) The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure.

Their rebellion against authoritarian society is not far removed from the violence of revolt characteristic of the juvenile delinquent.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

A chief characteristic of experience in the mode of causal efficacy is one of derivation from the past.

A characteristic expression of such concern and inquiry is found in Joseph P. Lyford's Introduction To The Agreeable Autocracies, a recent paperback study of the institutions of modern democratic society.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

It is a characteristic of thoughts that in re-thinking them we come, ipso facto, to understand why they were thought ''.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

A similar amateurish characteristic is revealed in Adams' failure to check the accuracy and authenticity of his informational sources.

The most obvious characteristic of contemporary American writing, apart from the beat nonsense, is its cosmopolitanism.

`` Do you suppose his self-consciousness is characteristic of the new Negro professionals or merely of doctors in general ''??

In snakes difference in size is a common characteristic of subspecies.

The characteristic polynomial for A is Af and this is plainly also the minimal polynomial for A ( or for T ).

The process of boundary maintenance identifies and preserves the social system or subsystems, and the characteristic interaction is maintained.

It is no coincidence that the hebephrenic patient, the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients, shows, as one of his characteristic symptoms, laughter -- laughter which now makes one feel scorned or hated, which now makes one feel like weeping, or which now gives one a glimpse of the bleak and empty expanse of man's despair ; ;

Similarly, at the opposite end of the market cycle, towards the end of an intermediate or major decline, usually while the bottom is being formed on the price chart, it is characteristic that an increase is noticed in odd-lot selling again alerting the chartist that a bottom is becoming a greater likelihood.

In a society dominated by middle-class values and working in an institution which transmits and strengthens these social values, it is clear that the educational profession must work for the values which are characteristic of the society.

If one characteristic distinguishes Boris Godunov, it is the consistency with which every person on the stage -- including the chorus -- comes alive in the music.

The largest proportion of Cranach's output is of portraits, and it is chiefly thanks to him that we know what the German Reformers and their princely adherents looked like.

Ownership of Cranach's " Adam " and " Eve " is disputed due to their history as Nazi loot.

This included Cranach's Adam and Eve and a sketch in oils by Peter Paul Rubens for what is arguably his masterpiece, the Deposition altarpiece in Antwerp Cathedral.

If the plants are cared for and protected over the winter, the second year is more prolific than the first.

" is attributed to his son William De Morgan, but a family friend John Thomas Graves was prolific, and a manuscript with over 2, 800 has been preserved.

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE ( born 12 April 1939 ) is a prolific English playwright.

Birdlife is prolific, most often seen at waterholes at dawn and dusk.

Though this enzyme is the most prolific creator of organic bromides by living organisms, other bromoperoxidases exist in nature that do not use vanadium.

Goldoni, a prolific writer, is best known for his comic play Servant of Two Masters, which has been translated and adapted internationally numerous times.

While he continued to be prolific throughout the 1930s and 1940s, he is probably best known for his 1956 film The Ten Commandments ( which is very different from his 1923 film of the same title ).

The cane toad is a prolific breeder ; females lay single-clump spawns with thousands of eggs.

1678, Harvard College ; A. M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow ) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer ; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.

The crew is made up of four unique characters: Jet Black, a former ISSP police officer who retired following a mob hit that cost him his arm, Spike Spiegel, a laid-back exiled hitman of the ruthless Red Dragons ' Syndicate, Faye Valentine, a beautiful amnesiac con artist who awakened into the future world after a lengthy period of cryogenic hibernation, and Radical Edward, a hyperactive and barefooted preteen girl with a reputation as a prolific computer hacker.

An exceptionally prolific contributor is Christine Sutton of the University of Oxford, who contributed 24 articles on particle physics.

Goffman published his observations about Erdős ' prolific collaboration in a 1969 article entitled " And what is your Erdős number?

The evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

This is also true of the small but still active board game fandom scene, the most prolific subset of which is centered around play-by-mail Diplomacy.

Style Wars is still recognized as the most prolific film representation of what was going on within the young hip hop culture of the early 1980s.

Adult manga is often sold in convenience stores, book stores, and magazine stores in Japan, and also other public places such as airports, and is far more prolific and accessible than the U. S. adult comic book market.

He is also one of the most prolific mathematicians ever ; his collected works fill 60 – 80 quarto volumes.

The Leonids ( ) is a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle.

Adrian Fisher is both the most prolific contemporary author on mazes, and also one of the leading maze designers.

He is one of Britain's most prolific architects of his generation.

Known for a rich taste and thick pulp, it is a prolific bearer, grown around the world.