The mood and themes of the Gothic novel held a particular fascination for the Victorians, with their morbid obsession with mourning rituals, mementos, and mortality in general.

Above all, Huguenots became known for their harsh criticisms of doctrine and worship in the Catholic Church from which they had broken away, in particular the sacramental rituals of the Church and what they viewed as an obsession with death and the dead.

He also has an obsession for TV and the show Green Acres in particular.

His ‘ obsession ’ with Christ's wounds was linked the eroticism of his language – in particular the spear-wound in Christ's side which he and the community called the Seitenhölchen (‘ little side-hole ’).

Idée fixe began as a parent category of obsession, and as a preoccupation of mind the idée fixe resembles today's obsessive-compulsive disorder: although the afflicted person can think, reason and act like other people, they are unable to stop a particular train of thought or action.

It can also denote a strong obsession with a particular activity, e. g., " He's such a neat-freak " or " You're a singing freak ".

Examples of people who fell into such obsessions include rulers who neglected their duties at the hands of an obsession ( for a particular concubine, for example ) and thus fell into discord with their people, and usurpers of the throne who also met their end because of their obsession with gaining power.

" In May 1644 the scope of the Ordinance was widened to include representations of angels ( a particular obsession of Dowsing's ), rood lofts, holy water stoups, and images in stone, wood and glass and on plate.

The Gardaí become more determined to catch him as time goes on, in particular Noel Quigley, an officer whose ambition to catch Lynch becomes an obsession.

The plotline follows Serge A. Storms as he follows his recent obsession of Hollywood and movies, in particular the movie The Punisher, which was shot on location in Florida.

Some painters have less interest in the experience of the moment, with its attendant urgencies and ambiguities, than in looking beyond the flux of particular impressions to a higher, more serene level of truth.

The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.

and, as in the March home, any young man who called on the Szolds found himself confronted with a phalanx of femininity which made it rather difficult to direct his particular attention to any one of them.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

The `` conventional '' image of a particular time and place is not necessarily congruent with the image of the facts as established over the years by scholarly and scientific research.

The symposium provides an opportunity to confront the self with specific statements which were made at particular times by identifiable communicators who were addressing definite audiences -- and throughout several hundred pages everyone is talking about the same key symbol of identification.

In any inquiry into the way in which great literature affects the emotions, particularly with respect to the sense of harmony, or relief of tension, or sense of `` a transformed inner nature '' which may occur, a most careful exploration of the particular feature of the experience which produces the effect would be required.

Why did I choose to fill these pages in this particular issue with this mixture of rather tenuous reflections and autobiography??

Molotov, in particular, is being charged with all kinds of sins -- especially with wanting to cut down free public services, to increase rents and fares ; ;

The young banker looked at him with a certain surprise, and then he said flatly: `` I'm afraid I can't tell you anything in particular about Kent House.

In particular he sought the gentle, sweet-faced nuns, with head coverings and veils coming to the middle of their foreheads, remembering their expressions until he reached home and set them down on paper.

On Sundays he would walk miles into the campagna to visit with them, and in particular to see their horses.

Second, we can make assistance for particular projects conditional on the consistency of such projects with the program.

Families with children will have particular problems.

The District Courts, in the framing of equitable decrees, are clothed ' with large discretion to model their judgements to fit the exigencies of the particular case.

Perhaps the outstanding standard bearer of Mr. Brown's tradition for accuracy was Mr. Oscar J. Beale, whose mechanical genius closely paralleled that of Mr. Brown, and whose particular forte was the development of the exceedingly accurate measuring machinery that enabled Brown & Sharpe to manufacture gages, and therefore its products, with an accuracy exceeding anything then available elsewhere in the world.

The violinist, in particular, is very indulgent with swoops and slides, and his tone is pinched and edgy.

You will find a chart giving the various speed ratios available with your particular drill press somewhere in the instruction booklet that came with the tool.

By dealing with common landscape in an uncommon way, Roy Mason has found a particular niche in American landscape art.

With due consideration for the limits of precision in assessing, expected rate of change in ossification of girls age 2 years, and the known variations in rate of ossification of these children as described in our preceding paper in the Supplement, each arrow with a `` shaft length '' of four months or less was selected as indicating `` same schedule '' at Onset and Completion, for this particular epiphysis.

A number of strong independent agencies, established in some cases with governmental or royal support, have conducted large medical, social, educational and research operations in particular parts of the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi.

What with traders trading for so many different objectives, and what with there being so many unique and individualized market theories and trading techniques in use, and more coming into use all the time, it is hard to imagine how any particular theory or technique could acquire enough `` fans '' to invalidate itself.

Other applications include various electrophoresis and liquid chromatography applications for proteins and DNA, cell separation, in particular blood cell separation, protein analysis, cell manipulation and analysis including cell viability analysis and microorganism capturing.

Custodian capture is a technical term in board games referring to a particular form of capturing.

Rules for playing paintball vary, but can include capture the flag, elimination, ammunition limits, defending or attacking a particular point or area, or capturing objects of interest hidden in the playing area.

Mae Hong Son historical records state that in the year 1831, which corresponds to the reign of King Nangklao ( Rama III ) of the Rattanakosin Period, in the mueang of Phing Nakhon ( เม ื องพ ิ งค ์ นคร ) known today as Chiang Mai, in the lands of the Kingdom of Lannathai, was Phraya Chiang Mai Mahawong ( พระยาเช ี ยงใหม ่ มหาวงศ ์), who was later to ascend to the rank of Phra Chao Mahottraprathet Racha Thibodi ( พระเจ ้ ามโหตรประเทศราชาธ ิ บด ี), who knew that to the west of Chiang Mai, which meant the lands of today's Mae Hong Son, was a geography of tall mountains and dense forests inhabited by a myriad of forest creatures of which wild elephants in particular were in great abundance, and thus ordered Lord Kaeo, who was a relative of his and a local military chief and governor, to herd these elephants out into the custody of mahouts, to survey the feasibility of this task on such western frontierlands and to be of further service in the capturing of the elephants so that they might be trained for labour thereafter.

Article 9. 2 states that a position is considered identical to another if the same player is on move, the same types of pieces of the same colors occupy the same squares, and the same moves are available to each player ; in particular, each player has the same castling and en passant capturing rights.

The stage effort is divided into two components: a logical effort, g, which is the ratio of the input capacitance of a given gate to that of an inverter capable of delivering the same output current ( and hence is a constant for a particular class of gate and can be described as capturing the intrinsic properties of the gate ), and an electrical effort, h, which is the ratio of the input capacitance of the load to that of the gate.

Mission objectives in the single-player game are primarily achieved by destroying key enemy elements, capturing particular targets, protecting certain units for a particular amount of time, or towing an object back to the Mothership.

Numerous further characterizations of such manifolds exist, in particular capturing the property of their having " many " holomorphic functions taking values in the complex numbers.

: At a particular stage of the attack his further advance was threatened by a strong point which was an objective of the battalion on his left, but which they had not succeeded in capturing.

After one particular battle with Freia, the protagonist receives a special memory box ( a data-storage device for capturing images and sounds ).

The major challenge faced by France Inter at the time of its reorganization in the 1960s was the success which – by adopting a more modern broadcasting style and by earning a reputation for greater freedom from government influence – the private " peripheral stations " ( in particular, RTL and Europe 1 ), broadcasting from powerful transmitters outside France, had achieved in capturing the majority of the French radio audience since the war.

Regulatory capture refers to when this imbalance of focused resources devoted to a particular policy outcome is successful at " capturing " influence with the staff or commission members of the regulatory agency, so that the preferred policy outcomes of the special interest are implemented.