Instead of finding a romantic, mysterious Oriental fantasy land, he finds a sordid world suspended between Europe and the Middle East.

Instead of recovering Tina from the fourth dimension, the two-dimensionally-drawn characters attempt to retrieve Homer ( and later, Bart ) from the mysterious " third dimension ".

Instead of answering directly He would make a vague comment ( such as instructing them to " consider the lily "), pause, then say " ahh " in a mysterious manner, causing all but Matthew ( Herring ) to " ahh " along with Him, leading the disciple to become frustrated with the evasion (" This isn't an ' ahh ' situation "; " Ahh!

Instead they begin their mystical journey either by following the guiding light of the teachings of the earlier masters or by being initiated by the mysterious prophet-saint Khiḍr.

Instead, Alcestis took his place, but Heracles managed to " persuade " Thanatos, the god of death, to return her to the world of the living.

Instead like other jackals Anubis ' head was black to resemble the god of death.

Instead, murder is treated as a civil crime and is covered by the law of retaliation, whereby the relatives of the victim decide whether the offender is punished with death by the authorities or made to pay diyah as compensation.

Instead, she respectably attended church for years and continued to keep house for him until his death in 1849, when she was 30.

Instead, the ruling family should unanimously designate a new Sultan after his death.

Instead the Witenagemot, the assembly of the kingdom's leading notables, would convene after a king's death to select a successor.

Instead of college, he travelled in Europe and then took up ranching in Texas and New Mexico, returning to Chicago in 1892 after his father's death.

Instead, punishments were commonly monetary fines, periods of forced hard labor for convicts, and the penalty of death by beheading.

Instead, the association that Kellermann found between gun ownership and victimization merely reflected the widely accepted notion that people who live in more dangerous circumstances are more likely to be murdered, but also were more likely to have acquired guns for self-protection prior to their death.

Instead, after the death of the comte de Maurepas, the influence of Vergennes was strengthened, and she was again left out of political affairs.

Instead, he wrote an orchestral piece based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex, a work that became Egdon Heath and which was first performed a month after Hardy ’ s death, in his memory.

Instead, Vulgar Latin is a blanket term covering the popular dialects and sociolects of the Latin language throughout its range from the hypothetical prisca latinitas of unknown or poorly remembered times in early Latium to the death of Latin after the fall of the empire.

Instead, after arriving in Rome, Olybrius ' was proclaimed emperor several months before Anthemius ' death, in April or May 472.

Instead, death occurs due to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome ( MODS ) due to fluid redistribution, hypotension, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and focal tissue necroses.

Instead, death occurs due to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome ( MODS ) due to fluid redistribution, hypotension, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and focal tissue necroses.

Instead she visits her brother in prison and counsels him to prepare himself for death.

Instead of revealing a new companion, the third door ( labeled " The Pusher ") instead reveals a new adversary for Roland: Jack Mort, a sociopath who takes sadistic pleasure in injuring and killing random strangers — and the man responsible for the head trauma that created Odetta Holmes's alternate personality, the loss of Odetta / Detta's legs, and the death of Jake Chambers.

Instead he was posted to Palestine, before leaving the army in 1946 to take care of the family estates of Gartshore and Woodhall in Lanarkshire, which he inherited on the death of his grandfather.

Instead of baptizing in the name of the Trinity, he baptized in the name of the Creator and into the death of Christ.

Instead, he walked to his death with a natural, depressed facial expression.

Instead they have their own operations set up to assist people with a peaceful and painless death.

Instead later annalists have combined the disaster at the Caudine Forks with the tale of the military tribune of 258 to produce the entirely fictitious story recorded by Livy, the difference being that while in the originals the Romans suffered defeat and death, here none of Decius ' men are killed and the Romans win a great victory.

Instead, the Sabines crushed her to death with their shields, and her body was buried in the rock that now bears her name.

Instead, they believe that each individual is personally responsible and may have to answer for all of their own thoughts, words, and deeds after death upon their return to the spirit realms.

Instead of one hundred and thirty Friars constituting the Observance in Italy at Bernardino's reception into the order, it counted over four thousand shortly before his death.

Instead of that he was engulfed by bedlam.

Instead we have stood idly by, watched our commuter railroad service decline, and have failed to offer a helping hand.

Instead of closing the house in first ( as most builders do ) you can now cut your costs by not closing it in until you have to ( see p 121 ).

Instead of being depressed by this news, Mr. Crombie was actually relieved.

Instead of isolating the literal flatness by specifying and circumscribing it, the pasted paper or cloth releases and spreads it, and the artist seems to have nothing left but this undepicted flatness with which to finish as well as start his picture.

Instead of the usual straggling privet hedges and patches of bare dirt in most small-town squares, the building was hemmed in by a semitropical growth of camellias and azaleas and a smooth lawn the improbably bright-green shade of florist's grass.

Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

Instead of having a pulp cavity, each tooth has a cluster of thin, upright, parallel tubes of vasodentin ( a modified form of dentine ), with individual pulp canals, held together by cementum.

Instead, the element is prepared, in milligram amounts, by the neutron irradiation of < sup > 226 </ sup > in a nuclear reactor.

Instead, Albert's secularization of the Prussian territories of the Order eventually led to the inheritance of the Duchy of Prussia by the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

Instead, all services had names which, being chosen by humans, could be expected to be meaningful to users, and also could be sufficiently long enough to minimize the chance of conflicts.

Instead the two court owned theaters would be reopened under new management, and partly subsidized by the Imperial Court, as a new National Theater.

Instead, it is negotiated by or configured at the endpoints on a per-virtual-connection basis.

Instead of transferring the weight of the bridge and traffic loads into thrust forces into the abutments, the ends of the arches are restrained by tension in the bottom chord of the structure.

Instead, the philosopher encounters a problem :" Now, if the ' to be ' of a thing could be conceived apart from that which exists, it should be represented in our mind by some note distinct from the concept of the thing itself ....

Instead, the phrase appears to have originated in the early 19th century United States ( particularly in the sense " pull oneself over a fence by one's bootstraps "), to mean an absurdly impossible action, an adynaton.

Instead of a tightly unified storyline, Gerald Mast has seen Chaplin's films as consisting of sketches tied together by the same theme and setting.

Instead, the British Parliament and the Government-chiefly in the office of Prime Minister-exercise their powers under ' Royal ( or Crown ) Prerogative ': on behalf of the Monarch and through powers still formally possessed by the Monarch.

Instead of focusing merely on the individual objects ( e. g., groups ) possessing a given structure, category theory emphasizes the morphisms – the structure-preserving mappings – between these objects ; by studying these morphisms, we are able to learn more about the structure of the objects.

Instead they act either by deactivating catalysts, or by removing reaction intermediates such as free radicals.

Instead, they developed a daily and weekly service of readings from the Torah, and possibly also the Prophets, followed by commentary.