yet he knew that he had nothing to grumble about, for Argiento made few demands on him.

Argiento made him lie down on the bed, brought a pan of hot water, dipped some clean white linen cloth and applied it to extract the splinter.

He improvised as he went along, completing a life-size clay figure, then bought yards of an inexpensive material from a draper, wet the lightweight cloth in a basin and covered it over with clay that Argiento brought from the bank of the Tiber, to the consistency of thick mud.

Argiento had been trained so rigorously by the Jesuits that Michelangelo was unable to change his habits: up before dawn to scrub the floors, whether they were dirty or not ; ;

`` So that's sculpture '', commented Argiento wryly, when he had sluiced down the floor for a week, `` making mud pies ''.

`` See, Argiento, if you control the way these folds are bunched, like this, or made to flow, you can enrich the body attitudes.

Together he and Argiento built the stand, covering it with blankets.

The arrangement with Argiento was working well, except that sometimes Michelangelo could not figure who was master and who apprentice.

`` No '', said Argiento stolidly.

Argiento never left his side, keeping the water boiled, applying hot compresses throughout the night.

At dawn Argiento went to Jacopo Galli.

He told Argiento to take a bird out of the cage, cut a large vein under its wing, let the blood gush into Michelangelo's injured eye.

However, materialists have historically held that everything is made of matter, but physics has shown that gravity, for example, is not made of matter in the traditional sense of "' an inert, senseless substance, in which extension, figure, and motion do actually subsist '… So it is tempting to use ' physicalism ' to distance oneself from what seems a historically important but no longer scientifically relevant thesis of materialism, and related to this, to emphasize a connection to physics and the physical sciences.

After the burning of the Tuileries Palace on May 23, 1871, Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche himself meditated about the " fight against culture ", wondering what could justify culture if it were to be destroyed in such a " senseless " manner ( the arguments are: culture is justified by works of art and scientific achievements ; exploitation is necessary to those achievements, leading to the creation of exploited people who then fight against culture.

It is senseless to ask what confirms a counterfactual.

Ruth reluctantly allows him a blood sample but knocks him senseless when he realizes she is infected.

She admits that the phrase " really real " is apparently senseless but nonetheless has tried to explicate the supposed difference between the two.

Even more angered, Robert picks a senseless fight with him and is quickly knocked to the floor.

Esslin makes a distinction between the dictionary definition of absurd (" out of harmony " in the musical sense ) and drama's understanding of the Absurd: " Absurd is that which is devoid of purpose .... Cut off from his religious, metaphysical, and transcendental roots, man is lost ; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless ".

And when will this become the same ?’ All three characters admit that life was senseless yet there appears to be ‘ no sense in this … either, none whatsoever ’; though this does not prevent them from making ‘ the same mistakes as when it was the sun that shone, of looking for sense where possibly there is none.

While his demeanor is typically mild and polite, Giles is not above using raw violence to solve a problem, such as physically threatening Principal Snyder into readmitting Buffy to school after her expulsion (" Dead Man's Party "), pummeling Angelus senseless with a flaming baseball bat and burning down his hideout upon discovering that he had killed Jenny Calendar (" Passion "), manhandling Spike while ordering him to get over his feelings for Buffy (" I Was Made to Love You "), forcing Glory's minion Slook to talk by inflicting a painful-sounding injury offscreen (" Tough Love "), severely beating up Ethan Rayne for information (" Halloween "), and suffocating a critically injured Ben with his bare hands to keep Glory from awakening in his body.

Since we can ’ t know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance.

For his part, Andrew is left knocked senseless in the ruins of Sunnydale.

For Forester, the tale of Herbert Curzon's almost inevitable rise to high command, the senseless slaughters he directs and his eventual retirement to the life of an aged cripple in a wheelchair, is not about Curzon — it is about the attitudes and mores of the British Army and of British society more generally, the attitudes that ( in Forester's view ) led to the appalling casualties and the horrors of the First World War.

