Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

He cites the French Revolution as typifying this rigidity but makes no mention of the Italians, who have been able to adapt to all types of circumstances.

Last, it makes no sense to deliver Katanga, the one reasonably solid territory, into the existing chaos.

It makes no difference what part of the world is involved, what form of regime, what particular issue.

It is no coincidence that the hebephrenic patient, the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients, shows, as one of his characteristic symptoms, laughter -- laughter which now makes one feel scorned or hated, which now makes one feel like weeping, or which now gives one a glimpse of the bleak and empty expanse of man's despair ; ;

( It makes no real difference that Braque's collage is on paper and eked out in charcoal, while Picasso's is on canvas and eked out in oil.

He even buys a lot of the products he sees advertised -- despite the fact that the copy makes no special bid for his favor and sponsors rarely use any but white models in commercials.

And most of all it is not having the only man you could love, whether he drives a bread truck or delivers the mail or checks the berry crates down at the sheds, or owns seventeen oil wells and six diamond mines, for if you are anybody what he is or does makes no difference if he is the one.

When one attempts to solve problems in this class, it makes no difference whether ZF or ZFC is employed if the only question is the existence of a proof.

Its chemical composition makes it difficult to match the amber to its producers – it is most similar to the resins produced by flowering plants ; however, there are no flowering plant fossils until the Cretaceous, and they were not common until the Upper Cretaceous.

They viewed society like a modern stock company: democracy is like a company where all shareholders have an equal say regardless of the scale of their holding ; one share or ten thousand, it makes no difference.

The inscription on Aeschylus's gravestone makes no mention of his theatrical renown, commemorating only his military achievements:

The one New Testament reference to the city of Armageddon found in Revelation 16: 16 in fact also makes no specific mention of any armies being predicted to one day gather in this city, but instead seems to predict only that " they ( will gather ) the kings together to .... Armageddon.

But evolution is a non-directional process, and while increased complexity is a common effect, there is no reason why evolution cannot tend towards simplicity if that makes an organism better suited to its environment.

Ar., lxiv, and De Syn., xviii ), St Athanasius does not recall from memory being a first hand witness to the onset of the great persecution by the Tetrarchy of Diocletian and Maximian in February 303, for in referring to the events of this period he makes no direct appeal to his own personal recollections, but falls back on tradition.

In the first two cases above, " on an error " includes situations where the batter makes a clean hit ( or walks, is hit by pitch, reaches base on a fielder's choice in which no out is made, or reaches base on a wild pitch on a called or swinging third strike ), but should have been out earlier in his at bat on a foul fly ball which was dropped by a fielder for an error.

If the defense makes no attempt to put the baserunner out ( for example, if the catcher doesn't even look his way ), the play is scored as defensive indifference ( also called fielder's indifference ), and no stolen base is credited to the runner.

However, this saga makes no mention of the great necklace.

The Caeremoniale Episcoporum no longer makes mention of episcopal gloves, episcopal sandals, liturgical stockings ( also known as buskins ), or the accoutrements that it once prescribed for the bishop's horse.

Elihu says he spoke last because he is much younger than the other three friends, but says that age makes no difference when it comes to insights and wisdom.

She makes no appearance in Bede's work, the Historia Brittonum, the Mabinogion or Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain.

He also notes that the words in the Basic vocabulary were arbitrarily selected, and there have been no empirical studies showing that it makes language simpler.

As for the term " Compositae ", more ancient but still valid, it obviously makes reference to the fact that the family is one of the few angiosperms that have composite flowers.

Abu Salih the Armenian, writing in the last quarter of the twelfth century, makes one early reference to this belief that they possessed the Ark.

Stephen King's 1985 novel " The Tommyknockers " also makes reference to Altair 4, as a desolate wasteland.

Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff makes frequent reference to both Big Brother and other Orwellian traits in his Russian Reversal jokes.

The biblical Book of Job ( dating to the 6th to 4th century BC ) also makes reference to a number of constellations, including " bier ", " fool " and " heap " ( Job 9: 9, 38: 31-32 ), rendered as " Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades " by the KJV, but ` Ayish " the bier " actually corresponding to Ursa Major.

An umbrella term socio-cultural anthropology makes reference to both cultural and social anthropology traditions.

Cornell's alma mater or official school song makes reference to its position " Far Above Cayuga's Waters ", while that of Ithaca College references " Cayuga ’ s shore ".

To summarize, every established national group used cultural productions to assert and strengthen a sense of national unity and destiny ; less politically consolidated groups, especially those pursuing the goal of nationhood, used them in the same ways, though often with a note of determination that makes them easier to see from our contemporary point of reference.

All personnel are allowed to attach a small religious pendant or locket ; this makes a quick identifiable reference for their funeral services.

Character-naming in Don Quixote makes ample figural use of contradiction, inversion, and irony, such as the names Rocinante ( a reversal ) and Dulcinea ( an allusion to illusion ), and the word itself, possibly a pun on ( jaw ) but certainly ( Catalan: thighs ), a reference to a horse's rump .< ref > quijote < sup > 1. 2 </ sup >: rump or haunch.

* In the Contra epistulam fundamenti, Augustine of Hippo makes reference to the Manichaeans believing that Jesus was Docetic.

For example, Phillip E. Johnson makes this accusation of atheism with reference to Charles Hodge's book What Is Darwinism ?.

Xenophon, writing in the fourth century BC, makes a passing reference to division of labour in his ' Cyropaedia ' ( aka Education of Cyrus ).

For Bachelard, rationalism makes equal reference to all three systems of thinking.

Christine Clay ( Pamela Carme ), a successful actress, argues passionately with her jealous ex-husband Guy ( George Curzon ), who makes particular reference to Robert Tisdall, a young man staying near her at her retreat on the English coast.

Importantly, it makes no reference to the microscopic nature of matter.

An empirical formula makes no reference to isomerism, structure, or absolute number of atoms.

Eusebius ' Preparation for the Gospel bears witness to the literary tastes of Origen: Eusebius quotes no comedy, tragedy, or lyric poetry, but makes reference to all the works of Plato and to an extensive range of later philosophic works, largely from Middle Platonists from Philo to the late 2nd century.

The name hoar comes from an Old English adjective for showing signs of old age, and is used in this context in reference to the frost which makes trees and bushes look like white hair.

* Ambrose: The prologue of De Spiritu Sancto ( On the Holy Ghost ) makes passing reference to Athanaric's royal titles before 376.

This makes the geometric mean the only correct mean when averaging normalized results, that is results that are presented as ratios to reference values.

" In reference to the poem Clarel, poetry critic Helen Vendler remarked: " What it cost Melville to write this poem makes us pause, reading it.

The earliest written references that have survived relating to the islands were made by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, where he states that there are 30 " Hebudes ", and makes a separate reference to " Dumna ", which Watson ( 1926 ) concludes is unequivocally the Outer Hebrides.