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way and both
She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.
For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.
both were obviously on the way to the Mercer home.
Woodruff had supported him all the way, both as a chief executive and as a man.
It could go either way, since the gains for both points of view were about the same.
For the illusion of depth created by the contrast between the affixed material and everything else gives way immediately to an illusion of forms in bas-relief, which gives way in turn, and with equal immediacy, to an illusion that seems to contain both -- or neither.
The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).
That way was barred on both sides of the road by a high barbed-wire fence.
And when the stranger found out that Phil was on the way to one of his favorite bars, he insisted on offering to buy drinks for both of them.
On this issue, the President received a detailed report from his U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, who had just returned from Paris, and Mr. Kennedy asked Stevenson to search for a face-saving way -- for both Paris and Tunis -- out of the imbroglio.
Suppose they both had ventured into realms which their colleagues thought infidel: is this the way gentlemen settle frank differences of opinion??
The way she strutted down the street, the Old Man would have been blind not to have noticed both.
More recently, Alasdair MacIntyre has attempted to reform what he calls the Aristotelian tradition in a way that is anti-elitist and capable of disputing the claims of both liberals and Nietzscheans.
Baker notes the uncanny way that both authors imply an ironic " justification by ownership " over the subject of sacrificing children — Tertullian while attacking pagan parents, and Swift while attacking the English mistreatment of the Irish poor.
In modern times, some idioms refer to the ocean in a humorously diminutive way as the Pond, describing both the geographical and cultural divide between North America and Europe, in particular between the English-speaking nations of both continents.
Chan's method for estimating the mean is numerically unstable when and both are large, because the numerical error in is not scaled down in the way that it is in the case.
Furthermore, mixing matter and antimatter can lead to the annihilation of both, in the same way that mixing antiparticles and particles does, thus giving rise to high-energy photons ( gamma rays ) or other particle – antiparticle pairs.
To give a schematic scenario by way of illustration: two men have clashed in the assembly about a proposal put by one of them ; it passed, and now the two of them go to court with the loser in the assembly prosecuting both the law and its proposer.
Several scholars have argued that Acts used material from both of Josephus ' works, rather than the other way around, which would indicate that Acts was written around the year 100 or later.
An associative R-algebra is an additive abelian group A which has the structure of both a ring and an R-module in such a way that ring multiplication is R-bilinear:
Bodyguards act as a shield for the potential target, keeping lookout for potential attackers ( sometimes in advance, for example on a parade route ), and putting themselves in harm's wayboth by simple presence, showing that physical force is available to protect the target, and by shielding the target during any attack.

way and myth
In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.
The statement is often made that when Bultmann argues in this way, he `` overestimates the intellectual stumbling-block which myth is supposed to put in the way of accepting the Christian faith ''.
Writing in 1933, Charles Fenner suggested that it was likely that the " actual origin of the bunyip myth lies in the fact that from time to time seals have made their way up the ... Murray and Darling ( Rivers )".
The technological aspect of film changes the way the myth is distributed, but the core idea of the myth is the same.
Also, by using his many Greek references and showing that his plays were originally Greek, “ It is possible that Plautus was in a way a teacher of Greek literature, myth, art and philosophy ; so too was he teaching something of the nature of Greek words to people, who, like himself, had recently come into closer contact with that foreign tongue and all its riches .”
What has happened to Scott's reputation, Crane argues, derives from the way the world has changed since the heroic myth was formed: " It is not that we see him differently from the way they contemporaries did, but that we see him the same, and instinctively do not like it.
" is simply a true myth: a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God's myth where the others are men's myths: i. e. the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call real things.
He thereby laid open the way for future Antarctic exploration by exploding the myth of a habitable southern continent.
Norwegian dictionaries since the 1950s have mentioned Vaaler as the inventor of the paper clip, and that myth later found its way into international dictionaries and much of the international literature on paper clips.
According to the myth, during her search Demeter traveled long distances and had many minor adventures along the way.
In a comparable way, the Elder Brethren of the Popol Vuh Twin myth are transformed into monkeys, with their younger brothers becoming Sun and Moon.
“ Little Women indisputably enlarges the myth of American womanhood by insisting that the home and the women ’ s sphere cherish individuality and thus produce young adults who can make their way in the world while preserving a critical distance from its social arrangements .” As with all youth, the March girls had to grow up.
Shakespeare might have paid homage to this myth as a way of exploring gender roles in his own.
Another British fantasy author, Neil Gaiman, claimed that " Garner's fiction is something special " in that it was " smart and challenging, based in the here and the now, in which real English places emerged from the shadows of folklore, and in which people found themselves walking, living and battling their way through the dreams and patterns of myth.
In the Greek myth, Procrustes was a son of Poseidon with a stronghold on Mount Korydallos at Erineus, on the sacred way between Athens and Eleusis.
Cicero reports the myth in this way: They tell us that one day as the land was being ploughed in the territory of Tarquinii, and a deeper furrow than usual was made, suddenly Tages sprang out of it and addressed the ploughman.

