Warship Minds are somewhat out of the normal Culture's behaviour range, designed to be more aggressive and less ambivalent about violence than the usual Culture citizen.

They also maintain somewhat ambivalent relations with Hobbits for most of the Third Age, although after the mission to retake the Lonely Mountain Bilbo Baggins is held in great esteem there.

" Bosley Crowther, in a somewhat ambivalent review, concludes " some very credible acting on the part of Mr. Grant and Miss Dunne is responsible in the main for the infectious quality of the film.

Lucullus is reported by Plutarch to have lost his mind at the end and went intermittently mad as he aged ; Plutarch, however seems to be somewhat ambivalent as to whether the factor behind the apparent madness was what he seems to most lean towards which was the administration of some sort of love potion or if it was at least in part feigned as a political protection against changes in the Roman state, such as the rise of the popular party.

Catholic religious affiliation, however, does not translate straightforwardly into support for a united Ireland, and opinion south of the border is also somewhat ambivalent towards the prospect, which would entail a significant financial burden for the southern 26 counties.

Chamberlain's attitude towards the natural sciences was somewhat ambivalent and contradictory-he later wrote: " one of the most fatal errors of our time is that which impels us to give too great weight to the so-called ' results ' of science.

She is at first ambivalent towards the Wintersmith, unnerved by the attention, but also somewhat flattered that she has caught the eye of a godlike being.

The school is currently operating at a reduced capacity within the campus due to Exeter's somewhat ambivalent attitude towards it, however this is sure to change if CSM admissions continue to increase year on year.

Alpher was somewhat ambivalent about the nature of his ordnance work.

Williamson's attitude to the hunt is somewhat ambivalent: while admiring them for their own regard for and knowledge of the otter, and despite being personally friendly with his local hunt, the violence and cruelty of some of his descriptions of hunting is clear.

While Caro pays ample tribute to Moses's intelligence, political shrewdness, eloquence and hands-on, if somewhat aggressive, management style, and indeed gives full credit to Moses for his earlier achievements, it is clear from the book's introduction onward that Caro's view of Moses is ambivalent ( some of the readers of The Power Broker would conclude that Caro possessed only contempt for his subject ).

After nearly becoming extinct in the 1940s and 50s, the Liberal Party revived its fortunes somewhat under the leadership of Jo Grimond in the 1960s, by positioning itself as a radical centrist non-socialist alternative to the Conservative and Labour Party governments of the time.

An alternative Chinese term is ketou, however the meaning is somewhat altered: kòu has the general meaning of ' knock ', whereas kē has the general meaning of " touch upon ( a surface )", tóu meaning head.

Though somewhat heavy and cumbersome, it was the only " high-powered " alternative to the modest-performing PM.

An alternative explanation for the appearance of the constant 466 / 885, as well as a new and somewhat improved algorithm for computing the shortest path, was given by Romik.

The area's beautiful scenery and colourful art-deco style shops and houses attract an alternative and somewhat eccentric subculture.

In-home use of enemas for constipation and alternative health purposes is somewhat harder to measure.

The site was originally considered somewhat remote from the centre of the university ( indeed, an alternative site on Lensfield Road, where the Catholic Church now stands, was considered but rejected as being too small ), however, with the growth of departmental buildings, libraries and new faculties, Selwyn ( along with Newnham College ) now neighbours the Sidgwick Site, affording Selwynites the easiest access of any Cambridge college to the many arts faculty buildings housed there.

The new model offered a sportier, high performance, somewhat smaller and lower-priced alternative to the other personal luxury cars then on the market such as Ford Thunderbird, Buick Riviera, Lincoln Continental Mark III and Oldsmobile Toronado, The 1969 Grand Prix production ending up at over 112, 000 units, far higher than the 32, 000 1968 Grand Prix built from the full-sized Pontiac body.

Note also that Darwin, like Lamarck, lacked a plausible alternative mechanism of inheritance-the particulate nature of inheritance was only observed by Gregor Mendel somewhat later, and published in 1866.

Not only did the QMC decide not to develop or introduce new alternative lightweight individual rations, it successfully campaigned for the elimination of alternatives, including the K ration, Mountain ration, Jungle ration, and even the 10-in-1 group ration ( which had proven somewhat useful in boosting nourishment and alleviating complaints of monotony for men living for extended periods on C or K rations ).

Rock and alternative Afrikaans music had stagnated somewhat after the heady days of the " Voëlvry " tour and the alternative movement.

In New York, pianist Lennie Tristano and saxophonist Lee Konitz developed a " somewhat atonal cerebral alternative to bop which concentrated on linear improvisation and interweaving rhythmic complexities ".

* A species known as New Zealand spinach ( Tetragonia tetragonioides ) is grown as a garden plant in somewhat dry climates and used as an alternative to spinach in upscale salads.

This proliferation of alternative names is " somewhat confusing ".

Other words used in place of alternative by many educational professionals include non-traditional, non-conventional, or non-standardized, although these terms are used somewhat less frequently and may have negative connotations and multiple meanings.

The simpler and somewhat more economical alternative was the Joly Screen process.

A pair of amateur chemists and bootleggers, Harry Gross and Max Reisman, worked to develop an alternative adulterant that would pass the tests, but still be somewhat palatable.

