His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

Using Edgerton's method, the fast-closing action is obtained from the blackening of a window by exploding a series of parallel lead wires.

Another factor that may hold hope is for parallel recognition is, as one man says it: `` that the fad for educating top people along managerial lines is yielding to the technically trained approach ''.

Above this point there is no generally used parallel ladder.

The background, which is available in various widths and continuous lengths, is extruded with parallel undercut grooves which grip the flexible letters securely.

A tape of cellulose acetate is pulled between the blocks and the tape pulls the fluid or paste with it between the parallel faces of the blocks.

There is a parallel to this tendency in the assignment of time in long-known hymn tunes.

But the parallel is significant.

A parallel function for philosophy is the study of the relation between perceptions experientially received and conceptions logically formed.

The trompe-l'oeil illusion here is no longer enclosed between parallel flatnesses, but seems to thrust through the surface of the drawing paper and establish depth on top of it.

Planes defined as parallel to the surface also cut through it into real space, and a depth is suggested optically which is greater than that established pictorially.

Curiously, this scene is a close parallel to one that Verdi was writing at the same time, the scene between Amonasro and Aida.

Here, H is the coatings removal force measured parallel to the surface of the substrate and T is the film thickness.

For the case of a purely inertial autonavigator consisting of three restrained gyros, a coordinate system is used where the sensitive axis of the X accelerometer is parallel to the east-west direction at the base point, and the Y accelerometer sensitive axis is parallel to the north-south direction at the base point.

A centre-line is drawn through the centre spot and parallel with the shortlines.

At each of the corners, a 1 m radius quarter-circle is drawn, and a dotted line is painted parallel to the shortline and five metres away from it without extending into the penalty area.

When both the fronts and sides of a building are drawn, then the parallel lines forming a side converge at a second point along the horizon ( which may be off the drawing paper.

A parallel may be drawn between HBC's control over Rupert's Land with the trade monopoly and government functions enjoyed by the Honourable East India Company over India during roughly the same period.

The reduced or parametric latitude, β, is defined by the radius drawn from the centre of the ellipsoid to that point Q on the surrounding sphere ( of radius a ) which is the projection parallel to the Earth's axis of a point P on the ellipsoid at latitude.

In the equivalence of models of computability, a parallel is drawn between Turing machines which do not terminate for certain inputs and an undefined result for that input in the corresponding partial recursive function.

A parallel has been drawn between these activities and the human condition according to the Biblical account of the expulsion from the garden of Eden.

Another line is drawn parallel to the channel for the gate.

* In Chapter 21 of Arthur C. Clarke's 3001: The Final Odyssey, a parallel is drawn between the prime directive and the monolith's forbiddance of human-Europan interaction.

Because it is secured on both sides, lines drawn along the edge are guaranteed to be parallel.

He has a peculiar phobia about seeing sets of parallel lines against a white background, first displayed in an inappropriate reaction to seeing a diagram drawn with the tines of a fork on a tablecloth.

If a comparison visualizes an action, state, quality, object, or a person by means of a parallel which is drawn to a different entity, the two things which are being compared do not necessarily have to be identical.

A line slightly longer than the note head is drawn parallel to the staff, above or below, spaced at the same distance as the lines within the staff ( see Figure 1 ).

If a line is drawn parallel to the moment of the best-fitting magnetic dipole, the two positions where it intersects the Earth's surface are called the North and South geomagnetic poles.

Several authors, including Ioan Petru Culianu, have drawn a parallel between Eugène Ionesco's Absurdist play of 1959, Rhinoceros, which depicts the population of a small town falling victim to a mass metamorphosis, and the impact fascism had on Ionesco's closest friends ( Eliade included ).

As with all types of parallel projection, objects drawn with isometric projection do not appear larger or smaller as they extend closer to or away from the viewer.

However, it violates the other three: contrary to the first postulate, there is not a unique shortest route between any two points ( antipodal points such as the north and south poles on a spherical globe are counterexamples ); contrary to the third postulate, a sphere does not contain circles of arbitrarily great radius ; and contrary to the fifth ( parallel ) postulate, there is no point through which a line can be drawn that never intersects a given line.

17 ; in it a parallel is drawn between the John the Baptist's ministry and the work of reformation which in the preacher's judgment was incumbent on the parliament of his own day.

The relationship is understandable, argued Basil of Caesarea, in a parallel drawn from Platonism: any three human beings are each individual persons and all share a common universal, their humanity.

It was scripted by Naguib Mahfouz and the poet and progressive writer, Abderrahman Cherkaoui, and a parallel between Saladin and President Nasser is easily drawn.

" Perhaps the clearest and strongest parallel can be drawn between the Golden rule ( see below ) and the first formulation of Kant's CI ( see below ).

