The thing can be made to look like the cluttered attic of a large and vigorous family -- a motley jumble of discarded objects, some outworn and some that were never useful, some once whole and bright but now chipped and tarnished, some odd pieces whose history no one remembers, here and there a gem, everything fascinating because it suggests some part of the human condition -- the whole adding up to nothing more than a glimpse into the disorderly history of the makers and users.

Some researchers state that the evidence-based approach to defining CAM is problematic because some CAM is tested, and research suggests that many mainstream medical techniques lack solid evidence.

Newman argued that, because the conscience suggests the existence of objective moral truths, God must exist to give authority to these truths.

Though Kropp initially plans to commit suicide if he requires an amputation, the book suggests he postponed suicide because of the strength of military camaraderie.

St. Jerome suggests this may be because Ezra is seen as an intermediary between the prophets and the ' great synagogue '.

Others have argued that " black " is a better term because " African " suggests foreignness, despite the long presence of black people in the US.

Herodotus suggests that this was the first time a Greek army ran into battle in this way ; this was probably because it was the first time that a Greek army had faced an enemy composed primarily of missile troops.

Steven Weinberg and a number of string theorists ( see string landscape ) have used this as evidence for the anthropic principle, which suggests that the cosmological constant is so small because life ( and thus physicists, to make observations ) cannot exist in a universe with a large cosmological constant, but many people find this an unsatisfying explanation.

The turnover in this group is clearly marked at the species level .< ref > Statistical analysis of marine losses at this time suggests that the decrease in diversity was caused more by a sharp increase in extinctions than by a decrease in speciation .< ref > The K – T boundary record of dinoflagellates is not as well-understood, mainly because only microbial cysts provide a fossil record, and not all dinoflagellate species have cyst-forming stages, thereby likely causing diversity to be underestimated.

" In this case, the plural verb is used because the context for " none " suggests more than one thing or person.

John Elliot, however, suggests that the notion of Silvanus as secretary or author or drafter of 1 Peter represents little more than a counsel of despair and introduces more problems than it solves because the Greek rendition of 5: 12 suggests that Silvanus was not the secretary, but the courier / bearer of 1Peter.

The study also suggests that per year increases in the portion of father / son family household income generated by fathers / sons have slowed ( from an average of 0. 9 % to 0. 3 %), barely keeping pace with inflation, though increases in overall father / son family household income are progressively higher each year because more women are entering the workplace, contributing to family household income if they're married or cohabitating.

The Doctor was loomed in the House of Lungbarrow in the mountains of South Gallifrey, but unique among the house's cousins he has a belly button ( Lungbarrow suggests this is because he is a re-incarnation of The Other, but later BBC books featuring the Eighth Doctor suggest he actually has a Gallifreyan father and human mother as stated in the 1996 telemovie ).

In this case, the smart bet is " heads " because the empirical evidence — 21 " heads " in a row — suggests that the coin is likely to be biased toward " heads ", contradicting the general assumption that the coin is fair.

Micki McElya, in her book, Clinging to Mammy, suggests the myth of the faithful slave, in the figure of mammy, lingers because white Americans wish to live in a world where African Americans are not angry over the injustice of slavery.

He suggests AIs may simply eliminate the human race, and humans would be powerless to stop them because of technological singularity.

The contemporary historian Cassius Dio suggests that Gannys was in fact killed by the new emperor because he was forcing Elagabalus to live " temperately and prudently.

If we examine only funds that have survived to the present, we will overestimate past returns because many of the worst-performing funds have not survived, and the observed association between fund youth and fund performance suggests that this bias may be substantial.

Bruce suggests it was " probably authorized by order in council " but no record of the authorization survives " because the Privy Council registers from 1600 to 1613 were destroyed by fire in January 1618 / 19 ".

Gianfranco Lotti suggests the " wood " appellation originally carried derogatory connotations because of proscriptions of all instrumental music in early Islam.

VII, suggests that the ' dudai ' im ' of Genesis 30: 14 is the opium poppy, because the word ' dudai ' im ' may be a reference to a woman's breasts.

