All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

When he was asked a question or addressed in such a way that some response was inescapable, he would answer ; ;

Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever.

One such project is the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project that built on existing conservation efforts in Panama to create a country-wide response to the threat of chytridiomycosis.

As such, it is distinguished from fear, which is an appropriate cognitive and emotional response to a perceived threat.

Any information may be conveyed by an analog signal ; often such a signal is a measured response to changes in physical phenomena, such as sound, light, temperature, position, or pressure.

Suggested alternatives include: a community under the pressure of starvation or extreme social stress, dismemberment and cannibalism as religious ritual or in response to religious conflict, the influx of outsiders seeking to drive out a settled agricultural community via calculated atrocity, or an invasion of a settled region by nomadic raiders who practiced cannibalism ; such peoples have existed in other times and places, e. g. the Androphagi of Europe.

" Amazing Grace " is emblematic of several kinds of folk music styles, often used as the standard example to illustrate such musical techniques as lining out and call and response, that have been practiced in both black and white folk music.

According to Diogenes Laertius, in response to Alexander's claim to have been the son of Zeus-Ammon, Anaxarchus pointed to his bleeding wound and remarked, " See the blood of a mortal, not ichor, such as flows from the veins of the immortal gods.

A further approach, elaborated by André Malraux in works such as The Voices of Silence, is that art is fundamentally a response to a metaphysical question (' Art ', he writes, ' is an ' anti-destiny ').

As a response armour plating was added to aircraft to protect aircrew and vulnerable areas such as fuel tanks and engine.

They are chiefly responsible for releasing hormones in response to stress through the synthesis of corticosteroids such as cortisol and catecholamines such as epinephrine ( adrenaline ) and norepinephrine.

As a result, the malignant cells experience an abnormal response to apoptosis induction: cycle regulating genes ( such as p53, ras or c-myc ) are mutated or inactivated in diseased cells, and further genes ( such as bcl-2 ) also modify their expression in tumors.

This system is activated in response to a fall in blood pressure ( hypotension ), as well as markers of problems with the salt-water balance of the body, such as decreased sodium concentration in the distal tubule of the kidney, decreased blood volume and stimulation of the kidney by the sympathetic nervous system.

Early detection and rapid response to bioterrorism depend on close cooperation between public health authorities and law enforcement ; however, such cooperation is currently lacking.

Additional to such natural biochemical stimuli, the breasts can become enlarged consequent to an adverse side effect of combined oral contraceptive pills ; and the size of the breasts can also increase and decrease in response to the body weight fluctuations of the woman.

Behavior as used in computer science is an anthropomorphic construct that assigns " life " to the activities carried out by a computer, computer application, or computer code in response to stimuli, such as user input.

Commonly used experimental techniques include spectroscopy, with probes such as X-rays, infrared light and inelastic neutron scattering ; study of thermal response, such as specific heat and measurement of transport via thermal and heat conduction.

In several paradigms, such as the technique of response priming, the behavior of subjects is clearly influenced by stimuli for which they report no awareness.

More elaborate scales, such as the Glasgow Coma Scale, quantify an individual's reactions such as eye opening, movement and verbal response on a scale ; Glasgow Coma Scale ( GCS ) is an indication of the extent of brain injury varying from 3 ( indicating severe brain injury and death ) to a maximum of 15 ( indicating mild or no brain injury ).

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.

The doctrine was formulated in the second century in the first of the three senses given by Ramsey, originally as a response to Gnostic claims of having received secret teaching from Christ or the apostles ; it emphasised the public manner in which the apostles had passed on authentic teaching to those whom they entrusted with the care of the churches they founded and that these in turn had passed it on to their successors.

In response McGuinness rejected the claims as " fantasy ", while Gerry O ' Hara, a Sinn Féin councillor in Derry stated that he and not Ward was the Fianna leader at the time.

Ten years later, limited liability, the key provision of modern corporate law, passed into English law: in response to increasing pressure from newly emerging capital interests, Parliament passed the Limited Liability Act 1855, which established the principle that any corporation could enjoy limited legal liability on both contract and tort claims simply by registering as a " limited " company with the appropriate government agency.

In response, Loki calls Freyja a malicious witch, and claims that Freyja was once astride her brother Freyr, when all of the other laughing gods surprised her, Freyja then farted.

In 1908, Weber published an article in which he drew a sharp methodological distinction between psychology and economics and attacked the claims that the marginal theory of value in economics reflected the form of the psychological response to stimuli as described by the Weber-Fechner law.

Möller claims that it was actually an extrajudicial killing, orchestrated by the German government, in response to Red Army Faction demands that the prisoners be released.

In response, several vaccine makers stopped production, which the US government believed could be a threat to public health, so laws were passed to shield makers from liabilities stemming from vaccine injury claims.

Another legend claims that following the Navigation Acts ( an ordinance by Oliver Cromwell requiring all foreign fleets in the North Sea or the Channel to dip their flag in salute ) the Wilhelmus was sung ( or rather, shouted ) by the sailors on the Dutch flagship Brederode in response to the first warning shot fired by an English fleet under Robert Blake, when their captain Maarten Tromp refused to lower his flag.

* The League of Augsburg is founded in response to claims made by Louis XIV of France on the Electorate of the Palatinate in western Germany.

Pointing to Private Willis of the First Grenadier Guards, who is the sentry on duty, the Queen claims that she is able to subdue her response to the effects of manly beauty.

In response to potential competitors, the Russians extended their claims eastward from the Commander Islands to the shores of Alaska.

In response to the tribunal's ruling concerning the allegations about Prince Harry, the school issued a statement, saying Forsyth's claims " were dismissed for what they always have been-unfounded and irrelevant.

These claims provoked an immediate response by a number of anthropologists.

Persson said in response to these claims: " I can't exactly recapitulate the event but I can say as much that I'm surprised that Pär Nuder remembers anything ".

In response, Loki claims that Sif has had an affair with him:

The statement was issued in response to reports that the name of the Smithsonian Institute was being improperly used to lend credibility to the claims of those looking to support the events of the Book of Mormon.

Partially in response to these claims, the Hall of Fame opened an International Hockey exhibit and announced that it would start looking at more international players for induction.

Although not specifically intended to resolve, or address claims of a " Lost Colony " at Roanoke, Special Indian Agent Orlando M. McPherson of North Carolina in response to a Senate Resolution in 1914 completed an investigation into the Indians of North Carolina.

In response to the publication of Silent Spring and the uproar that ensued, U. S. President John F. Kennedy directed his Science Advisory Committee to investigate Carson's claims.

Manuel Noriega, in America's Prisoner, claims that these negotiations had evoked an extremely unfavorable response from American circles.

Unlike mathematicians, philosophers cannot prove their claims beyond any doubt, so other philosophers are free to disagree and try to find counterexamples in response.

TANSTAAFL is sometimes used as a response to claims of the virtues of free software.

This allegation drew a response from Kinsey biographer James H. Jones, who wrote that unless new evidence to the contrary becomes available, Reisman's claims that Kinsey may have witnessed or personally participated in child molestation under the guise of scientific research must be considered groundless.

* Wade Englund's apologetic response to the Tanners ' claims of wrongdoing surrounding the Kirtland Safety Society