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He is usually something of an underdog, he must battle the organized police force as well as recognized criminals.
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The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.
The party is usually in a room small enough so that all guests are within sight and hearing of one another.
It will readily be seen that in this suggested network ( not materially different from some of the networks in vogue today ) greater emphasis on monitoring is implied than is usually put into practice.
One is so accustomed to think of men as the privileged who need but ask and receive, and women as submissive and yielding, that our sympathies are usually enlisted on the side of the man whose love is not returned, and we condemn the woman as a coquette.
usually, this is most exasperating to men, who expect every woman to verify their preconceived notions concerning her sex, and when she does not, immediately condemn her as eccentric and unwomanly.
What evidence is available would seem to indicate that Brooks, unlike his older brother Henry, had most of the methodological vices usually found in the amateur.
he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.
This is a common symptom and the cause usually is pressure on the nerve leading to the affected hand.
if the Government certifies that production may be possible from the property, the royalty obligation continues for the 10-year period usually specified in the contract or until the Government's contribution is repaid with interest.
These roads are largely of less than highway standards, and usually carry traffic which is related to use of the National Forests.
April 15 is usually the final date for filing income tax returns for most people because they use the calendar year ending on December 31.
Much of this necessary increase in research and development, though properly chargeable to current expenses, is not reflected in earnings until projects are completed and the new machines sold in quantity, usually over a period of several years.
Sometimes it is necessary to roughly calculate the square inch area of the opening but the calculation can usually be made with sufficient accuracy that it won't affect the final computation.
Enough daylight is usually available from the windows, but if you have synchronized flash -- use it.
The size of the press is usually expressed in terms of chuck capacity ( the maximum diameter tool shank it will hold ) or distance between the spindle center and the column.
We know now that a 15-degree differential in temperature is the maximum usually desirable, and accurate controls assure the comfort we want.
It is usually helpful to make a sketch map in the field, showing the size and location of the features of interest and to take photographs at the site.
A body of water is usually the center of interest at parks which attract the greatest picnic and camping use.
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Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.
As it is in so many affairs of the heart, a man and a woman meet and something clicks.
Theirs is no mere lack of sympathy, but something closer to the passionate hatred that was directed against Fascism.
( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.
`` That smell is something, eh, mate ''??
Truman Capote is still reveling in Southern Gothicism, exaggerating the old Southern legends into something beautiful and grotesque, but as unreal as -- or even more unreal than -- yesterday.
Or is it relevant because it teaches us something useful to know about ourselves??
It only means that there will be new form, and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else.
Thus jazz is transmuted into something holy, the sacred road to integration of being.
Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.
he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.
It is something which most of us try to get out from under.
But I think that something more than this is involved.
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
He is a dreamer of the good society with a plan to put into effect, and he is an individual craftsman with something to make for himself and the people of his time.
It is never motion towards something.
Plato's attitude toward poetry has always been something of an enigma, because he is so completely sensitive to its charm.
Serenity, if one is fortunate enough to achieve it, is not so good as joy, but it is something.
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Seen by the public, the musician is the underdog par excellence.
He is depicted as a Machiavellian character, who uses his connections to keep Mozart as the underdog.
Case is the underdog who is only looking after himself.
For example, if a hand is currently the best, but each of four opponents has a 1-in-6 chance of drawing an out, the four opponents combined become the favorite to win, even though each one is individually an underdog.
Crusher is often depicted as intelligent, compassionate, caring, and strong willed ; she is occasionally portrayed as defiant, occasionally siding with characters who seem to play the role of underdog and often plays devil's advocate in the senior staff meetings.
Roger Wilco, a perpetual loser, is often depicted as the underdog who repeatedly saves the universe ( often by accident )-only to be either ignored or punished for violating minor regulations in the process.
Willow was noted to be the spirit of the Scooby Gang, and Hannigan attributed Willow's popularity with viewers ( she had by May 1998 seven websites devoted to her ) to being an underdog who develops confidence and is accepted by Buffy, a strong, popular person in school.
The point spread is essentially a handicap towards the underdog.
:* If the gambler bets on the " underdog ", he is said to take the points and will win if the underdog's score plus the spread is greater than the favorite's score.
For example, if the line is 3. 5 points and the bettor wants to place a teaser bet on the underdog, he takes 9. 5 points instead ; a teaser bet on the favorite would mean that the gambler takes 2. 5 points instead of having to give the 3. 5.
The Poor Man of Nippur provides a subversive narrative of the triumph of the underdog over his superior while Ninurta-Pāqidāt's Dog Bite is a school text of a slapstick nature.
It is an underdog story in the mold of a previous success, Avildsen's 1976 film Rocky.
John Otway, ( born 2 October 1952, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England ) is an English singer-songwriter, who has built a sizeable cult audience through extensive touring, a surreal sense of humour and a self-deprecating underdog persona.
Buffy is always the underdog trying to save the world, but Angel is looking for redemption.
Australians will show support for those who appear to be at a disadvantage even when the underdog is competing against fellow Australians.
This underdog attitude is most evident in sport, as sport is also a large part of Australian culture.
The belief in a " fair go " is a key part of Australian culture and Australian society, related to the support for the underdog.
A " rogue with a heart of gold ", he is tolerant and sympathetic to the underdog.
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