It was obvious that he wished himself different from the sort of person he thought he was.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.

The most obvious characteristic of contemporary American writing, apart from the beat nonsense, is its cosmopolitanism.

Mr. Dwyer said that although it was obvious that Mr. Rayburn was not well he stopped, gave the youngster his autograph, asked where he was from and expressed the hope that he would enjoy his visit to Congress.

We found no obvious effects due to preferred orientation of the crystallites in this sample nor would we expect to on the basis of the shape found from electron microscopic examination.

It then follows that Af is large enough, but this is not obvious from the above expression.

In there aren't many young people in the neighborhood the modifier young takes dominant stress away from its head people: the fact that the young creatures of interest are people seems rather obvious.

We are abstracting from the fact of strikes here, but it should be obvious that the extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is also a function of the show of resistance put up by the industry.

Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.

There are obvious reasons of convenience for this practice of excluding `` cost of capital '' from the direct apportionment of annual costs among the different classes of service -- notably, the avoidance of the controversial question what rate of return should be held to constitute `` cost of capital '' or `` fair rate of return ''.

No one should wish to deny these purists the obvious pleasure they derive from all this, and to give fair warning where warning is due, no one who becomes fond of wines ever avoids acquiring some degree of purism!!

On the final round at Pensacola, the luck of the draw paired Palmer and Player in the same threesome and, although it was far from obvious at the time, the gallery was treated to the first chapter of what promises to be one of the most exciting duels in sport for a long time to come.

Among other things, Moseley demonstrated that the lanthanide series ( from lanthanum to lutetium inclusive ) must have 15 members — no fewer and no more — which was far from obvious from the chemistry at that time.

Malzahar, a character from League of Legends, has a similar back story and Arabian theme that seems to be a direct reference to Alhazred, not to mention the obvious correlation between the two names.

The Etymologicum Magnum presents a medieval learned pseudo-etymology, explaining Aphrodite as derived from the compound habrodiaitos (" she who lives delicately " from habros + diaita ) explaining the alternation between b and ph as a " familiar " characteristic of Greek " obvious from the Macedonians ".

Oilpatch-related manufacturing is an obvious example, but financial services and government services have also benefited from oil money.

It is now appreciated that most or all gene loci are highly polymorphic, with multiple alleles, whose frequencies vary from population to population, and that a great deal of genetic variation is hidden in the form of alleles that do not produce obvious phenotypic differences.

While the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran deeper.

" Clinton himself stated that DOMA was something " which the Republicans put on the ballot to try to get the base vote for President Bush up, I think it ’ s obvious that something had to be done to try to keep the Republican Congress from presenting that.

Blowfish's key schedule starts by initializing the P-array and S-boxes with values derived from the hexadecimal digits of pi, which contain no obvious pattern ( see nothing up my sleeve number ).

Mulvey posits in her notes to the Criterion Collection DVD of Michael Powell's controversial film Peeping Tom that the cinema spectator ’ s own voyeurism is made shockingly obvious and even more shockingly, the spectator identifies with the perverted protagonist.

In as much as patients can throw themselves into the nervous sleep, and manifest all the usual phenomena of Mesmerism, through their own unaided efforts, as I have so repeatedly proved by causing them to maintain a steady fixed gaze at any point, concentrating their whole mental energies on the idea of the object looked at ; or that the same may arise by the patient looking at the point of his own finger, or as the Magi of Persia and Yogi of India have practised for the last 2, 400 years, for religious purposes, throwing themselves into their ecstatic trances by each maintaining a steady fixed gaze at the tip of his own nose ; it is obvious that there is no need for an exoteric influence to produce the phenomena of Mesmerism.

It is obvious he had become a stranger to the Roman people, and had most likely even become an inconvenience to his own followers.

While many structuralists first thought that they could tease out an author's intention by close scrutiny, they soon argued that textual analysis discovered so many disconnections that it was obvious that their own experiences lent a view that was unique to them.

When McKay finds out about Julie, for whom his own feelings have been becoming increasingly obvious, he rides to the Hannassey place with Ramon.

The genus Symbion are peculiar microscopic animals, with no obvious close relatives, and which was therefore given its own phylum, called Cycliophora.

While his career as a critic and writer provided him with a comfortable income, and he had an obvious talent for writing, he came to detest the amount of time spent attending performances to review, as it severely limited his free time to promote his own composition and produce more compositions.

Under such conditions, it is fairly obvious that scientific research may have political consequences, and the Boasians saw no conflict between their scientific attempts to understand other cultures, and the political implications of critiquing their own culture.

Sometimes called the " Congressional Compensation Amendment of 1789 ", the " Congressional Pay Amendment ", and the " Madison Amendment ", it was intended to serve as a restraint on the power of Congress to set its own salary — an obvious potential for conflict of interest.

" is the more obvious and desperate foundling ", Elliott " suffers in his own way from the want of a home.

That Barker and Beban are able to create so much sympathy for Beppo, despite their own, occasionally quite obvious condescension to the character, is a mark of emerging maturity in the movie business ; no longer are films dealing in one-dimensional ' types.

With obvious humorous overtones, they claimed a prevailing problem of the new technological age was the willingness of people to accept theories " on blind faith and to reject the evidence of their own senses.

She was a member of Cardiff's small Jewish community ; and associated themes were a central concern of much of her writing, including Brothers ( 1983 ), where parallels with her own ancestry are obvious: it follows four generations of a family which flees Russia for South Wales.

" and then, to his own obvious astonishment, to add, " I'll miss him.

Just as Sophie is left conflicted by her father's attitudes towards Poland's Jews, Stingo analyzes his own culpability derived from his family's slave-holding past, eventually deciding to write a book about Nat Turner – an obvious parallel to Styron's own controversial novel The Confessions of Nat Turner.

The obvious parallels to Roth's own life as a novelist ( with the novel Carnovsky a stand-in for Portnoy's Complaint ) signaled Roth's burgeoning interest in the relationship between an author and his work.

That evening on the Pont des Arts represents, for Clamence, the collision of his true self with his inflated self-image, and the final realization of his own hypocrisy becomes painfully obvious.

Through this feedback, it became obvious that S & Ts readership included many of the avid wargamers-over 50 % of readers claimed to own 100 or more games ; many bought a dozen games every year on top of those contained in the magazine.

However, in the course of his two terms of office, Klestil's alienation from his own party became increasingly obvious, so much so that there was open antagonism between Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel and Klestil when, in 2000, the latter had to swear in the newly formed coalition government with Jörg Haider's Austrian Freedom Party.

With less money for their own productions, a gameshow seemed the obvious idea for ITV.

Folklorist Hazen likewise offers his own alleged eyewitness testimony of these creatures, which appeared in an academically praised and peer-reviewed publication, describing an occasion he found " a parted cable which bore obvious tooth marks in spite of the fact that the break occurred in a most inaccessible part of the plane.