In contrast to the storytelling approach of most prior country and folk music, these performers typically wrote songs from a highly personal ( often first-person ), introspective point of view.

The majority of songs on the album were rated highly ; she thought " The Greatest View " was a stand-out with " orchestral twangs ", and " After All These Years " had " sweeping horns, introspective lyrics and soft, haunting vocals ".

Known to her colleagues as " The Major ", Kusanagi is a highly skilled operative with a playful, though introspective and philosophical personality.

By the late twentieth century, most of his earlier work was dismissed as popular verse, but some of his later, more introspective poetry, such as his best known poem, " The Cry of the Dreamer ", is still highly regarded.

La Princesse de Clèves turned that on its head with a highly realistic plot, introspective language that explored the characters ' inner thoughts and emotions, and few but important subplots concerning the lives of other nobles.

Larsen's highly successful background work in freestyle rap and rap battles, along with his greatly introspective, complex and poetic sense of lyrical integrity heavily influenced E & A's distinctive musical output and largely defined the group as a unique and stylistically independent presence within alternative hip hop.

The narrative, detached from the tangible world but highly introspective, sets a surreal tone for the novel, in which the narrator seems to find little unusual about such things as living with a pair of twins whom he cannot distinguish and whose names he does not know, or performing a funeral for a telephone circuit box.

The album's final track, " Someone Else ", features just Tate on vocals and DeGarmo on piano, and this stripped down approach makes for a highly emotional closure to this very introspective album.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

I make no attempt to measure the enduring satisfaction and material well-being of a man who went to work on graduation from high school and was highly successful in the business which he entered.

" Most ancient writers considered him a highly successful leader in guerrilla warfare, alert and quick, yet cautious — a man, moreover, whose personal bravery was rarely questioned in his own time.

He was highly esteemed as a man of sound judgment and wide knowledge.

The jewel is about long, made of filigreed gold, enclosing a highly polished piece of quartz crystal beneath which is set a cloisonné enamel plaque, with an enamelled image of a man holding floriate sceptres, perhaps personifying Sight or the Wisdom of God.

He was a man of highly honourable and fervently religious character.

Despite being a qualified engineer, a successful businessman, a multiple record-breaker in his own right and a highly effective advocate of his own cause, Campbell was not an easy man and seemed driven to emulate, if not surpass, his father's achievements.

Galen describes his father as a " highly amiable, just, good and benevolent man ".

The new firm of Boulton and Watt was eventually highly successful and Watt became a wealthy man.

In Henry IV Shakespeare portrays him as wild and exotic ; a man ruled by magic and tradition in sharp contrast to the more logical but highly emotional Hotspur.

In Nigeria, where imposition of sharia was highly controversial, even Nigeria's justice minister was compelled to admit that in sharia courts, " if a man owes you money, you can get paid in the evening.

In a review of The Mismeasure of Man, Bernard Davis, professor of microbiology at Harvard Medical School, said that Gould erected a straw man argument based upon incorrectly defined key terms — specifically reification — which Gould furthered with a " highly selective " presentation of statistical data, all motivated more by politics than by science.

" The brother of Jared is described as " a large and mighty man … highly favored of the Lord ", and seems to have been the spiritual leader of the group.

Other stories include ludicrous " kiss and tell " and similar stories by people who are portrayed as mentally disturbed, often with highly bizarre elements ; examples include allegations by a man who claimed that, on holiday touring in his caravan, he found a campsite run by Elvis Presley who, when plied with drink, admitted to the Kennedy assassination ; another from a retired toilet attendant who described the nature of faeces from various little-known celebrities and an elderly woman who blames anti-social behaviour in her area on bored Newsnight presenters, as well as a mental home patient who claimed to have had sex with a number of children's TV puppets.

: “ You will find Jardine a most conscientious, honourable, and kind-hearted fellow, extremely liberal and an excellent man of business in this market, where his knowledge and experience in the opium trade and in most articles of export is highly valuable.

" Amour propre – the desire for consideration ( self regard ), Rousseau calls a " factitious feeling arising, only in society, which leads a man to think more highly of himself than of any other.

Rosecrans, a highly energetic man, had a voracious appetite for conversation, which he deployed when he was unable to sleep ; in Garfield he had found " the first well read person in the Army " and thus the ideal candidate for endless discussions through the night.

Another is to " bring forth a proposition expressed in words of Saxon origin, and give as a reason for it the very same proposition stated in words of Norman origin ", as in this example: " To allow every man an unbounded freedom of speech must always be, on the whole, advantageous to the State, for it is highly conducive to the interests of the community that each individual should enjoy a liberty perfectly unlimited of expressing his sentiments ".

John Colter is widely considered the first mountain man and, like those that came to the Jackson Hole region over the next 30 years, he was there primarily for the profitable fur trapping ; the region was rich with the highly sought after pelts of beaver and other fur bearing animals.

