Ordinarily a father permits his children to grow up in due time -- but when the colony received independence in 1960 the Congolese child, if one imagines him to have been born in 1908, was 52 and had until then been treated as an infant.

Dr. Lyttleton then imagines the universe as a large hydrogen sphere with surface atoms shooting away from it.

If one imagines a present as a ( three-dimensional ) simultaneity plane in Minkowski space, then switching frames results in changing the inclination of the plane.

Following the Peterloo massacre of 1819, poet Percy Shelley wrote the political poem The Mask of Anarchy later that year, that begins with the images of what he thought to be the unjust forms of authority of his time — and then imagines the stirrings of a new form of social action.

") Borges then imagines the contents of the Total Library which this enterprise would produce if carried to its fullest extreme:

Thoreau had taken up a version of Percy Shelley's principle in the political poem The Mask of Anarchy ( 1819 ), that Shelley begins with the powerful images of the unjust forms of authority of his time — and then imagines the stirrings of a radically new form of social action.

He goes to his room and begins reading, and the episode then takes place in his mind as he imagines the members of the cast of Moonlighting in an adaptation of the play itself ( Bruce Willis plays Petruchio, Cybill Shepherd plays Katherina ).

In the film, Captain George Stacy tells Peter and Aunt May of new evidence that suggests Carradine was only an accomplice of Flint Marko, who was Uncle Ben's real killer ; Peter then imagines Marko throwing Ben out of the car and gunning him down in cold blood while Carradine desperately tries to stop Marko before driving off.

If one listens to some jazz from the 1930s or 1940s, and then imagines those musicians having to record it to an unchanging click, one might be able to see how it could ruin the musicians ' " grooves ", so to speak.

The young woman resists him at first, but then allows him to touch her as he imagines her nude from the front and the rear.

Clarence then imagines dying and being tormented by the ghosts of his father-in-law ( Warwick, Anne's father ) and brother-in-law ( Edward, Anne's former husband ).

If one imagines the propagation of sound as a sequence of atoms hitting one another, then it becomes obvious that the frequency of oscillation must correspond to the minimum wavelength sustainable by the atomic lattice,.

The transparent and chamber-like orchestration of the First Symphony is in quite a contrast to the complex and sophisticated Mahlerian orchestrations found in many of his later symphonies, and the assurance with which the composer imagines, then realizes large-scale structure, is as impressive as his vigor and freshness of gesture.

One typically imagines some experimental apparatus and procedure which " prepares " this quantum state ; the mathematical object then reflects the setup of the apparatus.

He imagines the sheikh's image as though on his right shoulder, then pictures a line from the right shoulder to his heart that acts as a passage whereby the spirit of the sheikh can take possession of that organ.

Eventually coming to his senses, and fearing his wife's retribution, which he imagines in a fantasy scene, Richard, paddle in hand, tells the young woman she can stay in his apartment, then runs off to catch the next train to Maine to be with Helen and Ricky.

We see three of them with her at restaurants, then we see her imagining how they'd treat him after witnessing their behaviors: the first angrily berates the waiter for messing up his order and she imagines him being an abusive father ; the second is a fastidious neat freak who she sees as too uptight ; the third is a man named Harry who works with her father.

In the making of battle scenes, Kubo's comments that he imagines the fights with the empty backgrounds and then he tries to find the best angle to make it.

Chris seems to have a very strong conscience as opposed to Kyle, which is shown when he butchers his old class frog under peer pressure and then imagines the spirit of the frog coming back to haunt him.

She is then hit by a car driven by Divine, a portly blonde who was trying to pick up an attractive hitchhiker whom she imagines naked.

Just after cashing in on the $ 250, 000, Buford finds Cledus and begins to apprehend him, but Buford then imagines Cledus to be the " Real " Bandit ( in a cameo appearance by Burt Reynolds ) who sweet talks him to letting him go and starting a new pursuit.

For example, if one imagines the objects of some category C to be analogous to the open sets of a topological space, then a functor from C to the category of sets gives a set-valued presheaf on C, that is, it associates sets to the objects of C in a way which is compatible with the arrows of C. A subfunctor then associates a subset to each set, again in a compatible way.

Written on the occasion of the massacre carried out by the British Government at St Peter's Field, Manchester 1819, Shelley begins his poem with the powerful images of the unjust forms of authority of his time " God, and King, and Law "-and he then imagines the stirrings of a radically new form of social action: " Let a great assembly be, of the fearless, of the free ".

He started toward the stairway, then turned to add, `` Tell her to come to Adams's room, that Adams is in trouble.

It is well then that in this hour both of `` national peril '' and of `` national opportunity '' we can take counsel with the men who made the nation.

The field, then, is ripe for new Southerners to step to the fore and write of this twentieth-century phenomenon, the Southern Yankeefication: the new urban economy, the city-dweller, the pains of transition, the labor problems ; ;

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.

But is that not like going to a chemistry laboratory and blindly pouring out liquids and powders from an array of bottles and then, after stirring, expecting a new wonder drug inevitably to result??

At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.

The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

But that one should superimpose all these charts, run a pin through the common point, and then scale each planetary deferent larger and smaller ( to keep the epicycles from ' bumping ' ), this is contrary to any intention Ptolemy ever expresses.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

`` Ah, then please tell me where the frontier is because this gentleman here '' -- I indicated the French occupation officer -- `` informs me that Germany is just on the other side of him ''.

It is only then that the ancient habits of feeling and the classic orderings of material and psychological experience were abandoned.

It is not possible to reconstruct fully the arrangements whereby these honors lists were then made up or even how the names that they contained assumed the order in which we find them.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.