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Likewise there has been long debate on how perception of beauty in the natural world, especially perception of the human form as beautiful, is supposed to relate to perceiving beauty in art or artefacts.
The moment arrives when new conceptions must be formulated for the final composition, but they cannot be artificially forced for they come only of their own accord, often deriving their original from some far-off perception and only manifesting themselves after long years .”
The parasite has a long history with the brown rat, and there are indications that the parasite has evolved to alter an infected rat's perception to cat predation, making it more susceptible to predation and increasing the likelihood of transmission.
Spike often displays insight and skills in perception and observation, especially with regard to relationships and personalities, so long as the relationship in question does not concern him personally.
Aside from applications needing true depth perception, the use of dual eyepieces reduces eye strain associated with long workdays at a microscopy station.
Yet in Arturo Uslar-Pietri's vague, ample usage, magical realism was wildly successful in summarizing for many readers their perception of much Latin American fiction ; this fact suggests that the term has its uses, so long as it is not expected to function with the precision expected of technical, scholarly terminology.
Since that time, Detroit has been unable to lose its reputation as one of the most corrupt cities in America -- a perception frequently attributed to the period coinciding with Young's long tenure as mayor.
France had long been seen as an opponent of British interests, and that perception had not changed since 1815.
When very different images are shown to the same retinal regions of the two eyes, perception settles on one for a few moments, then the other, then the first, and so on, for as long as one cares to look.
Musa led Belize to significant growth over his near-decade long term in office, but his popularity declined during his last years in office due to in part to increasing public perception of corruption among his Cabinet and within his party.
Although the school itself did not thrive for a long time, its theories regarding perception, consciousness, karma, rebirth, etc.
These barriers include the perception that open source licenses are viral, lack of formal support and training, the velocity of change, and a lack of a long term roadmap.
Through the long slow process of oxidation, the perception of tannins would lessen ( such as occurs when decanting wine ), but the fruit would also fade and become oxidized.
The First Lady had long been irritated with the perception that the White House and access to the President and First Lady were exclusively for the wealthy and famous ; she would routinely come down from the family quarters to greet tourists, shake hands, sign autographs, and pose for photos.
Although this account does not appear explicitly in The Lord of the Rings, it figures in the perception of Imrahil by the people of Minas Tirith: " Belike the old tales speak well ; there is Elvish blood in the veins of that folk, for the people of Nimrodel dwelt in that land once long ago ", as well as in the accolade from Legolas upon meeting Imrahil: " It is long since the people of Nimrodel left the woodlands of Lórien, and yet still one may see that not all sailed from Amroth's haven west over water.
For long duration sounds ( greater than 1 second ), the moment by moment perception of loudness will be based on the integration of the preceding 600 – 1, 000 ms.
Chinese military scholars argue that their nation has a long history of conducting " psychological operations ," a phrase that connotes important aspects of strategic deception and, to a certain degree, what the US Department of Defense portrays as perception management.
* Protanopia is a severe form of red-green color-blindness, in which there is impairment in perception of very long wavelengths, such as reds.
He has made a long study of visual inhibition, the process whereby a neuron firing in response to one group of retinal cells can inhibit the firing of another neuron ; this allows perception of relative contrast.
With Magna now competing well in terms of overall size, the AWD development was an attempt by MMAL to counter Australians ' long held perception that its perennial RWD rivals-Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore-offered better handling.
" I-Thou " relationships are sustained in the spirit and mind of an " I " for however long the feeling or idea of relationship is the dominant mode of perception.
" But this peak has no real great significance, it is the perception and the vision of the long decline that comes into sight on the other side of the peak.

