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A strange loop is a hierarchy of levels, each of which is linked to at least one other by some type of relationship.

For example, Edmund Wilson, in a tepid review, noted the encumbrance of " a strange atmosphere of literary medievalism " in the relationship between Robert Jordan and Maria.

The relationship between Joyce and Norah Elam was evidence of the strange bedfellows that politics can bring together.

However, the relationship with Atkins proved difficult and violent so, following a series of strange incidents, she filed for divorce in November 1963.

Its relationship with the equally strange pink-eared ducks ( Malacorhynchus ) is unresolved but seems to be quite close, and it seems to be part of an ancient Gondwanan radiation of Anatidae.

In a strange twist of fate, she ended her relationship with the King in the same way in which she started: used initially as a decoy for Louis and " Madame ", Louise now became a decoy for her own successor, as Louis made her share the Marquise de Montespan's apartments at the Tuileries to prevent the legal manœuvres of the Marquis de Montespan ( who wanted to get his wife back ) and to keep the court from gossiping

Die Seherin von Prevorst and its tale about Kerner's relationship with Friederike Hauffe — the latter reputed to have visionary and healing powers, and who had produced a strange ' inner ' language containing Hebrew-like elements — made quite an impression among the members of the Harmony Society in 1829, who saw it as confirmation of the approaching millennium and of their religious views.

While the Imam was under house arrest, al-Mutawakkil maintained a strange relationship with the Imam.

An incestuous relationship between Roderick and Madeline is never explicitly stated, but seems implied by the strange attachment between the two.

Because of this strange relationship between the candidates and the voters, strategic nomination through this manner is doubtful as it becomes very much a question of whether the presence or absence in an election of a potential " cycle-maker " ( provided one exists and can be found ) can be decided by those who seek to gain from it.

He considered the Buffy-Riley theme more adult, but a bit more strange and blue than the Buffy-Angel theme: a prediction of where the relationship between Buffy and Riley would go.

Is it not strange that the Arabic language makes use of a Root, which apparently has no relationship with a peculiar shaped container for storage, and service of liquid?

Amsterdam is the story of a strange euthanasia pact between two friends, a composer and a newspaper editor, whose relationship spins into disaster.

For the most part, their sketches are a complex analysis of their strange relationship.

The plot focuses on the strange relationship between two young boys and their fanatically religious father, who believes that he has been commanded by God to kill demons.

Sey has a strange relationship with her mother.

Sam enters into a strange relationship with Nicola where he regularly interviews her and is updated on the " plot ".

Eventually, strange emotions start influencing their relationship.

In an interview on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday Brand says he had a strange relationship with his father, whom he saw sporadically and who took him to visit prostitutes during a trip to the Far East.

The novel then explores the girls ' relationship with their troubled father ; their secretive, silent mother ; and friendships that grow between them as they try to figure out their family's strange and mysterious history.

* Wilkins shows again his strange father-daughter relationship with Faith when he asks Angel to bring her back before 11 o ' clock.

Other important storylines included the second slaughter of the Morlocks ; Iceman learning to deal with increased power levels, now able to turn completely into ice ; the murder of Colossus ' family and his subsequent defection to Magneto's Acolytes ; Psylocke discovering the origin of her transformation from English model to Asian assassin ; the burgeoning relationship between Rogue and Gambit ; Jean Grey abandoning her Marvel Girl codename in favor of Phoenix, to honor both Rachel and the alien life force ; Rogue briefly quitting after absorbing Gambit's psyche ; Bishop dealing with faulty memories from a timeline that could not exist ; Psylocke and Archangel's near murders at the hands of Sabretooth, warranting their leaving the team ; Wolverine mutating into a strange, unintelligent beast after losing his adamantium at the hands of Magneto ; Iceman quitting to nurse his bigoted father back to health after being attacked by anti-mutant activists ; and Gambit harboring a dark secret: he was the one who gathered the Marauders for Sinister.

What is good about the movie involves Chase and Hannah, who have to work out between them the logistical problems of their strange relationship.

