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 this be true, the possibility exists that an occlusive lesion of the bronchial arteries might cause widespread degeneration of supportive tissue similar to that seen in generalized emphysema.

If it could be shown that judgments of good and bad were not judgments at all, that they asserted nothing true or false, but merely expressed emotions like `` Hurrah '' or `` Fiddlesticks '', then these wayward judgments would cease from troubling and weary heads could be at rest.

If only the latter were true.

If it's true that contented cows give more milk, why shouldn't happy ball players produce more base hits??

If this is true, then the universe today looks just as it did millions of years ago and as it will look millions of years hence, even though the universe is expanding.

If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow

If light moves instantaneously, the telescope does not move, and the true direction of the star relative to the observer can be found by following the line ES.

If is true, and then one may infer that is true.

If is true, then one may infer that is true, and also that is true.

If this is true it would support the notion that God is himself the Redeemer, by associating him with the living Redeemer in the parallel structure.

If this is a true observation, it may be expected that the audience which both demands and consumes this emphasis itself is more receptive to personalized, dramatic accounts of social phenomena.

If one statement is true in a category C then its dual will be true in the dual category C < sup > op </ sup >.

If a 7 comes instead of the point coming, the odds pay at true odds of 1-to-2 if 4 or 10 is the point, 2-to-3 if 5 or 9 is the point, 5-to-6 if 6 or 8 is the point.

If the report is true, this marked Kidd's first foray into piracy.

If not " true " crannogs, small occupied islets ( often at least partially artificial in nature ) may be referred to as island duns, although rather confusingly, 22 islet-based sites are classified as ' proper ' crannogs due to the different interpretations of the inspectors or excavators who drew up field reports Canmore search for crannog in the Western Isles Hebridean island dwellings or crannogs were commonly built on both natural and artificial islets, usually reached by means of a stone causeway.

If we are told that at least one of two statements is true ; and also told that it is not the former that is true ; we can infer that it has to be the latter that is true.

If either P or Q is true and P is false, then Q is true.

If a Candidate has already received his Mark Degree in his Craft Lodge, then his initiation into the Chapter is preceded by a short ceremony of Affiliation to the Mark Lodge associated (" moored ") to that Chapter.

According to Mark Weber, associate editor of the IHR's Journal of Historical Review Director of the IHR, " If by the ' Holocaust ' you mean the political persecution of Jews, some scattered killings, if you mean a cruel thing that happened, no one denies that.

" If the criteria had been different ," the cosmonaut trainer Mark Gallai noted in an interview, " certainly Komarov, who was very intelligent, would have been in the group.

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

If Mark was editing Matthew and Luke, it is hard to see why he would add so little material, if he was going to add anything at all.

English film critic Mark Kermode, a dissenting voice amongst Showgirls positive critical reevaluation, has stated, " If Showgirls had any appeal at all, it was that it was so spectacularly vulgar and crude ," and " I still think it's just rubbish, and I like Paul Verhoeven.

If investing is your pleasure, you may have heard of Mark Spitznagel, who manages a multi-billion dollar hedge fund.

If the autograph has been personalized ( i. e. " To Mark ") the autograph devalues the item on the public market.

" Illustrated by Mark Fredrickson, the cover was a double parody, also referencing the January 1973 issue of National Lampoon which depicted a gun being held to a real dog's head and the line " If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog.

New York based band Mindless Self Indulgence released a track entitled " Mark David Chapman " on their album If.

A two-volume history of the magazine, If You're Cracked, You're Happy, written by Mark Arnold ( historian ) was published in June 2011.

Two new tracks were included as well: " Used to the Pain ", previously a single in 1998 for its co-writer, Mark Nesler, and " If I Don't Make It Back ".

If the letter is genuine, the Secret Mark to which it refers may be, at most, an ancient but secondary edition of Mark produced in the second century by some group seeking to promote its own esoteric interests.

If we accept Helmut Koester's theory that the canonical Mark is a revision of Secret Mark, another explanation is possible: namely, that the ancient editor who deleted an earlier encounter of Jesus with such a young man in a cloth, then added this incident also involving a young man during Jesus ' arrest.

If Secret Mark is dependent on all four canonical gospels, then it was written after John and could not have been used as a source by John's author.

If what is portrayed in Secret Mark is indeed a baptism, then the placement of this story within the canonical Mark is highly significant.

* " If at first you don't secede ..." by Mark Dapin, The Sydney Morning Herald-Good Weekend, 12 February 2005, pp 47 – 50

During spring training in 2001, Mark McGwire told Cardinals ' manager Tony La Russa " If you don't put on the roster for the 2001 season, it might be one of the worst moves you make in your career.

So does " Loco-Motion " by Carole King, Gerry Goffin, and " Ours If We Want It " written by Tom Snow & Mark Mueller.

If the air is clear enough, the Mark I telescope can be seen from high-rise buildings in Manchester such as the Beetham Tower, and from as far away as the Pennines, Winter Hill in Lancashire, Snowdonia, Beeston Castle in Cheshire, and the Peak District.