The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).

The earliest definition of hypnosis was given by Braid, who coined the term " hypnotism " as an abbreviation for " neuro-hypnotism ", or nervous sleep, which he opposed to normal sleep, and defined as: " a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not of an exciting nature.

In September 2006, CBS Paramount Domestic Television ( now known as CBS Television Distribution, the current rights holders for the Star Trek television franchises ) began syndication of an enhanced version of Star Trek: The Original Series in high definition with new CGI visual effects.

One definition of fine art is " a visual art considered to have been created primarily for aesthetic purposes and judged for its beauty and meaningfulness, specifically, painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolor, graphics, and architecture.

This definition tends to exclude visual art forms that could be considered craftwork or applied art, such as textiles.

" Convenient, when the term is by definition limited to French visual arts derived from Impressionism since 1886.

Though not strictly " demogroups " by definition, the scene always had various polyhistors who excelled in all areas of demomaking ; rather than gathering various other persons to aid them in a creative process, they perform all jobs of programming, musicmaking and visual art themselves.

The definition of the corporate visual identity management is:

By definition, that requires that they have color receptors containing at least two different visual pigments.

A small amount of high-quality art and hobby letterpress printing remains — fine letterpress work is crisper than offset litho because of its impression into the paper, giving greater visual definition to the type and artwork.

Film, for example, is defined as a hot medium, since in the context of a dark movie theater, the viewer is completely captivated, and one primary sense -- visual -- is filled in high definition.

While discussing Dupin's method in the light of Charles Sanders Peirce's logic of making good guesses or abductive reasoning, Nancy Harrowitz first quotes Poe's definition of analysis and then shows how " Poe the semiotician is running the gamut of possibilities here inferences, reasoning backwards, visual, sensual and aural signs, reading faces.

A succinct definition of the term " mobile " in a visual art sense could be a type of kinetic sculpture in which an ensemble of balanced parts capable of motion are hung freely in space but which never come into contact with each other.

Print raises the visual features of alphabet to highest intensity of definition.

The standard definition of normal visual acuity ( 20 / 20 or 6 / 6 vision ) is the ability to resolve a spatial pattern separated by a visual angle of one minute of arc.

By adding surface patterns or textures to the figure, visual differentiation will lead to figure definition.

Assistant art history professor Gao Minglu connects maximalism in Chinese visual art to the literary definition by describing the emphasis on, " the spiritual experience of the artist in the process of creation as a self-contemplation outside and beyond the artwork itself ... These artists pay more attention to the process of creation and the uncertainty of meaning and instability in a work.

This term is rather broader than Arnold's definition and besides literature includes music, visual arts ( especially painting ), and traditional forms of the performing arts ( including some cinema ).

In 1969 Debes offered a tentative definition of the concept: “ Visual literacy refers to a group of vision-competencies a human being can develop by seeing and at the same time having and integrating other sensory experiences .” A white paper drawn up in January 2004, defines visual literacy as " understanding how people perceive objects, interpret what they see, and what they learn from them.

" However, because multiple disciplines such as visual literacy in education, art history and criticism, rhetoric, semiotics, philosophy, information design, and graphic design make use of the term visual literacy, arriving at a common definition of visual literacy has been contested since its first appearance in professional publications.

The Burlington Magazine, especially in its first decades, was also preoccupied with the definition and development of formal analysis and connoisseurship in the visual arts and consistently observed, reviewed and contributed to the body of attributions to various artists, notably Rembrandt, Poussin, and Caravaggio.

: For a visual chronology of King's life, see Life of William Lyon Mackenzie King at Wikimedia Commons.

In the visual arts, Pierre-Joseph Redouté painted Bouquet of Pansies in 1827, and, in 1874, Henri Fantin-Latour painted Still Life with Pansies.

According to Michael Azerrad in Our Band Could Be Your Life, the artwork " was a perfect visual analogue to the music it promoted – gritty, stark, violent, smart, provocative, and utterly American.

