Mike seized a blanket from a pallet in a corner, spread it on the floor and used it to form a bag in which he placed his booty.

Rather than putting their trust in ephemeral sensations they seek form in the stable relationships of pure design, which symbolize an order more real than the disorder of the perceptual world.

At the same time the multiple transvestitism involved -- the fat man as girl and as baby, as coquette pretending to be a baby -- touches for a moment horrifyingly upon the secret sources of a life like Jacoby's, upon the sinister dreams which form the sources of any human life.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

The second involves something deeper, but its characteristic form focuses on a shift in policy for the community, not in the truth on which the community rests.

In its dynamic form, it visualizes the community as the embodiment of an ontological force -- the race, for instance, which unfolds in history.

we accord it its place there, and in Lawrence's treatment we are given the innocent fantasy of a child, in fact, the form in which oedipal love is expressed in childhood.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

this was the form in which their private feud most often appeared in the Tory press, especially the Examiner.

Mercer's Whiteman association brought him into contact with Hoagy Carmichael, whose `` Snowball '' Mercer relyriced as `` Lazybones '', in which form it became a hit and marked the real beginning of Mercer's song-writing career.

This, no doubt, is part of what Gilbert Seldes implies when he says of the arts, `` They give form and meaning to life which might otherwise seem shapeless and without sense ''.

These lectures formed the nucleus of a general survey of English development which took form afterward as A History Of England.

It should have a dramatic form with pleasing language, and it should portray incidents which so arouse pity and fear that it purges these emotions in the audience.

For there is also the `` face of reality '' in the form of the individual's perceptions of his own abilities and interests, of the objective possibilities open to him, of the familial and other social pressures to which he is exposed.

These conceptions and the manner in which they were transposed into poetry or engendered by poetic form are intrinsic to western life from the time of Aeschylus to that of Shakespeare.

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

In order to form a new government it must deal with one of the two rival parties which gained strength.

Production assistance often takes the form of locating tools or materials which are urgently needed.

In any event it is a form of borrowing which could be and should be rendered unnecessary.

And like this English master, Mason realizes his subjects in large, simplified masses which, though they seem effortless, are in reality the result of skilled design born of hard work and a thorough distillation of the natural form that inspired them.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

In the rare case where a corporation's only substantial asset, or its most important one, is a claim for refund, perhaps its transfer should not be permitted, whether the reorganization takes the form of a statutory merger or of the acquisition of assets for stock.

This tendency effected the narrowing field of artistic possibility to such forms of art as Arabesque, mosaic, Islamic calligraphy, and Islamic architecture, as well as any form of abstraction that can claim the status of non-representational art.

Churches that claim some form of episcopal apostolic succession, dating back to the apostles or to leaders from the apostolic era, include the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Church of the East, the Anglican Communion, and some Lutheran Churches ( see below ).

Some critics claim it is a shorterned form of " Mexicano " (" Mexican " in Spanish ).

Critics of neoliberalism, at times, claim that it is the newly predominant form of imperialism.

In law, a class action, a class suit, or a representative action is a form of lawsuit in which a large group of people collectively bring a claim to court and / or in which a class of defendants is being sued.

The Evidence supporting this claim comes in the form of the Catecheses by Cyril where he continually refers to himself as bishop and a letter written by Cyril to Constantius in 351 where he refers to his vision of the burning cross in the sky as his “ First Fruits ”.

More commonly, and more pertinent to recent history, leaders merely claim some form of divine mandate, suggesting that their rule is in accordance with the will of God.

There were many prototype systems developed that claim a first in some form of digital presentation.

For example, if we form a complete notion of Moses, and superadd to that notion the claim that Moses existed, we are not adding anything to the notion of Moses.

One of three members of the committee, Thomas Jefferson proposed that one side of the seal feature Hengist and Horsa, " the Saxon chiefs from whom we claim the honor of being descended, and whose political principles and form of government we assumed.

Psychologists such as Robert Baker and Graham Wagstaff claim that what we call hypnosis is actually a form of learned social behaviour, a complex hybrid of social compliance, relaxation, and suggestibility that can account for many esoteric behavioural manifestations.

The insurer may require that the claim be filed on its own proprietary forms, or may accept claims on a standard industry form, such as those produced by ACORD.

Some left-libertarians of this type support some form of income redistribution on the grounds of a claim by each individual to be entitled to an equal share of natural resources.

In his Commentary on Daniel, he noted, “ Let us not follow the opinion of some commentators and suppose him to be either the Devil or some demon, but rather, one of the human race, in whom Satan will wholly take up his residence in bodily form .” In interpreting 2 Thessalonians's claim that the Antichrist will sit in God's temple, Jerome preferred the view that the " temple " should be interpreted as the Church, not as the Temple in Jerusalem.

They asked Zeus to judge which of them was fairest, and eventually he, reluctant to favour any claim himself, declared that Paris, a Trojan mortal, would judge their cases, for he had recently shown his exemplary fairness in a contest in which Ares in bull form had bested Paris's own prize bull, and the shepherd-prince had unhesitatingly awarded the prize to the god.

Christian anarchists denounce the state as they claim it is violent, deceitful and, when glorified, a form of idolatry.

Rand consequently rejected epistemological skepticism, as she holds that the skeptics ' claim to knowledge " undistorted " by the form or the means of perception is impossible.

She defined faith as " the acceptance of allegations without evidence or proof, either apart from or against the evidence of one's senses and reason ... Mysticism is the claim to some non-sensory, non-rational, non-definable, non-identifiable means of knowledge, such as ' instinct ,' ' intuition ,' ' revelation ,' or any form of ' just knowing.

Groups sometimes form around antipopes, who claim the Pontificate without being canonically and properly elected to it.

In 1457 the Italian humanist Lorenzo Valla wrote: "... the claim of ' Dionysius '... that he observed the eclipse of the sun at the hour of the Saviour's death ... is as blatant a fiction as the epistolary form of the report.

Arguments refuting the inherence criticism, however, claim that a form of something spatial can lack a concrete ( spatial ) location and yet have in abstracto spatial qualities.

Such arguments typically claim that the relationship between a particular and its form is very intelligible and easily grasped ; that people unproblematically apply Platonic theory in everyday life ; and that the inherence criticism is only created by the artificial demand to explain the normal understanding of inherence as if it were highly problematic.