Most notably, Ajax is not wounded in any of the battles described in the Iliad, and he is the only principal character on either side who does not receive personal assistance from any of the gods who take part in the battles.

They were furthered by American Spectator writer David Brock in his 1993 book The Real Anita Hill, though he later recanted the claims he had made, described his book as " character assassination ", and apologized to Hill.

" While Frank Miller has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a " homophobic nightmare ," he views the character as sublimating his sexual urges into crimefighting, concluding, " He'd be much healthier if he were gay.

Why Shakespeare's Banquo is so different from the character described by Holinshed and Boece is not known, though critics have proposed several possible explanations.

Other terms such as character set, character map, and code page are used almost interchangeably, but these terms have related but distinct meanings described below.

* The game Eternal Champions game character Trident is described as a master of Capoeira.

Because of the orbital character, the potential for developing stereoisomeric products upon cycloaddition is limited, as described by the Woodward-Hoffmann rules.

The ideal quality of the original Somerset Cheddar was described by Joseph Harding in 1864 as " close and firm in texture, yet mellow in character or quality ; it is rich with a tendency to melt in the mouth, the flavour full and fine, approaching to that of a hazelnut ".

Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described, or to a particular style of clothing worn to portray the wearer as a character or type of character other than their regular persona at a social event such as a masquerade, a fancy dress party or in an artistic theatrical performance.

The carbides of silicon and boron are described as " covalent carbides ", although virtually all compounds of carbon exhibit some covalent character.

Before the game begins, each player creates his or her player character and records the details ( described below ) on a character sheet.

He described the Cold War: " We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method ..." and warned about what he saw as unjustified government spending proposals and continued with a warning that " we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military – industrial complex.

The character Miss Marple, for instance, dealt with an estimated two murders a year ; De Andrea has described Marple's home town, the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead as having " put on a pageant of human depravity rivaled only by that of Sodom and Gomorrah ".

In the Encyclopedia of a Myriad of Treasures, Zhang Pu ( 1602 – 1641 ) described the game of laying out dominoes as pupai, although the character for pu had changed, yet retained the same pronunciation.

Rather, evil spirits described in various faiths ' traditions, such as Satan, fallen angels, demons, and jinns, are metaphors for the base character traits a human being may acquire and manifest when he turns away from God and follows his lower nature.

Diana Soren, the main character in Carlos Fuentes ' novel Diana o la cazadora soltera ( Diana, or The Lone Huntress ), is described as having the same personality as the goddess.

Being the only anime character selected, Doraemon was described as " The Cuddliest Hero in Asia ".

His wife Sylvia described the Kaplan character: He doesn't have any first name.

It has been described as " a language lexically predominantly Romance, morphologically intensively agglutinative, and to a certain degree isolating in character ".

At the time, Russell described his character as " a mercenary, and his style of fighting is a combination of Bruce Lee, The Exterminator, and Darth Vader, with Eastwood's vocal-ness.

" Following the Villanova-Carlisle game, The New York Times described the new passing game this way :" The passing was more of the character of that familiar in basket ball than that which has hitherto characterized football.

In Act II, Scene III of Henry V, his death is described by the character " Hostess ", possibly the Mistress Quickly of Henry IV, who describes his body in terms that parody Plato's description of the death of Socrates.

Chief Richard Akinjide, a former Nigerian Attorney-General and Minister of Justice who had been a leading member of Nigeria's legal team, described the decision as " 50 % international law and 50 % international politics ", " blatantly biased and unfair ", " a total disaster ", and a " complete fraud ".

A 6th-century Byzantine scholar, Zosimus also described the total massacre of Decius ' troops and the fall of the pagan emperor:

A Dog's Life was described by Louis Delluc as " cinema's first total work of art.

Bonding can be described with three bonding electron pairs and two antibonding electrons, whose spins are aligned, such that the molecule has nonzero total angular momentum.

Some estimates put the total number of species, described and undescribed, at as high as 100 million, but a figure of 1 million is more widely accepted.

The smaller families account for 22 % of the total species – 127 families with fewer than 1000 described species and 29 families with 1000 – 6000 described species.

Eight species are described although many researchers believed these actually represented only three at most while some estimated there could be around twenty in total.

A classic example of this is described in Sir Thomas Roe's diaries, in which the Emperor had his painters copy a European miniature several times creating a total of five miniatures.

An object's momentum is directly related to the object's mass and velocity, and the total momentum of all objects in a closed system ( one not affected by external forces ) does not change with time, as described by the law of conservation of momentum.

To assume that knowledge in Plato's sense as described to be a belief that's true, it then means that before everything came into being, it was all to be conceived as total imagination by God until the set of truth.

The time evolution of a quantum state is described by the Schrödinger equation, in which the Hamiltonian ( the operator corresponding to the total energy of the system ) generates the time evolution.

Brewster's angle, the critical angle for total internal reflection, and the reflectivity of a surface also depend on the refractive index, as described by the Fresnel equations.

The notion of " totalitarianism " a " total " political power by state was formulated in 1923 by Giovanni Amendola who described Italian Fascism as a system fundamentally different from conventional dictatorships.

The new state was to provide the “ total representation of the nation and total guidance of national goals .” He described totalitarianism as a society in which the ideology of the state had influence, if not power, over most of its citizens.

A total of about 1, 850 burials were uncovered, including 16 that were described as " royal tombs " containing many valuable artifacts, including the Standard of Ur.

Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships ( social relations ) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions ; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members.

For instance, parity includes a single bit for any data word, so assuming ASCII words with 7-bits, Hamming described this as an ( 8, 7 ) code, with eight bits in total, of which 7 are data.

The total capacity of a lead – acid battery is a function of the rate at which it is discharged, which is described as Peukert's law.

Waves are confined inside the waveguide due to total reflection from the waveguide wall, so that the propagation inside the waveguide can be described approximately as a " zigzag " between the walls.

The state of a network can be described by a vector, where k < sub > i </ sub > is the number of customers at queue i. In open networks, customers can join and leave the system, whereas in closed networks the total number of customers within the system remains fixed.

Szeptycki ( 2007 ) lists a total of 731 described species worldwide, in seven families, nearly 300 of which are contained in a single genus, Eosentomon.

A 2005 systematic review of 28 studies described a total of 183 failures or recanalizations from approximately 43, 642 vasectomy patients ( 0. 4 %), and 20 studies in the same review described 60 pregnancies after 92, 184 vasectomies ( 0. 07 %).