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expression and form
Or, equally often, a concretistic-seeming, particularistic-seeming statement may consist, with its mundane exterior, in a form of poetry -- may be full of meaning and emotion when interpreted as a figurative expression: a metaphor, a smile, an allegory, or some other symbolic mode of speaking.
The equally ardent proponent of freedom from any kind of censorship may find the nude human form the `` natural, honest, free expression of man's spirit and the epitome of beauty and inspiration ''.
Clement Greenberg, for instance, argued in 1960 that each artistic medium should seek that which makes it unique among the possible mediums and then purify itself of anything other than expression of its own uniqueness as a form.
This means the expression has the form:
Bernoulli numbers feature prominently in the closed form expression of the sum of the m-th powers of the first n positive integers.
The term myth here refers to the imaginative expression in narrative form of what is experienced or apprehended as basic reality ...
Dance is a type of art that generally involves movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, performed in many different cultures and used as a form of expression, social interaction and exercise or presented in a spiritual or performance setting.
Independently, these two trends show the form becoming highly artificial — more like a puzzle to solve than a medium for personal poetic expression.
Drawing is a form of visual expression and is one of the major forms within the visual arts.
Dance – human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting.
His form and expression also tell the person what sort of death they will have: a pained expression means a painful death, a peaceful expression means a peaceful death.
In graphic design, " the essence is to give order to information, form to ideas, expression and feeling to artifacts that document human experience.
The most common form of genetic engineering involves the insertion of a functional gene at an unspecified location in the host genome. This is accomplished by isolating and copying the gene of interest, generating a construct containing all the genetic elements for correct expression, and then inserting this construct into a random location in the host organism.
Today, heraldry is not a worldly expression of aristocracy, merely a form of identification.
In what follows, an expression of the form is considered by convention to be equal to zero whenever This is justified because for any logarithmic base.
In spite of this, photography actually inspired artists to pursue other means of artistic expression, and rather than compete with photography to emulate reality, artists focused " on the one thing they could inevitably do better than the photograph — by further developing into an art form its very subjectivity in the conception of the image, the very subjectivity that photography eliminated ".
He declared that the aims of the congress were freedom of religion, right to form associations, freedom of expression of thought, equality before law for every individual without distinction of caste, colour, creed or religion, protection to regional languages and cultures, safeguarding the interests of the peasants and labour, abolition of untouchability, introduction of adult franchise, imposition of prohibition, nationalisation of industries, socialism, and establishment of a secular India.
The greatest difficulties that he and all public intellectuals of the time faced were the increasing technological aspects of the world that were outdating the printed word as a form of expression.
The corresponding Modern English verb to ken survives only in highly remote English dialects, and also in the language Scots in the form ( slight differences between dialects ) of tae ken, other than the derivative existing in the standard language in the set expression beyond one ’ s ken, beyond the scope of one ’ s knowledge and in the phonologically altered form uncanny, surreal or supernatural ”.
As a general expression of positive sentiment ( a stronger form of like ), love is commonly contrasted with hate ( or neutral apathy ); as a less sexual and more emotionally intimate form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust ; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is sometimes contrasted with friendship, although the word love is often applied to close friendships.
Among the qualities that make Leonardo's work unique are the innovative techniques that he used in laying on the paint, his detailed knowledge of anatomy, light, botany and geology, his interest in physiognomy and the way in which humans register emotion in expression and gesture, his innovative use of the human form in figurative composition, and his use of the subtle gradation of tone.