long and is
My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.
It is a quiet but impressive room -- 140 feet long, thirty-nine feet wide, twenty-one feet high.
Down through the axis of the bridge there is a long diminishing vista like a visual echo of piers and arches, while the vaults fronting upstream and down frame the sunset and sunrise, the mountains and river pools.
It is a question which New Englanders long ago put out of their minds.
About one-third as long, it is less intimate and detailed, but better coordinated, more concise and more dramatic.
As he informs Watson, `` My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.
And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
There is a long train flowing from the shoulders.
The relatively long and often colorful selections in this anthology enable the reader to become genuinely absorbed in what is said, whether he responds with anger or applause.
It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.
His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.
If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.
Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.
Beginning in Cloth Of The Tempest ( 1943 ) he experimented in merging poetry and visual art, using drawings to carry long narrative segments of a story, as in Sleepers Awake, and constructing elaborate `` poems-in-drawing-and-type '' in which it is impossible to distinguish between the `` art '' and the poetry.
In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.
Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.
The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.
I wanted to grab her by the arm and beg her to wait, to consider, to know for certain because life is so long and marriage is so important.

long and seen
My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.
it had been a long, hot while since he'd seen anything as nice as this within grabbin' distance.
`` Baby, I saw a lot of old friends I hadn't seen in a long time '', he told me, his eyes bright.
In the famous long scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 AD ) during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1297 AD ), a suanpan is clearly seen lying beside an account book and doctor's prescriptions on the counter of an apothecary's ( Feibao ).
WSC came after an era during which the duopoly of Australian and English dominance dissipated ; the Ashes had long been seen as a cricket world championship but the rise of the West Indies in the late 1970s challenged that view.
Archaeoastronomy has long been seen as an interdisciplinary field that uses written and unwritten evidence to study the astronomies of other cultures.
Irenaeus mentions that the Apocalypse was seen " no very long time ago almost in our own age, toward the end of the reign of Domitian ".
Comets are most interesting when their nucleus is bright and they display a long tail, which to be seen sometimes requires a large field of view best provided by small telescopes or binoculars.
The mid-19th century, especially the 1850s and 1860s, has long been seen as a " Golden Age " in the Maritimes.
That a rational number must have a finite or recurring decimal expansion can be seen to be a consequence of the long division algorithm, in that there are only q-1 possible nonzero remainders on division by q, so that the recurring pattern will have a period less than q.
The curved tail is dual-purposed: to be seen more easily in long grass and, in the case of burrowing dachshunds, to help haul the dog out if it becomes stuck in a burrow.
He was last seen in blue jeans, dark shoes, and white long sleeve shirt.
Atahualpa was in awe of these men dressed in full clothing, with long beards and riding horses ( an animal he had never seen ).
Since then, nature and man have closed all but two main outlets: the east branch, Damietta ( also seen as Dumyat ; 240 km long ), and the west branch, Rosetta ( 235 km long ).
One distinctive feature that has caused a great amount of interest among linguists is what is traditionally seen as three degrees of phoneme length: short, long, and " overlong ", such that, and are distinct.
Rhett, more drunk than Scarlett has ever seen him, returns home the evening of the party long after Scarlett.
Many had seen Dilthey ’ s work as an outright attack on experimental psychology, Ebbinghaus included, and he responded to Dilthey with a personal letter and also a long scathing public article.
Yet, Lutherans and Orthodox are in agreement that the Second Council of Nicaea confirms the christological teaching of the earlier councils and in setting forth the role of images ( icons ) in the lives of the faithful reaffirms the reality of the incarnation of the eternal Word of God, when it states: " The more frequently, Christ, Mary, the mother of God, and the saints are seen, the more are those who see them drawn to remember and long for those who serve as models, and to pay these icons the tribute of salutation and respectful veneration.
The last reported sighting of the Cuban subspecies ( C. p. bairdii ), after a long interval, was in 1987 ; it has not been seen since.
The more frequently they are seen in representational art, the more are those who see them drawn to remember and long for those who serve as models, and to pay these images the tribute of salutation and respectful veneration.
Dole had had a long history of representing the budget-balancing faction of the Party, while Kemp had had a long history of representing the tax-cutting advocates, and Kemp's tax-cutting fiscal track record was seen as the perfect fit for the ticket.

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