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more and literal
Through 1911 and 1912, as the Cubist facet-plane's tendency to adhere to the literal surface became harder and harder to deny, the task of keeping the surface at arm's length fell all the more to eye-undeceiving contrivances.
* 泡沫紅茶 (): " foam red tea ", by direct translation, is the drink that is more appropriate for the more literal name of " bubble tea "; however, the English name, foam tea, is not used much throughout Asia.
Held by many Protestant groups who take what they believe is a more literal interpretation of the Bible, including many, but not most, Pentecostal Charismatic and Baptist churches and Independent and ' Non-denominational ' churches as well as a few of the Presbyterian Church and Wesleyan / Methodist churches.
Note: Step ( in the description below ) is defined as: a transfer / change of weight to the opposite foot while hopping ( this is usually minimal ; almost more of a scoot than a literal hop ).
Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as " water ", " to drink ", " life ", or " to live ", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.
Through this society, Evans was introduced to more liberal theologies, and writers such as David Strauss and Ludwig Feuerbach, who cast doubt on the literal veracity of Biblical stories.
In the Mouth of Madness took a more literal approach, as its protagonist actually hopped from the real world into a novel created by the madman he was hired to track down.
A more literal translation is:
Halakha is often translated as " Jewish Law ", although a more literal translation might be " the path " or " the way of walking ".
While the sound remained more or less the same when pronounced in Japanese, the literal meaning of the name changed from " Beating Dog " to " High Hero ".
The chief value of literal translations lies in helping students read Latin more easily.
Others follow the example of the Luther Bible and provide a more literal translation.
Kenji Tokitsu has suggested that the accepted birth date of 1584 for Musashi is wrong, as it is primarily based on a literal reading of the introduction to the Go Rin No Sho where Musashi states that the years of his life " add up to 60 " ( yielding the twelfth year of the Tensho era, or 1584, when working backwards from the well-documented date of composition ), when it should be taken in a more literary and imprecise sense, indicating not a specific age but merely that Musashi was in his sixties when he wrote it.
In all of these ways the mentats ' resemble less the literal / clerical / linear autistic mind and more the global, variable and visual mind of the dyslexic.
The Romanian expression România Mare ( literal translation " Great Romania ", but more commonly rendered " Greater Romania ") generally refers to the Romanian state in the interwar period, and by extension, to the territory Romania covered at the time ( see map ).
Pandit Narayana Das claimed his translation was more literal than that of Fitzgerald.
One bishop claimed that the English-speaking conferences should have withstood the Holy See's insistence on a more literal translation.
If he had been literal, his birth date was more likely to have been around 1220 / 1222.
Turning directly to The Bible, Kriyananda argues for a more scripturally mature Christianity in which The Second Coming is treated not in terms of a profane materialism-one which favors a literal, physical and subsequently anti-spiritual resurrection-but rather unfolds in accordance with the more spiritual aspirations of The Book of Luke ; for " Neither shall they say, Lo here!
Since that time Christian scholars have generally become more interested in the literal sense of the Song.
These fresh translations are less literal in their rendering of German sentences and words, and are more accessible to English readers.
The word does appear in English before Stoker but with the more literal sense of " alive " or " not dead ", for which citations can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary.
It provides interpretative strategies, so that UUs ( among others ) might be able to engage in public debate about what the Bible says from a liberal religious perspective, rather than relinquishing to religious conservatives, and other more literal interpretations, all control over the book's contents and significance in matters of public and civic import.

more and reading
Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.
They were aware that soldiers went to town, in more ways than one, because of the monotony of camp life, to find the only release available in the absence of movies, reading rooms, and playing fields with adequate athletic equipment.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
Bible reading, even more so than good classical music, grows in depth and meaning upon repetition.
There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.
he rose at half-past six every morning, made himself some French coffee, had his corn flakes and more coffee, smoked four cigarettes while reading last Sunday's Herald Tribune and yesterday's Pittsburgh Gazette, then put on his high-topped farmer's shoes and walked under a vine bower to his workshop.
Yesterday, I had the privilege of reading a thoughtful article in the U.S. News & World Report of May 8 which discussed this type of action in more detail, including both its advantages and its disadvantages.
Conversely, if he gives a heavy rating to his own reading, and finds more accurate facts in it than in the others, a point is chalked up for the intrinsic, objective meaningfulness of this type of mediumistic material.
Examples include Web accessibility a set of guidelines and two accessible web portals designed for people developing reading skills are peepo. com — try typing a letter with your keyboard for moreand peepo. co. uk with enhanced graphics, unique style controls and improved interactivity ( requires an SVG supported browser ).
Decipherment of cuneiform was a formidable task that took more than a decade, but by 1857, the Royal Asiatic Society was convinced that reliable reading of cuneiform texts was possible.
In the parallel passage,, the name is given as Ahimelech ; most authorities consider this the more correct reading.
After reading popular conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, participants in this study correctly estimated how much their peers ' attitudes had changed, but significantly underestimated how much their own attitudes had changed to become more in favor of the conspiracy theories.
It could be opened flat at any page, allowing easier reading ; the pages could be written on both front and back ( recto and verso ); and the codex, protected within its durable covers, was more compact and easier to transport.
Avoiding the costly alternative of attending a law school, Coolidge followed the more common practice of the time, apprenticing with a local law firm, Hammond & Field, and reading law with them.
There is no end-of-stream marker ; the end of input is determined by when the universal machine decides to stop reading more bits.
If a second compression test is performed shortly thereafter, and the new reading is much higher, it would be the ring seal that is problematic, whereas if the compression test pressure observed remains low, it is a valve sealing ( or more rarely head gasket, or breakthrough piston or rarer still cylinder wall damage ) issue.
A superficial reading of selected provisions of the written constitutional enactment, without more, may be misleading.
This has been replaced with a more conventional, wider & rounded rectangle which can still be halved, but lacks the dosimeter reading holes.
Adult dyslexics can read with good comprehension, but they tend to read more slowly than non-dyslexics and perform more poorly at spelling and nonsense word reading, a measure of phonological awareness.
Propagandistic tendencies are also present, but with more subtlety, in the episode featuring the construction of an airport: one shot shows the former Tsar's tanks helping prepare a foundation, with an intertitle reading " Tanks on the labor front.
The decisions of the Supreme Court in cases such as Calvert Cliffs Coordinating Committee v. U. S. Atomic Energy Commission ( broadly reading the procedural requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act ), Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill ( broadly reading the Endangered Species Act ), and, much more recently, Massachusetts v. EPA ( requiring EPA to reconsider regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act ) have had policy impacts far beyond the facts of the particular case.
Among Bulwer-Lytton's lesser-known contributions to literature is the fact that it was he who convinced Charles Dickens to revise the ending of Great Expectations to make it more palatable to the reading public.
It was sometime after reading Socialism that Hayek began attending Ludwig von Mises ' private seminars, joining several of his university friends, including Fritz Machlup, Alfred Schutz, Felix Kaufmann, and Gottfried Haberler, who were also participating in Hayek's own, more general, private seminar.

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