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When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.
The relic worship and monasticism of the Middle Ages were more advanced forms than were primitive fetish worship and nature myths.
In the more primitive areas, where the capacity to absorb and utilize external assistance is limited, some activities may be of such obvious priority that we may decide to support them before a well worked out program is available.
On the basis of its life history, we like to think that Andrena is more primitive than the bumblebees.
Among primitive peoples the sanctions and dictates of religion were more binding than any of the other controls exercised by the group ; ;
The ceaseless effort to understand and measure the distance mankind has traversed since its primitive anthropological status offers a more durable sort of drama.
The function of Apollo as a " healer " is connected with Paean ( Παιών-Παιήων ), the physician of the Gods in the Iliad, who seems to come from a more primitive religion.
Ichthyostega was one of the first primitive amphibians, with nostrils and more efficient lungs.
It is the belief of Old Babylonian scholars such as Carruccio that Old Babylonians " may have used the abacus for the operations of addition and subtraction ; however, this primitive device proved difficult to use for more complex calculations ".
A. ramidus had a more primitive walking ability than later hominids, and could not walk or run for long distances.
Early releases of AutoCAD used primitive entities — lines, polylines, circles, arcs, and text — to construct more complex objects.
Some aspects of brain structure are common to almost the entire range of animals species ; others distinguish " advanced " brains from more primitive ones, or distinguish vertebrates from invertebrates.
No modern species should be described as more " primitive " than others, strictly speaking, since each has an equally long evolutionary history — but the brains of modern hagfishes, lampreys, sharks, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals show a gradient of size and complexity that roughly follows the evolutionary sequence.
Based on dental features and braincase sizes, it is now known that Carnivora must have evolved from a form even more primitive than Creodonta, and thus these two orders may not even be sister groups.
Morgan, like other 19th century social evolutionists, believed there was a more or less orderly progression from the primitive to the civilized.
RAS, on the other hand, is a more primitive structure in the brainstem that is tightly in connection with reticular formation ( RF ).
Recent analyses have concluded that cnidarians, although considered more " primitive " than bilaterians, have a wider range of genes.
Some authors have used " basal " differently to mean a clade that is " more primitive " or less species-rich than its sister clade ; others consider this usage to be incorrect, and many now discourage the use of that term altogether to avoid such implications.
The two species of the basal Caninae are more primitive and do not fit into either tribe.
Before Sapir it was generally considered impossible to apply the methods of historical linguistics to languages of indigenous peoples because they were believed to be more primitive than the Indo-European languages.
For the Greeks, constructions are more primitive than existence propositions, and can be used to prove existence propositions, but not vice versa.
Precisely when early humans started to use tools is difficult to determine, because the more primitive these tools are ( for example, sharp-edged stones ) the more difficult it is to decide whether they are natural objects or human artifacts.
Although his methods were primitive, his basic premises have held true today and have been reaffirmed by more methodologically sound methods.
The first attested instance of this is from 984, although more primitive forms were seen up to one-hundred years earlier.

more and slab-type
In a more advanced slab-type giants ' tombs, the central slab is modified so as to be rounded on top, and has a simple design carved into the front surface ( Dorgali, Goronna, Santu Bainzu, Coddu Vecchju ).

more and giants
Glorantha shares some fantasy tropes such as dwarves, elves, trolls, giants, but has developed them differently to the more conventional versions based on the work of Tolkien.
An eighteenth-century response to the novel from the Monthly Review reads: “ We must hear no more of enchanted forests and castles, giants, dragons, walls of fire and other ‘ monstrous and prodigious things ;’ – yet still forests and castles remain, and it is still within the province of fiction, without overstepping the limits of nature, to make use of them for the purpose of creating surprise .”
In fact, when a myth loses its status as part of a religious system, it often takes on traits more typical of folktales, with its formerly divine characters reinterpreted as human heroes, giants, or fairies.
Class I are generally called supergiants, class III simply giants and class V either dwarfs or more properly main-sequence stars.
Any potential gas giants around Tau Ceti are likely to be located more at Jupiter-like distances.
These games, which are not developed by the industry giants, are often available in the form of downloadable content from services such as Microsoft's Xbox Live or Apple's App Store and usually cost much less than more major releases.
However, in some more recent portrayals, like those of Roald Dahl, some giants are both intelligent and friendly, as in Gulliver's Travels.
However M-band images taken from the MMT Observatory put strong limits on the existence of gas giants within 40 AU of the star and Spitzer Space Telescope imaging suggests that the object Fomalhaut b is more likely to be a dust cloud than a planet.
To decorate the reredos, or altar screens, the king's preferences were Michelangelo or Titian, but both of these giants were already more than eighty years old and in frail health.
The low temperatures and higher gravity of the gas giants — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — allows them to more readily retain gases with low molecular masses.
Every day, during the morning, there is a parade of gigantes y cabezudos ( in English giants and big-heads respectively ), with the giants figures being more than 150 years old.
Sophie and the BFG become friends early on ; later, she persuades him to approach the Queen of England with the aim of capturing the other giants to prevent them from eating any more people.
Systems with gas giants have more commonly discovered in the habitable zone, though they could possibly harbour Earth-like natural satellites.
As they grow older they expand and cool, eventually becoming red giants, or continuing fusion into a more luminous or massive star.
Temple argued against this position in his " On Ancient and Modern Learning " ( where he provided the first English formulation of the commonplace that modern critics see more only because they are dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants ), and Temple's somewhat naive essay prompted a small flurry of responses.
It was not until the early 1990s, with the appearance of Jan van Doesburg ’ s overview of the artistic development of Kunisada, and Sebastian Izzard ’ s extensive study of his work, that this picture began to change, with Kunisada more clearly revealed as one of thegiantsof the Japanese print that he was.
Folklorists Iona and Peter Opie have observed in The Classic Fairy Tales ( 1974 ) that " the tenor of Jack's tale, and some of the details of more than one of his tricks with which he outwits the giants, have similarities with Norse mythology.
As significant as those successes were, however, the 1990s proved even more fruitful, with Paris Saint-Germain entering a golden age after television giants Canal + bought the club in May 1991.
After a brief tale of Sir Launcelot of Camelot and his role in slaying two giants from the third-person narrative, the man named Hank Morgan enters and, after being given whiskey by the narrator, he is persuaded to reveal more of his story.
Isaacs asserted that, if examined closely enough, all common problems with older people relate back to one or more of these giants.
Two examples are metamorphosis, in which faen become tiny, winged sprytes, and Chi-Julud, in which the wise giants temporarily lose their wisdom to become stronger and more warlike.
Stars still more luminous than giants are referred to as supergiants and hypergiants.
Elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, goblins, dragons, and other, more exotic forms of intelligent life can be found, representing most usual species in fantasy literature.
Giants-standing at an average of twelve feet tall, giants form no civilized society, living as little more than wild animals in the Northlands.

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