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point and is
In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.
A point like p gets information directly from n, but all information beyond n is indirectly relayed through n.
What I want to point out here is that all of them are ex-liberals, or modified liberals, with perhaps one exception.
Indeed, it is probable that this point is reached the moment the third level of change begins.
At that point we reach the `` closed '' historical situation: the situation in which man is no longer free to return to a status quo ante.
With regard to the change we are examining, the question is, at what point does the change become irreversible??
Such a response, of course, misses the point that in crisis order is going out of existence.
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
The maturity in this point of view lies in its recognition that no basic problem is ever solved without being clearly understood.
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.
His point is simply that the Tories have showered him with personal satire, despite the fact that as a private subject he has a right to speak on political matters without affronting the prerogative of the Sovereign.
This is the principal point made in this final section of Englishman No. 57, and it caps Steele's efforts in his other writing of these months to counteract the notion of the Tories as a `` Church Party '' supported by the body of the clergy.
One, a reservation on the point I have just made, is the phenomenon of pseudo-thinking, pseudo-feeling, and pseudo-willing, which Fromm discussed in The Escape From Freedom.
At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.
Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.
The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.
And there is one other point in the Poetics that invites moral evaluation: Aristotle's notion that the distinctive function of tragedy is to purge one's emotions by arousing pity and fear.
The point is that an ethical critic, with an assist from Freud, can seize on this theory to argue that tragedy provides us with a harmless outlet for our hostile urges.
Everyone is more or less sceptical and virtually no one has been willing to accept Lappenberg or Kemble's position on that point.
That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.
It is the triumph of rationalism and secular metaphysics which marks the point of no return.
What is wrong with advertising is not only that it is an `` outrage, an assault on people's mental privacy '' or that it is a major cause for a wasteful economy of abundance or that it contains a coercive tendency ( which is closer to the point ).

point and mythology
They point to the symbolism of wine and the importance it held in the mythology surrounding both Dionysus and Jesus Christ ; Wick argues that the use of wine symbolism in the Gospel of John, including the story of the Marriage at Cana at which Jesus turns water into wine, was intended to show Jesus as superior to Dionysus.
In Greek mythology, Enarete () or Aenarete (, Ainarete ), daughter of Deimachus, was the wife of Aeolus and ancestress of the Aeolians .< ref > Enarete is the form found in the manuscripts of Bibliotheca 1. 7. 1, which takes to be a misspelling of Aenarete, the form written in the scholia to Plato, Minos 315c, since Enarete cannot stand in a hexameter line and the Bibliotheca < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s primary source at this point is the epic Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.
This was the starting point of the Táin Bó Cúailnge, or Cattle Raid of Cooley, an epic tale in Irish mythology.
In the novel, the gardens provide a point of access to the magical Otherworld of Celtic mythology.
Much of the foundation of his theory, they point out, is based on similarities between names of figures from Norse mythology and geographical place-names of the present time in the Pontic steppe and Caucasus.
From a starting point that combines Homer's Odyssey and Dante's Divine Comedy to create a personal epic of 20th century life, the poem uses materials from history, politics, literature, art, music, economics, philosophy, mythology, ecology and the poet's personal experiences and ranges across European, American, African and Asian cultures.
Club gave the episode an ' A ' rating, describing the episode as " one of TOS's strongest, introducing us to a new alien race, as well as providing us with a very important piece of Trek mythology " and noting that " watching Kirk out-maneuver his enemy, even to the point of earning that enemy's respect, is very cool ".
Mount Diablo is sacred to many California Native American peoples ; according to Miwok mythology and Ohlone mythology, it was the point of creation.
The Ellimist created the Time Matrix, according to Andalite mythology ( in The Andalite Chronicles, the Ellimist informs Elfangor that he indeed created the Time Matrix ), which was essentially a time machine ; however, The Ellimist Chronicles does not mention the Matrix at any point in the story.
In Greek mythology, Pagasae was the starting point for the expedition of the Argonauts led by Jason.
Greek mythology states that Zeus observed the birth of his son Apollo ( with Leto ) from this vantage point.
* The preferred themes are, fundamentally, love, conceived from the platonic point of view ; nature, as somewhat idyllic ( bucolic ); pagan mythology, from which the histories of gods and the female beauty are reflected, following always the same classical ideal.
Contrary to popular mythology, the meeting point of the currents produces no obvious visual effect ; there is no " line in the ocean " where the sea changes colour or looks different in some way.
Ewald was the first to rely heavily on Norse mythology, a trend which begins to point towards romanticism.
At one point Cheever wanted to parallel the tale of Narcissus, a character in Greek mythology who died while staring at his own reflection in a pool of water, which Cheever dismissed as too restrictive.
The battle marked a turning point toward Partisan control of Yugoslavia, and became an integral part of the Yugoslav post-war mythology, celebrating the self-sacrifice, extreme suffering and moral firmness of the partisans.
However, they eventually reconciled on this point and Mndawe continued pursuing his political objectives which he justified with the personal maxim, " Tomorrow's mythology is Today's politics.
At this point, he alleged, the merger between the Roman state religion and its adoration of the mother and child was transferred to Christianity, merging Christian characters with pagan mythology.
It has been suggested, among others by ethnologist and former president Lennart Meri, that a meteorite which passed dramatically over populated regions and landed on the island of Saaremaa around 3, 000-4, 000 years ago was a cataclysmic event that may have influenced the mythology of Estonia and neighboring countries, especially those from whose vantage point a " sun " seemed to set in the east.
At one point, according to Akan mythology, this god walked upon the earth with man, but moved high up into the sky after being continuously beaten with a pestle of an old woman pounding fufu.
They point to the symbolism of wine and the importance it held in the mythology surrounding both Dionysus and Jesus Christ ; although, Wick argues that the use of wine symbolism in the Gospel of John, including the story of the Marriage at Cana at which Jesus turns water into wine, was intended to show Jesus as superior to Dionysus.
Proyas said, " I do like Greek mythology and have read a little of it, so maybe some of it has crept into the work, though I don't completely agree with that point of view.
Ancestral spirits, and giants who help to form the landscape and represent the forces of nature, are ubitiquous and may point to non-elite registers of mythology.

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