Dicaearchus was highly esteemed by the ancients as a philosopher and as a man of most extensive information upon a great variety of things.

Bronisław Malinowski, in Coral Gardens and their Magic ( 1935 ), suggests that this belief is an extension of man's basic use of language to describe his surroundings, in which " the knowledge of the right words, appropriate phrases and the more highly developed forms of speech, gives man a power over and above his own limited field of personal action.

Pietas in traditional Latin usage expressed a complex, highly valued Roman virtue ; a man with pietas respected his responsibilities to gods, country, parents, and kin.

Leonardo's work is highly symbolical as it represents the Renaissance focus on man as the measure of all things, and has simultaneously a round shape that fits the coin perfectly.

Moreover, he organized the movement of his forms, within his rigorously shaped space, into highly complex equilibriums ; ;

After the Revolution of 1917, views expressed by anthropologists in the USSR, and later the Soviet Bloc countries, were highly shaped by the requirement to conform to Marxist theories of social evolution.

Atom probe samples are shaped to implicitly provide a highly curved electric potential to induce the resultant magnification, as opposed to direct use of lensing, such as via magnetic lenses.

Indonesia's transport system has been shaped over time by the economic resource base of an archipelago with thousands of islands, and the distribution of its more than 200 million people highly concentrated on a single island which is Java.

During the 1970s and 1980s his shaped canvases were highly irregular and asymmetrical.

The poems of the New Poems and New Poems: The Other Part are highly wrought, using language and poetic form as a shaped and shaping material ; to this extent the poems are often said to be " things " in themselves.

His meaning was that the manifestations of and experiments with psychic automatism highlighted by Surrealists as the liberation of the unconscious were highly structured by ego activity, similar to the activities of the dream censorship in dreams, and that therefore it was in principle a mistake to regard Surrealist poems and other art works as direct manifestations of the unconscious, when they were indeed highly shaped and processed by the ego.

Interest waned as the US Air Force lost interest in the manned mission, and major development ended during the Space Shuttle design process when it became clear that the highly shaped fuselages made it difficult to fit fuel tankage.

These hairs are most developed around the mouth, which has a large horseshoe shaped upper lip forming a highly mobile muzzle.

* Real Yorkshire Wensleydale is usually shaped into a variety of weights moulds ranging in size from a small flat disc known as a " truckle " that is highly pressed, and preserved in wax, to several larger cheeses — it is a mild cheese with an acidic-honeyed flavour

High speed photography showed that the ceramic material shatters as the HEAT round penetrates, the highly energetic fragments destroying the geometry of the metal jet generated by the hollow shaped charge, greatly diminishing the penetration.

the skirt is generally short and highly angled, at least in comparison to a skirt designed for operations in space, which are longer and more gradually shaped.

Interest waned as the US Air Force lost interest in the manned mission, and major development ended during the Space Shuttle design process when it became clear that the highly shaped fuselages made it difficult to fit fuel tankage.

Deere came to the conclusion that a plow made out of highly polished steel and a correctly shaped moldboard ( the self-scouring steel plow ) would be better able to handle the soil conditions of the prairie, especially its sticky clay.

They are distinguished by their zygodactylous feet, their separately mobile and stereoscopic eyes, their very long, highly modified, and rapidly extrudable tongues, their swaying gait, the possession by many of a prehensile tail, crests or horns on their distinctively shaped heads, and the ability of some to change color.

Triggerfish have an oval shaped, highly compressed body.

Open clusters of 8 to 10 small cylinder shaped rayless yellow flower heads ¼ to ½ inch ( 6 to 13 mm ) with a highly conspicuous ring of black tipped bracts at the base of the inflorescence as is characteristic of many members of the genus Senecio.

The Taupo Volcanic Zone is a highly active volcanic V shaped area in the North Island of New Zealand that is spreading east-west at the rate of about 8mm per year.

It is the madrassas which most attract attention, for they include highly original structures as well as decoration: here a honeycombed ceiling, there a curiously shaped corniche, doorway or moulded window frame.

He authored a highly political report on the 1770 Boston Massacre that has been described by historian Francis Walett as one of the most influential pieces of writing that shaped public opinion in the colonies.

The paws are disproportionately large, and have highly developed, sickle shaped blunt claws which measure 4 inches in length.

The highly diverse and distinctive music of Madagascar has been shaped by the musical traditions of Southeast Asia, Africa, Arabia, England, France and the United States as successive waves of settlers have made the island their home.

Drivers faced a highly stylized steering wheel with a double-delta shaped horn ring which framed the view of an unusual " slot-machine " speedometer, which consisted of a stationary horizontal " needle " and a vertically rotating drum on which the numerals were printed.