For these materials the yield strength is typically determined by the " offset yield method ", by which a line is drawn parallel to the linear elastic portion of the curve and intersecting the abscissa at some arbitrary value ( generally from 0. 1 % to 0. 2 %).

Projective geometry formalizes one of the central principles of perspective art: that parallel lines meet at infinity, and therefore are drawn that way.

In skeletal formula the double bond is drawn as two parallel lines (=) between the two connected atoms ; typographically, the equals sign is used for this.

An explicit parallel was drawn between the victorious charioteers and the victorious emperor.

He has stated that it is not a traditional sequel, but rather a " parallel story ".

" Sartre would also compliment Guevara by professing that " he lived his words, spoke his own actions and his story and the story of the world ran parallel.

In the Voyager episode, " Non Sequitur ," Tom Paris ' alternate self ( in the parallel dimension ) relates to Harry Kim a story about how, during a stop at Deep Space Nine, he got in a bar fight with a Ferengi and was thrown in the brig by " a very unpleasant shapeshifter ", obviously referring to Odo.

With the rise of the realistic novel, the short story evolved in a parallel tradition, with some of its first distinctive examples in the tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann.

Shyamalan conceived the idea for Unbreakable to parallel a comic book's traditional three-part story structure.

The story runs parallel with the narrative of a young Tasmanian who tells the struggle of the indigenous population and the desperate battle against the invading British colonists.

The story focuses primarily on the show's effect on a couple whose domestic tensions and eventual reconciliation parallel the dangers faced by the contestants.

In Egyptian accounts, however, the penis of Osiris is found intact, and the only close parallel with this part of Plutarch's story is in " The Tale of Two Brothers ", a folk tale from the New Kingdom with similarities to the Osiris myth.

Bangladeshi director Tanvir Mokammel in his 2008 film Rabeya ( The Sister ) also draws inspiration from Antigone to parallel the story to the martyrs of the 1971 Bangladeshi Liberation War who were denied a proper burial.

Myths had it that she was abducted by ( and later married ) Zephyrus, the god of the west wind ( which, as Ovid himself points out, was a parallel to the story of his brother Boreas and Oreithyia ).

There is often some parallel between the two stories, and the fiction of the inner story is used to reveal the truth in the outer story.

The story is parallel to that of Scylla ( princess ); compare also Pisidice and Leucophrye.

The terms multiverse, parallel universe, alternate history, story or screen bible, backstory and crossover have a considerable amount of overlap with fictional universes.

In a parallel story, she has been searching for her son.

Its inclusion of a villain character, Stormella, and a love interest, Zoey, for Rudolph as well as a small sidekick, Slyly, and a strong protector character, Leonard, are very derivative of the Rankin-Bass adaptation of the story as opposed to the original tale and song ( the characters of Stormella, Zoey, Arrow, Slyly and Leonard closely parallel the Rankin-Bass characters of The Bumble, Clarice, Fireball, Hermey the Dentist, and Yukon Cornelius respectively ).

In Gary Lovisi's parallel universe Sherlock Holmes short story, " The Adventure of the Missing Detective ", he is portrayed as a tyrannical king, who rules after the deaths ( under suspicious circumstances ) of both his grandmother and father.

In the story, a Sinologist discovers a manuscript by a Chinese writer where the same tale is recounted in several ways, often contradictory, and then explains to his visitor ( the writer's grandson ) that his relative conceived time as a " garden of forking paths ", where things happen in parallel in infinitely branching ways.

The most common use of parallel universes in science fiction, when the concept is central to the story, is as a backdrop and / or consequence of time travel.

Uses in horror films include the 1986 film From Beyond ( based on the H. P. Lovecraft story of the same name ) where a scientific experiment induces the experimenters to perceive aliens from a parallel universe, with bad results.

The idea of parallel universes have received treatment in a number of television series, usually as a single story or episode in a more general science fiction or fantasy storyline.

Following the precedent set by Star Trek, these story arcs show alternative universes that have turned out " worse " than the " original " universe: in Stargate SG-1 the first two encountered parallel realities featured Earth being overwhelmed by an unstoppable Goa ' uld onslaught ; in Buffy, two episodes concern a timeline in which Buffy came to Sunnydale too late to stop the vampires from taking control ; Lois & Clark repeatedly visits an alternative universe where Clark Kent's adoptive parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent, died when he was ten years of age, and Lois Lane is also apparently dead.

Many of his strips parallel a storyline in the corresponding Freak Brothers story, and often have themes of a scatological nature.

The following year, she starred with Busch, Farley Granger, and Evelyn Keyes in Enchantment, a story of two generations of lovers in parallel romances.