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unfamiliar and setting
Freedberg argues that the intellectualizing aspect of maniera art comes in the artist expecting his audience to notice and understand this visual reference, the familiar figure in an unfamiliar setting surrounded by " unseen, but felt, quotation marks.
Many of the alternative names derive from the 1st-edition Manual of the Planes ( 1987, ISBN 0-88038-399-2 ), and the in-game explanation given in the Planescape setting is that these names are used by the " Clueless ", or characters from the Prime Material unfamiliar with the planes.
Behn changed the New World setting, creating one that readers were unfamiliar with.
The prehistoric family must begin adjusting to life in the 1960s, reacting to the unfamiliar surroundings, and setting up home in 20th-century New York City.

unfamiliar and all
he was absolutely unfamiliar with it because he had no visual memory at all.
Many examples are based on locations in London and, in all likelihood, will be meaningless to people unfamiliar with the capital e. g. " Peckham Rye ", meaning " tie " ( as in necktie ), which dates from the late 19th century ; " Hampstead Heath ", meaning " teeth " ( usually as " Hampsteads ”), which was first recorded in 1887 and " Barnet Fair ", meaning " hair ", which dates from the 1850s.
* Train drivers are instructed that a railway signal showing a confusing, contradictory or unfamiliar aspect ( for example a colour light signal that has suffered an electrical failure and is showing no light at all ) must be treated as showing " danger ".
Yet, with the conflict in the Crimea, war had returned to Europe, and while those troubles were " in a distant and inaccessible region " northern Italy was " so accessible from all parts of western Europe that it instantly filled with curious observers ;" while the bloodshed was not excessive the sight of it was unfamiliar and shocking.
The use of fanqie was an important innovation of the Qieyun and allowed the pronunciation of all characters to be described exactly ; earlier dictionaries simply described the pronunciation of unfamiliar characters in terms of the most similar-sounding familiar character.
It was at this time that Bobby Jones stated Nicklaus played a game with which he was unfamiliar ; Jones called Nicklaus ' result " the greatest performance in all of golfing history.
The standardization of electronic icons is an important safety feature on all types of electronics, enabling a user to more easily navigate an unfamiliar system.
By all accounts, no single person in the formative years of Iraq's nascent democracy had as much impact as Al Rubaie did in legitimising the new political reality of Iraq in the eyes of the dismissive Arab media and regimes whose natural instinct was to reject the new political order out of fear of the unfamiliar.
He had previously practised in the Court of Chancery, and although unfamiliar with Roman law was highly efficient ; Lord Eldon said " I am mistaken if, after I am gone, the Chancery Records do not prove that if I have decided more than any of my predecessors in the same period of time, Sir Lloyd Kenyon beat us all ".
In Paul's world, Ashka is unfamiliar with all the new sights and sounds and this proves to be a slight disadvantage, however she winds up working with Paul's father and creating a new power suit to take over the Spellbinder world.
They struggle to navigate the unfamiliar channel into the harbour and, with two British ships running aground, the French are able to bring all their guns to bear on the ships that eventually reach the harbour.
Whenever he enters unfamiliar surroundings, he removes a small spray can from his lapel and begins spraying objects, reciting all the while, " This is mine, this is mine.
' One imagines them: a small fire of eucalyptus branches in the immense cave of the southern night, beneath the drift and icy prickle of unfamiliar stars ; the secret bush noises beyond the outer ring of firelight-rustle of grass, flutter and croaking of nocturnal birds -- all sharpened and magnified by fear ...”
Oviedo ’ s description of the balls is reminiscent of rubber or some kind of resin with rubber-like qualities ; in all sources, some kind of reference is made to the unfamiliar bounciness of the balls.
Wertheimer wrote his paper in the early days of motion pictures, and this may account for some of his findings, as people were unfamiliar with images moving at all.
The team had languished near the bottom of the table all season and his performances had also come into question, as he looked uncomfortable and still seemed unfamiliar with his surroundings.
The movement of urban children of all classes to unfamiliar rural locations, without their parents, had a major impact.
Saturday was cold and overcast with a very real threat of rain, and nearly all the drivers scrambled to get a time in on the dry track while they could, with lots of spins and trips down the escape roads of the unfamiliar circuit.
This often creates difficulties for departing passengers who are unfamiliar with this type of procedure, or for departing international passengers who have already exchanged all their local currency.
Not all was unfamiliar to Hakim, however, as this time around with the Lions he would be working with former Rams offensive coordinator and head coach Mike Martz, who was now the offensive coordinator in Detroit.
However, by the time his first volume appeared in 1950, his method was so innovative and unfamiliar that the editors, reviewers, and most of all the fellow academics in the field who sat on the committee to approve the government grants for " pure research " reacted negatively to his offering.
Abundant, unfamiliar with and seemingly unafraid of humans, large numbers of the creatures emerged and foraged in all directions at night.
One journalist, writing that Steen was " by all accounts and appearances a lovely and honourable gentleman ", also noted that he was " radically out of his depth, muzzled by his party and unfamiliar with the issues ".
On the first day of competition, these teams take a written test on which all members confer and work together, then take part in a team geography skills-testing activity, such as using a map to find specified locations in unfamiliar surroundings.