As a result of some of these rules of interpretation the literal sense of certain passages of the Bible must be excluded altogether ; e. g., passages in which according to a literal interpretation something unworthy is said of God ; or in which statements are made that are unworthy of the Bible, senseless, contradictory, or inadmissible ; or in which allegorical expressions are used for the avowed purpose of drawing the reader's attention to the fact that the literal sense is to be disregarded.

Otto is beating Norman senseless until his other former ally, Electro, intervenes and shocks Ock with a bolt of electricity, knocking him out.

One such example of this claim, from the 1914 book, How to Make a Country Place, reads, " Monsieur Mansard is said to have circumvented that senseless window tax of France by adapting the windowed roof that bears his name.

The reader has no ground to evaluate the ' artwork ' as the artwork is senseless.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

A popular, but probably apocryphal, story is that once when an opponent laid a cigar on the table, he complained to the tournament arbiters, " He is threatening to smoke, and as an old player you must know that the threat is stronger than the execution.

For the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Tina Turner is said to have been wearing an actual mail and she complained how heavy this was.

In the Impressionist exhibit of 1876 however, art critic Albert Wolf complained in his review, “ Try to make M. Pissarro understand that trees are not violet, that sky is not the color of fresh butter.

As of March 2006, many Congolese have complained that the constitution is a rather ambiguous document and are unaware of its contents.

It is generally believed that Shakespeare originally named Falstaff " John Oldcastle ", and that Lord Cobham, a descendant of the historical John Oldcastle, complained, forcing Shakespeare to change the name.

Poe's critics complained about his " German " tales, to which he replied, ' that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul '.

What Contarini had to do with it is shown by his letters to the pope in which he complained of the schism in the church, of simony and flattery in the papal court, but above all of papal tyranny, its least grateful passages.

As early as May 26, 1792, Hamilton complained, " Mr. Madison cooperating with Mr. Jefferson is at the head of a faction decidedly hostile to me and my administration.

In 1935, Sir Eric Phipps, the British Ambassador to Germany, complained to London about Ribbentrop's British associates in the Anglo-German Fellowship, that they created " false German hopes as in regards to British friendship and caused a reaction against it in England, where public opinion is very naturally hostile to the Nazi regime and its methods ".

It is considered a good browser on that operating system, though some users have complained about its inability to cut and paste with the Plan 9 snarf buffer.

When the people camped in Rephidim, there was no water, so the people complained again and said, " Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

Conservative critics have long complained that the long-format news programming on National Public Radio ( NPR ) shows a liberal bias, although this is disputed by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ( FAIR ), a progressive media criticism organization, which found that, for example, " representatives of think tanks to the right of center outnumbered those to the left of center by more than four to one: 62 appearances to 15.

It is claimed that while visiting friends in Decker, Michigan, McVeigh complained that the Army had implanted a microchip into his buttocks so that the government could keep track of him.

Chloroform was favoured by doctors and hospital staff because it is much less flammable than ether, but critics complained that it could cause the patient to have a heart attack.

Gladstone is famous for his oratory, for his rivalry with the Conservative Leader Benjamin Disraeli and his poor relations with Queen Victoria, who once complained, " He always addresses me as if I were a public meeting.

The Buddhist vinaya also reflects social contracts expected of the monks, one such instance is when the people of a certain town complained about monks felling saka trees, the Buddha tells his monks that they must stop and give way to social norms.

A case may be inadmissible when it is incompatible with ratione materiae, ratione temporis or ratione personae, or if the case cannot be proceeded with on formal grounds, such as non-exhaustion of domestic remedies, lapse of the six months form the last internal decision complained of, anonymity, substantial identity with a matter already submitted to the Court, or with another procedure of international investigation.

London reportedly complained to friends Joseph Noel and George Sterling that, " is devoted to purity.

Biographers generally characterize Bruckner as a " simple " provincial man, and many biographers have complained that there is huge discrepancy between Bruckner's life and his work.

He is particularly worried by the construction of a large new governmental complex by the PA. Hatem Abdel Kader, a Jerusalem resident, Fatah legislator and former Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, complained that “ If they are building a new government compound here, that means they have no plans to be based in Jerusalem ...

She complained of " that melancholy insanity to which your family is subject.