Mary makes several appearances in Xenosaga: wiping out a fleet of Gnosis surrounding the Cathedral Ship with her X-Buster attack, asking chaos to save the Elsa from burning up in the Second Militian atmosphere using his Anima power while providing ' cover ' by seeming to protect the ship herself, and saving Shion and Allen from being killed by Voyager, the Black Testament, allowing the party's E. S. s to enter Rennes-le-Chateâu and at the end of Episode III.

Rolling Stone-3. 5 Stars-Very Good-"… their most unconventional outing to date … Beneath the seeming chaos, the Beastie Boys have created a harmonious playground out of their musical fantasies.

A newly found sense of harmonics, similar to Immortal's Pure Holocaust, aided in the creation of the band's sound as well as connecting it to the contemplative moments and consequently allowing them to reflect on the chaos, rather than seeming like disjointed and irrelevant sentimental moments in otherwise raging pieces.

Spontaneous order, also known as " self-organization ", is the spontaneous emergence of order out of seeming chaos.

It lives in the midst of smashing forces, dashing struggles, sweeping cross-currents, ripping passions, conflict, confusion, seeming chaos, the hot and the cold, the squalor and the drama, which people prosaically refer to as life and students describe as " society.

In each case the art lies not so much in the finesse of the individual mark, but in the orchestration of a previously uncodified set of personal " rules " about where to act and where not, how far to go and when to stop, in such a way as the cumulative courtship of seeming chaos defines an original, hybrid kind of order, which in turn illuminates a complex sense of human experience not voiced or left marginal in previous art.

In her Introduction to the anthology, Chong highlights what attracted her to the stories, seeming to also articulate one of the strong characteristics of her own writing: " The plot that interested me was life lived in the chaos and uncertainty of everyday happenings and relationships.

Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.

The scene order is more coherent, without the problems of Q2 and F1 of Hamlet seeming to resolve something in one scene and enter the next drowning in indecision.

The play is full of seeming discontinuities and irregularities of action, except in the " bad " quarto.

According to Captain Carbajal, who descended the Pongo de Manseriche in the little steamer " Napo ," in 1868, it is a vast rent in the Andes about 600 m ( 2000 ft ) deep, narrowing in places to a width of only 30 m ( 100 ft ), the precipices " seeming to close in at the top.

He is described as tall, black and bristly, and as seeming cruel and fierce.

The two are not the same and once this is understood, all seeming claims of paradox are resolved.

According to Captain Carbajal, who descended the Pongo in the little steamer Napo, in 1868, it is a vast rent in the Andes about 2000 ft ( 600 m ) deep, narrowing in places to a width of only 100 ft ( 30 m ), the precipices " seeming to close in at the top.

There are two versions of the first message sent by Gauss and Weber: the more official one is based on a note in Gauss's own handwriting stating that " Wissen vor meinen – Sein vor scheinen " (" knowing before opining, being before seeming ") was the first message sent over the electromagnetic telegraph.

A response to this criticism is to point out that whilst seeming to resolve some problems it introduces others.

While seeming absurd at first glance, considering that grass is neither white nor black, it is supposed to be effective against the zebra's main predator, the lion, which is color blind.

At the trial, Meursault's quietness and passivity is seen as demonstrative of his seeming lack of remorse or guilt by the prosecuting attorney, and so the attorney concentrates more upon Meursault's inability or unwillingness to cry at his mother's funeral than on the actual murder.

In short, the act of seeming to find omnipotence to be a contradiction-of-terms is founded on the act of conceiving something against which to construct the contradiction: prior to any ‘ act ’, omnipotence is conceived as coherent both with itself and with the possibility of knowledge ( which begs the question of what is the knowledge that constitutes the identifiability of omnipotence-as-a-paradox?

Hard determinism ( a belief in determinism, and not free will ) is particularly criticized for seeming to make traditional moral judgments impossible.

: crowd is gathered around a series of photographs which though initially seeming to depict garbage instead reveal dead human bodies.

In a private audience with the emperor on the penultimate eve of the tournament, when confronted with the seeming absurdity of the possibility that a novice with a mere two years of experience at the game could systematically defeat players ' whose whole lives were devoted to its mastery, the protagonist comes to understand that his proficiency is merely a reflection of his experience with strategic games of all sorts.