Time summarized and interpreted the week's news ; Life was a picture magazine of politics, culture and society that dominated American visual perceptions in the era before television ; Fortune explored in depth the economy and the world of business, introducing to executives avant-garde ideas such as Keynesianism ; and Sports Illustrated which probed beneath the surface of the game to explore the motivations and strategies of the teams and key players.

The speculative fiction writer, Ted Chiang, has a story, Story of Your Life, that contains visual depictions of Fermat's Principle along with a discussion of its teleological dimension.

Following the athletes ' parade, a performance took place, divided into chapters and sub-chapters entitled the " Journey of Space " and " Journey of Life " The sunbird performance entailed Yang Haitao ( 杨海涛 ), a singer with a visual impairment, singing about dreams while an acrobat in sunbird costume descended in simulated flight from the air and " awakened the blind singer from his sleep ".

His " staged tone poem ” The Double Life of Amphibians, a collaboration with director Lee Breuer and visual artist Irving Petlin, utilizing live interaction between singers, instrumentalists and computer, was premiered at the 1984 Olympics Arts Festival in Los Angeles.

After a brief commercial was the main title sequence, where Charles Mountain said over this visual, " Love of Life: The exciting story of Vanessa Dale and her search for human dignity.

This visual lasted about ten years, and was accompanied with three different themes: " And Then It Happened " by Charles Paul ( 1966 – 1973 ), " Love of Life Theme " by Eddie Layton ( 1973 ), and " The Life That You Live " by Carey Gold ( 1973 – 1977 ).

On a worksheet for the poem, he wrote, " Make it factual ( as the Life is factual-almost casual-always sensual-usually visual: related to thought )".

Popular titles that DK has published include a series of large-format " visual guides " with such titles as Universe, Earth, Animal, Human, History, and Prehistoric Life, each of which is more than 500 pages.

The annual Forest Festival presents a mixture of the performing and visual arts within Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve.

One subject is The Wheel of Life, which is a visual representation of the Abhidharma teachings ( Art of Enlightenment ).

During the 1980s and early 1990s Davis created models and film animations as part of the visual effects production teams for the PBS shows Planet Earth, Infinite Voyage, Space Age, and Life Beyond Earth with Timothy Ferris.

Bart's voice actor, Nancy Cartwright, wrote in her autobiography My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy that the episode's script gives the audience a " visual and aural feast ".

Brampton Arts Council Arts Person of the Year is a prize to honour the Brampton resident who exemplifies continued patronage to any sector of the arts: visual, dance, dramatic or musical.

* Disability discrimination act – general definition, and list of acts by country

In Australia, the federal Disability Discrimination Act 1992 contains a broad medical definition that incorporates all forms of medically diagnosable disease or dysfunction, real or imputed, temporary or permanent, and past or present.

The field of academic study of disability is growing worldwide ; one of its major backers, the transnational Society for Disability Studies, took up the task in the mid-1990s to create an official " definition " for what the field involves.

She sent her students a definition of the Trinity ( circa 1898 ), which read in part: " Jesus in the flesh was the prophet or wayshower to Life, Truth, and Love, and out of the flesh Jesus was the Christ, the spiritual idea, or image and likeness of God.

Programs in the United States did not make the full conversion to high definition broadcasting until September 2011, when The Bold and the Beautiful became the last soap to convert to the format, except for One Life to Live, which remained in standard definition, albeit in a 16x9 aspect ratio, until the end of its run on ABC in January 2012.

As for any trait characteristic, there are several ways to evaluate optimism, such as various forms of the Life Orientation Test, for the original definition of optimism, or the Attributional Style Questionnaire designed to test optimism in terms of explanatory style.

ISO / TR 14049: 2000 Environmental management — Life cycle assessment — Examples of application of ISO 14041 to goal and scope definition and inventory analysis

* Bush Hails Progress Towards " Culture of Life " " President Bush told thousands of antiabortion marchers yesterday that his administration is making progress toward fostering a " culture of life " by enacting measures that limit abortion and stem cell research while expanding the legal definition of life.

Sitcoms such as Last of the Summer Wine and Life of Riley have followed suit and since been produced in high definition.