unfamiliar and places
As skateboarding spread across the United States to places unfamiliar with surfing or surfing culture, it developed an image of its own.
Also, such places functioned as havens from the unfamiliar world.
Within the novel's re-imagined world, many places are given unfamiliar names, mostly of Chinese or Arabic origin.
His wife was almost always at his side to guide him in unfamiliar places and inform him of the people around him.
GameSpy felt that Camelot could have added more features, and criticized the long opening sequence which either alienated players of the previous game, or confused new players by swamping them with unfamiliar places and characters.
The books characteristically bring a fresh ' sideways look ' in a peaceful and non-judgemental way to places perhaps unfamiliar at the time to a Chinese national: the author was struck by things the locals might not notice, such as beards, or the fact that the so-called Lion's Haunch on Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh is actually far more like a sleeping elephant.
Newton's Swing ( 2000 ) was a subtle Stateside thriller ; The Repentant Morning ( 2003 ) is set in London and Spain in 1936 ; A Town by the Sea ( 2005 ) is a departure from his previous style, leading the reader through a strange landscape of unfamiliar people and places.
His stories were well-researched and rooted in their time, often featuring real historical characters, but set in places unfamiliar and exotic to most of the western audience reading his fiction.

unfamiliar and I
Bede dedicated this work to Cuthbert, apparently a student, for he is named " beloved son " in the dedication, and Bede says " I have laboured to educate you in divine letters and ecclesiastical statutes " Another textbook of Bede's is the De orthographia, a work on orthography, designed to help a medieval reader of Latin with unfamiliar abbreviations and words from classical Latin works.
One of these Daves, Dave Capisano, is unfamiliar to McCulloch, who sings " I hardly know him ", then looks vaguely uncomfortable for the rest of the song's lyricless measure.
Being unfamiliar with the band, Emanuel listened to Collection I on a walkman to learn the lyrics and melodies while working his job as a greenskeeper.
Initially, Tibbets was unfamiliar with even the concept of an atomic bomb, and was quoted in a 1946 article in The New Yorker saying, " I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.
On September 29, John Eisenhower, the son of the former Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower, endorsed Kerry in the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper, saying that the Republican Party of today " is one with which I am totally unfamiliar ".
Dr Rieu said of his work that " I have done my best to make Homer easy reading for those who are unfamiliar with the Greek world.
" Wär ' ick bloß nach Ahlbeck jefahren "—" If only I had gone to Ahlbeck ", Giesecke sighs as he considers his unfamiliar surroundings and the strange dialect spoken by the wild mountain people that inhabit the Salzkammergut.
When he spoke in support of his re-election, Craig had noted the presence of many unfamiliar faces and declared " I will oppose wets and Left Wing infiltrators who would like to destroy this great party from within ".
I gruppe found the transition from desert warfare to anti-bomber operations difficult ; many of the pilots were fresh recruits and the experten left were unfamiliar with the European theater.

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