If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

In the end, however, the thing about this performance that is most striking is the way it sings.

After all, social life in the group of the bees is by no means general, although it certainly is a striking feature.

It is evident that many marked and striking differences exist between lungs when an inter-species comparison is made.

The most striking aspect of the interaction demonstrated is the marked decrement in performance suffered by the highly anxious children in unstructured schools.

For English the reduction in size is less striking.

His personality appears more striking by contrast with Marina, who is -- perhaps purposely -- rather superficially characterized.

This is especially striking between Pimen's quiet exit and Grigori's vehement outburst against Boris.

there is no phrase or image that sounds like Hardy or that is striking enough to give individuality to the poem.

Proceeding from Parry's conclusions and adopting one of his schemata, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., argues that Beowulf likewise was created from a legacy of oral formulas inherited and extended by bards of successive generations, and the thesis is striking and compelling.

Most striking indeed is this beyond-normal ability to put a finger on `` pre-conscious '' moods and to clarify them.

The fundamental difficulty of which the Selden case was `` a striking ( though not singular ) example '', concluded Hough, `` will remain as long as testimony is taken without any authoritative judicial officer present, and responsible for the maintenance of discipline, and the reception or exclusion of testimony ''.

Whatever projection one makes, the striking fact about congregational and parochial life is the extent to which it is a vehicle of the social identity of middle-class people.

Although the theological forms of the past continue to exist in a way they do not in a more secularized situation, the striking thing is the rapidity with which they are being reduced to a marginal existence.

Field Marshal Slim is striking in description, amusing in many anecdotes.

Aristotle ( 384-322 BC ) understood that sound consisted of contractions and expansions of the air " falling upon and striking the air which is next to it ...", a very good expression of the nature of wave motion.

* 2001 – The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

The fact is due mainly to international wars, both hot and cold.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.

The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

In fact the accumulation of the hardware of destruction is day by day increasing our fear of each other.

The new fact the initiates of this cult have to learn is that they must move toward simplicity.

The magic circle is, in fact, a symbol of and preparation for the metaphysical orgasm ''.

Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.

we accord it its place there, and in Lawrence's treatment we are given the innocent fantasy of a child, in fact, the form in which oedipal love is expressed in childhood.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

How much they esteemed him is shown by the fact that their underground committee selected him as one of the few who would be helped to escape.

That is not to deny that he has been aware of traditions, of course, that he is steeped in them, in fact, or that he has dealt with them, in his books.

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

Perhaps the mere fact that by plucking on the nerves nature can awaken in the most ordinary of us, temporarily anyway, the sleeping poet, and in poets can discover their immortality, is the most remarkable of all the remarkable phenomena to which we can attest??

Although Dio is the earliest writer to mention them, Ammianus Marcellinus used the name to refer to Germans on the Limes Germanicus in the time of Trajan's governorship of the province shortly after it was formed, circa 98 / 99.

In this context the use of Alemanni is possibly an anachronism but it reveals that Ammianus believed they were the same people, which is consistent with the location of the Alemanni of Caracalla's campaigns.

His rule is recorded is Ammianus XXIII 1, 3.

Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe ; but Ammianus in fact says that “ the Drasidae ( Druids ) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " ( Res Gestae 15. 9 ), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north ( Britain, the Netherlands or Germany ), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.

The most detailed account of Mangonel use is from “ Eric Marsden's translation of a text written by Ammianus Marcellius in the 4th Century AD ” describing its construction and combat usage.

Ammianus ' explanation of the thin beards is wrong.

In 364, Libanius stated that Julian was assassinated by a Christian who was one of his own soldiers ; this charge is not corroborated by Ammianus Marcellinus or other contemporary historians.

The Greuthungi are first named by Ammianus Marcellinus, writing no earlier than 392 and perhaps later than 395, and basing his account of the words of a Tervingian chieftain who is attested as early as 376.

When later authors described the period, this is what they emphasized: Ammianus has Constantius II admonish Julian for disobedience by appealing to the example in submission set by Diocletian's lesser colleagues ; Julian himself would compare the Diocletianic tetrarchs to a chorus surrounding a leader, speaking in unison under his command.

The Greuthungi are first named by Ammianus Marcellinus, writing no earlier than 392 and perhaps later than 395, and basing his account of the words of a Tervingian chieftain who is attested as early as 376.

* The presence of the Saxons in Batavia is noted by Ammianus Marcellinus.

Ammianus Marcellinus considered the Alans to be the former Massagetae: " the Alani, who were formerly called the Massagetae " and stated " Nearly all the Alani are men of great stature and beauty ; their hair is somewhat yellow, their eyes are terribly fierce ".

Ammianus Marcellinus is a fortunate survivor and flees to Singara ( Iraq ).

The late historian Ammianus Marcellinus is the only source detailing the initial invasion of Armenia.

It is mentioned only by Ammianus Marcellinus, in connection to a new portico ( Porticus Boni Eventūs ) built by the urban prefect Claudius in 374 AD.

Subsequently, the city is often cited by other Latin or Greek authors, in rare cases providing an overall description of the city or detailing its cults, as do Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus, who pay particular attention to the city's worship of Apis.

The Alans who were a group of Sarmatian tribes according to the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus " Nearly all the Alani are men of great stature and beauty, their hair is somewhat yellow, their eyes are frighteningly fierce ".

His election caused considerable surprise, and it is suggested by Ammianus Marcellinus that he was wrongly identified with another Jovianus, chief notary ( primicerius notariorum ), whose name also had been put forward, or that during the acclamations the soldiers mistook the name Jovianus for Julianus, and imagined that the latter had recovered from his illness.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman soldier and historian of the fourth century, mentions the: " cataphracti equites ( quos clibanarios dictitant )" – the " cataphract cavalry which they regularly call Clibanarii " ( implying that clibanarii is a foreign term, not used in Classical Latin ).

This use of multiple capstans is also described by Ammianus Marcellinus ( 17. 4. 15 ) in connection with the lifting of the Lateranense obelisk in the Circus Maximus ( ca.

Ermanaric is mentioned in two Roman sources ; the contemporary writings of Ammianus Marcellinus and in Getica by the 6th century historian Jordanes.