Sherlock Holmes is not merely an individualist ; ;

Holmes is addicted to the use of cocaine and other refreshing stimulants ; ;

Holmes is a public servant, to be sure ; ;

Although he is perfectly willing to cooperate with Scotland Yard, Holmes has nothing but contempt for the intelligence and mentality of the police.

They for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.

Another, more interesting explanation, is hinted at by Watson when he observes on several occasions that Holmes would have made a magnificent criminal.

Watson's insight is verified by the mysterious link between Holmes and his arch-opponent, Dr. Moriarty.

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

Holmes went to Atlanta's Morehouse ( Negro ) College, where he is a B student and star halfback.

This short story follows Holmes as his program is rebooted on modern computers and he is forced to compete against his nemesis yet again in the modern counterparts of Babbage's Analytical Engine.

Chuck Holmes, foreign editor for NPR Digitial, said, “ I ’ m surprised and displeased, and it makes me wonder what other information is out-of-date or incorrect in the CIA World Factbook .”

Justice Holmes cautioned that “ the proper derivation of general principals in both common and constitutional law ... arise gradually, in the emergence of a consensus from a multitude of particularized prior decisions .” Justice Cardozo noted the “ common law does not work from pre-established truths of universal and inflexible validity to conclusions derived from them deductively ,” but “ ts method is inductive, and it draws its generalizations from particulars .”

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his famous article, " The Path of the Law ", commented, " It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.

" Justice Holmes noted that study of maxims might be sufficient for " the man of the present ," but " the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.

Unlike Blackstone and the Restatements, Holmes ' book only briefly discusses what the law is ; rather, Holmes describes the common law process.

The most famous movie monsters are King Kong and Godzilla, the archetypical detective is Sherlock Holmes and most people's idea of a spy is James Bond.

The main difference between Ja ' far in " The Three Apples " and later fictional detectives such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, however, is that Ja ' far has no actual desire to solve the case.

Although Sherlock Holmes is not the original fiction detective ( he was influenced by Poe's Dupin and Gaboriau's Lecoq ), his name has become a byword for the part.

A brilliant London-based " consulting detective " residing at 221B Baker Street, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning, and forensic skills to solve difficult cases.

According to Holmes Welch, " It is a famous puzzle which everyone would like to feel he had solved.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

From 1881, Holmes was described as having lodgings at 221B, Baker Street, London, from where he runs his consulting detective service.

Holmes is often described as criticising Watson's writings as sensational and populist, suggesting that they neglect to accurately and objectively report the pure, calculating " science " of his craft.

In all, Holmes is described as being in active practice for 23 years, with Watson documenting his cases for 17 of them.

In an episode where Moriarty is interviewed by a policeman, a painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze is described as hanging on the wall ; Holmes remarks on another work by the same painter to show it could not have been purchased on a professor's salary.

Holmes described Moriarty as follows:

On the same panel, Downey described how he worked long hours and many weekends to ensure the accuracy of his portrayal of Holmes so as to help make the film a success.

Muir biographer Steven Holmes notes that Muir used words like " glory " and " glorious " to suggest that light was taking on a religious dimension: " It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the notion of glory in Muir's published writings, where no other single image carries more emotional or religious weight ," adding that his words " exactly parallels its Hebraic origins ," in which biblical writings often indicate a divine presence with light, as in the burning bush or pillar of fire, and described as " the glory of God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. described bigotry in the following quotation: " The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye ; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

* November 26-Larry Holmes retains his WBC world Heavyweight title with a fifteen round unanimous decision over Randall " Tex " Cobb, fight after which Howard Cosell quits as a boxing commentator, disgusted by what he described as mismatches.

He was described by Professor Jeffrey Richards on the BBC in The Radio Detectives in 2003 as " the poor man's Sherlock Holmes ".

The photograph is described to Holmes as a cabinet ( 5½ by 4 inches ) and therefore too bulky for a lady to carry upon her person.

Leno appeared at Drury Lane as Sister Anne in Bluebeard, a character described by Wood as " a sprightly, somewhat below middle aged person who was of a coming on disposition and who had not yet abandoned hope " The Times drama critic noted: " It is a quite peculiar and original Sister Anne, who dances breakdowns and sings strange ballads to a still stranger harp and plays ping-pong with a frying-pan and potatoes and burlesques Sherlock Holmes and wears the oddest of garments and dresses her hair like Miss Morleena Kenwigs, and speaks in a piping voice – in short it is none other than Dan Leno whom we all know ".

In others, apparent slips on the part of the author are presented as evidence that something is going on beyond the surface of the book which is not explicitly described ( such as his explanation for why Sherlock Holmes should mis-address Miss Stoner as Miss Roylott in " The Adventure of the Speckled Band ").

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine, described it as " a playful comedy laced with heartbreak ," adding, " It's Holmes who holds Pieces together.

Mrs. Holmes was described as devoted, witty, wise, tactful, and perceptive.

Another popular fictional character, Sherlock Holmes, is tall and lean ; his right-hand man Doctor Watson, meanwhile, is often described as " middle-sized, strongly built.

Holmes, for example, described social projection as the process by which people " attempt to validate their beliefs by projecting their own characteristics onto other individuals ".

The Sherlock Holmes Museum is situated within an 1815 townhouse very similar to the 221B described in the stories and is located between 237 and 241 Baker Street.

The club is described by Sherlock Holmes in the stories thus:

Laurie R. King has described Russell as " what Sherlock Holmes would look like if Holmes, the Victorian detective, were ( a ) a woman, ( b ) of the Twentieth century, and ( c ) interested in theology ".

This contingency is usually described by the statement " there is a possible world in which Sherlock Holmes exists ".

At the time he described the album as being inspired by movies and movie soundtracks, a recurring theme throughout Holmes ' work ( see Discography ).

Holmes described Yorkshire as " prodigious " in 1896, when they won their second title with some outstanding batting performances including a championship record total of 887 against Warwickshire.