For example, the behavior of Job's comforters, who kept silence until he spoke to them, is the source for a norm applicable to contemporary traditional Jewish practice, that visitors to a house of mourning should not speak to the mourner until they are spoken to.

Though frank in places, Gaskell was selective about which details she revealed ; she suppressed details of Charlotte's love for Heger, a married man, as being too much of an affront to contemporary morals and source of distress to Charlotte's still-living father, husband and friends.

The same is true of a massive history of the Union which Defoe published in 1709 and which some historians still treat as a valuable contemporary source for their own works.

The last two kings of its Pérez Dynasty were called emperors in a contemporary source.

: However, it is claimed by present-day historians, both Spanish and British, that this version is apocryphal since no contemporary source accounts it.

As long as there is no contemporary source or dispatch on the topic, Hills does not personally discard ( a ) considering it the most likely possibility ).

Most contemporary scholars regard Mark as a source used by Luke ( see Markan Priority ).

The only other major contemporary source is the Liber Historiae Francorum, an anonymous adaptation of Gregory's work apparently ignorant of Fredegar's chronicle: its author ( s ) ends with a reference to Theuderic IV's sixth year, which would be 727.

Unlike later writers, no near contemporary source remarks on Macbeth as a tyrant.

Because of the low social status of immigrant workers, contemporary writers and media had little trouble portraying opium dens as seats of vice, white slavery, gambling, knife and revolver fights, a source for drugs causing deadly overdoses, with the potential to addict and corrupt the white population.

An unsympathetic German contemporary source, Dietrich of Nieheim, asserted that he was illiterate ( nesciens scribere etiam male cantabat ).

The only contemporary information on the source of the name comes from Fremantle's diary entry for 12 August, which records that they " named the town Perth according to the wishes of Sir George Murray ".

The only contemporary source for Sappho's life is her own poetry, and scholars are skeptical of reading it biographically.

Milk-fed lambs, once the most popular source of meat in Turkey, comprise a small part of contemporary consumption.

This slant was accentuated by the absence of contemporary primary source documentation from within the Viking Age communities themselves.

It is notable, however, that the only contemporary source with direct experience of the agoge, Xenophon, explicitly denies the sexual nature of the relationship

According to the only contemporary source, Hypatia was murdered by a Christian mob after being accused of exacerbating a conflict between two prominent figures in Alexandria: the governor Orestes and the Bishop of Alexandria.

The most credible source for the conceit of a contemporary Mercia is Thomas Hardy ’ s Wessex novels.

* The main English source of information on Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii and Herberstein is Marshall Poe's publications, particularly Herberstein and Origin of the European Image of Muscovite Government, which cites many other contemporary publications such as Giorgio, Fabri and Campense.

The bloodshed lasts for two weeks, and one contemporary source claims 20, 000 people are killed.

The Mozarabic Chronicle of 754, a Latin contemporary source which describes the battle in greater detail than any other Latin or Arabic source, states that " the people of Austrasia Frankish forces, greater in number of soldiers and formidably armed, killed the king, Abd ar-Rahman ", which agrees with many Arab and Muslim historians.

To make matters worse, the works making use of Dexippus ( and likely another unknown contemporary source ) provide an almost radically different interpretation of events.

While the method of analysis is characteristic of contemporary analytic philosophy, its status continues to be a source of great controversy even among analytic philosophers.

Angst, in contemporary connotative use, most often describes the intense frustration and other emotions of teenagers and the mood of the music and art with which they identify in accordance with adult stereotype.

Even in contemporary India the term rasa denoting " flavor " or " essence " is used colloquially to describe the aesthetic experiences in films ; " māsala mix " describes popular Hindi cinema films which serve a so called balanced emotional meal for the masses, savored as rasa by these spectators.

Rushton describes " ethnic conflict and rivalry " as " one of the great themes of historical and contemporary society ", and suggests that this may have its roots in the evolutionary impact on individuals from groups " giving preferential treatment to genetically similar others.

" Postmodernist " describes part of a movement ; " Postmodern " places it in the period of time since the 1950s, making it a part of contemporary history.

: knowingly ( A ) uses an interactive computer service to send to a specific person or persons under 18 years of age, or ( B ) uses any interactive computer service to display in a manner available to a person under 18 years of age, any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs.

KP describes itself as seeking to radically re-imagine contemporary revolutionary politics.

Capitalism has been dominant in the Western world since the end of feudalism, but most feel that the term " mixed economies " more precisely describes most contemporary economies, due to their containing both private-owned and state-owned enterprises.

The Book of Pluscarden describes ' a detestable split and most unworthy difference arising from jealosy ' within the Scottish camp and the historian Michael Brown explains that a contemporary source has James appointing his young and inexperienced cousin Robert Stewart of Atholl as the constable of the host ahead of the experienced march wardens the earls of Douglas and Angus.

As a contemporary report describes:

Sven Aggesen, a Danish nobleman and author of a slightly earlier history of Denmark than Saxo's, describes his contemporary, Saxo, as his contubernalis meaning tent-comrade.

Based on testimonials of German civilians and military, as well as many interviews with British and American politicians and diplomats who participated at the Potsdam Conference, including Robert Murphy, the political adviser of General Eisenhower, Sir Geoffrey Harrison ( drafter of article XIII of the Potsdam Protocol concerning population transfers ), and Sir Denis Allen ( drafter of article IX on the provisional post-war borders ), the book also describes the crimes committed by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia, at the end of World War II, and cites the condemnation of the expulsions by Bertrand Russell, Victor Gollancz, Bishop Bell of Chichester and other contemporary intellectuals.

For example, J. F. Schouten ( 1968, 42 ) describes the " elusive attributes of timbre " as " determined by at least five major acoustic parameters ", which Robert Erickson ( 1975 ) finds " scaled to the concerns of much contemporary music ":

Both Wessex and Kent were ruled by strong kings at that time, but within fifteen years the contemporary chronicler Bede describes Æthelbald as ruling all England south of the river Humber.

A contemporary account of such a procession describes an occasion when the parishioners of Heston came across some from Isleworth, and the ensuing " quarrel " saw men from Heston throwing the others across a ditch.

Very little is known about his life, but a reference to him in a contemporary song by Marcabru describes him as being oltra mar — across the sea, probably on the Second Crusade in 1147.

The Schechter Letter, a document written by a Jewish Khazar, a contemporary of Romanus I Lecapenus, describes the activities of a Rus ' warlord named HLGW ( Hebrew: ), usually transcribed as " Helgu ".

Some parts of it are at variance with contemporary sources e. g. the work describes Wallace leading an army to the outskirts of London, and it includes some episodes of doubtful accuracy before Wallace enters history with the Action at Lanark.

As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the folk-acoustic tradition.

The Youth Advocate Program International ( YAPI ) describes CSEC as a form of coercion and violence against children and a contemporary form of slavery.

News from Nowhere ( 1890 ) written by William Morris is a utopian novel that describes a journey upstream the River Thames from Hammersmith towards Oxford ; it is of growing interest to contemporary ecological and socialist political movements.

The Japanese envoy for his part describes the contemporary relationship with the various Emishi: those who had allied themselves with the Yamato court ( known as niki-emishi, i. e. " gentle Emishi "), those who remained as enemies staunchly opposed to Yamato ( known as ara-emishi, i. e. " rough Emishi " or " wild Emishi "), and the distant Tsugaru Emishi ( located in present-day northern Aomori and in southern Hokkaidō ).

A contemporary account describes one meeting:

He describes the king through excerpts from contemporary diaries by officers and common soldiers, and from a wealth of quotes from the published literature.