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Drawing on a childhood spent working his way through the children's section in his local library and a childhood love of magic and fantasy stories such as T. H. White's The Once and Future King, Gaiman created an everyman character of a twelve-year-old boy called Timothy Hunter, who would need to be given an extensive tour of the DC magical universe before being able to decide if he should embrace or reject his destiny as the world's greatest magician.
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Would he meet him in Baltimore in Drawing Room A, Car Three on the train leaving Washington at nine o'clock next morning??
" Drawing on remnants of the old Whig party, and on disenchanted Free Soil, Liberty, and Democratic party members, he was instrumental in forging the shape of the new Republican Party.
*: The article on Whorf states " Drawing on Nietzsche's ideas of perspectivism Alfred Korzybski developed the theory of general semantics which has been compared to Whorf's notions of linguistic relativity.
Drawing based on a statue of St. Ambrose
Dürer's Rhinoceros, Drawing | Ink drawing on paper, 1515.
Image: Horse Drawing Barge on the Kennet and Avon Canal. JPG | Horse drawing a barge on the Kennet and Avon Canal.
Drawing almost no fans at home, they ended up playing most of their season on the road, and became known as " The Wanderers.
" Drawing on the earlier Miller / Clark and Jordan chronologies, it represents the ultimate expression of their tradition to date.
Drawing is often exploratory, with considerable emphasis on observation, problem-solving, and composition.
* Betty Edwards, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd ; 3Rev Ed edition, 2001, ISBN 978-0-00-711645-4
Drawing an ellipse as a graphics primitive is common in standard display libraries, such as the MacIntosh QuickDraw API, and Direct2D on Windows.
Drawing of the inscriptions on the Piacenza liver, see haruspex.
Drawing on his long-term research, and using the criteria of course, outcome and prognosis, he developed the concept of dementia praecox, which he defined as the " sub-acute development of a peculiar simple condition of mental weakness occurring at a youthful age.
By the 1930s the place would evolve to become her greatest legacy, the Whitney Museum of American Art, on the site of today's New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
Drawing on his experience with Work's system, Goren quickly became popular as an instructor and lecturer.
Drawing on these textual variations, scholars have suggested that these versions of the Testimonium more closely reflect what a non-Christian Jew may have written.
Drawing on Lawrence Lessig ’ s Free Culture ( published in 2002 ), the free culture movement promoted the distribution of cultural works under similar terms to those free software is distributed under.
Well known examples of his work also include Drawing Hands, a work in which two hands are shown, each drawing the other ; Sky and Water, in which light plays on shadow to morph the water background behind fish figures into bird figures on a sky background ; and Ascending and Descending, in which lines of people ascend and descend stairs in an infinite loop, on a construction which is impossible to build and possible to draw only by taking advantage of quirks of perception and perspective.
Drawing on the work of a number of string theorists ( including Ashoke Sen, Chris Hull, Paul Townsend, Michael Duff and John Schwarz ), Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study suggested its existence at a conference at USC in 1995, and used M-theory to explain a number of previously observed dualities, initiating a flurry of new research in string theory called the second superstring revolution.
( Drawing is based on electron microscopy images )
Drawing and childhood
Drawing on childhood stories, the brothers spent months designing the Ages players would investigate.
Drawing upon his own childhood experiences, Dickens resolved to " strike the heaviest blow in my power " for those who laboured in horrific conditions.
Drawing and painting since early childhood, she started her career as a professional artist in 1993 when she presented her first exhibition " Visions and Views ".
Drawing on childhood memories, he composed a straightforward, sentimental poem that brought tears to his audience's eyes.
Drawing and working
Drawing on influences such as Humboldt or Friedrich Nietzsche some European thinkers developed similar ideas to those of Sapir and Whorf, generally working in isolation.
Drawing from the theological insights stated above, it can be said that the Church as a community engaged in working for social transformation must be a community-in-communication with the world, a community communicating development to the world.
* Drawing the working class into the political movement, Workers ' Advocate Supplement, February 15, 1987
Drawing tools typically create precise lines, shapes and patterns with well-defined edges and are superb for working with complex constructions such as maps and typography.
Drawing is usually done at room temperature, thus classified a cold working process, however it may be performed at elevated temperatures to hot work large wires, rods or hollow sections in order to reduce forces.
Drawing is usually performed at room temperature, thus classified as a cold working process, but it may be performed at elevated temperatures for large wires to reduce forces.
Drawing and way
Drawing from Spengler ’ s thesis, Yockey maintains that in the long run it would have been better for Europe if World War II had gone the other way.
These etehon, beginning in 1812 with Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing, served as a convenient way to make money and attract more students.
Drawing an analogy to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in physics, he argues that many interesting and relevant ecological phenomena cannot be replicated in laboratory conditions, and thus cannot be measured or observed without influencing and changing the system in some way.
Degas assigned the same significance to sculpture as to drawing: " Drawing is a way of thinking, modelling another ".
Drawing on the district of San Martin, first planned new neighborhood in this way, the city has increased its outreach to a fast growth in recent years concentrated in the neighborhoods of Lakua, Salburua and Zabalgana.
Drawing became a way to distract the evil forces that surrounded him constantly.
Drawing, in an unusual combination, from both Freud and Mao Zedong, Althusser used the idea of overdetermination as a way of thinking about the multiple, often opposed, forces active at once in any political situation, without falling into an over-simple idea of these forces being simply " contradictory.
Drawing on the scientific method, Geddes encouraged close observation as the way to discover and work with the relationships among place, work and folk.
Drawing on the works of Greek patristics, the poet Aleksey Khomyakov ( 1804 – 60 ) and his devoutly Orthodox colleagues elaborated a traditionalistic doctrine that claimed Russia has its own distinct way, which doesn't have to imitate and mimic " Western " institutions.
Drawing water into a pacifier and freezing it as another way to offer a teething child relief.
In a 1996 paper discussing the various sociological studies that had then been made of Paganism, the sociologist Sarah M. Pike noted that Drawing Down the Moon had gone " a long way towards answering the question " as to " what makes these ritual activities valid and viable to those who engage in them ".
Drawing upon the work of the mid-century American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Beinart argues that, paradoxically, the only way for America to distinguish itself from the predatory imperial powers of the past is to acknowledge its own capacity for evil.
Drawing inspiration from the rebellious attitudes of the Civil Rights Movement and groups like Public Enemy, many intelligent and politically-minded rappers began what is known as underground hip-hop with artists like Boots Riley from The Coup leading the way.
In 1834 and 1835, William Henry Fox Talbot ( following on the heels of Thomas Wedgewood in 1801 ) had originally made these cameraless images, which were prints made by placing objects onto photosensitive paper and then exposing the paper to sunlight, on his way to inventing an early photographic process ( which he called Photogenic Drawing ).
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