Plato is thus known as one of the very first rationalists, believing as he did that humans are born with a fund of a priori knowledge, to which they have access through a process of reason or intellection — a process that critics find to be rather mysterious.

He specialised in tone and effect rather than " shock horror ", and liked to leave important details unexplained and mysterious.

The evolutionary history of the passerine families and the relationships among them remained rather mysterious until the late 20th century.

As Sending Up For Good is fairly infrequent, the process is rather mysterious to many of Eton's boys.

Here, rather than the virginity of the bride's veil, modesty of the Muslim scarf or the piety of the nun's headdress, the mysterious veil hints at sensuality and the unknown.

Corwin travels to Tir-na Nóg ' th, the mysterious, moonlit Amber-in-the-sky where he hopes to gain insight into the situation, and upon his return finds himself at the Primal Pattern rather than Amber.

Additionally, the Welsh story Peredur son of Efrawg, a version of the Percival story with several striking deviations, features the hero visiting a mysterious castle, but he does not find the Grail there, but rather a severed human head.

The disease was little understood at the time, and many residents simply packed up and left rather than face the mysterious and deadly peril.

However, in contrast with its use in literature, magical realist art does not often include overtly fantastic or magical content, but rather looks at the mundane, the every day, through a hyper-realistic and often mysterious lens.

In contrast, one of the basic theorems in algebraic number theory asserts that the class group of the ring of integers of a number field is finite ; its cardinality is called the class number and it is an important and rather mysterious invariant, notwithstanding the hard work of many leading mathematicians from Gauss to the present day.

Because of his unpopularity among the anti-Gustavian Swedish nobility and the fact that he " turned Russian ", Armfelt has been up to the present day a rather mysterious and generally unknown character in Swedish history.

The idea became so widespread as to become a pop-culture mainstay, especially in horror films ( though originally the curse was invisible, a series of mysterious deaths, rather than the walking-dead mummies of later fiction ).

Lutherans, however, reject the philosophical explanation of consubstantiation, preferring to see the presence of the Lord's body and blood as mysterious rather than explainable by human philosophy.

* Newt Forager-a small and rather whiny and tricky player who invariably plays evil, mysterious loners with hidden agendas, all of whom are blood related so that he can share in-game information between them.

At age eighteen, he saw a show by illusionist James Randi, and became enamored of his approach to magic that openly acknowledged deception as entertainment rather than a mysterious supernatural power.

The symbolic method uses a compact but rather confusing and mysterious notation for invariants, depending on the introduction of new symbols a, b, c, ... ( from which the symbolic method gets its name ) with apparently contradictory properties.

The rather mysterious formalism of the symbolic method corresponds to embedding a symmetric product S < sup > n </ sup >( V ) of a vector space V into a tensor product of n copies of V, as the elements preserved by the action of the symmetric group.

Another example is the rather mysterious figure of Nasreddin, a trickster who often plays jokes, of a sort, on his neighbors.

Also produced but never given as wide a release was the ultra rare puzzle game Hard Hat, the completed but unreleased Kreeper Krawlers, and the prototype of rather mysterious origins Teeter Torture.

She is stuck in a rather grotesque form and was last seen trying to escape the group's mysterious benefactor.

Atalanta was a name also used on a car made by the rather mysterious Owen of London, England in about 1910.

Making the matter even more mysterious is that Mrs. St. Clair is quite sure that she saw her husband at a second-floor window of the opium den, in Upper Swandam Lane, a rather rough part of town near the docks.

As Emperor Taizong is the younger brother rather than the son of Emperor Taizu, the succession remains one of the most mysterious events in Chinese history.

Dodo's life prior to joining the Doctor-and the circumstances under which she joined him in the TARDIS-were elaborated on in the Past Doctor Adventures novel Salvation, where the TARDIS, departing after she has entered it, travels to New York in Dodo's present-moving only in space rather than time -, resulting in Dodo working with the Doctor and Steven to investigate mysterious beings who appear to be gods.

The Streibs are a mysterious race that don't engage in diplomatic contacts with other races, but rather treat them as laboratory animals and conduct cruel experiments upon them.

