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kind and shock
He is caused to confess as soon as he shouts out in shock, and this is where the inspector gathers that Gerald had some kind of involvement in Eva / Daisy's life.
In addition, if the cysts were to rupture while in the body, whether during surgical extraction of the cysts or by some kind of trauma to the body, the patient would most likely go into anaphylactic shock and suffer from high fever, pruritus ( itching ), edema ( swelling ) of the lips and eyelids, dyspnea, stridor and rhinorrhea.
Unlike solitons ( another kind of nonlinear wave ), the energy of a shock wave dissipates relatively quickly with distance.
" Corot responded: " What there is to see in painting, or rather what I am looking for, is the form, the whole, the value of the tones … That is why for me the color comes after, because I love more than anything else the overall effect, the harmony of the tones, while color gives you a kind of shock that I don ’ t like.
The space between the two layers of it is filled with a pericardium fluid which protects the heart from any kind of external jerk or shock.
Nevertheless, the attack provoked shock and unease on Taiwan, where political violence of this kind is unknown in recent times.
After living a life devoted to worldly pleasures, ha-Levi was to experience a kind of " awakening "; a shock, that changed his outlook on the world.
You Can't Do That On Television was derided by parents from its very beginning as a local show on CJOH in 1979 for its ubiquitous bathroom humour and for breaking with the Canadian tradition of kind, gentle and educational shows for children, as well as for the shock value of certain sketches such as the show's infamous " green slime.
The kind of material broadcast by Glenn Beck is not unique ; a number of other ' shock jocks ' operate in the States.
The detection of molecular hydrogen from the collision was initially unexpected because the hydrogen molecule is very fragile and is easily destroyed in shock waves of the kind expected in Stephan's Quintet.
The attack provoked shock and unease in Taiwan, where political violence of this kind was commonplace against non-KMT members 40 years earlier.
" This knowledge-" that Dave could produce a page a day ... and that I was going to have to do the same "-was a shock, but proved to be " the very best kind of training ground.
Some of the characteristic features of this kind of fiction are the mingling and juxtaposition of the realistic and the fantastic or bizarre, skillful time shifts, convoluted and even labyrinthine narratives and plots, miscellaneous use of dreams, myths and fairy stories, expressionistic and even surrealistic description, arcane erudition, the element of surprise or abrupt shock, the horrific and the inexplicable.
A technology shock is the kind resulting from a technological development that affects productivity.
The article essentially accused certain members of the French left of being hypocrites ( for allegedly tolerating the same kind of racist behavior that they were protesting against ), and, as such, it came as a major shock and sparked much controversy.
He asks her if she is fine as it is apparent that she is in shock after some kind of accident.
Together with Ugo Cerletti, a neurophysiologist, he researched and discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy, a kind of shock therapy for mental diseases.
There is no tower strong enough nor any wall thick enough to withstand repeated blows of this kind, and many cannot resist the first shock.
Cold water dousing is used to " shock " the body into a kind of fever.
At a second competency hearing, Hart and Dinah were discovered together and a " kind, benevolent " Roger, he had never undergone the shock therapy and was pretending, was finally released from the mental hospital.
" The Guardian called it, " an arresting, genre-defying work – part speculative memoir, part Orwellian social reportage " that " induces the kind of shock he author must have experienced ..."

kind and ladies
In another house are two antelopes, painted with a kind of confident, flowing, decorative, calligraphic line, the famous fresco of a fisherman with his double strings of fish strung by their gills, and the flotilla of pleasure boats, accompanied by leaping dolphins, where ladies take their ease in the shade of light canopies, among other frescoes.
The hero who kisses old ladies and dogs and was kind to everybody.
However, in recent history it was unquestionably also employed as a kind of rake to keep in order the huge " heads " of powdered hair worn by ladies in the 18th and 19th centuries.
On 20 May 1806, there was a procession of the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Magistrates ( Baillies ), and Council, along with a numerous company of ladies and gentleman, for the opening of the first new Wet Dock, the first of its kind in North Britain.
The hero who kisses old ladies and dogs and was kind to everybody.
The areas are more varied than in the previous MSX2 game and a number of puzzles must be fulfilled to complete the game, such as luring a carrier pigeon with a specific kind of ration, chasing after a female spy to the ladies ' lavatory, and deciphering secret tap codes to gain new frequency numbers.
Described by Buseio as being one of " the most refined ladies of the country " she was a kind, fair and generous person, loved by her people.
Two general types of magic are identified among speakers, naborou, a beneficial love magic used by many young men in their pursuit of young ladies and yaamba, a kind of mildly destructive magic used to curse and hurt others.
" I shall never forget to my dying day, the long string of dusty travel-worn soldiers, who for a fortnight had been living on quarter rations, and fighting every day … the men were met by kind ladies with pails of tea which the poor fellows drunk as they had never drunk before – some bursting into tears.
Sloane Street, along with Sloane Square, also gives its name to " Sloane Rangers ", originally applied to the stereotypical kind of young upper class English ladies seen in the area.
In 1972, the brand caused a sensation in the field of ladies ’ watches by introducing the Mimosa and Galaxie models, both of which won the Golden Rose at the Baden-Baden international watch and jewelry competition held in Düsseldorf, Germany – the most important contest of its kind at the time.
They make guest appearances in the ladies ' concerts, most notably baritone ( and butcher ) Tewkesbury Ptolman, who appears in a number of the shows " by kind permission of Christopher Underwood ".