It was here that Saddles was to deliver the drug, but before Peacock can investigate anything, he is drafted into an inter-precinct gladiatorial contest due to a seeming bureaucratic oversight.

It's such a fine, pure picture of a small section of American life that I can't imagine its ever seeming irrelevant, either as a social document or as one of the best examples of what's called cinema vérité or direct cinema ... It is fact, photographed and recorded with extraordinarily mobile camera and sound equipment, and then edited and carefully shaped into a kind of cinematic mural of faces, words, motel rooms, parlors, kitchens, streets, television images, radio music — even weather.

Whether or not the word " satire " is the best choice, there is more general agreement that despite seeming to be written for someone wanting to be a monarch, and not the leader of a republic, the Prince can be read as deliberately emphasizing the benefits of free republics as opposed to monarchies.

The four men exhibit a slightly condescending attitude toward the locals ; Bobby, in particular, is very patronizing and even derides the locals to his companions for seeming to display genetic defects.

He also constructed the Digesting Duck, a mechanical duck that gave the false illusion of eating and defecating, seeming to endorse Cartesian ideas that animals are no more than machines of flesh.

The third dam — Riga Hydroelectric Power Plant — just above Riga, did not provoke much protest because of the seeming hopelessness of the cause.

The two were in agreement ( and in line with prevailing opinion throughout Britain ) that Germany's reoccupation of the Rhineland — its " own backyard "— would be difficult to oppose and should be welcomed insofar as it continued Germany's seeming progress towards normality after the tribulations of the post-World War I settlement.

A seeming difficulty with this is that in special relativity there is not a unique " correct " way to make these slices — it is not meaningful to speak of a " point in time " extended in space.

This produced an explosion of popularity ; the method spread across the United States — especially because of its seeming success with people with autism.

In the Supreme Power: Hyperion miniseries, a hastily-assembled team of superhumans is sent by the government to retrieve him, and the resulting battle — through an interaction of Hyperion's " flash vision " eye-beams, Nuke's radiation blast, and Arcanna's reality manipulation — sends the combatants into a ( seeming ) alternate timeline where Hyperion and the Squadron Supreme ( consisting of several retrieval team members plus several previously unseen superhumans ) rule a dystopian world, causing Hyperion on the advice of his otherworld counterpart to rethink his ideas about power, humanity, and teamwork, leading him to surrender to the Squadron from his world.

This is a period of seeming calm that precedes any major conflict between rivals where the conspiracy struggles to play catch up and not let its existence be discovered by friend or foe — an important deception hoping to gain both information and time.

Like Nelson, the model for both Hornblower and Harrington by admission of both authors, she becomes a living legend by using those skills in several major engagements — battles for which the press nicknames her " The Salamander " for always seeming to be " where the fire is hottest.

* The Brink of Disaster — the title of the second episode, arbitrarily adopted for a fan list in the seeming absence of anything else.

Bateson didn't challenge the diagnosis but he did maintain that the seeming nonsense the patients said at times did make sense within context — and he gives numerous examples in section III -- Pathology in Relationship ( in Steps to an Ecology of Mind ).

" After seeming to give up and allowing themselves to be captured, Maj. Smith and Lt. Schaffer, being officers, are separated from the three remaining NCOs — Thomas ( William Squire ), Berkeley ( Peter Barkworth ), and Christiansen ( Donald Houston ).

Megumi has a secret loathing for Ruriko — she is bitterly jealous of Ruriko's wealth, intelligence and popularity ( which contrasts with her own state of living, being a delivery girl for a noodle shop ) and hates it when Ruriko outshines her without seeming to put forth any effort.

If the second known version ( 1611, in Melismata, also reprinted in Chappell ) were the oldest, this might be possible — there are seeming political references to " Gib, our cat " and " Dick, our Drake.

" Sprague also discussed the seeming contradiction of writing about a native oral culture — especially in English, the language of the so-called oppressor.

The plot is markedly similar to that of Robert Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy, including its essentially identical setup of a young slave boy — who is really the lost heir of a powerful family — being bought for a pittance by a seeming beggar, who is himself really a spy, and who suspects the boy's true identity.

When the Autobot / Decepticon war erupted, however, the AllSpark briefly ceased to produce life in a seeming act of divine rebellion, only to apparently change its mind and create one final generation — including Bumblebee — who entirely joined the Autobots.