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is and characteristic
) 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.

is and kindly
We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;
The general tone of articles appearing in such important newspapers as the Manchester Guardian and the Sunday Observer implies a kindly recognition that the Catholic Church is now at least of equal stature in England with the Protestant churches.
He is the subject of a special panegyric delivered by the Buddha just before the Buddha's Parinibbana ( the Mahaparinibbana Sutta ( DN 16 )); it is a panegyric for a man who is kindly, unselfish, popular, and thoughtful toward others.
In Hesiod's Theogony, ( 226 – 232 ) Strife, the daughter of Night is less kindly spoken of as she brings forth other personifications as her children:
Reynolds wrote to Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St Asaph, a few weeks later: " Your Lordship congratulation on my succeeding Mr. Ramsay I take very kindly but it is a most miserable office, it is reduced from two hundred to thirty-eight pounds per annum, the Kings Rat catcher I believe is a better place, and I am to be paid only a fourth part of what I have from other people, so that the Portraits of their Majesties are not likely to be better done now, than they used to be, I should be ruined if I was to paint them myself ".
On 1 April 1923, Shaikh Ahmad al-Sabah wrote the British Political Agent in Kuwait, Major John More, " I still do not know what the border between Iraq and Kuwait is, I shall be glad if you will kindly give me this information.
In the television comedy series Blackadder, Richard III is portrayed by Peter Cook in an alternative version of history as a doting, kindly man who treats his nephews with affection.
Presaging a theme he would bring to the fore, using similar language, in his Gettysburg Address in 1863, Lincoln wrote: “ You have kindly adverted to the trial through which this Republic is now passing.
" Nowadays, interfering with neighbors ' property is not looked upon so kindly.
He has a kindly nature, and is perhaps a little over-optimistic.
In 1874, an Australian newspaper wrote: " We in Australia did not take kindly to W. G .. For so big a man, he is surprisingly tenacious on very small points.
According to his student Lynde Wheeler, of the existing portraits this is the most faithful to Gibbs's kindly habitual expression.
The Savage obeys the will of Nature, his kindly mother, therefore he is happy.
Later that night, under a full moon, Captain Corcoran reviews his concerns: his " kindly crew rebels ", his " daughter to a tar is partial ", his friends seem to desert him, and Sir Joseph has threatened a court-martial.
This is largely because Marillion have – how can we put this kindly?
A kindly dolphin gives Pinocchio a ride to the nearest island, which is the Island of Busy Bees.
In one rescript replying to a petition made by the inhabitants of Tyre, transcrbed by Eusebius of Caesarea, Maximinus expounds an unusual pagan orthodoxy, explaining that it is through " the kindly care of the gods " that one could hope for good crops, health and the peaceful sea, and, that not being the case, one should blame " the destructive error of the empty vanity of those impious men weighed down the whole world with shame ".
On later vases, Charon is given a more “ kindly and refined ” demeanor.
( Many artistic works, such as advertisements and cartoons, depict kindly " papa bears " when this is the exact opposite of reality.
Shortly thereafter, Antigonus is killed by a bear, and Perdita is raised by a kindly Shepherd.

is and nature
The nature of the opposition between liberals and Bourbons is too little understood in the North.
Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.
Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.
If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.
Whitehead is here questioning David Hume's understanding of the nature of experience ; ;
Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.
This happens at the moment man loses the perception of moral substance in himself, of a nature that, in Maritain's words, is perceived as a `` locus of intelligible necessities ''.
For this love of the boy for his mother is a hopeless and forbidden love, doomed by its nature.
and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor, `` The Big Bear Of Arkansas '', in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature.
The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.
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??
Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.
A fourth view is the transformation of emotion, as in Housman's fine phrase on the arts: they `` transform and beautify our inner nature ''.
Outstanding among these is the idea of human nature itself, including the many definitions that have been advanced over the centuries ; ;
This prospect did not please Mrs. King any more than did the possibility that her daughter might marry a Bohemian, but she used it to suggest to Thompson that, `` It is not in her nature to love you ''.
If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.
What is in doubt as the free Germans and their allies consider the voting trends is the nature of the coalition that will result.
Each one of these is, by its nature, a focal point or a point of natural congestion.
Pausing in the doorway he said: `` The form of the human female, unlike her mind and her spirit, is the most challenging loveliness in all nature ''.
More than that, Sam Rayburn is the very living symbol of an iron-clad integrity so powerful in his nature and so constantly demonstrated that he can count some of his best friends in the opposition.
Upon receipt of an application which the Export-Import Bank is prepared to consider, the Export-Import Bank will inform the Department of Economic Affairs of the identity of the applicant, the nature of the proposed business, the amount of the proposed loan, and the general purposes for which the loan proceeds would be expended.
There is little evidence that they are giving any systematic thought to a general theory of the optimum scope and nature of their part in government.
True, a Mason watercolor is unmistakably a synthesis of nature rather than a detailed inventory.

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