kind and gentlemen
For instance, we read of Whiting, the last abbot of Glastonbury, judicially murdered by Henry VIII, that his house was a kind of well-ordered court, where as many as 300 sons of noblemen and gentlemen, who had been sent to him for virtuous education, had been brought up, besides others of a lesser rank, whom he fitted for the universities.
763 people were professionals of some kind, and 401 of these were servants, while 16 were listed as " gentlemen of means ".
Fresh from Edgehill, he had told Hampden: " You must get men of a spirit that is likely to go as far as gentlemen will go ", not " old decayed serving-men, tapsters and such kind of fellows to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them ".
The oratory having increased, by the grace of God, with the coming together of prelates and of most important gentlemen, it seemed to me fitting in this second book to increase the harmony and the combination of parts, varying the music in diverse ways, now setting it to Latin words and now to the vernacular, sometimes with a greater number of voices and sometimes with fewer, with verses now of one kind and now of another, concerning myself as little as possible with imitations and complexities, in order not to obscure the understanding of the words.
To those gentlemen, therefore, who do not object to carrying weight, but who desire to have an axe fit for any kind of work, we recommend No. 3.
: a club of English gentlemen devoted to mountaineering, first of all in the Alps, members of which have successfully addressed themselves to attempts of the kind on loftier mountains.
A great deal of 17th-and 18th-century poetry was " occasional ", written to celebrate a particular event ( a marriage, birth, military victory ) or to solemnize a tragic occurrence ( a death, military defeat ), and this kind of poetry was frequent with gentlemen in the service of a noble or the king.

kind and committee
What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.
He promised nearly 200 Democratic county committee members at the meeting in the Puddingstone Inn: `` When I come back here after the November election you'll think, ' You're my man -- you're the kind of governor we're glad we elected ' ''.
Each state affiliate has a governing committee, usually consisting of statewide officers elected by state party members and regional representation of one kind or another.
Such galleries typically have a board of directors and a volunteer or paid support staff that select and curate shows by committee, or some kind of similar process to choose art that typically lacks commercial ends.
The submission will usually be assessed by a small committee of examiners appointed by the university, and often an oral examination of some kind.
Real power in Communist China lies with this committee, which works as a kind of inner cabinet and groups together the country ’ s most influential leaders.
In 1999 Fulvio Martini, former head of Italian military secret service SISMI, declared to a parliamentary committee that " In 1985 – 1987 we organized a kind of golpe in Tunisia, putting president Ben Ali as head of state, replacing Burghiba ( the Italian spelling of the name ) who wanted to flee ".
During the campaign, Moran was criticized by military advocacy groups and conservatives for saying, at a local Democratic committee meeting, that Murray had not " served or performed any kind of public service ".
At the time the committee did not yet elaborate on what kind of vehicles should be used on the metro: trams, heavier rail vehicles, buses or trolleybuses were all opes as alternatives.
Parliament could prefer those acts because they were valid only for a limited time and included mostly a kind of cooperation ( e. g., via a special house committee ).
Above the national executive committee, DSU has a kind of " second chamber ", the major council Hovedbestyrelsen, which consists of the national executive committee ( 13 members ) and 28 local representatives, elected in the 10 regions.
Cox told Benton that the Foreign Affairs Committee was " a worthless committee consisting of worthless impotent Congressmen ; it was a kind of ghetto of the House of Representatives.
The first edition of the IITK MUN was the first of its kind in India with exhaustive study guides for each committee and other resource support by dedicated in-house executive board.
The committee let it be known that contributions were being solicited for dinners of the visiting firemen and that baskets of refreshments of any kind should be left at the Academy of Music by 10: 00 a. m. on the second day of the Convention.
In 1873 the Sherwood estate with house and magnificent grounds was purchased by the committee for the boys school and is perhaps the finest site and establishment of its kind in India.
of a new and unique kind of tribunal, which would be neither a court of law nor a local authority committee.
Earlier, Lockyer warned the legislative conference committee that private lenders would be leery of any more " smoke-and-mirrors accounting tricks " and that lawmakers would have to rely heavily on spending cuts to balance the budget: " It seems to me that the kind of budget we will require before the end of June is almost entirely cuts ... My suggestion to you is don't delay the pain.

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