" In the Morris story, the advertiser is organizing a competition to find the shaggiest dog in the world, and after a lengthy exposition of the search for such a dog a winner is presented to the aristocratic instigator of the competition, who says " I don't think he's so shaggy.

City dwellers with conviction, however, can keep the dog both healthy and happy, as long as they are willing to take their Deerhounds to nearby parks for lengthy runs and rigorous fetching sessions within these wider running courses.

In a lengthy debate in Slate Magazine, Richard Posner challenged that Singer failed to see the " radicalism of the ethical vision that powers view on animals, an ethical vision that finds greater value in a healthy pig than in a profoundly intellectually challenged child, that commands inflicting a lesser pain on a human being to avert a greater pain to a dog, and that, provided only that a chimpanzee has 1 percent of the mental ability of a normal human being, would require the sacrifice of the human being to save 101 chimpanzees.

Training a dog in obedience can be an ongoing and lengthy process depending on the dog, the methods used, and the skill and understanding of both the trainer and the handler.

An epic ( from the Ancient Greek adjective ( epikos ), from ( epos ) " word, story, poem ") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

For example, the paperback editions of Cryptonomicon are over eleven hundred pages long with the novel containing various digressions, including a lengthy erotic story about antique furniture and stockings.

The short story has been considered both an apprenticeship form preceding more lengthy works, and a crafted form in its own right, collected together in books of similar length, price and distribution as novels.

Mérimée's story is a blend of travelogue and adventure yarn, probably inspired by the writer's lengthy travels in Spain in 1830, and had originally been published in 1845 in the journal Revue des deux mondes.

| Vertical Storytelling || Literary technique || the italicizing of words at the end of select sentences to remind the reader of a consequential moment in the narrative without adjusting the mechanics of the story to allow lengthy and potentially distracting text.

Even within this nested story, we are told that another character, Kurtz, told Marlow a lengthy story ; we are not, however, directly told anything about its content.

The full text of this essay is included in the story, and itself includes a lengthy sub-story told as a true experience by one of the essay's protagonists, Imhrat Khan.

This was followed by a lengthy nine-issue story arc, " The Fear Machine ", revolving around a masonic plot to collect people's fears, in order to resurrect a demon known as Juntakillokian, and his efforts to prevent this with the help of environmentalists, including Mercury, a young psychic girl, and Marj, her mother, with whom he becomes romantically involved.

Dolman joined Howard and Lucas at Skywalker Ranch for a series of lengthy story conferences, and wrote seven drafts of his script between the spring and fall of 1986.

In the 2008 U. S. presidential election, the John McCain campaign wrote a lengthy letter to the editor criticizing a cover story in May 2008.

The work is divided into three sections: the first has some of Dodsley's fables prefaced by a short prose moral ; the second has ' Fables with Reflections ', in which each story is followed by a prose and a verse moral and then a lengthy prose reflection ; the third, ' Fables in Verse ', includes fables from other sources in poems by several unnamed authors.

The work is divided into three sections: the first has some of Dodsley's fables prefaced by a short prose moral ; the second has ' Fables with Reflections ', in which each story is followed by a prose and a verse moral and then a lengthy prose reflection ; the third, ' Fables in Verse ', includes fables from other sources in poems by several unnamed authors ; in these the moral is incorporated into the body of the poem.

Instead, the novel is a patchwork of flashbacks and lengthy sidetracks that weave together to tell the story of the Ipe family.

By 1967, he was the most public, well-known American poet ; in June, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine as part of a lengthy cover story on American poetry in which he was praised as " the best American poet of his generation.

The story includes a lengthy discussion of the history and mathematics behind the game of snakes and ladders.

Her next roles were in smaller independent films: Casa de los Babys ( 2003 ), a story about six American women impatiently waiting out their lengthy residency requirements in an unidentified South American country before picking up their adoptive babies, and Criminal ( 2004 ), a remake of the Argentinian film Nine Queens, with John C. Reilly and Diego Luna.

When there is a lengthy flashback comprising more than half of the text, a frame story is the portion outside the flashback.

The story in an art film often has a secondary role to character development and an exploration of ideas through lengthy sequences of dialogue.

