One curious effect is that, unlike ordinary particles, the speed of a tachyon increases as its energy decreases.

A reviewer wrote, " The visitor is struck, on entering the gallery, with a curious sense of harmony and fitness pervading it, and is more interested, perhaps, in the general effect than in any one work.

The crowning of Baldwin and the creation of the Latin Empire had the curious effect of creating three so-called Roman Empires in Europe at the same time, the others being the Holy Roman Empire and the remnants of the Byzantine Empire ( the direct successor of the ancient Roman Empire ), none of which actually controlled the city of Rome, which was under the temporal authority of the Pope.

It's an odd effect, but it suits the curious song and provides some diversity to an album that is loaded with dark images-perhaps the morning after the out-of-control party of Lost Cause, when regrets are beginning to form.

There are an infinite number of irrational reciprocal pairs that differ by an integer ( giving the curious effect that the pairs share their infinite mantissa ).

* 1088-In his Dream Pool Essays ( 梦溪笔谈 ), the Chinese scientist Shen Kuo wrote vivid descriptions of tornadoes, that rainbows were formed by the shadow of the sun in rain, occurring when the sun would shine upon it, and the curious common phenomena of the effect of lightning that, when striking a house, would merely scorch the walls a bit but completely melt to liquid all metal objects inside.

Some letters of hers are preserved, especially a curious correspondence with Anne, Duchess of Montpensier " La Grande Mademoiselle " on marriage, but her chief work is her Mémoires, which are in effect a history of Anne of Austria, written briefly till the date of Mme de Motteville's return to court, and then with fullness.

Her songs and videos offer a curious mix of both, the effect of which is to dance awfully close to the line of Catholic baiting.

He carried out a number of magnetic investigations which resulted in the discovery of many interesting phenomena, some of which have been rediscovered by others ; they related among other things to the effect of mechanical strain on the magnetic properties of the magnetic metals, to the relation between the chemical composition of compound bodies and their magnetic properties, and to a curious parallelism between the laws of torsion and of magnetism ( see Wiedemann effect ).

Clayton tried to produce a ‘ home-from-home ’ effect by doing the house out in rugs and, in what must have been a curious sight for soldiers used to the mud of the trenches, as many vases of flowers as was possible.

He brought to his work an enthusiasm for the stage which gave to performances not artistically distinguished a curious effect of personal distinction ....

A great deal of the curious effect that Maeterlinck produces comes from the fact that he, a Flamand by grace, writes in an alien language.

Simplified Van de Graaff generators are commonly seen in demonstrations about static electricity, due to its high-voltage capability, producing the curious effect of making the hair of people touching the terminal, standing over an insulating support, stand up.

As blood sugar testing for diagnosis of diabetes became more widespread, a curious side effect occurred: because blood sugar testing is not absolutely definitive in diagnoses of diabetes, more and more people were receiving borderline tests regarding their glycemic status.

There is a curious statement by Plutarch to the effect that Plato disapproved of Menaechmus achieving his doubled cube solution with the use of mechanical devices ; the proof currently known appears to be solely algebraic.

A curious side effect of numbering every cell is that when the puzzle is completed, the numbers alone unambiguously define the solution, the actual borders being trivially deducible.

In addition to these kinds of arrows, whistling arrows are useful during hunting, because the effect on animals of an arrow whistling away high above the ground is often to make it stop, curious to see what is in the air.

This did not have an immediate effect on the super-scientists and criminals who operated openly in the 1940s and covertly in the 1950s, but over time this curious breed of villain did begin to re-emerge.

These were in collections compiled by Athelstan Riley, who wrote " The effect is thrilling ; it gives the curious impression of an ethereal choir joining in the worship below ; and those who hear it for the first time often turn and look up at the roof!

This use of the billboard was a successful advertising gimmick during the early years of the automobile, drawing attention and passers-by who were curious to discover the punchline.

It may seem curious that plants have been so successful at stationary life on land, while animals have not, but the answer lies in the food supply.

This career was a curious and not entirely successful one.

He was a highly successful playwright ... a zealous social reformer, an expert criminologist, a connoisseur in good eating and drinking, in racing, in dogs, in boxing, and in all sorts of curious and out-of-the-way people and things.

