Urban writes that Applewhite's life displays " the intense ambivalence and alienation shared by many individuals lost in late twentieth-century capitalist society ".

Her character is complex: she's passionate, articulate and strong-willed, but displays insecurity and ambivalence about her place in prophecy.

Joseph Weizenbaum's influential 1976 book Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment To Calculation ( San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1976 ; ISBN 0-7167-0463-3 ) displays his ambivalence towards computer technology and lays out his case: while artificial intelligence may be possible, we should never allow computers to make important decisions because computers will always lack human qualities such as compassion and wisdom.

Each novel displays the author's knack for wildly improbable narrative invention, his gift for deadpan humor, and his delight in leading the reader down obscure ( and often imaginary ) avenues of learning.

Sometimes she displays amazing eidetic imagery and seems to see all details in perspective, as if the scene were actually there.

Another source of future improvement to telepresence displays, compared by some to holograms, is a projected display technology featuring life-sized imagery.

According to Calcutta review, the epic is modern in tone and treatment and displays a greater facility of expression, a more delicate ear for music, a greater skill for grouping in imagery.

One definition offered by pioneers in the field is that volumetric displays create 3D imagery via the emission, scattering, or relaying of illumination from well-defined regions in ( x, y, z ) space.

Most, if not all, volumetric 3D displays are either autostereoscopic or automultiscopic ; that is, they create 3D imagery visible to the unaided eye.

So-called " static volume " volumetric 3D displays create imagery without any macroscopic moving parts in the image volume.

To-date, occlusion-capable volumetric displays require two conditions: ( 1 ) the imagery is rendered and projected as a series of " views ," rather than " slices ," and ( 2 ) the time-varying image surface is not a uniform diffuser.

For example, researchers have demonstrated spinning-screen volumetric displays with reflective and / or vertically diffuse screens whose imagery exhibits occlusion and opacity.

He is a Christian, and his work displays a range of Christian themes and imagery.

The writer of a 1797 review in The Monthly Review praised Radcliffe ’ s visual and descriptive language in the novel, citing “ the part … which displays the greatest genius, and the most force of description, is the account of the scenes which passed in the long house on the shore of the Adriatic, between Schedoni, Ellena, and Spalatro :-The horrible sublimity which characterizes the discovery made by the former that Ellena was his daughter, at the instant in which he was about to stab her, was perhaps unparalleled .” This style of ‘ painting the sublime ’ reflects the preference for allegorical or transcendent imagery over physical or realistic imagery in the Gothic literary and artistic period.

In the period since the end of World War 2, -- a period coinciding with merchandising demands for the colorful, the unusual, and the original in signs and displays -- plastics have come on so strong that today they are the acknowledged leaders in the field.

For specialized types of displays, such as large three-dimensional units reproducing a product, package, human or animal figures, etc., reinforced plastics and rotationally molded vinyl plastisols are other materials frequently used.

Spectacular displays of this sort are relatively rare in the entire land surface of the earth.

The most brilliant displays are along the Skyline Drive above Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and throughout the Great Smokies between North Carolina and Tennessee.

Air shows without aerobatic displays, having only aircraft displayed parked on the ground, are called " static air shows ".

The type of displays seen at an event are constrained by a number of factors, including the weather and visibility.

Some are large scale military events with large flying displays and ground exhibitions while others held at small local airstrips can often feature just one or two hours of flying with just a few stalls on the ground.

Air displays are often monitored by aviation authorities to ensure safe procedures.

The film is ultimately significant insofar as it displays the first enunciation of De Palma's style in all its major traits – voyeurism, guilt, and a hyper-consciousness of the medium are all on full display, not just as hallmarks, but built into this formal, material apparatus itself.

However, such fights are usually discouraged by visual displays, in which the males bulge their necks, roll their eyes and hold their horns in a vertical position while slowly pacing back and forth in front of the other male.

Videotapes that are recorded with timecode numbers overlaid on the video are referred to as window dubs, named after the " window " that displays the burnt-in timecode on-screen.

Latour suggests that about 90 % of contemporary social criticism in academia displays one of two approaches which he terms “ the fact position and the fairy position .” ( p. 237 ) The fact position is anti-fetishist, arguing that “ objects of belief ” ( e. g., religion, arts ) are merely concepts onto which power is projected ; the “ fairy position ” argues that individuals are dominated, often covertly and without their awareness, by external forces ( e. g., economics, gender ).

