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curiosity and was
It was simply a matter of curiosity, a natural right to examine.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
At the same time, it was unlikely that any businessmen would spend a day in a Christian mission out of mere curiosity.
It was Giselle, the fille de chambre, come to clean the room, and while she stood before him with ears pricked up and regard all curiosity, explaining her errand, Alex could see from the corner of his eye the doctor doing all he could to calm the displeased bird.
My mother was beside herself with curiosity.
Recently, for example, a paranoid woman's large-scale philosophizing, in the session, about the intrusive curiosity which has become, in her opinion, a deplorable characteristic of mid-twentieth-century human culture, developed itself, before the end of the session, into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast, as indeed I was.
Amalric had an enormous curiosity, and William was reportedly astonished to find Amalric questioning, during an illness, the resurrection of the body.
Fleming was modest about his part in the development of penicillin, describing his fame as the " Fleming Myth " and he praised Florey and Chain for transforming the laboratory curiosity into a practical drug.
But the " Burnt City " of his second stratum, revealed in 1873, with its fortifications and vases, and a hoard of gold, silver and bronze objects, which the discoverer connected with it, began to arouse a curiosity which was destined presently to spread far outside the narrow circle of scholars.
There is no evidence to support claims that any of these creatures were mistreated, or that the motive for their study was anything more sinister than natural curiosity and a desire to draw from life.
Long considered a mathematical curiosity, it was during the 1960s that theoretical work showed black holes were a generic prediction of general relativity.
Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.
In a 1753 letter he wrote that he had " become very fond of studying the surface of the earth, and was looking with anxious curiosity into every pit or ditch or bed of a river that fell in his way ”.
In his family, young Kurt was known as Herr Warum (" Mr. Why ") because of his insatiable curiosity.
The Preface of Kubla Khan began by explaining that it was printed: " at the request of a poet of great and deserved celebrity, and as far as the author's own opinions are concerned, rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the ground of any supposed poetic merits ".
To arouse curiosity and nostalgic feelings, Dick Van Dyke appeared as her guest, but the program was canceled within three months.
Clifford Cocks, an English mathematician working for the UK intelligence agency GCHQ, described an equivalent system in an internal document in 1973, but given the relatively expensive computers needed to implement it at the time, it was mostly considered a curiosity and, as far as is publicly known, was never deployed.
* There is a single mention of Trimalchio in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as his showy parties and background parallels that of Gatsby: Chapter Seven begins, " It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night-and, as obscurely as it began, his career as Trimalchio was over.
There was little scientific curiosity about the impact at the time, possibly due to the isolation of the Tunguska region.

curiosity and aroused
William Weightman aroused much curiosity.
The curiosity of the officer was aroused and he commanded a great number of men to remove the rubbish from that place ... and the holy site was revealed.
Their curiosity was also aroused by important questions of the genesis of the earth and the interpretation of the Bible.
::" I wanted to learn about Christ – about the Old Testament, which had been his Bible, and the New Testament, which was the Bible about him ; about the history of the church, which had been founded on the faith that through him God had not only revealed his innermost nature and his purpose for the world, but had released into the world a fierce power to draw people into that nature and adapt them to that purpose …. No intellectual pursuit had ever aroused in me such intense curiosity, and much more than my intellect was involved, much more than my curiosity aroused.
This tale aroused great curiosity and made Hauser an object of international attention.
Stoen's efforts aroused the curiosity of Ryan, who wrote a letter on Stoen's behalf to Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham.
Legends of wootz steel and Damascus swords aroused the curiosity of the European scientific community from the 17th to the 19th Century.
The traditional Croat military kit aroused Parisian curiosity about the unusual, picturesque scarves distinctively knotted at the Croats ' necks ; the cloths that were used ranged from the coarse cloths of enlisted soldiers to the fine linens and silks of the officers.
What finally does the job is a whiff of mystery: one of the doctor's patients is kidnapped and Holmes ’ curiosity is sufficiently aroused.
Suśruta, whose curiosity is aroused by a particular plant, approaches muni Kāśirāja, enquiring about the nature of this plant.
At a time when few people travelled abroad, his trip aroused considerable curiosity among local residents – so much so that crowds greeted him upon his return to Canada.
The curiosity of Kirk's First Officer, Science Officer Spock, is aroused by a spherical object on the desk of the mine supervisor, Chief Engineer Vanderberg, who explains that it is one of thousands of silicon nodules found on recently-opened levels of the mine, but of no commercial value.
Goenka, which proved a lasting influence on his practice, and aroused his curiosity about other traditions of Buddhism.
In Los Angeles, the modern-day Museum of Jurassic Technology anachronistically seeks to recreate the sense of wonder that the old cabinets of curiosity once aroused.
:“ special advantages ... we were lucky enough to grow up in a home environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests ; to investigate whatever aroused their curiosity .”
Her curiosity aroused, Sammy tries to find out as much as she can about this girl.
His curiosity about airplanes was aroused at age two when his father took him to the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio.

curiosity and however
There are people of religions besides Judaism, or even those without religious affiliation, who delve in the Zohar out of curiosity, or as a technology for people who are seeking meaningful and practical answers about the meaning of their lives, the purpose of creation and existence and their relationships with the laws of nature, and so forth ; however from the perspective of traditional, rabbinic Judaism, and by the Zohar's own statements, the purpose of the Zohar is to help the Jewish people through and out of the Exile and to infuse the Torah and mitzvot ( Judaic commandments ) with the wisdom of Kabbalah for its Jewish readers.
Because virtually all of the artwork at the missions served either a devotional or didactic purpose, there was no underlying reason for the mission residents to record their surroundings graphically ; visitors, however, found them to be objects of curiosity.
This is, however, merely a curiosity and has had no impact on the general usage of the word city in the UK, which has unambiguously retained its urban meaning in British English.
Aside from such institutions, however, the Walled City became a mere curiosity for British colonials and tourists to visit.
The tenor of Holt's remarks however suggests that he found the punishment an antiquarian curiosity and something of a joke.
The Giants Causeway is an object which is scarcely worthy of going so far to see ; however that is to be determined by the degree of curiosity of which the traveller is possessed.
At the current stage, however, most fields have been picked clean of small portable ' ringers ', and breaking of large boulders into smaller pieces releases the internal stresses-thus causing them to stop ringing ( i. e., breaking a piece off of a large ringing rock will only gain a dead chunk of rock and destroy a natural curiosity forever.
Some people, however, prefer the personality and curiosity of male mice.
He never discloses the actual specifics of an ongoing case to Ajit until the very end ( Amriter Mrityu being one exception ), but occasionally drops subtle hints, which however fail to satisfy the curiosity of the latter in most cases.

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