While it was moderately successful in sales for a two seater, it not only lacked performance but its styling still described as " a sound beating with the ugly stick ... unbelievably awkward, oddly proportioned lines and a curious headlight treatment ".

On a rainy night on Earth, the elderly Jake Sisko ( Tony Todd ) is visited by an aspiring novelist Melanie ( Rachel Robinson ), who is curious to learn why Jake gave up writing after publishing two successful books.

The church was built in 1708 in Baroque style and contains some curious paintings by local artists.

Plato famously formalized < nowiki > the </ nowiki > Socratic elenctic style in prose — presenting Socrates as the curious questioner of some prominent Athenian interlocutor — in some of his early dialogues, such as Euthyphro and Ion, and the method is most commonly found within the so-called " Socratic dialogues ", which generally portray Socrates engaging in the method and questioning his fellow citizens about moral and epistemological issues.

Other buildings on the site include the Holmes Building ( a south spur off the Canterbury Quad, containing fellows ' rooms ), and Middleton Hall, a curious house, north of the North Quad and abutting the Lamb and Flag, which has a stone frontage in early 19th-century style, though the back part is in Victorian red brick and contains a Jacobean staircase ( perhaps originally from another building ).

The tower has a curious turret at its southeast corner that is locally referred to as a Saxon watch tower but is built at least partly from Caen stone ; it may be that it may be dated from the time of the conquest but in an antique style sometimes called Saxo-Norman.

It also contains a most curious commentary on Desportes, in which Malherbe's minute and carping style of verbal criticism is displayed on the great scale.

Its style is of the Gothic Revival architecture popular at the time, but Pevsner notes the curious construction where the stone has first been carved into the shape of bricks before being laid in courses.

These books do not display the apocalyptic style which, partly borrowed from Lamennais, characterizes Michelet's later works, but they contain in miniature almost the whole of his curious ethicopolitico-theological creed — a mixture of sentimentalism, communism, and anti-sacerdotalism, supported by the most eccentric arguments, but urged with a great deal of eloquence.

There is a curious affectation about his style — a falsetto note — which, notwithstanding all his efforts to please, is often irritating to the reader.

Other Cameron's interiors include the Waiters ' Room, with the inlaid floor of rosewood, amaranth and mahogany and stylish Chippendale card-tables ; the Blue Formal Dining-Room, with white-and-blue silk wallpapers and Carrara marble chimneys ; the Chinese Blue Drawing Room, a curious combination of Adam style with the Chinoiserie ; the Choir Anteroom, with walls lined in apricot-colored silk ; and the columned boudoir of Alexander I, executed in the Pompeian style.

Taking Varro for his model, Fenestella was one of the chief representatives of the new style of historical writing which, in the place of the brilliant descriptive pictures of Livy, discussed curious and out-of-the-way incidents and customs of political and social life, including literary history.

Holden recognised that his architectural style place himself in " rather a curious position, not quite in the fashion and not quite out of it ; not enough of a traditionalist to please the traditionalists and not enough of a modernist to please the modernists.

Drayneflete is a fairly high-toned joke, that any reader with some experience of English architecture and the English county way-of-life and the style of English antiquarian notes about parish churches and curious village harvest traditions and the like will recognize.

The curious sandstone faces and gargoyles and filigreed terracotta of the previous twenty years of tenement design gave way to the more abstractly classical ornamentation of this urbane, international and more grandiose parisian style.

A curious characteristic of the old style is that it did not support much of the esoteric ways that ( some contend ) evolved with post-World War II traditional Aikido and some of its offshoots.

His Guía de Madrid ( 1831 ) was published when literature was at a low ebb in Spain ; but the author's curious researches and direct style charmed the public, and next year, in a review entitled Cartas españolas, under the pseudonym of " El Curioso parlante ," he began a series of articles on the social life of the capital which were subsequently collected and called Panorama matritense ( 1835-1836 ).

Beyond Osamu Tezuka's style as a fantastic humanist writer, the film had a curious legacy as a deposit of Western animation influences, coupled with a beautiful score by Yasuo Higuchi.