way and folklore
As an integral part of human culture and civilization, shoes have found their way into our culture, folklore, and art.
Roeselare also houses some kind of folklore around the character named Peegie, he's a slick merchant, and is in a way based on the real character of the town as a merchant town in his early days.
The immigrants brought with them Mestizo culture: Spanish and Yucatec Maya language, Catholicism and Maya folklore, the use of alcalde, their family structure and way of life.
According to local folklore, the dispute began in medieval times with a young bride being married to an old man and a knight stealing his way over the mountains to rescue her.
Several commentators have noted that Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature with his innovative explorations of racial identity, use of African-American speech and folklore, and the way in which he exposed the skewed logic of Jim Crow strictures.
Tristan makes his first medieval appearance in the early twelfth century in Celtic folklore circulating in the north of France, and Brittany in particular, which had close ancestral and cultural links with Cornwall by way of the ancient British kingdom of Dumnonia, as made clear in the story itself.
Typical activities of a MEChA chapters include educational & social activities, such as academic tutoring, mentorship, folklore and poetry recitals, exploring the way of life through an indigenous perspective bringing Chicano speakers to their campus, high school outreach, attending Statewide, Regional, & National Conferences.
Godparents are noted features of fairy tales and folklore written from the 17th century onwards, and by extension, have found their way into many modern works of fiction.
In his 1929 book The History of the Devil-The Horned God of the West Herne R. Lowe Thompson suggests that " Herne " as well as other Wild Huntsmen in European folklore all derive from the same ancient source, citing that " Herne " may be a cognate of the name of Gaulish deity Cernunnos in the same way that the English " horn " is a cognate of the Latin " cornu " ( see Grimm's Law for more details on this linguistic feature ).
The best way to gain an understanding of Scandinavian folklore is to examine the creatures of the tales.
As the néo-trad movement adapts Quebec folklore into contemporary crafts, the political message of the band is a re-occurrence of 1970s chansonnier activist messages of left-wing solidarity and, recently, sovereignism, although in a more distinctly modern way.
If the body of the Horcrux's creator is destroyed, the person is still able to survive, much the same way as Koschei in Russian folklore.
According to folklore, each morning Aušrinė and her servant Tarnaitis ( possibly Mercury ) prepare the way for Saulė ( the Sun ).
In the end, the expansion was described by some as an unfinished product: time sinks, unfinished and broken content, unfinished and broken software, and very little in the way of role playing and folklore.
* Wayob, plural form ( singular way ), spirit companions appearing in mythology and folklore of Maya peoples of the Yucatán Peninsula
The expression can also encompass all Trad groups, modern times bands playing Québécois folklore ( in a traditional way ) like La Bottine Souriante, Les Charbonniers de l ' Enfer, La Volée d ' Castors and Les Batinses.
As such, the poem shows signs of having entered the folklore process of oral tradition, and may be on its way to becoming an underground nursery rhyme of sorts, after the manner of Pounds, Shillings, and Pence.
It refers to various groups in folklore who were said to change the physical appearance of human beings by manipulating growing children, in a similar way to the horticultural method of bonsai – that is, deliberate mutilation.
Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein is a farm in the North West province of South Africa, located about 200 km west of Pretoria and 20 km east of Lichtenburg whose 44-character name has entered South African folklore in much the same way that Llanfairpwllgwyngyll-gogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysilio-gogogoch railway station has entered British folklore.
The Awadhi dialect of Hindi was enriched by a number of Sufi writers who wove some romantic tales of the folklore type into beautiful allegorical plays by way of elucidating the characteristics of Sufi doctrines.
The American Folklore Society awards the Ben Botkin Prize to individuals whose work in documenting American folklore has deepened the conversation of the way in which people create an art that reflects their reality and transmits culture and understanding.
Allegro also started to look in more depth at the way the New Testament appeared to weave together a mix of folklore, myth, incantation and history.

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