The loss of this key position was swiftly followed by the retreat of the Greek forces from Eskişehir and other important posts, and in less than a fortnight what had from the first been a somewhat serious reverse to Greek arms developed into a debacle of unexpected magnitude, which left the Greek government no alternative but to order the immediate withdrawal of the army from Asia Minor and to address an appeal to the Allies to intervene with the object of procuring a cessation of hostilities.

Hyas had no separate existence except as progenitor / guardian of the Hyantes, neither in mythic narrative nor in rite, even the alternative accounts of his demise being somewhat conventional and interchangeable: compare the death of Meleager or Actaeon.

* Skijoring is an alternative to sled pulling, but mainly used in somewhat the same environment as sledding with the exception that the owner ( cross-country skier ) does not need a full pack in order to participate.

Since the process of curdling milk is somewhat complicated, alternative recipes intended for home cooking instead use cottage cheese as a base to simulate the texture of the dessert.

He was not dogmatic about this position, but held to it somewhat tentatively, insisting only that it be accepted as a legitimate evangelical option: " the ultimate annihilation of the wicked should at least be accepted as a legitimate, biblically founded alternative to their eternal conscious torment.

Aesthetic differences included: the Mirror-crew's uniforms were flamboyant and somewhat robe-like, with ceremonial daggers for the officers ; Mirror-Sulu was a Gestapo-like political officer with a disfiguring facial scar ; Mirror-Spock had a goatee ( which has led to a number of pop culture references of people from " evil alternative universes " having goatees ), whereas the regular character does not ; the " United Nations " emblem of the Federation was replaced in the Terran Empire symbol, which consisted of the Earth imposed over a vertical sword of conquest.

Ptolemy in his Geography ( 2. 10 ), half a century later, presents a somewhat more complex view.

For example, an information systems specialist will view computing somewhat differently from a software engineer.

Plato ’ s student Aristotle did not maintain his former teacher's geometric view of the elements, but rather preferred a somewhat more naturalistic explanation for the elements based on their traditional qualities.

This belief ( collective efficacy ) is somewhat counterintuitive, but rests on team member perception that they now view themselves as more competent than others in the organization who were not chosen to complete such difficult goals.

This somewhat exaggerated view was enhanced by his public contractual wranglings with Warners at the time, his joining of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933, and his involvement in the revolt against the so-called Merriam tax.

In his writings, Meriwether Lewis presented a somewhat negative view of her, though Clark had a higher regard for her, and later on provided some support for her children in subsequent years.

Unlike in most other portrayals, Hackman's Luthor appears to view Superman as a respectable and challenging foe rather than a subject of intense hatred and is portrayed as somewhat light and comical, resembling a fast talking con artist more than a criminal mastermind ; often attempting to talk his way out of trouble.

Haredi and Modern Orthodox Judaism vary somewhat in their view of the validity of Halakhic reconsideration.

At any rate, Machiavelli presents a pragmatic and somewhat consequentialist view of politics, whereby good and evil are mere means used to bring about an end, i. e. the secure and powerful state.

This view predates the currents of posthumanism which have developed over the late 20th century in somewhat diverse, but complementary, domains of thought and practice.

However, not only because of the message conveyed, but also Bearden ’ s vernacular realism represented in the work makes The Visitation noteworthy ; Bearden describes two figures in The Visitation somewhat realistically but does not fully follow the pure realism by distorting and exaggerating some parts of their body, to “ convey an experiential feeling or subjective disposition .” Bearden ’ s quotation also demonstrates his supportive view to vernacular realism: “ the Negro artists must not be content with merely recording a scene as a machine.

Perper and Cornog described Skuld as being "" somewhat bratty "-a view that is in keeping with her behavior throughout the series.

" However, chroniclers tended to take a dim view of William's reign, arguably on account of his long and difficult struggles with the Church: these chroniclers were themselves generally products of the Church, and so might be expected to report him somewhat negatively.

This is a somewhat Platonic and Hegelian view that reifies causes as ontological entities.

A somewhat older usage is to use Servlets in conjunction with JSPs in a pattern called " Model 2 ", which is a flavor of the model – view – controller pattern ..

There was, however, a further level of animosity from the view of the Mesdames raised by this situation – they felt somewhat ' betrayed ' in their stance against du Barry.

In Book 3 Newton also made clear his heliocentric view of the solar system, modified in a somewhat modern way, since already in the mid-1680s he recognized the " deviation of the Sun " from the centre of gravity of the solar system.

The disadvantage of this is that wide angle photography is made somewhat more difficult, as the smaller sensor effectively and undesirably reduces the captured field of view.

This action / martial arts film depicts a somewhat exaggerated view of what one of the worst suburbs ( which is what banlieue means, roughly translated ) would be like 6 years in the future.

This shift from naive self-centeredness in one's own time and spot to a broader view based on objective comparison is somewhat like the change from the original geocentric assumption of astronomy to the Copernican interpretation of the solar system and the subsequent still greater widening to a universe of galaxies.

From a modern point of view, Fourier's results are somewhat informal, due to the lack of a precise notion of function and integral in the early nineteenth century.

Well-known academic Fredric Jameson has a somewhat more critical view of pastiche, describing it as " blank parody ", especially with reference to the postmodern parodic practices of self-reflexivity and intertextuality.

The most important works of several painters, especially those like Pieter Aertsen who worked in Antwerp, were all destroyed, leading to a somewhat distorted view of the art history of the period.

From an archaeological point of view, the terms, " Knossos ," and " palace ," are somewhat ambiguous.