The Poetics, in affirming that all human arts are `` modes of imitation '', gives a more serious role to artistic mimesis than did Plato.

But by the time the risk was doubled, events had dismissed from his mind both increased percentages and a previously stated intention of considering carefully anything more serious than a bout of influenza.

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.

`` You could come down to the office once a day, look over a few exchanges, dictate an editorial, and then have the remainder of your time for your more serious literary labors.

In each city quick public reaction and fast action by the city government halted the threats of more serious incidents.

This may be opera bouffe now, but it will become more serious should the cold war mount in frenzy.

A dreadful fear entered my consciousness that perhaps he had entertained aspirations toward Viola's favors -- or, even more serious perhaps, that he had attained a share of them and had then been superseded by some luckier chap.

Instead of emotional recrimination, loaded phrases and sloganeering, we need a dispassionate study of the facts, a better understanding of the opposite viewpoint and a more serious effort to extend the areas of agreement until a solution is reached.

then his mind moved on to be confronted by something far more serious, and as the thought expanded, the implications jarred him.

It must be getting more serious.

Hindemith's joust with Weber tunes was a considerably more serious misfortune, for it demands transluscent textures, buoyant rhythms, and astringent wit.

"' The only exception to this is that if a defendant appeals a conviction for a crime having multiple levels of offenses, where they are convicted on a lesser offense, the appeal is of the lesser offense ; the conviction represents an acquittal of the more serious offenses.

The situation may become widespread and result in more serious and permanent consequences.

While anagramming is certainly a recreation first, there are ways in which anagrams are put to use, and these can be more serious, or at least not quite frivolous and formless.

Section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides that common assault, like battery, is triable only in the magistrates ' court in England and Wales ( unless it is linked to a more serious offence, which is triable in the Crown Court ).

Additionally, if a Defendant has been charged on an indictment with assault occasioning actual bodily harm ( ABH ), or racially / religiously aggravated assault, then a jury in the Crown Court may acquit the Defendant of the more serious offence, but still convict of common assault if it finds common assault has been committed.

Scottish law also provides for a more serious charge of aggravated assault on the basis of such factors as severity of injury, the use of a weapon, or Hamesuken ( to assault a person in his own home ).

The more serious crime of aggravated assault is treated as a felony.

Even so, the flat country and weather uncertainties made flooding much more unpredictable than in the case of the Nile ; serious deluges seem to have been a regular occurrence, requiring constant maintenance of irrigation ditches and drainage systems.

Oral antibacterials are orally ingested, whereas intravenous administration may be used in more serious cases, such as deep-seated systemic infections.

The firm soon established a reputation in more serious music circles by championing the works of Franz Schubert.

* One of the more serious of these side effects is tardive dyskinesia, in which the sufferer may show repetitive, involuntary, purposeless movements ( that are permanent and have no cure ) often of the lips, face, legs, or torso.

Currently, hunting is the more serious factor in most areas.

Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in And God Created Woman ( 1956 ) with Jean-Louis Trintignant.

It is still not clear how far Orkney ’ s advance was planned only as a feint ; according to historian David Chandler it is probably more accurate to surmise that Marlborough launched Orkney in a serious probe with a view to sounding out the possibilities of the sector.

In West Africa, for example, where meat is a luxury and babies must be weaned early to make room at the breast for later arrivals, a childhood menace is kwashiorkor, or `` Red Johnny '', a growth-stunting protein deficiency ( signs: reddish hair, bloated belly ) that kills more than half its victims, leaves the rest prey for parasites and lingering tropical disease.

Any rivalry between Menahem and Pekah could only appear more and more foolish in light of the growing menace of Assyria.

Just before 13: 00, MacDonald moved towards his assigned location, with eight battalions from Lamarque and Broussier's division deployed in line, forming the frontline, with the other 15 battalions remaining in column, a formation which could more easily fend off the increasing menace poised by the numerous enemy cavalry.

Thereafter, the growing menace of the Lombards and the split between eastern and western Christendom that Iconoclasm caused made the position of the Exarch more and more untenable.

There is very little violence, menace and threat in mystery / detective films ( especially between the villain and other innocent people ), whilst the violence is quite intense in thrillers and the villain is more ruthless.

Bigger, faster and more heavily gunned than the torpedo boat, the destroyer evolved to protect the capital ships from the menace of the torpedo boat.

The hall's Irish Catholic base enabled the magazine to rationalize more completely its conviction that the Catholic Church, ruled by a foreign potentate dressed in the irrational garb of infallibility, was a menace not only to the nation's body politic but also to its democratic soul.

Though the Mamluks were the traditional enemies of the Franks, the Barons of Acre recognized the Mongols as the more immediate menace, and so the Crusaders opted for a position of cautious neutrality between the two forces.

" While The New York Times said he " preens with plausible menace ", USA Today felt he " plays the character with more high-pitched giddiness than menace ".

In 1958, later presidential candidate Barry Goldwater declared Reuther a " more dangerous menace than the Sputnik or anything Soviet Russia might do to America.

During the race by the Utah and Missouri churches to acquire the Blessing of Joseph Smith III, Hofmann discovered " a lever to exercise enormous power over his church ," a power to " menace and manipulate its leaders with nothing more sinister than a sheet of paper.

The menace of the recent alliance between the Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos and Saladin, and the more immediate threat of the Turkomans, led to a rapprochement between Leo and Bohemond III: on his accession Leo sought an alliance with the prince of Antioch and recognized his suzerainty.

The Spacers control of myco-food makes the farming operations of Solaria seem more puzzling, until we remember that Solaria was aberrant even by Spacer standards and remained so in the later book Foundation and Earth as a real example of menace to the Second Foundation itself.

On the album, the group adapted a more conventional rock style with a harder edged sound and a hint of menace in the lyrics of some songs.

During the 6th and 7th centuries the growing menace of the Lombards and the Franks, and the split between eastern and western Christendom caused by iconoclasm and the acrimonious rivalry between the Pope and the Patriarch of Constantinople, made the position of the exarch more and more untenable.

Recurring villains include General Ivar, a vicious rocket-shaped monster with his own tank ; Colonel Icebot, a cold-blooded virtual menace ; Decimator, a sword-wielding warrior ; the Skugs, gold-headed foot soldiers, and more throughout.

The Vienna coup is the act of cashing an ace opposite the queen ( or, more generically, an immediate winner opposite a menace ) in order to enable a squeeze to work on either opponent.

Many episodes began with a prologue of a person being killed by the episode's menace ; while nothing graphic is shown, it was more grown up than most shows aimed at children.

If, in this idealized state militarism can be recognized as an ever present menace, then, a fortiori, the danger it represents is even more critical for existing democracies.

The band have been called a " a Scots White Stripes ", but with " much more hidden menace ", with songs described as " a mix of Led Zeppelin and 90s American indie ", with their style described as " scuzzy experimental rock ", a " garage metal cacophony ", " aggroglam ", and " sleaze-rock " comprising " manic rigging, high-speed drumming and porno lyrics ".