Schuster's ideas were not a serious theoretical proposal, merely speculation, and like the previous ideas, differed from the modern concept of antimatter in that it possessed negative gravity.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

French cinema also was the birthplace for many sub-genres of the crime film, most notably the modern caper film, starting with 1955's Rififi by American-born director Jules Dassin and followed by a large number of serious, noirish heist dramas as well as playful caper comedies throughout the sixties, and the " polar ," a typical French blend of film noir and detective fiction.

All felonies remain considered a serious crime, but concerns of proportionality ( i. e., that the punishment fit the crime ) have in modern times prompted legislatures to require or permit the imposition of less serious punishments, ranging from lesser terms of imprisonment to the substitution of a jail sentence or even the suspension of all incarceration contingent upon a defendant's successful completion of probation.

H. R. Giger of Switzerland is one of the first graphic artists to make serious contributions to the gothic / industrial look of much of modern cinema with his work on the film " Alien " by Ridley Scott.

Hong Kong makes strenuous law enforcement efforts, but faces serious challenges in controlling transit of heroin and methamphetamine to regional and world markets ; modern banking system provides a conduit for money laundering ; rising indigenous use of synthetic drugs, especially among young people.

Around 105, however, there appears to have been a serious setback at the hands of the tribes of the Picts of Alba: several Roman forts were destroyed by fire, with human remains and damaged armour at Trimontium ( at modern Newstead, in SE Scotland ) indicating hostilities at least at that site.

This passage-others from the Mojing-were only given serious attention by modern scholarship after the work of Joseph Needham in 1962.

The unheroic nature of modern dress was regarded as a serious difficulty.

The real and serious android of the ancients was a secret which they kept hidden from all eyes, and Mesmer was the first who dared to divulge it ; it was the extension of the will of the magus into another body, organised and served by an elementary spirit ; in more modern and intelligible terms, it was a magnetic subject.

They were also aware that, unlike steam and internal combustion engines, virtually no serious development work had been carried out on the Stirling engine for many years and asserted that modern materials and know-how should enable great improvements.

This killed many spectators, and resulted in a serious overhaul of the safety rules which in turn prompted the building of larger more modern tracks.

Despite the disdain of sousaphones held by most serious tuba players, a quality modern sousaphone is often a better choice for the high school or semi-pro player due to more stable intonation and less breath effort needed to generate tone.

Where Olivier staged the comic scenes as comedy, Branagh played them as serious drama, because he felt the humour was outdated and incomprehensible to modern audiences.

German Romanticism, which followed closely after the late development of German classicism, emphasized an aesthetic of fragmentation that can appear startlingly modern to the reader of English literature, and valued Witz – that is, " wit " or " humor " of a certain sort – more highly than the serious Anglophone Romanticism.

Although this volume is notable for featuring imagined histories by serious historians, the histories are presented in narrative form ( in most cases with a fairly whimsical tone ) without any analysis of the reasoning behind these scenarios, so they fall short of modern standards for serious counterfactual history and are closer to the fictional alternate history genre.

As the culture of the village changed, so did its focus, from distributing work to employees who worked at home to the development of modern factories, through serious labor unrest and World War I, the Depression and the eventual closing of the textile mills in the 1950s.

Lambert was renowned as a raconteur in his day and as an expert on many different arts and modern European culture .< ref > He was also one of the first " serious " composers to understand fully the importance of jazz and popular culture in the music of his time.

Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe writes that “ the Slaughter-House Cases incorrectly gutted the Privileges or Immunities Clause .” Similarly, Yale law professor Akhil Amar has written “ Virtually no serious modern scholar — left, right, and center — thinks that Slaughter-House is a plausible reading of the Fourteenth Amendment .”

In fact Palmer's yard was relatively efficient and modern, but had serious financial problems.