Merkelbach suggests that its mysteries were essentially created by a particular person or persons and created in a specific place, the city of Rome, by someone from an eastern province or border state who knew the Iranian myths in detail, which he wove into his new grades of initiation ; but that he must have been Greek and Greek-speaking because he incorporated elements of Greek Platonism into it.

Ogburn wrote that the annuity was granted " under mysterious circumstances ", and Anderson suggests it was granted because of Oxford's writing patriotic plays for government propaganda.

The term " pseudoscience " is often considered inherently pejorative, because it suggests something is being inaccurately or even deceptively portrayed as science.

He was asked to leave Northampton in July 1767 by the authorities ; while no official reason is known, biographer Michael Bellesiles suggests that religious differences and Allen's tendency to be disruptive may have played a role in his departure.

Brickman suggests that his " advancing age " and " worries about his death " had influenced Allen's philosophical, personal approach to complement his " commercial side ".

Journalist Howard Mandel suggests Henry " Red " Allen as a precedent ( given Allen's " blustery rather than Armstrong-brazen brass sound, jauntily unpredictable melodic streams, squeezed-off and / or half-valve effects and repertoire including novelty vocals ") while Ekkehard Jost cites Wild Bill Davison.

Moreover no quatrain suggests, as is often claimed by books and films on the alleged Mayan Prophecy, that the world will end in December 2012.

Each of these films suggests the emotional instability of the disorder ; however, the first two cases show a person more aggressive to others than to herself, which in fact is less typical.

The 1992 film Single White Female suggests different aspects of the disorder: the character Hedy suffers from a markedly disturbed sense of identity and, as with the first two films, abandonment leads to drastic measures.

* In the Swedish cartoon and television short films, Bamse, The Wolf is, as his name suggests, a black wolf who had a thing for pulling pranks on the protagonist as well as his friends ( he even won a diploma as " the master of evilness ").

Where Halloween had broken new ground and was imitated by many genre films following in its wake, this third installment seemed hackneyed to many: one critic suggests that if Halloween III was not part of the Halloween series, then it would simply be " a fairly nondescript eighties horror flick, no worse and no better than many others.

The 1999 Universal film The Mummy also suggests that it is a remake of the 1932 movie, and may be considered as such in that its titular character is Imhotep, resurrected from the dead by the Scroll of Thoth and out to find the present-day embodiment of the soul of his beloved Anck-su-namun, but develops there from a different story line, in common with most postmodern remakes of classic horror and science-fiction films.

Though the title suggests Universal Pictures ' 1932 film of the same name, the film actually derives its plot and characters entirely from two later Universal films, The Mummy's Hand and The Mummy's Tomb, with the climax borrowed directly from The Mummy's Ghost.

As the title suggests, the comic mainly featured comic strip versions of people from films from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Though the title suggests this is a sequel to Zombi ( the Italian title of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead ), the films are unrelated.

As the title suggests, Psycho Beach Party, set in 1962 Malibu Beach, is a parody of 1950s psychodramas, 1960s beach movies and 1970s slasher films.

For him the homage to the other films – including Autumn Sonata – is counter productive, for it merely suggests the inferiority of High Heels.

More recently, critic Robert Weston said, " This was the first and the nastiest of the noirs directed by Robert Wise ... Wise came to genre with a background in the Val Lewton horror team and the expressionistic films of Orson Welles, so he was the right tool for the job when it came to film noir ... As the title suggests, Born to Kill is a film about the grimmest corners of the human condition, the wicked place where sex, corruption and violence join hands and rumba round in darkness.

Clover suggests that in these films, the viewer begins by sharing the perspective of the killer, but experiences a shift in identification to the final girl partway through the film.

The episode had an alternate ending in which Apu suggests that they sell the failed film to India, since the people of India love violent, action-packed American films.

Saul Friedländer suggests that Goebbels ' intent was to counter three films whose messages attacked the persecution of Jews throughout history by producing violently anti-Semitic versions of those films with identical titles.

Nickolas Haydock suggests that " Surely one of the hardest film genres to define is that of the " epic " film, encompassing such examples as Ben-Hur, Gone with the Wind .... and more recently, 300 and the Star Wars films ... none of these comes from literary epics per se, and there is little that links them with one another.

Like Oshii's films, the series suggests romantic tension between the Major and Batou.