The scherzo of this precociously accomplished symphony ( which shows a mature absorption of Bruckner and Richard Strauss ) is especially noteworthy, while Schmidt demonstrates his contrapuntal skills in the Finale.

* In the novel Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough, Caesarion is portrayed as a precociously wise young man who deplores many of his mother ’ s and Antony ’ s actions.

He seems also to have been remarkably and precociously intelligent, creating a map of Russia, which is still preserved.

Nineteen year old Charles ( Fletcher ) is a highly sexed and precociously intelligent teenager about to attend Oxford University.

She is also a precociously talented con artist, adept at using a sweet, innocent façade to mask her true self from adults so they will give in to her.

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.

Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.

For this purpose a degree of intellectual and emotional involvement is necessary ; ;

Wonder is indeed the intellectual gateway to the spiritual world.

But now he knows `` that an intellectual is not only a man to whom books are necessary, he is any man whose reasoning, however elementary it may be, affects and directs his life ''.

This is simply a confession of intellectual sterility spruced up to look virtuous.

To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors-in-spirit, the monastic communities, is with an appropriate shift of adjectives, misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato's Republic: in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes, in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes.

Despite its rather long intellectual history, alienation is still a promising hypothesis and not a verified theory.

Until such work is done, there must remain the nagging suspicion that alienation may be little more than an expression of the malaise of the intellectual, who, rejected by and in turn rejecting the larger society, projects his own fear and despair onto the broader social screen.

Nor do I think that alienation is nothing more than a projection of the malaise of the intellectual.

The statement is often made that when Bultmann argues in this way, he `` overestimates the intellectual stumbling-block which myth is supposed to put in the way of accepting the Christian faith ''.

Miss Hardwick speaks of his `` superb gift for intellectual friendship '', and it is certainly a joy to see the intellectual life lived so free from either academic aridity or passionate dogmatism.

`` Roots '', the new play at the brand-new Mayfair Theater on 46th St. which has been made over from a night club, is about the intellectual and spiritual awakening of an English farm girl.

The statue is the " thing in itself ", and his slender face with the deep eyes express an intellectual eternity.

In discussion of the arts, a distinction is sometimes made between the Apollonian and Dionysian impulses where the former is concerned with imposing intellectual order and the latter with chaotic creativity.

The emphasis is on social history, and very long-term trends, often using quantification and paying special attention to geography and to the intellectual world view of common people, or " mentality " ( mentalité ).

St. Bonaventure ’ s “ Retracing the Arts to Theology ”, a primary example of this method, discusses the skills of the artisan as gifts given by God for the purpose of disclosing God to mankind, which purpose is achieved through four lights: the light of skill in mechanical arts which discloses the world of artifacts ; which light is guided by the light of sense perception which discloses the world of natural forms ; which light, consequently, is guided by the light of philosophy which discloses the world of intellectual truth ; finally, this light is guided by the light of divine wisdom which discloses the world of saving truth.

He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.

he is prone to semi-catatonic trances induced by the playing of the vioiln ; ;

And a minister of all men is most conscious that he is mere man -- prone to the stresses that earthly humanity is heir to.

She is even prone to regard the college girl as immature.

This algorithm is much less prone to loss of precision due to massive cancellation, but might not be as efficient because of the division operation inside the loop.

Academic elitism is the criticism that academia or academicians are prone to elitism, or that certain experts or intellectuals propose ideas based more on support from academic colleagues than on real world experience.

Proponents of the adversarial system often argue that the system is more fair and less prone to abuse than the inquisitional approach, because it allows less room for the state to be biased against the defendant.

He is the more excitable of the two ; despite his obliviousness to what should be obvious, he is prone to moments of insight.

Long-term use is controversial due to concerns about adverse psychological and physical effects, increased questioning of effectiveness and because benzodiazepines are prone to cause tolerance, physical dependence, and, upon cessation of use after long term use, a withdrawal syndrome.

Vitamin C is especially prone to oxidation during cooking and may be completely destroyed by protracted cooking.

The remainder of the country is prone to flooding from nearby rivers.

Casuistry is prone to abuses wherever the analogies between cases are false.

One of the stars is a flare star, which are prone to sudden, random outbursts that last several minutes ; these increase the pair's apparent brightness significantly-as high as magnitude 7.

Practically, such a matrix is almost singular, and the computation of its inverse, or solution of a linear system of equations is prone to large numerical errors.

Bronze has several characteristics that made it preferable as a construction material: although it is relatively expensive, does not always alloy well, and can result in a final product that is " spongy about the bore ", bronze is more flexible than iron and therefore less prone to bursting when exposed to high pressure ; cast iron cannon are less expensive and more durable generally than bronze and withstand being fired more times without deteriorating.

It is quite prone to considerable reduction and assimilation of both consonants and vowels even in very formal standard language.

As with every software system, a DBMS that operates in a faulty computing environment is prone to failures of many kinds.

As with every software system, a DBMS that operates in a faulty computing environment is prone to failures of many kinds.

Since dachshunds are prone to back issues, the goal is to expand this treatment to dogs in a normal population.