting off a piece of the sun.

Russell's piece is both a tribute and a biting indictment of the racism Johnson faced: " here comes Jack Johnson, like he owns the town, there's a lot of white Americans like to see a man go down … like to see a black man drown.

There, he wrote this famous poem written on his ripped piece of clothing with his own blood from biting his pinky finger:

Terry Pratchett “ gives a clear nuance to characters ” This book is a piece of “ top notch writing ,” and it is “ definitely worth your attention .” The Wee Free Men have been received as “ brave, loyal, strong and funny .” Mr. Pratchett “ isn ’ t afraid to detour into biting satire ,” and his writing is “ achingly beautiful .”

* There is also a passing reference to the rhyme in Janet Frame's short story " Keel and Kool " ( included in her 1951 collection entitled The Lagoon ): " And Eva showed me some new bits to Tinker Tailor, said Joan, biting off a piece of grass with her teeth-Boots, shoes, slippers, clodhoppers, silk, satin, cotton, rags-it's what you're married in.

Throughout the movies they attack humans by biting and attempting to eat them, or at least a piece of them.

Infection in a human occurs when a person is bitten by a flea that has been infected by biting a rodent that itself has been infected by the bite of a flea carrying the disease.

During Carmilla's stay, Laura has nightmares of a fiendish cat-like beast entering her room at night and biting her on the chest.

Phyllis interrupts this tender moment and has a biting encounter with Sally.

The jaguar has the strongest bite of all felids, capable of biting down with.

The plate is then dipped in a bath of acid, technically called the mordant ( French for " biting ") or etchant, or has acid washed over it.

His 1967 film The Fireman's Ball, on the face of it a naturalistic representation of an ill-fated social event in a provincial town, has been viewed by both movie scholars and the then-authorities in Czechoslovakia as a biting satire on East European Communism, which resulted in it being banned for many years in Forman's home country.

On the face of it a naturalistic representation of an ill-fated social event in a provincial town, the film has been seen by both movie scholars and the then-authorities in Czechoslovakia as a biting satire on East European Communism, which resulted in it being banned for many years in Forman's home country.

Trichotillomania has been hypothesized to lie on the obsessive – compulsive spectrum, which is proposed to encompass obsessive – compulsive disorder, nail biting ( onychophagia ) and skin picking ( dermatillomania ), tic disorders and eating disorders.

Commenting on System of a Down's reputation for biting, socially and politically charged lyrics, Odadjian has rejected the label of System of a Down as a " political band " in interviews.

But by this place Christian went without much danger, whereat I somewhat wondered ; but I have learnt since, that Pagan has been dead many a day ; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger dayes, grown so crazy and stiff in his joynts, that he can now do little more than sit in his Caves mouth, grinning at Pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails, because he cannot come at them.

The octopus has some sort of spinal cord there, and biting it there does kill it!

It has been shown that the Chrysops vector has a limited flying range, but vector elimination efforts are not common, likely because the insects bite outdoors and have a diverse, if not long, range, living in the forest and biting in the open, as mentioned in the vector section.

" Another student said of Corot, " the newspapers had so distorted Corot, putting Theocritus and Virgil in his hands, that I was quite surprised to find him knowing neither Greek nor Latin … His welcome is very open, very free, very amusing: he speaks or listens to you while hopping on one foot or on two ; he sings snatches of opera in a very true voice ", but he has a " shrewd, biting side carefully hidden behind his good nature.

It has been suggested that this behavior is employed by the animals in order to avoid biting insects.

A native speaker of German, Fritz Spiegl did not speak a word of English when he moved to England as a 13 year-old — a fact which has often been regarded as the trigger for his preoccupation with language phenomena such as, say, malapropisms and for the biting yet humorous linguistic purism of his later years.

This behavior resembles pre-copulatory behaviors between male and female sharks, and in both cases the biting and holding of the pectoral fin has been speculated to relate to one shark asserting dominance over the other.

Kindly at heart and sympathetic, he is yet so sharp-witted that he cannot resist an occasional biting word or innuendo, a habit which has gained him not a few enemies.

So Gloomy has blood on him from biting and / or scratching Pitty.

She has a biting and sarcastic wit, serving as somewhat of a comic relief throughout the show.

" Rafe realizes in horror that she has become a vampire but Katherine quickly reveals her fangs before biting into Rafe's neck.

This prototype Muttley (" Mugger ") is a mean-spirited dog with a travelling circus who has a penchant for biting his owners on the leg.