) 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.

Techniques such as blurring and the Dé-collage are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete.

The county is separated from all other surrounding counties in the state by water ( a characteristic shared only with neighboring Miller County ), with the Little River, Millwood Lake and the Red River forming the boundaries of the county within the state.

These characterizations stem from the ecosystem concept, which assumes that the phenomena under investigation ( interactions and feedback loops ) are sufficient to explain patterns within boundaries, such as the edge of a forest, an island, a shoreline, or some other pronounced physical characteristic.

Among Wyoming towns Frannie has a unique geographic characteristic: It is the only Town having boundaries which include parts of two counties — Big Horn ( pop.

Remnants of the seigneurial system can be seen today in maps and satellite imagery of Quebec, with the characteristic " long lot " land system still forming the basic shape of current farm fields and clearings, as well as being reflected in the historic county boundaries along the St. Lawrence River.

He concluded that had they been produced they would have either disintegrated into smaller strings before ever reaching macroscopic scales ( in the case of Type I superstring theory ), they would always appear as boundaries of domain walls whose tension would force the strings to collapse rather than grow to cosmic scales ( in the context of Heterotic superstring theory ), or having a characteristic energy scale close to the Planck energy they would be produced before cosmological inflation and hence be diluted away with the expansion of the universe and not be observable.

Going eastwards from Konin, beyond boundaries of Konin county but still within the administrative boundaries of Greater Poland, the characteristic features of Mazovia region prevail.

Branderburgh, with its characteristic wide streets, continued to push its boundaries westward and by the early 20th century finally joined with Stotfield.

Many of his most characteristic projects were for commercial buildings where new requirements pushed the traditional boundaries of design.

" This claim that Shakespeare's work breaks through all creative boundaries to reveal a chaotic, teeming, contradictory world became characteristic of Romantic criticism, later being expressed by Victor Hugo in the preface to his play Cromwell, in which he lauded Shakespeare as an artist of the grotesque, a genre in which the tragic, absurd, trivial and serious were inseparably intertwined.

There is a further characteristic effect: a narrow band or rim of low density, called the Mackie line, is formed at the boundaries between adjacent highlight and shadow areas.

In biology a thermal optimum describes the ideal boundaries for biological processes such as growth and development, and is usually characteristic of a species or population.

The Etymologicum Magnum presents a medieval learned pseudo-etymology, explaining Aphrodite as derived from the compound habrodiaitos (" she who lives delicately " from habros + diaita ) explaining the alternation between b and ph as a " familiar " characteristic of Greek " obvious from the Macedonians ".

In addition to undergoing the reactions characteristic of internal alkynes, terminal alkynes are reactive as weak acids, with pK < sub > a </ sub > values ( 25 ) between that of ammonia ( 35 ) and ethanol ( 16 ).

As an ethologist, Morris further proposed that breasts, a secondary sex characteristic located on the woman's chest, encouraged face-to-face sexual intercourse that led to the establishment of an emotional bond between man and woman ; social progress from an essentially procreational function of human biology.

A frequent characteristic is that the walls are galleried ( the outer and inner wall skins are separate but tied together with linking stone slabs, with an open space between ).

This is most likely a secondary evolved characteristic which means there is not necessarily a connection between the teeth and the original dermal scales.

The word play on λόγος and αλόγον is characteristic of Clement's writing, and may be rooted in the Epicurean belief that relationships between words are deeply reflective of relationships between the objects they signify.

In their view, the computational medium in cyberspace is an augmentation of the communication channel between real people ; the core characteristic of cyberspace is that it offers an environment that consists of many participants with the ability to affect and influence each other.

Neither amplitude nor frequency of motion has characteristic, directional components as this behaviour provides more scanning of the environment than migration between two distinct points.

This characteristic clay, known as mattaione, represents the sediments of the Pliocene sea which covered the area between 2. 5 and 4. 5 million years ago.

As a bound electron transitions between different energy levels of an atom, it will absorb or emit photons at characteristic frequencies.

While often simplistically summarised as " aboutness " or the relationship between mental acts and the external world, Brentano defined it as the main characteristic of mental phenomena, by which they could be distinguished from physical phenomena.

Provided the sample size is adequate, the risks associated with random allocation ( such as failing to obtain a representative sample in a survey, or having a serious imbalance in a key characteristic between a treatment group and a control group ) are calculable and hence can be managed down to an acceptable level.

The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve ( AUC-ROC ) reflects the relationship between sensitivity and specificity for a given test.

Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between " epigram " and " elegy " is sometimes indistinct ( they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets ); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise.

Burnett's characteristic narrative approach fell somewhere between that of the quintessential hardboiled writers and their noir fiction compatriots — his protagonists were often heroic in their way, a way just happening to be that of the gangster.

It is characteristic of early literature that the evolution of the thought, or the grammatical form of the sentence, is guided by the structure of the verse ; and the correspondence which consequently obtains between the rhythm and the syntax — the thought being given out in lengths, as it were, and these again divided by tolerably uniform pauses — produces a swift flowing movement such as is rarely found when periods are constructed without direct reference to the metre.

These hybrid types are not breeds, but they resemble breeds in that crosses between certain horse breeds and other equine species produce characteristic offspring.

The highly visible differences between male and female body and facial hair are a notable secondary sex characteristic.

The most characteristic differences, for instance, between Roman Italian and Milanese Italian are the gemination of initial consonants and the pronunciation of stressed " e ", and of " s " in some cases: e. g. va bene " all right ": is pronounced by a Roman ( and by any standard-speaker ), by a Milanese ( and by any speaker whose native dialect lies to the north of La Spezia-Rimini Line ); a casa " at home " is for Roman and standard, for Milanese and generally northern.

The major characteristic of the climate is the contrast between a relatively rainy season from November to April and very dry weather for the rest of the year.

The alteration of normal and broken tetrameters is a characteristic difference between the Kalevala metre and other forms of trochaic tetrameter.

As the electron in the atom makes a transition between two stationary states ( neither of which shows a dipole field ), it enters a transition state which does have a dipole field, and which acts like a small electric dipole, and this dipole oscillates at a characteristic frequency.

Because housing assignments are made based on the preferences of the students themselves, diverse social atmospheres can be sustained in different living groups ; for example, according to the Yale Daily News Staff's The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2010, " The split between East Campus and West Campus is a significant characteristic of MIT.