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.

If anyone speaks against him or refuses to cry, then he will remain with Hel.

If she did, he could stand it better in the light.

If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.

If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.

If, as she walked, her steps fumbled from time to time, she chose to ignore that omen.

If the slope grew steeper and the groves more dim, she tried not to heed.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

If she wanted to borrow any sum of money in expecting the arrangements of Congress, it would not become a stranger, unknown to her, to offer himself for that purpose.

If he bites a playmate she says, `` Danny won't like you ''.

If he snatches a toy, she says, `` Caroline wants her own truck just as you do ''.

If a dancer is good, she suggests purely and superbly the fundamental mechanics of ancestry and progeny -- the continuum of mankind.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

If Blanche had been honest, she would have yelled, slammed at least a couple of doors, and thrown a few little, valueless things.

but then Arlene got another tone in a hurry, and she said, `` If it wasn't for these dear children '' --.

If we manage to keep track of a Bombus queen after she has left her feeding place, we may discover the snug little hideout which she has fixed up for herself when she woke up from her winter sleep.

If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried.

However this did not make Reynolds happy, as he wrote to Boswell: " If I had known what a shabby miserable place it is, I would not have asked for it ; besides as things have turned out I think a certain person is not worth speaking to, nor speaking of ", presumably meaning the King.

If some other method was used, the triples were first constructed and then reordered by, presumably for actual use as a " table ", i. e., with a view to applications.

If this is the case, that influence and presumably Nefertiti's own life would have ended by year 3 of Tutankhaten's reign ( 1331 BC ).

If a metropolitan ( or, presumably, a pope ) leaves his office before he dies, his pallium is rolled up and placed with him in his coffin.

If such a country decides to implement a constitution, presumably some sort of constituent assembly will have to be set up for the purpose.

If not, one has paid the fee, and presumably this can pay for landfill or litter control measures that dispose of diapers or a broken bottle.

If Reilly did visit Japan, presumably to be paid for his espionage, he could not have stayed very long, for by June 1904 Reilly appeared in Paris, France.

* If he was thrown off a train, what was he doing at Aldgate, well past the stop where he presumably would have gone?

If mice are blind from birth, super-normal growth of the vibrissae occurs presumably as a compensatory response, or if the vibrissae are absent, the use of vision is intensified.

If the camp needed more gates, one or two of the Porta Quintana were built, presumably named dextra and sinistra.

If his body washed ashore on 30 April, presumably after several days at sea, then he must have flown from Britain and crashed at sea.

If Davidson goes hiking in a swamp and is struck and killed by a lightning bolt while nearby another lightning bolt spontaneously rearranges a bunch of molecules so that, entirely by coincidence, they take on exactly the same form that Davidson's body had at the moment of his untimely death then this being, ' Swampman ', has a brain structurally identical to that which Davidson had and will thus presumably behave exactly like Davidson.

If the conspiracy is uncovered, Durer is ( presumably ) arrested with the others.

If these legends preserve authentic tradition, then historically Gibica of the Burgundian Laws might have been the father of the three kings Gundomar, Gislaharius, and Gundaharius who shared the kingdom among them, presumably with Gundaharius as the high king ( the sharing of the throne between brothers was a common tradition among the Germanic tribes, see Germanic king ).

If Yamashina's hypothesis is correct, the Mariana Mallard would have presumably evolved into near species status in only about ten thousand years.

If the entr ' acte indeed started life as the finale of this symphony, then Schubert evidently discarded it ( probably at that stage unorchestrated ) from the symphony and used it instead in the play, presumably only orchestrating it for this purpose and perhaps making compositional changes.

If occurring in the second half, the receiving team would presumably be tied or trailing by three points or fewer so that a successful field goal is significant.

If she purposefully shoots him, she has preserved her dominance in the relationship, and ensures that she will keep his wealth ( presumably the only reason they married in the first place ).

If the heirs of King Juan Carlos I were to expire, the 1978 Constitution reserves the right for the Cortes to designate the successor branch in a manner suitable for Spain, and presumably the Cortes would consider the claims of these heirs.

If however, the lifestyle of the ward breaches the contract they are expected sign ( without legal representation of their own ) in the presence of the social worker, who is presumably at the time looking out for the best interests of the child, their assistance is then severed immediately, provided the child is at the time, over the age of 16 ( which they are if they qualified for ECM to begin with ).