" If Vladimir was impressed by this account of his envoys, he was yet more so by political gains of the Byzantine alliance.

If classical art was marked by the attempt to create representations that mimicked reality as closely as possible, Byzantine art seems to have abandoned this attempt in favor of a more symbolic approach.

If they had indeed disappeared, then it is possible that they were revived once again during the Komnenian restoration, a period of thorough financial, territorial and military reform that changed the Byzantine army of previous ages, which is referred to separately as the Komnenian army after the 12th century.

If the expression was new in 1844, the concept had roots in the Greek popular psyche, nurtured as it was by prophecies and legends that had kept hopes of eventual liberation from Turkish rule and imperial ( Byzantine ) restoration alive.

If this is not mere Byzantine confusion over Serbs and Croats, it might allude to the existence of minor Croat tribes until the late 12th century.

If classical art was marked by the attempt to create representations that mimicked reality as closely as possible, Byzantine art seems to have abandoned this attempt in favor of a more symbolic approach.

If originally the form of the miter the imperial crown was intended to be worn over had the form of the Byzantine ' camelaucum ' the arch would have depressed the centre of the now collapsed inner cap causing it to bulge up on either side much as the embroidered ribbon from front to back on the eleventh century bishops ' miters caused their linen fabric to bulge up on either side.

If the purpose of classical art was the glorification of man, the purpose of Byzantine art was the glorification of God.

If Theodore Lector can be trusted, he was picked by the ex-consul Rufius Postumius Festus as a candidate, after Festus had secretly promised the Byzantine Emperor Zeno that Pope Anastasius would approve the Henotikon, but upon returning from Constantinople he found Pope Anastasius had died.

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If we had more Anglo-Saxon survivals, Byzantine influences would no doubt be apparent.

The person from Porlock later became a word to describe interrupted genius, and the literary critic Walter Jackson Bate recounted that while John Livingston Lowes taught the poem, he told his students " If there is any man in the history of literature who should be hanged, drawn, and quartered, it is the man on business from Porlock.

If the nations were tools of Yahweh, then the new king who would come to redeem Israel might not be a Judean as taught in older literature ( e. g. Psalm 2 ).

If it was true, this would be a step towards the reunification of Poland, and Henry IV, who was denigrated particularly in the earlier literature, was really a conscious promoter of Poland interests and a true patriot ( apart from the merits of raising the awareness of the problems of ethnic and linguistic diversity in the Middle Ages ).

If the Greek letter μ is not available, the notation uF is often used as a substitute for μF in electronics literature.

For Frye, this kind of coherent, critical integrity involves claiming a body of knowledge for criticism that, while independent of literature, is yet constrained by it: " If criticism exists ," he declares, " it must be an examination of literature in terms of a conceptual framework derivable from an inductive survey of the literary field " itself ( Anatomy 7 ).

If instead M is a 2n × 2n matrix with complex entries, the definition is not standard throughout the literature.

If H is Hermitian ( the name for self-adjoint in the physics literature ) and f is a Borel function,

If the hero does return after the culmination of the quest, he may face false heroes who attempt to pass themselves off as him, or his initial response may be a rejection of that return, as Joseph Campbell describes in his critical analysis of quest literature, The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

" If Young did not invent " melancholy and moonlight " in literature, he did much to spread the fashionable taste for them.

If the identification is admitted, the commonness of wraparound eyes in the abduction literature falls to cultural forces.

If the experiment with vernacular language was not enough of a departure from the norm, the focus on simple, uneducated country people as the subject of poetry was a signal shift to modern literature.

If it does in literature as the works evoking the intrusion of the supernatural in a familiar to the reader ( as opposed to the wonderful, presenting worlds where almost everything is supernatural ), the movies, it also includes films of entirely supernatural worlds.

If this is the case, the problem is known in the literature as the Molecular Distance Geometry Problem ( MDGP ).

If " econophysics " is taken to denote the principle of applying statistical mechanics to economic analysis, as opposed to a particular literature or network, priority of innovation is probably due to Farjoun and Machover ( 1983 ).

" If we look at the considerable literature available about the position of Jews in the Islamic world, we find two well-established myths.

If ergodic literature is to make sense as a concept, there must also be nonergodic literature, where the effort to traverse the text is trivial, with no extranoematic responsibilities placed on the reader except ( for example ) eye movement and the periodic or arbitrary turning of pages.

If it is known from the literature that B can be converted to C then a novel route from compound A to compound B is a formal proof that A can also give access to C.

When Satpal heard about the flying saucer he said, " If you see any, just give them some of our literature ".

If the literature of social reform and social protest in Hindi found a worthy advocate in Yashpal, he wielded a sledgehammer when writing about the exploited and the economically deprived in his fiction, and in the editorials and columns he wrote for Viplava.

As an essayist he wrote extensively on morals and literature, and as a minister he preached often on behalf of philanthropic causes and against war, arguing that " If the Christian religion in all its purity, and in its full force, were suffered to prevail universally, the sword of offensive war must be sheathed for ever, and the din of arms would at last be silenced in perpetual peace " and that " The total abolition of war, and the establishment of perpetual and universal peace, appear to me to be of more consequence than any thing ever achieved, or even attempted, by mere mortal man, since the creation ".

If Prokosch, like Faulkner, had limited his creative energies to one milieu, one region, he would certainly be counted today among the pillars of American literature .” Among the most noteworthy of Prokosch ’ s latter-day writings are A Tale for Midnight ( 1955 ), a Gothicized retelling of the Cenci story ; The Missolonghi Manuscript ( 1968 ), a “ mediation ” on the romantic artist ; and America, My Wilderness ( 1972 ), an excursion into magical realism.

Roger Sale, in his history of children's literature sums it up: " If L. Frank Baum has a successor, it is Brooks.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.