Depicted, Cubist flatness is now almost completely assimilated to the literal, undepicted kind, but at the same time it reacts upon and largely transforms the undepicted kind -- and it does so, moreover, without depriving the latter of its literalness ; ;

Note: Step ( in the description below ) is defined as: a transfer / change of weight to the opposite foot while hopping ( this is usually minimal ; almost more of a scoot than a literal hop ).

This calculated duality means that Contarini ’ s doge, which the second book of De magistratibus is almost entirely devoted to discussing, represents the closest point in his text to what actually occurred, because the Doge served as a literal embodiment of the idealisation of the reality of Venetian politics.

A literal Biblical interpretation is associated with the fundamentalist and evangelical hermeneutical approach to Scripture, and is used almost exclusively by conservative Christians such as Baptist, Conservative Mennonites and other similar groups.

While Gaston Paris argues that the Guenivere-Meleagant episode of the Prose Lancelot is an almost literal adaptation of Chrétien's poem, the Prose Lancelot can be seen as a considerable amplification of Chrétien's tale.

Once put in play by Shearson Lehman Hutton and RJR management, almost every major Wall Street firm involved in M & A launched frenzied, literal last-minute bids in a fog of incomplete or misleading information.

Borges has far less sympathy with those who go beyond Lugones, such as Ricardo Rojas who wants to see in Martín Fierro literal or metaphorical analogues for almost every aspect of Argentine history and moral character, praising the work mostly for aspects that Borges finds " conspicuous by their absence.

If et-Tell is indeed Ai, this poses a problem for defenders of the literal historicity of the Biblical accounts concerning the origin of ancient Israel ; the reason for this is that traditional dating schemes place the Exodus from Egypt in 1440 BC and Joshua's conquest of Canaan around 1400 BC, a time at which the archaeological evidence shows Ai to have been completely unoccupied, as it had been for almost 1000 years.

The footnotes and book introductions are almost literal translations from the French.

These were almost his only pictures connected by their titles with poetical fancy or legend, the landscapes which down to 1885 he continued, in spite of incessant discouragement, to contribute to the Academy, being chiefly topographical ; and perhaps Ruskin's praise of his stern fidelity made him too merely literal a transcriber of nature.

However, almost the exact word exists in at least some of the Romance languages ( such as Portuguese-plenipotenciário ; French-plénipotentiaire ; Romanian-plenipotenţiar ; Spanish-plenipotenciario ; Italian-plenipotenziario ), with exactly the same meaning ; the Albanian word i / e plotfuqishëm sounds similar, although it has native roots ; other languages have their own equivalents ( for instance, German-Bevollmächtigt ( er ) ( adjective or noun ), Dutch Gevolmachtigd ( e ), Swedish fullmäktig, Norwegian fullmektig-all these Germanic cases are literal parallels ; Serbian punomoćan ( пуномоћан in Cyrillic ), Russian полномочный ( полный = full, мочь = to be in power, to be able ), Czech zplnomocněný ( plno = full, moc = power ), Slovak splnomocnený ( plno = full, moc = power ), Polish pełnomocnik ( pełno = of full, moc = power ), Bulgarian пълномощен ( pǎlnomošten ), Finnish täysivaltainen, Greek πληρεξούσιος, plērexoúsios, Turkish tam yetkili, and Tatar wäqälätle.

For only when close reading has lost its respectability, has ceased to be the slave of mere convenience, can it come out as a thing that, even under the high-minded ( but now kitchy-sounding ) rationales of its former mission, it had always been: an almost infantile desire to be close period, as close as one can get, without literal plagiarism, to merging with the mother-text.

SSC continued to operate independently for several years as the Great Depression brought business to an almost literal standstill.

As the dollar sign is one of the few symbols that is, on one hand, almost universally present in computer character sets, but, on the other hand, rarely needed in their literal meaning within computer software, the $ character has been used on computers for many purposes unrelated to money.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

There are more than 8,000,000 recreational boats in use in the United States with almost 10,000,000 the prediction for within the next decade.

The newlyweds building homes on the same land with either set of parents, and the almost exclusive use of members of the population as sponsors for baptisms and weddings illustrate this supportive relationship.

It was nevertheless almost incredible that four years after Yalta there should be a complete split over Germany, with hot heads on both sides planning to use the Germans against their former allies, and with Nazi-minded Germans expecting to recover their power by fighting on one side or the other.

In a sense almost all high school and college courses could be considered as vocational to the extent that later in life the student in his vocation ( which may be a profession ) will be called upon to use some of the skills developed and the competence obtained.

The Bridgewater Foundry, pictured in 1839-one of the earliest factories to use an almost modern layout, work flow and material handling system.

In modern English, " Americans " generally refers to residents of the United States, and among native speakers of English this usage is almost universal, with any other use of the term requiring specification of the subject under discussion.

Passive defence naval armour for use against shells and other projectile weapons has almost completely disappeared on modern warships.

Scarlatti's style, however, is more than a transitional element in Western music ; like most of his Naples colleagues he shows an almost modern understanding of the psychology of modulation and also frequently makes use of the ever-changing phrase lengths so typical of the Napoli school.

The style of parser used in the Compiler Compiler was in use continuously at Edinburgh from the 60's until almost the turn of the millennium.

It had simple digital joysticks and was almost fully backward-compatible with the Atari 2600, the first console to have backward compatibility without the use of additional modules.

