And his straightforward use of these materials, often in innovative or technologically-advanced ways, reflected Philadelphia's industrial-realist culture of the post – Civil War period.

Considering that the trained singers had imbibed an oral tradition that was several centuries old, singing a small part of the chant repertory in straightforward heterophony of parallel harmony or other ways of ' singing by the ear ' would come naturally.

While the first two ways are fairly straightforward, the third one requires some explanation, and the fourth one is often a source of confusion.

However, this seemingly straightforward numbering system runs into immediate difficulties, which have been solved in different ways by different stamp catalogs.

Aside from the more straightforward ways of killing targets such as gunplay and strangulation, several missions allow the player more subtle ways to eliminate hits, such as food and drink poisoning.

Some radio features, especially those including specially composed music or other pieces of audio art, resemble radio drama in many ways, though non-fictional in subject matter, while others consist principally of more straightforward, journalistic-type reporting – but at much greater length than found in an ordinary news report.

Additionally, as the Consumer-Driven Health movement gains momentum, payers and providers are exploring new ways to integrate patients into billing process in a clearer, more straightforward manner.

Although tedious to spell out in completeness, the idea is that positive and negative sentiments need to be represented in ways that minimize ambivalence and maximize a simple, straightforward affective representation of the person.

Since the word ' sentence ' is borrowed from the study of ( verbal ) grammar -- where its accepted meaning is one that does not admit of straightforward application to musical structures -- its use in music is metaphorical ; thus it is inevitably the case that different musicians and theorists employ and define the term in different ways.

Always loud, braggart but pungent in his naive but straightforward ways, he butts in everywhere he sees new friends to chat to with a childlike enthusiasm always running after the veline, the show's two dancing showgirls.

While in some ways a straightforward collection of concert clips, in accordance with Cobain's concept, the video presentation is often surreal and disjointed, as performance clips of individual songs are intercut with one another, and interview and documentary performance are layered in the manner of a montage.

Redecos normally include changes to the toy's paint application scheme, as opposed to a more straightforward repaint, which only alters the colors, not the ways in which they are applied to the toy.

Because of the constantly changing conditions of the atmosphere, a Fata Morgana can change in various ways within just a few seconds of time, including changing to become a straightforward superior mirage.

Although this set of instructions seems straightforward, there are two topologically distinct ways in which the two surfaces can be mapped to one another.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

Though Oceania's Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Plenty, and Ministry of Peace each have names with meanings deliberately opposite to their real purpose, the Ministry of Love is perhaps the most straightforward: " rehabilitated thought criminals " leave the Ministry as loyal subjects who have been brainwashed into genuinely loving Big Brother.

The 1541 did not have an index hole sensor, making it straightforward to use the reverse side of a disk by flipping it.

A straightforward practical consequence is that any meaningful equation ( and any inequality and inequation ) must have the same dimensions in the left and right sides.

The popularity of the term deconstruction combined with the technical difficulty of Derrida's primary material on deconstruction and his reluctance to elaborate his understanding of the term has meant that many secondary sources have attempted to give a more straightforward explanation than Derrida himself ever attempted.

Moore ’ s description of the principle of organic unity is extremely straightforward ; nonetheless, it is a principle that seems to have generally escaped ethical philosophers and ontologists before his time:

In contrast, when occasion demands, he is precise and straightforward, as when he explains his inward emotion to his mother: " But I have that within which passes show, / These but the trappings and the suits of woe ".

The most straightforward scientific evidence that there is a strong relationship between the physical brain matter and the mind is the impact physical alterations to the brain have on the mind, such as with traumatic brain injury and psychoactive drug use.

Also, he seems to have had a rather straightforward approach to combat, with no additional frills or aesthetic considerations.

While the relationship of the African species is comparatively straightforward, a large number of Asian species of Ostrich have been described from fragmentary remains, and their interrelationships and how they relate to the African Ostriches is confusing.

In simple terms, descriptive statistics can be thought of as being just a straightforward presentation of facts, in which modeling decisions made by a data analyst have had minimal influence.

Melville drew extensively on contemporary accounts by Pacific explorers to add cultural detail to what might otherwise have been a straightforward story of escape, capture, and re-escape.

Although Browning wanted to hire an unknown European actor for the title role and have him be mostly offscreen as a sinister presence, budget constraints and studio interference necessitated the casting of Bela Lugosi and a more straightforward approach.

It is straightforward to find algebraic equations the solutions of which have the topology of a Möbius strip, but in general these equations do not describe the same geometric shape that one gets from the twisted paper model described above.

As recently as the 1970s the wines of Provence had the reputation of being rather ordinary: In 1971 wine critic Hugh Johnson wrote: " The whites are dry and can lack the acidity to be refreshing ; the reds are straightforward, strong and a trifle dull ; it is usually the rosés, often orange-tinted, which have most appeal.