O ' Neill's experiments with theatrical form and his combination of Naturalist and Expressionist techniques inspired other playwrights to use greater freedom in their works, whether expanding the techniques of Realism, as in Susan Glaspell's Trifles, or borrowing more heavily from German Expressionism ( e. g., Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine ), Other distinct movements during this period include folk-drama / regionalism ( Paul Green's Pulitzer-winning In Abraham's Bosom ), " pageant " drama ( Green's The Lost Colony, about the mysterious Roanoke Colony ), and even a return to poetic drama ( Maxwell Anderson's Winterset ).

City editor Victor Watson of the New York American was a man of brooding suspicions and mysterious shifts of mood.

Scientists experimenting in time travel choose him for their studies, and the man travels back in time to contact the mysterious woman, and discovers that the man's death at the Orly Airport was his own.

Mipps escaped in the confusion of Syn's death and disappeared from England, but it is said that a little man very much like him is living out his days in a Buddhist Monastery somewhere in the Malay Peninsula, delighting the monks with recounting the adventures of Doctor Syn and the eerie stories of the Romney Marsh and the mysterious Scarecrow and his night riders.

There, a mysterious being appeared (" man ", Genesis 32: 24, 28 ; or " God ", Genesis 32: 28, 30, Hosea 12: 3, 5 ; or " angel ", Hosea 12: 4 ), and the two wrestled until daybreak.

The three were also sometimes visited by a tortoise called Slowcoach, and in one particular episode, the trio meet a slightly mysterious character made out of potatoes called Dan the potato man.

Centuries later, a young man, Devon ( Keir Dullea ), a resident of Cypress Corners ( a biosphere with an Amish-like culture ), discovers that his world is far larger and more mysterious than he had realized.

Additionally, when Desmond meets a mysterious woman with apparent knowledge of the future ( later revealed as Eloise Hawking ), she points out a man with red shoes, who moments later is killed by falling scaffolding ; when Desmond asks why she didn't try to save the man, she says that " it wouldn't matter.

* Francesco Petrarca ( often considered the first man of the Renaissance ) first visits Rome, to wander its mysterious ruins with an eye for aesthetic as well as for history, exciting a renewed interest in Classical civilisation.

If I hate a man because I am afraid of him, and if I am aware of my hate but not of my fear, we may say that my hate is conscious and that my fear is unconscious ; still my fear does not lie in that mysterious place: ' the ' unconscious.

Only one man fell to his death, at night and under mysterious circumstances, at the anchoring place for his wire.

The film, which tells the story of a badly burned, mysterious man found in the wreckage of a plane during World War II, won nine Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Juliette Binoche.

According to the strip, scores of locals were done in yearly by the toxic fumes of the concentrated " skonk oil ", which was brewed and barreled daily by " Big Barnsmell " ( known as the lonely " inside man " at the Skonk Works ), by grinding dead skunks and worn shoes into a smoldering still, for some mysterious, never specified purpose.

Only now does the book confirm that the mysterious man Cosette met is actually Jean Valjean.

When a mysterious man arrives in town and buys the mortgage on Bonnie's house, Bonnie agrees to work for him in exchange for his allowing her family to keep their home.

Ribaldi / Rigoletto-Ribaldi is a deformed, mysterious man who comes to the town of Castle Gate and, supposedly, begins buying people's homes and land.

One recurring theme is the periodic appearance of Odin, the foremost among Norse deities, associated with “ war, wisdom, ecstasy, and poetry .” He is typically depicted as a mysterious, hooded old man with one eye.

When a rich man comes into the shop, the girl wonders if he is her mysterious benefactor.

North by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization who want to stop his interference in their plans to smuggle out microfilm containing government secrets.

man on the run and man being chased by a mysterious characters.

" A stop in the trading town of Clarefield, Colorado results in Jeremiah teaming up with another lone traveller named Kurdy, before being imprisoned by the town's warlord in a cell with a man named Simon, who wants to recruit Jeremiah for a vague and mysterious organization.

At the end of " Day of the Moon ", a mysterious young girl tells a homeless man that she is dying and then begins to regenerate.

In the novel, we are told that Ford's original name is " only pronounceable in an obscure Betelgeusian dialect " which was almost wiped out by the " Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Gal ./ Sid ./ Year 03758 ," a mysterious catastrophe which took place on the planet of Betelgeuse Seven and which Ford's father was the only man to survive.

The Hilman family employed a mysterious man for a time who regularly engaged in target practice with his pistol.