Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Story within a story" ¶ 12
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

example and is
for example, the mode of bravery to this anonymous folk poem: `` They brought me news that Spring is in the plains And Ahmad's blood the crimson tulip stains ; ;
For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.
This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.
Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.
Beckett's own work is an example.
If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.
His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.
Gustaf Vasa is a superb example, and Charles 10,, the conqueror of Denmark, hardly less so.
For example, suppose a man wearing a $200 watch, driving a 1959 Rolls Royce, stops to ask a man on the sidewalk, `` What time is it ''??
In the extreme and oversimplified example suggested in Figure 3, the organization is more easily understood and more predictable in behavior.
The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..
This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.
In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??
English philosopher Samuel Alexander's debt to Wordsworth and Meredith is a recent interesting example, as also A. N. Whitehead's understanding of the English romantics, chiefly Shelley and Wordsworth.
In his book Civilization And Ethics Albert Schweitzer faces the moral problems which arise when moral law is recognized in business life, for example.
Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.
And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.
One specific example is a secret `` fraternity '' which will `` coordinate anti-Communist efforts ''.

example and Mad
An example of an editing error can be seen in the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), where a scene of people climbing a slope at the start is seen from below and then replayed from above.
Though there are antecedents to Mad ’ s style of humor in print, radio and film, Mad became a pioneering example of it.
The Mail Strike, for example, which consists of a flying postbox dropping explosive envelopes, is a reference to the postal strikes of the time, while the Mad Cow refers to Britain's BSE epidemic of the 1990s.
However, Mad Jack Mytton and his antics would appear to be a historical example.
For example, the character of Ursula Buffay from American sitcom Mad About You was also a recurring guest star in Friends, despite the two series having little else in common.
Many do comparatively better ; the best known example is Mad Max, made with the then unknown Mel Gibson, and with a budget of A $ 350, 000, and which made A $ 5. 6 million in its domestic release alone.
In The Colour of Magic, Rincewind is brought before " the Patrician " but it is not clear whether this Patrician is Vetinari or his predecessor, Mad Lord Snapcase, or possibly even Homicidal Lord Winder, although the description of this Patrician does not seem to tally with that of Vetinari, as the Patrician in question is, for example, described as obese – a trait his two predecessors did possess, but which he lacks.
* Prominent obbligato writing for flute in particular is not unusual in Romantic opera, for example in the cadenza of the traditional version of the Mad Scene in Lucia di Lammermoor ( 1835 )
One example, " Mad Moll ", or " The Peacock Follows the Hen ", has remained current since at least 1698 when it appeared in The Dancing Master.
One example: The Debauchee by Aphra Behn ( printed 1677 ) is a rewrite of Brome's A Mad Couple Well-Match'd, down to the characters ' names.
Word salad can be generated by a computer program for entertainment purposes ( for example, a game similar to Mad Libs ).
An example of crossover of jazz and classical music is the Danish 7-piece chamber orchestra " Mad Cows Sing ", which fuses composed and improvised music.
Stern and Price's original Mad Libs book gives the following sentence as an example:
The original Latin form Joanna was used in English to translate the equivalents in other languages ; for example, Juana la Loca is known in English as Joanna the Mad.
* Warrior of the Lost World ( 1983 ), shot in Italy, is a memorable example of a failed post-apocalyptic / Mad Max-like movie.
In December 2006, Mad Money host Jim Cramer used Pisani as an example of an easily manipulated reporter used by hedge fund managers to spread false statements about a company in order to illegally drive the stock price down.
However, Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC's Mad Money, is a conspicuous example of the real thing.
This is fair use because the article stresses artist Joe Orlando's many art contributions to Mad over a decade, and this is a single example of that extensive body of work.

example and Edgar
One minimal chordic keyboard example is Edgar Matias ' Half-Qwerty keyboard described in patent circa 1992 that produces the letters of the missing half when the user simultaneously presses the space bar along with the mirror key.
For example, Kirkus Reviews quoted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar on the subject:
For example, the British had been fascinated by Edgar Wallace's ( 1875 – 1932 ) crime novels ever since the author set up a competition offering a reward to any reader who could figure out and describe just how the murder in his first book, The Four Just Men ( 1906 ), was committed.
On 29 May 1099, for example, Edgar served as sword-bearer at the great feast to inaugurate Westminster Hall.
The earliest fully-fledged example of this type of story is generally held to be Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, which appeared in 1841.
For example, quotes from the fictional astronaut Bob Grodin were attributed to real life astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Edgar Mitchell.
The FBI, for example, under the control of Donovan's rival J. Edgar Hoover, insisted on retaining its autonomy in South America.
An example is the verse from Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven: " And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.
An example from Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee:
An example of an early crime / revenge story is the American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe's ( 1809 – 1849 ) tale " The Cask of Amontillado ", published in 1846.
For example, Edgar in King Lear disguises himself as mad " Tom O ' Bedlam ".
For example, Edward L. Alperson produced William Cameron Menzies ' film Invaders from Mars to beat Paramount Pictures ' production of director George Pal's The War of the Worlds to the cinemas, and Pal's The Time Machine was beaten to the cinemas by Edgar G. Ulmer's film Beyond the Time Barrier.
The scholar Edgar Rosenberg calls Svengali an example of anti-Semitic stereotyping in English fiction, and identifies him as a version of Ahasver, The Wandering Jew ; he notes a reference to " Svengali walking up and down the earth seeking whom he might cheat, betray, exploit ..."
An example of the cross-over of beatnik poetry and music can be seen when Burroughs appeared at the Phun City festival, organised in 24 – 26 July 1970 by Mick Farren with underground community bands including the Pretty Things, the Pink Fairies, The Edgar Broughton Band and, from America, The MC5.
In more recent centuries, many authors have referred to the state ; Edgar Allan Poe, for example, wrote of the " fancies " he experienced " only when I am on the brink of sleep, with the consciousness that I am so.
Edgar Lustgarten, " Verdict in Dispute ," 1949, states on p. 161 that the " The Thompson verdict is now recognised as bad, and the trial from which it sprang stands out as an example of the evils that may flow from an attitude of mind.
For example, American poet Edgar Allan Poe spent his final years with his wife Virginia in a cottage in Fordham which is still standing.
Daisy Bank Road is a particularly good example, featuring Edgar Wood's Grade I listed First Church of Christ, Scientist and the Edwardian art nouveau Chadlington House, as well as the residences of Charles Hallé and Emmeline Pankhurst.
Davis in turn directly influenced self-proclaimed psychic Edgar Cayce ( 1877 – 1945 ) who adopted " trance diagnosis " and similar activities with few modifications from Davis's example.
Hiddink took a firm approach to the team, an example of which was demonstrated at Euro 1996 when Edgar Davids was sent home after an argument with Hiddink.
A classic example of institutional architecture from the period it was designed by Edgar L. Horwood.
For example, Sergio Martino's Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key was explicitly based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Black Cat ".
For example, one of his closest friends, Judge Edgar Hynes, commits suicide after being caught taking bribes ; another, Carl Anderton ( Robert Vaughn ), a high-powered CEO, is discovered to be suffering from bipolar disorder and attempts to arrange an unjust punishment for his similarly affected grandson to hide his own condition.

4.113 seconds.