Liebig's definition, while completely empirical, remained in use for almost 50 years until the adoption of the Arrhenius definition.

The film is memorable for its almost incessant use of the phrase, " Leave the Bronx!

Glass beads have been in use for almost five centuries in the Americas.

This was a large increase with the number of cell phones almost doubling from the 250, 000 in use in 2006.

The use of the term " battle " in military history has led to its misuse when referring to almost any scale of combat, notably by strategic forces involving hundreds of thousands of troops that may be engaged in either a single battle at one time ( Battle of Leipzig ) or multiple operations ( Battle of Kursk ).

Baptism ( from the Greek noun Βάπτισμα baptisma ; itself derived from baptismos, washing ) is a Christian rite of admission ( or adoption ), almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally and also a particular church tradition.

In addition to mined diamonds, synthetic diamonds found industrial applications almost immediately after their invention in the 1950s ; another 3 billion carats ( 600 tonnes ) of synthetic diamond is produced annually for industrial use.

In practice, almost all computers use a variety of memory types, organized in a storage hierarchy around the CPU, as a trade-off between performance and cost.

Calendars in widespread use today include the Gregorian calendar, which is the de facto international standard, and is used almost everywhere in the world for civil purposes, including in the People's Republic of China and India ( along with the Indian national calendar ).

Either in its pure forms, or in various chemical compounds or mixtures, almost every element has at least one important human use.

However, quite a few cartoonists ( e. g.: George Herriman and Charles Schulz, among others ) have done their strips almost completely by themselves ; often criticizing the use of assistants for the same reasons most have about their editors hiring anyone else to continue their work after their retirement.

Some programming languages almost always use curried functions to achieve multiple arguments ; notable examples are ML and Haskell, where in both cases all functions have exactly one argument.

Paintings such as Family ( 1955 ) show a woman seated and a man standing with two children – the parents seem almost solemn while the children are described as hopeful and with a use of color made famous by Cézanne.

According to traditional texts, some form of the calendar has been in use for almost five millennia.

The phrase " mad Arab ", sometimes with both words capitalized in Lovecraft's stories, is used so commonly before Alhazred's name that it almost constitutes a title.

In mathematics, the phrase " almost all " has a number of specialised uses.

Agathon's extraordinary physical beauty is brought up repeatedly in the sources ; the historian W. Rhys Roberts observes that " ὁ καλός Ἀγάθων ( ho kalos Agathon ) has become almost a stereotyped phrase.

The army report that day contains only one phrase: “ All quiet on the Western Front .” As Paul dies, his face is calm, “ as though almost glad the end had come .”

The phrase " black-letter law " was used in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court case Naglee v. Ingersoll, 7 Pa. 185 ( 1847 ), almost 50 years before the first publication of Black's.

The construction involves replacing a common word with a rhyming phrase of two or three words and then, in almost all cases, omitting the secondary rhyming word, in a process called hemiteleia, making the origin and meaning of the phrase elusive to listeners not in the know.

The most frequently cited example — although it is almost never employed by current users — involves the replacement of " stairs " with the rhyming phrase " apples and pears ".

An expression ( word, phrase ) that by implication suggests the likeness of one entity to another entity gives style to an item of speech or writing, whether the entities consist of objects, events, ideas, activities, attributes, or almost anything expressible in language.

Although Plato does not have an explicit theory of natural law ( he almost never uses the phrase natural law except in Gorgias 484 and Timaeus 83e ), his concept of nature, according to John Wild, contains some of the elements found in many natural law theories.

Pope's phrase, " Lo the Poor Indian ", became almost as famous as Dryden's " noble savage " and, in the 19th century, when more people began to have first hand knowledge of and conflict with the Indians, would be used derisively for similar sarcastic effect.

David John Oates, for example, almost always tells the listener in advance what he should expect to hear, thereby planting a suggestion that would make the listener more likely to actually " hear " that phrase.

The sic itur ad astra become almost proverbial and several mottos use an ad astra phrase.

The phrase almost invariably refers only to contests for women and girls ; similar events for men or boys are called by other names and are more likely to be bodybuilding contests.

Chico spoke only limited and halting English, so the joke centered on him responding to almost any question with his catch phrase: " Baseball ... been berra berra good ... to me.

Her second album, newly released at the start of the series, is called " Venus " and her most popular song is " C ' est La Vie ", which is a Japanese pun: in Japanese, the French phrase and the name of her alter-ego, Sailor V, are pronounced almost identically ( as sērāvī ).

Second, if well chosen, they will not be found in any phrase or quote dictionary, so such dictionary attacks will be almost impossible.

The police found the victims ' " oddly marred " bodies being used in a ritual that centered around the statuette: almost 100 men — all of a " very low, mixed-blooded, and mentally aberrant type " — were " braying, bellowing, and writhing " and repeatedly chanting the phrase, " Ph ' nglui mglw ' nafh Cthulhu R ' lyeh wgah ' nagl fhtagn ".

is turned almost wholly on his freeness with the startling idea or phrase, as glibly tossed off ( for the most part ) by a young lady who appears a wide-eyed child.

Green economics often focuses on the impact of eliminating such subsidies, and implementing what is sometimes called full cost accounting although the notion of a " cost " is so political as to render this phrase almost meaningless.

Apart from these special cases, the phrase is almost never used in political slogans today.

Earlier, coins were shaved or clipped to almost half of their minted weight by unscrupulous persons and it is from this phenomenon that we derive the phrase " clip artist " to mean a thief.