Eiffel shuns coding tricks or coding techniques intended as optimization hints to the compiler.

He shuns his administrative duties, and generally has a secretary to handle such things ; amongst the occupants of this post have been the likes of Hugo Carmody, Monty Bodkin and Psmith, although by far the best known, and least appreciated by his Lordship, is Rupert Baxter, the bespectacled efficiency expert, who made Emsworth's life a misery with his ruthless organisation of his master's precious time.

A persnickety penguin, Henry is a creature of habit in every way and usually shuns the idea of trying different things, though he can sometimes be persuaded otherwise.

Dominique decides that since she cannot have the world she wants ( in which men like Roark are recognized for their greatness ), she will live completely and entirely in the world she has, which shuns Roark and praises Keating.

" Practically, the community is fully engaged with haredi Agudath Yisrael of America, while it shuns the more modern Orthodox Union.

When he switched to traditional stop motion, Caprino tried to maintain the impression that he was still using some kind of " magic " technology to make the puppets move, even though all his later films were made with traditional stop motion techniques.

While contemporary biomedicine has distanced itself from its ancient roots in religion and magic, many forms of traditional medicine and complementary and alternative medicine ( CAM ) continue to espouse vitalism in various guises: ' As long as life had its own secret properties, it was possible to have sciences and medicines based on those properties ' ( Grossinger 1980 ).

A painting in the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria, condemning witchcraft and traditional folk magic

Dolls have traditionally been used in magic and religious rituals throughout the world, and traditional dolls made of materials like clay and wood are found in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe.

Hoodoo, also known as conjure, is a form of predominantly African-American traditional folk magic that developed from the syncretism of a number of separate cultures and magical traditions.

Despite the appropriation of " pow-wow ", taken from an Algonquian word for a gathering of medicine men, the collection is actually a very traditional collection of European magic spells, recipes, and folk remedies of a type familiar to students of folklore.

Other traditional beliefs include magic and witchcraft.

Parris, Mary Sibly ( aunt of the afflicted Mary Walcott ), instructed John Indian, one of the minister's slaves, to make a witch cake, using traditional English white magic to discover the identity of the witch who was afflicting the girls.

Some common sources of inspiration include such diverse areas as science fiction, scientific theories, traditional ceremonial magic, neoshamanism, Eastern philosophy, world religions, and individual experimentation.

Although Spare died before chaos magic emerged, many consider him to be the father of chaos magic because of his repudiation of traditional magical systems in favor of a technique based on gnosis.

According to this belief, specific rituals, meditations and other elements of more traditional forms of magic are not to be understood as valuable by themselves, but only as gnosis-inducing techniques.

Jillette became disenchanted with traditional illusionist acts that presented the craft as authentic magic, such as The Amazing Kreskin on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

The Trobrianders practice many traditional magic spells.

While gameplay in many respects follows the traditional Square RPG model similar to the better known Final Fantasy series, Rudra no Hihō is best known for its innovative magic system, where ' spells ' are freely constructed according to katakana spelling.

But the traditional one may be the other, the “ mumbling ” style, said to have resembled magic spells.

Culpeper ’ s blend of traditional medicine with astrology, magic, and folklore was ridiculed by the physicians of his day yet his book-like Gerard ’ s and other herbals-enjoyed phenomenal popularity.

This is primarily done for game balance, as if psionics were not resistible or able to be dispelled in such a fashion psionic characters would be inordinately powerful in a world designed mostly to handle traditional magic ( although they in turn would also be especially susceptible to magic ).

Top hats are still associated with stage magic, both in traditional costume and especially the use of hat tricks.

The realm was similar to traditional Dungeons & Dragons settings, but with slightly less powerful magic and somewhat better technology.

Besides traditional animated characters, objects and backgrounds, many other techniques are used to create special elements such as smoke, lightning and " magic ", and to give the animation in general a distinct visual appearance.

Macros possessed abilities transcending the traditional Greater and Lesser Paths of magic ; it is inconclusive whether this ability is a part of his gift upon becoming the agent for Sarig the " Lost " God of Magic ( in truth it is Ban-ath, the God of thieves and gambler ), or if Macros was simply born with the ability like Pug.

Fictional kuro miko ( 黒巫女 " Black / dark miko ") are an evil counterpart to traditional miko ; for instance, the manga Shrine of the Morning Mist depicts kuro miko as proficient in demonology and black magic.

His segment begins with traditional freestyle tricks done on flatground, but quickly accelerates across public terrain to shift into street skating.

Besides the staple of traditional Sonic moves and individual abilities this means some new tricks can be executed with the elastic force of the ring bond.

Crossruffing is therefore just one possible strategy for taking extra tricks, others are establishing the trump suit, traditional ruffing and finessing.

The dirty tricks campaign showed Labor was worried its brand was so damaged in one of its traditional seats, it branded the popular independent as one of its own to discredit him.

He does, however, enjoy traditional clown activities such as jokes, magic tricks and entertaining children.

As the original fad faded, the " Circassians " started to add to their appeal by performing traditional circus tricks such as sword swallowing.

What is often forgotten is that while many magic tricks rely on traditional methods, there is also a continuing development and progress within the genre.

Taylor explains, " Toryism rests on doubt in human nature ; it distrusts improvement, clings to traditional institutions, prefers the past to the future.

As of 1996, Lee no longer uses traditional bass amplifiers on stage, as he prefers to go direct into the venue's FOH console which helps the sound reinforcement during the concerts.

Most of his autodidacticism comes from reading books, which he prefers over traditional forms of education, including schooling.

Taylor explains, " Toryism rests on doubt in human nature ; it distrusts improvement, clings to traditional institutions, prefers the past to the future.

Instead of the more traditional copulative term ' is ', Bolzano prefers ' has '.

Barlow prefers traditional instrumental timbres to electronically synthesized ones because " they sound so much more alive and exciting " ( Kaske 1985, 23 ).

He also changed the Moderate Party's traditional stance towards the Swedish Labour and employment laws, stating that he prefers small changes instead of any radical reform.

Although it is a " kingfisher ", it prefers drier habitats in more traditional woodland and can be far from water.

He prefers to use a lead holder with H lead for sketching, and 2B lead for shading, which he sharpens with a rotary lead pointer, believing that such leads can be sharpened better than a traditional pencil.

The basic unit is an angula ( digit or finger ), and 1 danda was perhaps originally divided into 100 digits, although 108 is the traditional value, and Aryabhatta prefers 96.

The car is a notchback sedan version of the European C4 model, since the Chinese market prefers traditional three-box sedans over hatchbacks.

Kaapana has said that his family has always spelled it without an ' okina and that he prefers the traditional spelling Most of his marketing literature is without the okina.

Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Democratic blog Daily Kos, argues that by calling old media mainstream, new media is inherently marginalized, and thus prefers to use the term " traditional media " instead.

Although perceived by some as disparaging, the band prefers to use the name " Lake Babine Nation " because it emphasizes the connection of the people to their traditional territory around Babine Lake.

If a broadcaster prefers to limit access to their content based on regions, and would like good data on viewer behaviour, such as volume, trends and viewing time, then a traditional broadcasting solution offers more control.

He prefers to use a lead holder with H lead for sketching, and 2B lead for shading, which he sharpens with a rotary lead pointer, believing that such leads can be sharpened better than a traditional pencil.