Captain Heard did not communicate with any strange vessels because of the possibility of war between the United States and Britain.

In 1933, three strange dolphins beached off the Irish coast ; they appeared to be hybrids between Risso's and bottlenose dolphins.

Huayna Capac's sudden death and followed days later by the Incan heir apparent from a strange disease, described by one smallpox precipitated a bitter power struggle between Huáscar, whose mother was Coya ( meaning Empress ) Mama Rahua Occillo and legetimate heir, and Atahualpa, a son who, borne to a Quitu princess, and reputedly his father's " favorite.

Since different standard model fermions are grouped together in larger representations, GUTs specifically predict relations among the fermion masses, such as between the electron and the down quark, the muon and the strange quark, and the tau lepton and the bottom quark for SU ( 5 ) and SO ( 10 ).

Irrealist writing often highlights this irreality, and our strange fascination with it, by combining the unease we feel because the real world doesn't conform to our desires with the narrative quality of the dream state ( where reality is constantly and inexplicably being undermined ); it is thus said to communicate directly, " by feeling rather than articulation, the uncertainties inherent in human existence or, to put it another way ... the irreconcilability between human aspiration and human reality.

Commentators have read various messages in the incident: a reflection of struggles between priestly factions in the post – Exilic period ( Gerstenberger ); or a warning against offering incense outside the Temple, where there might be the risk of invoking strange gods ( Milgrom ).

With respect to swearing between colleagues, the site explains that " lthough it may sound strange, the appropriateness swearing [...] is influenced largely by the industry you are in and the individuals you work with ".

Running out of the house, she is caught between the house and strange menacing figures that are akin to the zombie in the graveyard.

Governor Bradford later wrote that Williams fell " into some strange opinions which caused some controversy between the church and him ".

Examples of strange loops that Hofstadter offers include: many of the works of M. C. Escher, the information flow network between DNA and enzymes through protein synthesis and DNA replication, and self-referential Gödelian statements in formal systems.

So the difference between the video-feedback loop and our strange loops, our " I " s, is that while the former converts light to the same pattern on a screen, the latter categorizes a pattern and outputs its essence, so that as we get closer and closer to our essence, we get further down our strange loop ( according to Hofstadter's book ' I am a Strange Loop ').

" John Lindow calls the verse exchange between the Vanir and Gná " strange " and points out that it's unclear why it should specifically be the Vanir that witness Gná flying through the air.

He learns about an influential religious movement in San Lorenzo, called Bokononism, a strange, postmodern faith that combines irreverent, nihilistic, and cynical observations about life and God's will with odd, but peaceful rituals ( for instance, the supreme act of worship is an intimate act consisting of prolonged physical contact between the bare soles of the feet of two persons, supposed to result in peace and joy between the two communicants ).

However, in a strange scene between rounds, Taylor's trainer Lou Duva told him that he needed to win the final round, and as a result Taylor did not stay away, but continued to trade blows with Chávez.

" Halévy further suggests that, in real life, it was unlikely that a Samaritan would actually have been found on the road between Jericho and Jerusalem, although others claim that there was " nothing strange about a Samaritan travelling in Jewish territory.

It introduces something standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.

Thus on the one hand the insulting ' obscene invitations of a man to a strange girl can be the spicy endearments of a husband to his wife '; on the other hand, the male gaze may be insulting in and of itself to a feminist, whereas a post-feminist might note more discriminatingly how ' his eyes took me in ... at least he didn't look at me offensively ; and believe me, if you're a woman who works in a bar, you can tell the difference between an evaluation and an eye fuck '.

It is strange that the people in between have a Persian language of their own.

Since there was very much contact between Portugal and its colonies, particularly Brazil ( between 1804 and 1822 the Portuguese court resided in Rio de Janeiro since the king had fled from Portugal after Napoleon's invasion ), it is not strange that Portuguese fado has some roots in Afro-Brazilian slave dances and also Spanish and Portuguese songs ; like Fandango, Semba, Lundu and Modinha and on the other ( notice that these roots are similar to those of the Samba ).