He still continued to serve at short intervals with the prince of Orange, who at the time had an alliance with France, and his first serious service under the French flag occurred at the siege of La Mothe in Lorraine by Marshal de la Force ( 1634 ), where his brilliant courage at the assault won him immediate promotion to the rank of maréchal de camp ( equivalent to the modern grade of major-general ).

According to Strauss, modern social science is flawed because it assumes the fact-value distinction, a concept which Strauss finds dubious, tracing its roots in Enlightenment philosophy to Max Weber, a thinker whom Strauss described as a " serious and noble mind .” Weber wanted to separate values from science but, according to Strauss, was really a derivative thinker, deeply influenced by Nietzsche ’ s relativism.

In his later treatise on late capitalism, Mandel astonishingly hardly mentions the significance of taxation at all, a very serious omission from the point of view of the real world of modern capitalism since taxes can reach a magnitude of a third, or even half of GDP ( see E. Mandel, Late Capitalism.

Per Scudamore's biography, " Milligan's fans and the theatrical world in general found it hard to believe that he was to appear in a straight play ... He refused to be serious when questioned about his motives.

This biography was aimed at serious students of Christian Science as opposed to the general public.

Around this time she had a serious romance with David Niven, and according to his authorized biography, even wanted to marry him, but he wasn't faithful to her.

In 1989 W. G. McMinn published George Reid ( Melbourne University Press ), a serious biography designed to rescue Reid from his reputation as a clownish reactionary and attempt to show his Free Trade policies as having been vindicated by history.

The Bundestag official web site carries an ostensibly serious ' biography ' and a photograph purporting to depict Meirschied.

Shelton's intention from the outset was to write a serious cultural study, not a showbiz biography ; as a result, he always said his life's work had been " abridged over troubled waters ".

In his biography Miller records his conversion: " I became acquainted with the principal men in that village Vermont, who were professedly Deists ; but they were good citizens, and of a moral and serious deportment.

Allen & Unwin publishes across a broad range of areas including literary and commercial fiction, popular and serious non-fiction-including biography, memoir, history, true crime, politics, current affairs and travel-academic and professional, children's books and books for teenagers.

His published books to date form an eclectic list, including debunking the supernatural, anecdotes about Parliament, a biography, his thoughts about the United States, a serious political review, and collected Christmas round-robin letters.

Citing the work of the American historian Christopher Browning in his biography of Hitler, Kershaw argues that in the period 1939 – 41 the phrase " Final Solution to the Jewish Question " was a " territorial solution ", that such plans as the Nisko Plan and Madagascar Plan were serious and only in the latter half of 1941 did the phrase " Final Solution " come to refer to genocide.

( The " serious " liner notes on the back also bear a Pythonesque stamp: the biography of Beethoven quickly turns into a commentary on Beethoven's Wimbledon debut.

Victor Cousin published a more serious biography in 1856.

In his biography, The Seven Storey Mountain, Merton describes Lax at a meeting with other Jester staff: " Taller than them all, and more serious, with a long face, like a horse, and a great mane of black hair on top of it, Bob Lax meditated on some incomprehensible woe.

In his early career he focused on serious literature, publishing ( in 1935 ) a biography of the lesser English poet Bryan Waller Procter and in 1940, co-editing ( with Raymond F. Howes ) a series of observations by contemporaries about Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge the Talker.

" Thus it was not until 1900, almost 300 years after Hariot's death that the first serious biography appeared.

A reviewer of the Tautz biography, Daniel Hindes, said, " Now it may be that all the claims in Ravenscroft ’ s book are so patently ridiculous as to require no serious investigation.

In 1908 Pauline was in an ' alleged ' serious automobile wreck according to her 1939 postumous biography.

Together they researched and wrote the biography of Mao Zedong, Mao: the Unknown Story which received critical praise as well as serious criticism and spurred debate in the academic community.

On November 23, 2005, Mulroney filed a lawsuit against Newman, arguing that Newman had broken the terms of the deal about how the tapes should be used, as well as what would happen to them if Newman did not produce the " scholarly and serious " biography of him that Mulroney expected.