expression and words
Later in the century the dream again found expression in the lines of Katherine Lee Bates ( 1859-1929 ), daughter and granddaughter of New England Congregational ministers, in her widely sung hymn, written in 1893, `` America The Beautiful '', with the words `` O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern impassioned stress a thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness.
KITECH researched and developed EveR-1, an android interpersonal communications model capable of emulating human emotional expression via facial " musculature " and capable of rudimentary conversation, having a vocabulary of around 400 words.
It is alphabetic, with a letter or diacritic for every phonemic ( distinctive ) hand shape, orientation, motion, and position, though it lacks any representation of facial expression, and is better suited for individual words than for extended passages of text.
This shows in particular that is a natural number for any natural numbers n and k. There are many other combinatorial interpretations of binomial coefficients ( counting problems for which the answer is given by a binomial coefficient expression ), for instance the number of words formed of n bits ( digits 0 or 1 ) whose sum is k is given by, while the number of ways to write where every a < sub > i </ sub > is a nonnegative integer is given by.
The Berry paradox is a self-referential paradox arising from the expression " the smallest possible integer not definable by a given number of words ".
The above expression is only ten words long, so this integer is defined by an expression that is under eleven words long ; it is definable in under eleven words, and is not the smallest positive integer not definable in under eleven words, and is not defined by this expression.
This is a paradox: there must be an integer defined by this expression, but since the expression is self-contradictory ( any integer it defines is definable in under eleven words ), there cannot be any integer defined by it.
The expression of causal necessity is a " projection " of the functional change onto the objects involved in the causal connection: in Hume's words, " nothing is more usual than to apply to external bodies every internal sensation which they occasion.
I fell in love, that is the only expression I can think of, at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behaviour very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and then, which they appear to enjoy.
Deferral also comes into play, as the words that occur following " house " in any expression will revise the meaning of that word, sometimes dramatically so.
In David's words, " the most prominent general characteristics of the Greek masterpieces are a noble simplicity and silent greatness in pose as well as in expression.
A popular expression claims that " all words ever spoken by human beings " could be stored in approximately 5 exabytes of data, ( although this project is now outdated and therefore not entirely accurate ) often citing a project at the UC Berkeley School of Information in support.
The cardinal qualities of the style of Homer are well articulated by Matthew Arnold: he translator of Homer should above all be penetrated by a sense of four qualities of his author :— that he is eminently rapid ; that he is eminently plain and direct, both in the evolution of his thought and in the expression of it, that is, both in his syntax and in his words ; that he is eminently plain and direct in the substance of his thought, that is, in his matter and ideas ; and finally, that he is eminently noble.

expression and is
The dance is but a disguised ritual for the expression of ungratified sexual desire.
It is not a substitute for sex but a dynamic expression of the creative impulse in unfettered man.
A characteristic expression of such concern and inquiry is found in Joseph P. Lyford's Introduction To The Agreeable Autocracies, a recent paperback study of the institutions of modern democratic society.
This is given some expression in Beardsley's notion of harmony and the resolution of indecision.
His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.
He mentions the beats only once '', when he refers to their having revived through mere power and abandonment and the unwillingness to, commit death in life some idea of a decent equivalent between verbal expression and actual experience,, but the entire narrative, is written in the tiresome vocabulary `` of '' that lost `` and '' dying cause, `` and in the '' `` sprung syntax that is supposed to supplant, our mother, tongue.
The general theory of resonance shifts is used to derive a general expression for the second moment Af of a polycrystalline paramagnetic sample and is specialized to Af.
for, using the fact that N and N' commute Af and so when R is sufficiently large every term in this expression for Af will be 0.
It then follows that Af is large enough, but this is not obvious from the above expression.
The set of all binomial distributions is called the family of binomial distributions, but in general discussions this expression is often shortened to `` the binomial distribution '', or even `` the binomial '' when the context is clear.
The religion, in fact, is an expression of the unity of the group, small or large.
probably it is correct to think of it as a matter of a well-grooved, stereotyped mode of expression -- and no, or but a few, other communicational grooves, as yet -- being there, available for the patient's use, as newly-emerging emotions and ideas well up in him over the course of months.
Of all the possible forms of nonverbal expression, that which seems best to give release, and communicational expression, to complex and undifferentiated feelings is laughter.
this is a question which I have no wish to take up -- condensation is a phenomenon in which one finds not a condensed expression of various feelings and ideas which are, at an unconscious level, well sorted out, but rather a condensed expression of feelings and ideas which, even in the unconscious, have yet to become well differentiated from one another.
That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion, sedulously fostered by all too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of.

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