This is widely thought to have been a straightforward physical demonstration, involving climbing up the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropping two heavy weights off it, whereas in fact, it was a logical demonstration, using the ' thought experiment ' technique.

Pureland origami is origami with the restriction that only one fold may be done at a time, more complex folds like reverse folds are not allowed, and all folds have straightforward locations.

Since most of Viking's experiments focused on the surface material a more straightforward design would not have served.

As long as it kept good order, such a formation could roll right over enemy infantry but it did have weaknesses — as the men were all moving forward they were all facing in a single direction and could not turn quickly or efficiently to protect the vulnerable flanks or rear of the formation and the huge block of men carrying such unwieldy spears could be difficult to maneuver in any way other than straightforward movement.

Although the requirement was straightforward in canon law, complications sometimes arose in a marriage between a Catholic and a non-Catholic, when one of the parties to the marriage did not have a home parish in the Roman Catholic Church.

His films often have a bizarre, neo-surrealistic sensibility and gallows humor, though these elements were absent in the straightforward Hoffa biopic.

Although the two are interrelated, black comedy is different from straightforward obscenity in that it is more subtle and does not necessarily have the explicit intention of offending people.

While the title of it and Roger Dean's sleeve both suggested that the band was romantically working medieval myth into their songs-and surely songs like " Rainbow Demon " and " The Wizard " ( co-written by Mark Clarke, during his short stay ) did have thematical links with fantasy world-more straightforward, hard-rocking approach was also obvious.

According to Wraight, it is not straightforward to determine what Cristofori's pianos sounded like, since the surviving instruments ( see above ) are either too decrepit to be played or have been extensively and irretrievably altered in later " restorations ".

Varlaam and Missail always appear together and often sing together, in a straightforward, rhythmically vigorous idiom that distinguishes them from the more subtle and well-educated Pimen.

However, also available general-purpose DBMSs can often be used for such purpose, if they provide basic user-interfaces for straightforward database applications ( limited query and data display ; no real programming needed ), while still enjoying the database qualities and protections that these DBMSs can provide.

" Rhetorical " protest songs, on the other hand, are often characterized by individual indignation and offer a straightforward political message designed to change political opinion.

Usually straightforward with clear messages, punk art is often concerned with political issues such as social injustice and economic disparity.

Overall, the gameplay is straightforward and often linear.

In science fiction the style of writing is often relatively clear and straightforward compared to classical literature.

Tolkien's prose is unpretentious and straightforward, taking as given the existence of his imaginary world and describing its details in a matter-of-fact way, while often introducing the new and fantastic in an almost casual manner.

Red tops tend to be written with a simplistic, straightforward vocabulary and grammar ; their layout, more often than not, gives greater prominence to the picture than to the word.

VCDs are usually straightforward, playing them often goes directly to the video with extras ( mostly trailers and commercials ) taking place before or after it.

Often the first ( more obvious ) meaning is straightforward, while the second meaning is less so: often risqué or ironic.

Anouilh's interpretation of the historical story, though often ironic, is more straightforward than T. S. Eliot's play on the same subject, Murder in the Cathedral, which was intended primarily as a religious treatment.

* " Chinese whispers ," also known as " Broken Telephone ", or " Telephone ," a children's game in which a straightforward statement is shared through a line of players one player at a time until it reaches the end, often having been comically transformed along the way into a completely different statement.

Though the meaning of a parable is often not explicitly stated, the meaning is not usually intended be hidden or secret but on the contrary quite straightforward and obvious.

Her lack of experience with people causes her to make straightforward, often tactless remarks, which soon put her at odds with other Scooby Gang members, especially Willow, who has little trust for the ex-demon.

The translation is often not straightforward and depends on the context.

Although a negotiator's alternative options should, in theory, be straightforward to evaluate, the effort to understand which alternative represents a party's BATNA is often not invested.

Clark's films often deal with seemingly lurid material but are told in a straightforward manner.

Though they are often categorized with Japanese harsh noise acts such as Merzbow and Masonna, The Gerogerigegege has also released albums of more straightforward rock ( Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male ), noise ( 45 RPM Performance ), and ambient music ( None Friendly, Endless Humiliation ), in addition to several seven inch records mixing these styles with found recordings.

Macrovision has patented methods of defeating copy prevention, giving it a more straightforward basis to shut down manufacture of any device that descrambles it than often exists in the DRM world.

Velázquez's portraits of the royal family themselves had until then been straightforward, if often unflatteringly direct and highly complex in expression.

Their style altered little from Without You I'm Nothing to Black Market Music, based around fairly straightforward guitar playing, often influenced by the style of 1970s British and American rock, and Molko's high-pitched vocals.

If there are no appropriate greedy algorithms and the problem fails to exhibit overlapping subproblems, often a lengthy but straightforward search of the solution space is the best alternative.

Dutch folk music, is characterized by simple straightforward bass motives heavily supplemented with fast, often happy, melody.