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They view life as more fluid and less structured allowing for creativity and passionate pursuits.
In the novel, Lora May ( not Lora Mae ) is less a gold digger than a woman who has always been dominated by her wealthy husband ; Rita is trying to succeed in a second marriage with a man she has never felt passionate about ; and Deborah is a plain and quiet ex-spinster whose " catch " of a husband has been disappointed in her lack of success in society.
His forceful, passionate speaking, popular on the platform, was less effective in the halls of legislation.
Maya Deren had a passionate sense of social commitment and moral purpose that distinguished her from the less favorable values of the entertainment industry ; from the indifferent, ironic attitudes of her surrealist and dada predecessors ; from the cool, hip attitudes of her Beat successors ; from the passive aesthetic of stylized filmmakers ; and from the pretentious attitudes of contemporary film theorists.
Elizabeth is satisfied that reckless, passionate Mary's romantic misadventures will keep her busy in Scotland and give shrewd, practical Elizabeth less to worry about.
Through the 1930s their relationship became less passionate as her international career flourished, and Bax sought a quieter haven with his gentler mistress Mary Gleaves ; nonetheless the affair continued and they remained close, as private letters between Cohen and Bax reveal.
Composer Peter Eötvös explains: " In the opera version, I put less emphasis on the political line than Kushner ... I rather focus on the passionate relationships, on the highly dramatic suspense of the wonderful text, on the permanently uncertain state of the visions.
That is not to say that the Danbury fans are any less passionate.
was introduced as a new show, Russo was not happy about writing two more hours of shows per week, especially due to the fact he was feeling overworked, burnt out, and less passionate working in the WWF creative team for so long.
Aristotle answers this question by formulating the concept of " catharsis " (, purification ), the tragedy that confronts men passionate and irrational impulses ( matricide, incest, cannibalism, suicide, infanticide ...) that are more or less unconsciously, in the human, allowing individuals to sfogarli harmlessly, in a sort of exorcism of mass.
By 1850, both Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists were finding that their differences were less significant and passionate.
When an individual is passionate about their occupation they tend to be less obsessive about their behaviors while on their job, and result in greater work and extra-work satisfaction.
A less known fact about Walter P. Kistler is that he is a passionate lover of shorthand and has invented the Newrite system of shorthand now being propagated in India.

less and still
Their books found no less willing readers outside than inside the South, even while memories of the war were still sharp.
they still benefit far less than the `` other '' 50 per cent of the nation from that `` welfare state '' which the Soviet Union so greatly prides itself on being.
But having lived with the disc for some time now, I find the performance less exciting than either Schnabel's or Fleisher's ( whose superb performance with the Budapest Quartet has still to be recorded ) and a good deal less filled with humor than Curzon's.
Up to date, however, his garden was still more or less of a mess, he hadn't even started his workshop and if there was a meadow pond in the neighborhood he hadn't found it.
At greater distances from the sun, the situation is still less certain.
And while all concerned are members of the literal public, somewhat less than all concerned, although still a majority, form the quotation marked `` public ''.
After a while we were perhaps less surprised, but still puzzled, when a friendly discussion would suddenly jump the track into the most irrelevant and illogical comparisons.
Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.
When he came to the movies -- more or less by accident -- they were still cheap entertainment capable of enthralling the unthinking for an idle few minutes.
If the voice is just a shade less glorious than it used to be, it is still a beautiful instrument, controlled and flexible.
In disposition Alexander bore little resemblance to his soft-hearted, liberal father, and still less to his refined, philosophic, sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning granduncle, emperor Alexander I of Russia, who could have been given the title of " the first gentleman of Europe ".
After hard lessons early in the war, machine guns were mounted for use against infantry but the limited traverse of the mounting meant that they were still less effective than those used on turreted tanks.
The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.
The game data still needed to be copied from ROM to RAM before it could be used, so less memory was available and the games loaded relatively slowly.
It was used to good advantage in the 1991 Gulf War, where it scored many USAF air-to-air kills ; its kill probability, overall, is still less than 40 %.
Some carbohydrates ( especially after condensation to oligo-and polysaccharides ) contain less carbon relative to H and O, which still are present in 2: 1 ( H: O ) ratio.
The flavour is typically less malty than a traditional bock, and may be drier, hoppier, and more bitter, but still with a relatively low hop flavour, with a mild spicy or peppery quality from the hops, increased carbonation and alcohol content.
Front-engined buses still persist for niche markets such as American school buses, some minibuses, and buses in less developed countries, which may be derived from truck chassis, rather than purpose-built bus designs.
A unit may charge with high morale but less discipline and still emerge victorious.
Arguably, terrain is of less importance in modern warfare, due to the advent of aircraft, though terrain is still vital for camouflage, especially for guerrilla warfare.
Perforator techniques such as the DIEP ( deep inferior epigastric perforator ) flap and SIEA ( superficial inferior epigastric artery ) flap require precise dissection of small perforating vessels through the rectus muscle, and purport the advantage of less weakening of the abdominal wall, though rectus abdominus muscle function may still be compromised.
To anonymous laborers fell the less skilled stages of brick production: mixing clay and water, driving oxen over the mixture to trample it into a thick paste, scooping the paste into standardized wooden frames ( to produce a brick roughly 42 cm long, 20 cm wide, and 10 cm thick ), smoothing the surfaces with a wire-strung bow, removing them from the frames, printing the fronts and backs with stamps that indicated where the bricks came from and who made them, loading the kilns with fuel ( likelier wood than coal ), stacking the bricks in the kiln, removing them to cool while the kilns were still hot, and bundling them into pallets for transportation.
Long-term inpatient stays are now less common due to deinstitutionalization, although these can still occur.
This still takes place more or less every five years and concludes with a game of Cornish hurling.

