Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

Except for the wine waiter in a restaurant -- always an inscrutable plenipotentiary unto himself, the genii with the keys to unlock the gates of the wine world are one's dealer, and the foreign shipper or negociant who in turn supplies him.

Except for those minutes in her room, he had lost touch with her as a reality.

Except for that one morning.

Except for sophomore center Mike Kelsey and fullback Mike Rice, Meek expects the squad to be physically sound for Rice.

Except for a few months in late 1960 and early 1961, retail farm equipment sales have trailed year-earlier levels since the latter part of 1959.

`` Except for Shabbat, when they are praying all day ''.

Except for AcPO < sub > 4 </ sub >, they are all similar to the corresponding lanthanum compounds and contain actinium in the oxidation state + 3.

Except for one occasion, the Project never played live during its original incarnation.

Except for the flow direction, the Amazon and the Hamza have very different characteristics.

Except for men's and women's meetings, most meetings targeting specific demographics ( including newcomers, gays, and young people ) do not exclude other alcoholics.

Except for the American designs, tank destroyers were all turretless and had fixed or casemate superstructures.

Except for the Chobe, Okavango, Boteti and Limpopo rivers, most of Botswana's rivers cease to flow during the dry and early rainy seasons.

Except for a few primitive types such as sponges ( which have no nervous system ) and jellyfish ( which have a nervous system consisting of a diffuse nerve net ), all living animals are bilaterians, meaning animals with a bilaterally symmetric body shape ( that is, left and right sides that are approximate mirror images of each other ).

Except for this one difference, the first and second Bernoulli numbers agree.

Except for the smaller rivers in the southeast, most of the major rivers and river systems in Cambodia drain into the Tonle Sap or into the Mekong River.

Except for the several relatively good toll roads which connect major cities ( all of them one-lane ) roads are poorly maintained and subject to inclement weather, since only 10 % of the roadways are tarred.

Except for nautiloids ( represented by the modern order Nautilida ) and coleoids ( which had already diverged into modern octopodes, squids, and cuttlefish ) all other species of the molluscan class Cephalopoda became extinct at the K – T boundary.

Except for the House of Braganza ( founded by an illegitimate son of King John I of Portugal, who was himself illegitimate ), all current major Capetian branches are of the Bourbon cadet branch.

Except for one shot of the woman mentioned above sleeping and suddenly waking up, the film is composed entirely of photographs by Jean Chiabaud and stars Davos Hanich as the man, Hélène Chatelain as the woman and filmmaker William Klein as a man from the future.

Except for the partnership, all business forms are designed to provide limited liability to both members of the organization and external investors.

Except for the Antikythera mechanism, an " out of the time " astronomical device, development of computing tools arrived in the beginning of the 17th century: Geometric-military compass by Galileo, Logarithms and Napier Bones by Napier, slide rule by Edmund Gunter.

Except for a man of religion ( wadaad ), and they were few in number, all Somali males were considered potential warriors.

Except for minor modifications, the Saints ' logo and uniforms have basically remained the same since the club debuted in 1967.

Except for minor color changes throughout the years, this logo remained the same until the team was renamed the Titans in 1999.

Except in the highest grades, the difference in value between the two is minor.

Except for Doby, their play in the Negro leagues was a minor factor in their selection: Aaron, Banks, and Mays played in Negro leagues only briefly and after the leagues had declined with the migration of many black players to the integrated minor leagues ; Campanella ( 1969 ) and Robinson ( 1962 ) were selected before the Hall began considering performance in the Negro leagues.

Except in fishes and some minor groups, type species are rarely reliably recorded in online animal databases.

Except minor changes they stayed until the major reorganization in 1975 when both were merged to form the current district.

Except for six seasons — 1971 – 76 — Columbus has been represented in the highest levels of minor league baseball since 1902, at first in the American Association ( 1902 – 54 ) by the Columbus Senators and Columbus Red Birds, and since then in the International League.

Except for the Mexican League, teams in the organized minor leagues are generally independently owned and operated but are directly affiliated with one major league team through a standardized Player Development Contract ( PDC ).

Except for minor adjustments due to manufacturing requirements, the design of the original shapes remained virtually unchanged from 1936 to 1969.

Except in Western Australia, a minor does not require parental consent or notification.

* Japan: " Except for Tokyo, all data refer to shi, a minor division which may include some scattered or rural population as well as an urban centre.

Except for minor realignments, the Keystone Corridor runs along the same path.

Except for the maintenance rooms, these feature plastered walls and ceilings, marble wainscoting, and terrazzo flooring.

Except for some TV work in the late seventies, Caprino made no more puppet films, focusing instead on creating attractions for the Hunderfossen theme park outside Lillehammer based on his folk tale movies, and making tourist films using a custom built multi camera setup of his own design that shoots 280 degrees panorama movies.

Except for an interval of work in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857 – 1865, he remained there until 1897 as a member of an artistic colony that included Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Hiram Powers.

Except under the special, and strictly speaking, fictional, condition of reversibility, only one of the processes or is empirically feasible by a simple application of externally supplied work.

Except at quieter airports, Air Traffic Control is a 24-hour, 365-day-a-year job where controllers usually work rotating shifts, including nights, weekends and public holidays.

2009 saw the release of a collection of Bagge's Reason work called Everybody is Stupid Except for Me ( And Other Astute Observations ).

Bagge collected his work for Reason expressing his Libertarian views in the book " Everybody is Stupid Except me: and Other Astute Observations.

Except for the light negative feedback from the secondary end of the output transformer to the driver stage, most amplifying stages work in " raw " open-loop mode.

Except for several productions of the Buondelmonte version and a few of Maria Stuarda in Oporto and Lisbon as well as Naples in 1865, the work was neglected until 1958 when a production in Bergamo, Donizetti's hometown, brought the original work into popularity.

Except for a few articles in the Unitarian journal Monthly Repository, Taylor published little of her own work during her lifetime.

Except in this song they don't, it doesn't work.

Except those who believed ( in the oneness of Allah ) and performed good work and reminded each other of the truth and reminded each other to be patient.

Except for housekeeping chores benefiting POW, no work was performed in the Stalag.

Except during actual performances of " The Lester Guy Show ", they walk around the stage and set, to everyone who is working and reminds them that their work must be completed soon, saying, " Hurry up ," over and over.

Except for effects due to the motion of the spacecraft, this torque is due to a constraint, so it does no mechanical work ( i. e. requires no energy ).

Except Pestonjee, most of her work consists of film and television adaptations of her stage plays.