) The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure.

Their rebellion against authoritarian society is not far removed from the violence of revolt characteristic of the juvenile delinquent.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

A chief characteristic of experience in the mode of causal efficacy is one of derivation from the past.

A characteristic expression of such concern and inquiry is found in Joseph P. Lyford's Introduction To The Agreeable Autocracies, a recent paperback study of the institutions of modern democratic society.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

It is a characteristic of thoughts that in re-thinking them we come, ipso facto, to understand why they were thought ''.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

A similar amateurish characteristic is revealed in Adams' failure to check the accuracy and authenticity of his informational sources.

The most obvious characteristic of contemporary American writing, apart from the beat nonsense, is its cosmopolitanism.

`` Do you suppose his self-consciousness is characteristic of the new Negro professionals or merely of doctors in general ''??

In snakes difference in size is a common characteristic of subspecies.

The characteristic polynomial for A is Af and this is plainly also the minimal polynomial for A ( or for T ).

The process of boundary maintenance identifies and preserves the social system or subsystems, and the characteristic interaction is maintained.

It is no coincidence that the hebephrenic patient, the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients, shows, as one of his characteristic symptoms, laughter -- laughter which now makes one feel scorned or hated, which now makes one feel like weeping, or which now gives one a glimpse of the bleak and empty expanse of man's despair ; ;

Similarly, at the opposite end of the market cycle, towards the end of an intermediate or major decline, usually while the bottom is being formed on the price chart, it is characteristic that an increase is noticed in odd-lot selling again alerting the chartist that a bottom is becoming a greater likelihood.

In a society dominated by middle-class values and working in an institution which transmits and strengthens these social values, it is clear that the educational profession must work for the values which are characteristic of the society.

If one characteristic distinguishes Boris Godunov, it is the consistency with which every person on the stage -- including the chorus -- comes alive in the music.

The elephant ’ s head, trunk, and tusks are characteristic of baku portrayed in classical era ( pre-Meiji ) Japanese wood-block prints ( see illustration ) and in shrine, temple, and netsuke carvings.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

The Egyptians, Persians and other civilizations mostly used columns for the practical purpose of holding up the roof inside a building, preferring outside walls to be decorated with reliefs or painting, but the Ancient Greeks, followed by the Romans, loved to use them on the outside as well, and the extensive use of columns on the interior and exterior of buildings is one of the most characteristic features of classical architecture, in buildings like the Parthenon.

A classical order is one of the ancient styles of classical architecture, each distinguished by its proportions and characteristic profiles and details, and most readily recognizable by the type of column employed.

Significantly, Dafne was an attempt to revive the classical Greek drama, part of the wider revival of antiquity characteristic of the Renaissance.

Scores derived by classical test theory do not have this characteristic, and assessment of actual ability ( rather than ability relative to other test-takers ) must be assessed by comparing scores to those of a " norm group " randomly selected from the population.

" This concentration rejected the elaborate style characteristic of the classical oration.

For example, classical thermodynamics is characterized by its study of materials that have equations of state or characteristic equations.

Maxwell's equations – the foundation of classical electromagnetism – describe light as a wave which moves with a characteristic velocity.

* The ratio of three characteristic lengths: the classical electron radius, the Bohr radius and the Compton wavelength of the electron:

In ' classical ' French cooking ( 19th and 20th century until nouvelle cuisine ), sauces were a major defining characteristic of French cuisine.

In such works Gauguin paid little attention to classical perspective and boldly eliminated subtle gradations of color, thereby dispensing with the two most characteristic principles of post-Renaissance painting.

He also proposed classification according to whether or not they had dynamic tonal variability, a characteristic that separates whole eras ( e. g., the baroque from the classical ) as in the transition from the terraced dynamics of the harpsichord to the crescendo of the piano, grading by degree of absolute loudness, timbral spectra, tunability, and degree of resonance.

He was distinguished for energy of Latin style, for vigorous intellectual powers, and for the faculty, rare among his contemporaries, of expressing the facts of modern life, the actualities of personal emotion, in language sufficiently classical yet always characteristic of the man.

According to Lewis, the outstanding characteristic of the classical Islamic view of Jews is their unimportance.

The god raises one arm to point heavenwards, in a gesture borrowed from the repertory of classical rhetoric that is characteristic of Giambologna's maniera.

In classical mathematics, characteristic functions of sets only take values 1 ( members ) or 0 ( non-members ).

Certain similar elements were already evident, even influences from Western classical music like Gershwin's Cuban Overture with its characteristic ' Latin ' clave rhythm.

The fundamental characteristic class in cyclic cohomology, the JLO cocycle, generalizes the classical Chern character.

Some tiles from the Asuka period ( shown above ), the first period following the conversion of the country to Buddhism, display a strikingly classical style, with ample Hellenistic dress and realistically rendered body shape characteristic of Greco-Buddhist art.

When the theory was put on an organised basis around 1950 ( with the definitions reduced to homotopy theory ) it became clear that the most fundamental characteristic classes known at that time ( the Stiefel-Whitney class, the Chern class, and the Pontryagin classes ) were reflections of the classical linear groups and their maximal torus structure.

The prefix “ typical ” is to differentiate them from atypical absences rather than to characterise them as " classical " or characteristic of any particular syndrome.

Turn-out is a defining characteristic of classical ballet which distinguishes it from other forms of dance.

Sharp's work coincided with a period of nationalism in classical music, the idea being to reinvigorate and give distinctiveness to English classical composition by grounding it in the characteristic melodic patterns and recognisable tone intervals and ornaments of its national folk music.