less and interesting
Even then, a few of the `` less interesting '' questions are edited out and glibly summarized by a commentator.
The debate is interesting enough, however, that it is considered of note when a theorem in ZFC ( ZF plus AC ) is logically equivalent ( with just the ZF axioms ) to the axiom of choice, and mathematicians look for results that require the axiom of choice to be false, though this type of deduction is less common than the type which requires the axiom of choice to be true.
The attempt to be original, through thinking, creates a less interesting idea.
Another advantage of ISDN was the possibility of multiple simultaneous calls ( one call per B channel ), e. g. for big families, but with the increased popularity and reduced prices of mobile telephony this has become less interesting as well, making ISDN unappealing to the private customer.
This can produce interesting visual effects, although the resulting fabric is more rigid, because the slipped stitch " pulls " on its neighbours and is less deformable.
" No ties " is probably the more common rule, but this makes swing declarations so dangerous that they are rare, and therefore makes the game less interesting, so the ties-acceptable rule is preferred by some professionals.
In this case, the pawnshop is less interesting to customers, because it is mostly empty.
) and for a small number of slightly less bright but " interesting " stars ( Algol, Polaris, Mira, etc .).
Such work is sometimes seen as less interesting and less appreciated by peers, especially if an analysis, however diligent and time-consuming, does not turn up much of interest.
Her on-screen personality was deemed less interesting than that of Blackman's Gale and it was decided she simply wasn't right for the role.
Adams argues that Jack will only have skipped the less interesting bits of the cathedral if “ he had been less interested in seeing everything in the cathedral than in maximizing utility.
The New York Critique wrote, " He is an orator by divine right, and his strong, intelligent face in its picturesque setting of yellow and orange was hardly less interesting than those earnest words, and the rich, rhythmical utterance he gave them.
* Every compact Hausdorff space of weight at most ( see Aleph number ) is the continuous image of ( this does not need the continuum hypothesis, but is less interesting in its absence ).
This follows from other, less simple ( but very interesting ) representations of the knot:
Having a perfect resolution at the end where we know it was " Colonel Mustard in the library with a candle stick " was less important for Chandler than having interesting characters who behave in believable ways.
Upon returning to Denmark, August became a member of the Royal Theatre, dancing in repertory that was less interesting to him after his exposure to Paris ballet.
Though less well known than the Charing Cross, the downfall of the Cheapside Cross is one of the most interesting and arguably important examples of iconoclasm in English history.
Finally, the term is sometimes applied to less rigorous ideas that may be interesting observations or relationships, practical or ethical guidelines ( also called rules of thumb ), and even humorous parodies of such laws.
One of the most interesting features of any VECSEL is the small thickness of the semiconductor gain region in the direction of propagation, less than 100 nm.
The movie is an exercise in self-indulgence ( if often an interesting one ) by Boorman, who more or less had carte blanche to do a personal project after his immensely successful Deliverance.
One of the most interesting details of the game is an opportunity for a Magick User to be part of a guild or society, more or less secret, including members of his class, and sometimes other classes of magicians pursuing the same ideals and animated by the same designs.
Without this ' device ' the hero would never find the headquarters and be unable to reach the climactic scene ; however the character becomes less of a plot device if the author gives them a back-story and a plausible motivation for defecting and makes them an interesting character in their own right.
Junior counts orthodox, ordinary moves as two moves, while it counts interesting moves as only one move, or even less.

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