" However, the locus of the celebrations is the national capital, Ottawa, Ontario, where large concerts and cultural displays are held on Parliament Hill, with the governor general and prime minister typically officiating, though the monarch or another member of the Royal Family may also attend or take the governor general's place.

Comets visible to the naked eye are fairly infrequent, but comets that put on fine displays in amateur class telescopes ( 50 mm to 100 cm ) occur fairly often — as often as several times a year, occasionally with more than one in the sky at the same time.

This is because up to 2 / 3 of the backlight power of LCD and rear-projection displays are lost to the RGB stripe filter.

* Small color displays, less than 7 inches diagonal measurement, are relatively costly.

In practice, however, it is extremely rare for this type of work to yield a counterexample and such efforts are generally regarded as mere displays of computing power, rather than meaningful contributions to formal mathematics.

The advantage of LCDs is that they are passive light modulators reflecting light, which require much less power than light-emitting displays such as LEDs or VFDs.

There are multiple technologies that have been used to implement liquid crystal displays ( LCD ).

The main advantages of LCDs over CRT displays are that LCDs consume less power, take up much less space, and are considerably lighter.

Reasons for this transition was productive uses for such monitors, i. e. besides widescreen computer game play and movie viewing, are the word processor display of two standard letter pages side by side, as well as CAD displays of large-size drawings and CAD application menus at the same time.

Touch and tablet screens are used on LCD displays as a substitute for the light pen, which can only work on CRTs.

Each element or molecule displays a characteristic set of spectral lines, such as the hydrogen spectral series.

The defiant lion, long and half that in height, displays an emotional quality characteristic of Romanticism, which Bartholdi would later bring to the Statue of Liberty.

The Slovenian countryside displays a variety of disguised groups and individual characters among which the most popular and characteristic is the Kurent ( plural: Kurenti ), a monstrous and demon-like, but fluffy figure.

The flight styles of butterflies are often characteristic and some species have courtship flight displays.

A common misconception is that gamma encoding was developed to compensate for the input – output characteristic of cathode ray tube ( CRT ) displays.

The play displays an uneasy mix of expressionism and realism, which is also characteristic of several other O ' Neill plays, including The Hairy Ape.

Its façade displays forms characteristic of the Neo-baroque style in architecture.

Dippers also communicate visually by their characteristic dipping or bobbing movements, as well as by blinking rapidly to expose their pale upper eyelids as a series of white flashes in courtship and threat displays.

The white drifts of Water Crowfoot ( Ranunculus ) in early summer are characteristic of chalk and limestone rivers ; there are superb displays by the footbridge at Chilton Foliat, and by the road bridge in Hungerford.

The dunnock also earned a nickname of " shuffle-wing " since it most strongly displays the characteristic wing flicks used during courtship and other displays.

Lekking polygyny seems to have been a characteristic of the family's original ancestor, and the associated sexual selection led to an adaptive radiation in which relationships can be traced by similarities in displays.

Palpation reveals a small firm nodule on the upper portion of the testis which displays a characteristic " blue dot sign.

The Reform tried to stabilize the economy, through a return to the frugality, simplicity and discipline that were characteristic from the early Edo period by banning most forms of entertainment and displays of wealth.

Euclid's Elements is often held to be the first formal system and displays the characteristic of a formal system.

It is clad in pink and yellow limestone, fixed in stripes and blocks of colour whilst the interior atrium at the centre of the wedge-shaped site displays some of Stirling's characteristic acidulous colour play.

The writing displays Beethoven's characteristic disregard for the performer, and is in several places both technically and physically exacting, with many sudden changes of dynamic, metre and tempo.

It displays the characteristic symbolism of Satan, magic and the supernatural frequently used in dark romantic literature.

But even the red spot on a herring gull's bill, and the modest but characteristic bowing behaviour that displays it, require evolutionary explanation.

It displays an interesting and characteristic combination of liveliness and wit on the one hand, and drama and tragedy on the other.

* Negatron, a four element vacuum tube which displays a negative resistance characteristic

His article, " Sarepta in history and tradition " in Understanding the Sacred Texts ( 1972 ) displays his characteristic research.

Their macroscopic behaviour thus displays the spatial and / or temporal scale-invariance characteristic of the critical point of a phase transition, but without the need to tune control parameters to precise values.

An auxotroph is an organism that displays this characteristic ; auxotrophic is the corresponding adjective.

For example, the building displays the characteristic Mansard roof, which conceals the fourth story attic.