People Magazines anonymous reviewer said that " the action in Icebreaker is fitful at best " and that the book was " not at all up to Gardner's ( first ) 007 outing, License Renewed.

Beezo is a clown for the very circus Tock's pass is for, and is a fitful, spiteful, creepy, chain smoking individual half in his clown costume.

Theirs is no mere lack of sympathy, but something closer to the passionate hatred that was directed against Fascism.

In its place is a passionate consciousness grasped and molded to feelings of positive or negative values even as the actions of one's life are determined by constellations of process in which one is caught.

The volume is a piece of passionate special pleading, written with the heat -- and often with the wisdom, it must be said -- of a Liberal damning the shortsightedness of politicians from 1782 to 1832.

But in ways more fundamental than specific political opinions they are still what they always were: passionate, sure without a shadow of doubt of whatever it is that they are sure of, capable of seeing black and white only and, therefore, committed to the logical extreme of whatever it is they are temporarily committed to.

Miss Hardwick speaks of his `` superb gift for intellectual friendship '', and it is certainly a joy to see the intellectual life lived so free from either academic aridity or passionate dogmatism.

: there is no name, with whatever emphasis of passionate love repeated,

Art historian and the artist's great-grandson Joachim Pissarro notes that they “ professed a passionate disdain for the Salons and refused to exhibit at them .” Together they shared an “ almost militant resolution ” against the Salon, and through their later correspondences it is clear that their mutual admiration “ was based on a kinship of ethical as well as aesthetic concerns ”.

Hofstadter is passionate about languages.

The most passionate and virile character in the novel is Rhett with whom Margaret Mitchell associates " dark sexuality " and the " black devil ".

In Virgil's poetry, a sense of the greatness of Rome and Italy is the leading motive of a passionate rhetoric, partly veiled by the considered delicacy of his language.

Other major characters include Ivanhoe's intractable father, Cedric, one of the few remaining Saxon lords ; various Knights Templar and churchmen ; the loyal serfs Gurth the swineherd and the jester Wamba, whose observations punctuate much of the action ; and the Jewish moneylender, Isaac of York, who is equally passionate about money and his daughter, Rebecca.

The Jedi are trained to use the Force through rejection of passions and commitment to justice, as opposed to the ideals of the aggressive, highly passionate school known as the Dark side, favoring instead what is known in contrast as " the Light side.

Lust is the initial passionate sexual desire that promotes mating, and involves the increased release of chemicals such as testosterone and estrogen.

Eros ( érōs ) ( from the Greek deity Eros ) is passionate love, with sensual desire and longing.

In Japanese Buddhism, ai ( 愛 ) is passionate caring love, and a fundamental desire.

Romanticism followed a path that led to the expansion of formal structures for a composition set down or at least created in their general outlines in earlier periods, and the end result is that the pieces are " understood " to be more passionate and expressive, both by 19th century and today's audiences.

When compared to the Everly Brothers, who often used the same session musicians, Orbison is credited with " a passionate intensity " that, according to The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, made " his love, his life, and, indeed, the whole world to be coming to an end — not with a whimper, but an agonized, beautiful bang ".

The passionate, sometimes cantankerous McCoy frequently argues with Kirk's other confidant, science officer Spock, and occasionally is bigoted toward Spock's Vulcan heritage.

It is the situation, and our passionate and reflective involvement in it, which mediates the Word of God.

Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.

He is founder and Director of Durie Design, a television host and producer, the author of 9 best-selling books and a passionate environmentalist and humanitarian.

Durie is a passionate advocate for environmental conservation.

" He also compares it to one's achievements in life, " Thus even the highest work of art, yet, the loftiest reputation, is nothing in comparison with the passionate kiss of a woman one loves.

Religion at its best is out in front, ever beckoning and leading on, and, as Lippman put it, `` mobilizing all man's scattered energies in one triumphant sense of his own infinite importance ''.

Because agricultural activities are seasonal and the areas of production and harvest of many foods are widely scattered geographically, and because of the high cost of transporting bulk food items any substantial distance to a central processing location, the use of large central processing stations, where low-cost radiation facilities approaching the megawatt range might be utilized, is inherently impracticable.

It is now used to refer to any island group or, sometimes, to a sea containing a large number of scattered islands such as the Aegean Sea.

* 1542 – Turkish-Portuguese War ( 1538-1557 ) – Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.

There is scattered evidence to suggest that the oldest known astrological references are copies of texts made during this period.

Debris from past human occupation is scattered throughout the island and in offshore waters.

* A later promise ( 2: 12 – 13 ): These verses assume that judgement has already fallen and Israel is already scattered abroad.

Clipperton Island is low-lying and largely barren, save for scattered grasses and a few clumps of coconut palms.

The whole is surrounded by a circle of granite stones set on their edge which once surrounded the cairn — the rocks of which are now scattered around — that was originally built over a large kistvaen that still exists beneath the pedestal.

* The moment when the garbage is actually collected can be unpredictable, resulting in stalls scattered throughout a session.

The scattering cross-section, σ < sub > scat </ sub >, is a hypothetical area which describes the likelihood of light ( or other radiation ) being scattered by a particle.

Neutrons are scattered by the atomic nuclei through the strong nuclear forces, but in addition, the magnetic moment of neutrons is non-zero.

For a set of scattered points in the plane, the diameter of the points is the same as the diameter of their convex hull.

A modern revelation that resulted in some " disaffection " and " led to intense conflict in scattered areas of the RLDS Church " is contained in the Community of Christ version's Section 156, presented by Prophet-President Wallace B. Smith and added in 1984, which called for construction of the Independence Temple and the ordination of women to the priesthood, among other changes.

It is similar to what occurs when waves are scattered from a diffraction grating.

It is dominated by Scaevola taccada, but also contains scattered coconut trees, Guettarda speciosa and Pisonia grandis.

In the reflection electron microscope ( REM ) as in the TEM, an electron beam is incident on a surface, but instead of using the transmission ( TEM ) or secondary electrons ( SEM ), the reflected beam of elastically scattered electrons is detected.

Emulsions appear white when all light is scattered equally.

If the emulsion is dilute enough, higher-frequency and low-wavelength light will be scattered more, and the emulsion will appear bluer-this is called the " Tyndall effect ".

This property is due to the fact that light waves are scattered by the droplets only if their sizes exceed about one-quarter of the wavelength of the incident light.

Since the visible spectrum of light is composed of wavelengths between 390 and 750 nanometers ( nm ), if the droplet sizes in the emulsion are below about 100 nm, the light can penetrate through the emulsion without being scattered.

1 Peter is addressed to the “ elect resident aliens ” scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.

This phenomenon of unpaired voiced fricatives is scattered throughout the world, but is confined to nonsibilant fricatives with the exception of a couple of languages that have but lack.