In the 1986 story " Max Bubba ", a lengthy story explaining Wulf's origins, Wulf was killed off at the hands of Max Bubba and his gang.

The term megillah is also used in a joking way, in reference to any lengthy story.

These traditions include hermetic mages, whose control of magic comes through study and manipulation of magical energy or mana, and who summon and bind elementals in lengthy and expensive rituals to be called on later ; and shamans, whose magic derives from a connection to nature via a totem spirit, and who can summon the nature spirits associated with a particular place.

However, the Army and Navy Journal carried a lengthy article on his career and personal life, which began, " The sorrow with which the Army will learn of the death of the once brilliant Ranald Slidell MacKenzie derives an additional pang from the recollection of the cloud which overshadowed his later years and consigned him to a living death.

Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.

In an hour remembered for its almost rudderless movement, a score of jazz luminaries went before the cameras for lengthy periods.

The album closes with " Sugar Baby ", a lengthy, dirge-like ballad, noted for its evocative, apocalyptic imagery and sparse production drenched in echo.

The vision in first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus ( 9: 1 ) concerning seventy weeks, or seventy " sevens ", apportioned for the history of the Israelites and of Jerusalem ( 9: 24 ) This consists of a meditation on the prediction in Jeremiah that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years, a lengthy prayer by Daniel in which he pleads for God to restore Jerusalem and its temple, and an angelic explanation which focuses on a longer time period-" seventy sevens "-and a future restoration and destruction of city and temple by a coming ruler.

France insisted on its ownership of Clipperton, and a lengthy diplomatic correspondence between the two nations led to the conclusion of a treaty on March 2, 1909, to seek the arbitration of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, with each nation promising to abide by that monarch's final determination.

After a lengthy civil war, the CPC defeated its primary rival, the Kuomintang ( KMT ), and assumed full control of mainland China by 1949.

The film has been parodied and referenced in places such as the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the satirical publication The Onion, the Japanese game-show Takeshi's Castle, and the 1977 John Landis comedy anthology film Kentucky Fried Movie ( in its lengthy " A Fistful of Yen " sequence ) and also in the film Balls of Fury.

However, because an IDE is a complicated piece of software by its very nature, this higher productivity only occurs after a lengthy learning process.

The alliance of Portugal with Spain meant that Portuguese colonies became targets for the Netherlands, which was embroiled at the time in a lengthy struggle for its independence from Spain, the Eighty Years ' War.

The same is not true along thousands of kilometres of Trans-Canada Highway in regions such as Northern Ontario as the mostly two-lane road makes its lengthy journey westward through tiny, distant and isolated communities.

The Swiss Air Force has been traditionally a militia-based service, including its pilots, with an inventory of approximately 456 aircraft whose lengthy service lives ( many for more than 30 years ) overlapped several eras.

It features the breakthrough single " Light My Fire ", extended with an instrumental section mostly omitted on the single release, and the lengthy song " The End " with its Oedipal spoken-word section.

The premise is that the United States / NATO and the Soviet Union / Warsaw Pact have fought a lengthy conventional war, followed by a ( limited ) nuclear war with all its consequences.

" If we placed a living organism in a box ... one could arrange that the organism, after any arbitrary lengthy flight, could be returned to its original spot in a scarcely altered condition, while corresponding organisms which had remained in their original positions had already long since given way to new generations.

Due to its lengthy name, the state is often abbreviated as MV or ( colloquially ) shortened to MeckPomm.

During his lengthy reign, Rus ' reached the zenith of its cultural flowering and military power.

Psion PLC had a lengthy, but distant, interest in Linux as an operating system on its electronic devices.

The first lengthy description of the island and its inhabitants is presented by the Russian explorer Fyodor Litke, whose ship Senyavin gave the island group of Pohnpei, Ant and Pakin its name.

" In disgust, Blackstone forced the university to confront its responsibilities by publishing a lengthy letter he had written to Huddesford's successor, Thomas Randolph in May 1757.

The spacecraft was originally named Odysseus, because of its lengthy and indirect trajectory to near Solar distance.

DivX is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. ( formerly DivXNetworks, Inc., later purchased by Sonic Solutions and currently part of the Rovi Corporation formerly known as Macrovision ), including the DivX Codec which became popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality.