Thus the student of literature may sometimes find it helpful to classify a poem or an essay as being in idea or in ideal content or subject matter typical or atypical of its period.

When he discusses the subject matter of poetry, he asks what moral effect the scenes will have.

However, his subject matter and basic themes have remained surprisingly consistent, and these, together with certain key poetic images, may be traced through all his work, including the new jazz experiments.

Gradually Schiele evolved a somber style of his own -- and he had few inhibitions about his subject matter.

It is this subject matter that has brought Mason a large and enthusiastic following among sportsmen, but it is his exceptional performance with this motif that commends him to artists and discerning collectors.

Ordinary politeness may have militated against this opinion being stated so badly but anyone with a wide acquaintance in both groups and who has sat through the many round tables, workshops or panel discussions -- whatever they are called -- on this subject will recognize that the final, boiled down crux of the matter is education.

On the whole they maintain much the same high standard, but they are much more difficult to discuss in detail because of their wider variety of subject matter.

Or is this subject a matter of self-determination, a matter of states rights or county rights??

The joint investigations of linguistics and psychiatry have established, in point of fact, that no matter what the subject of conversation is or what words are involved, it is impossible for people to talk at all without telling over and over again what sort of people they are and how they relate to the rest of the world.

As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.

In its present artless, low-budget form, the subject matter seems designed to invite censorial wrath.

But no matter what he writes about he brings to his subject his own original mind and his own sensitive reactions.

He was no longer able to relax in the presence of his parents and found it difficult to keep up a conversation with his mother or father, no matter the subject.

Given the similarities in the two characters ' names, professions, written works and generally dark subject matter, it is likely that Lovecraft's Alhazred provided the main inspiration for al-Hazir.

His style consisted of delicate colors and gentle forms painted within a frivolous subject matter.

The exploration of how the world would look today if various changes occurred and what these alternate worlds would be like forms the basis of this vast subject matter.

At that time, the ENIAC was considered to be the first computer in the modern sense, but in 1973 a U. S. District Court invalidated the ENIAC patent and concluded that the ENIAC inventors had derived the subject matter of the electronic digital computer from Atanasoff ( see Patent dispute ).

Judge Larson explicitly stated, " Eckert and Mauchly did not themselves first invent the automatic electronic digital computer, but instead derived that subject matter from one Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff ".

Folk songs may be classified by subject matter, such as: drinking songs, sporting songs, train songs, work songs, war songs, and ballads.

One play, The Demi-Virgin in 1921, prompted a court case because of its suggestive subject matter, including a risque game of cards, " Stripping Cupid ", where a bevy of showgirls teased the audience in their lingerie.

At the start of his career, he won public attention by creating small, intimate modestly scaled works in unconventional media and with eccentric subject matter.

Although its author is unknown, its themes and subject matter are rooted in Germanic heroic poetry, in Anglo-Saxon tradition recited and cultivated by Old English poets called scops.

The question of whether Beowulf was passed down through oral tradition prior to its present manuscript form has been the subject of much debate, and involves more than the mere matter of how it was composed.

Because of the subject matter and graphic violence of some of De Palma's films, such as Dressed to Kill, Scarface and Body Double, they are often at the center of controversy with the Motion Picture Association of America, film critics and the viewing public.

Hino talked very little about himself except for the infrequent times when he used a personal illustration in connection with another subject.

Several theater operators said, however, that there is little likelihood of the subject being discussed during the three-day affair.

Also, a therapist might choose to have the subject partake in what is called " exposure therapy " where the person is exposed to virtual spiders and then eventually live spiders little by little until they have overcome the phobia.

On the subject of alchemy and chemistry, many treatises relating to Alchemy have been attributed to him, though in his authentic writings he had little to say on the subject, and then mostly through commentary on Aristotle.

Johnson had been so obsessed with the measure that he was said to be " a little cracked on the subject ".

He then had little more to publish on the subject ; but the emergence of Hilbert modular forms in the dissertation of a student means his name is further attached to a major area.

As well, as time passes, subjects may exhibit a strong recollection of having the " unsettling " experience of déjà vu itself, but little or no recollection of the specifics of the event ( s ) or circumstance ( s ) which were the subject of the déjà vu experience itself ( the events that were being " remembered ").

Even in jurisdictions where certification has little or no legal bearing on work, engineers are subject to contract law.

If we wish for nothing but what God wills, we shall be truly free, and all will come to pass with us according to our desire ; and we shall be as little subject to restraint as Zeus himself.

In their day Heimatfilms were of little interest to more scholarly film critics, but in recent years they have been the subject of study in relation to what they say about the culture of West Germany in the years of the Wirtschaftswunder.

Priscus mentions that the Huns had a language of their own ; little of it has survived and its relationships have been the subject of debate for centuries.

The Torah has little to say on the subject of survival after death, but by the time of the rabbis two ideas had made inroads among the Jews: one, which is probably derived from Greek thought, is that of the immortal soul which returns to its creator after death ; the other, which is thought to be of Persian origin, is that of resurrection of the dead.

However, Sarbin emphasised the difference between faking, in which there is little subjective identification with the role in question, and role-taking, in which the subject not only acts externally in accord with the role but also subjectively identifies with it to some degree, acting, thinking, and feeling " as if " they are hypnotised.

Although little interest was generated among western scientists, Russians held a conference on the subject in 1972, at Kazakh State University.

Konoe's biographer suggests that his subject was shocked by how little control he had over the military, and at how factional the military itself was.

There is little evidence on the subject of Ptolemy's ancestry, apart from what can be drawn from the details of his name ( see above ); however modern scholars refer to Abu Ma ’ shar ’ s account as erroneous, and it is no longer doubted that the astronomer who wrote the Almagest also wrote the Tetrabiblos as its astrological counterpart.

Beyond this, very little is agreed on the subject among Christian denominations.

The sonic screwdriver has been the subject of jokes: in " The Doctor Dances ", Jack Harkness mocked the concept by asking, " Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, ' Ooh, this could be a little more sonic '?

Some are shaped like golf balls, some are shaped like pencils .… Now my main subject is the evolution of form, and the problem of how it is that you can get this diversity amid so little genetic difference, so far as we can tell, is a very interesting one.

Historians have debated the exact details of the birth of Saint George for over a century, although the approximate date of his death is subject to little debate.

While The Supreme Court has generally refused to give obscenity any protection under the First Amendment, pornography is subject to little regulation.

The mechanics and language have little in common with board and miniature games, but the general subject matter is popular.

In his investigation into Anglo-Saxon institutions, H. M. Chadwick wrote: I have not thought it necessary to discuss at length the nature of the powers possessed by the council the witenagemot, for .. there can be little hope of arriving at any definite conclusions on this subject.