Bede's extensive use of miracles is disconcerting to the modern reader who thinks of Bede as a more or less reliable historian, but men of the time accepted miracles as a matter of course.

It is disconcerting, for example, that in Expanded Universe Heinlein calls for a society where all lawyers and politicians are women, essentially on the grounds that they possess a mysterious feminine practicality that men cannot duplicate.

This can be disconcerting to a normally conscious patient, and is associated with angina-like sensations in the chest.

Authorial reticence is the "... deliberate withholding of information and explanations about the disconcerting fictitious world.

The initial reaction should the spray be directed at the face, is the completely involuntary closing of the eyes ( sometimes described as leading to a disconcerting sensation of the eyelids " bubbling and boiling " as the chemical acts on the skin ), an instant sensation of the restriction of the airways and the general feeling of sudden and intense, searing pain about the face, nose, and throat.

In addition to the community of goods and the painted walls, another characteristic feature of the City of the Sun, one that is more difficult and disconcerting and that Campanella himself describes as “ hard and arduous ”, is the community of wives.

These superstitions may not only have arisen to prevent people from committing the faux pas of yawning loudly in another's presence ( one of Mason Cooley's aphorisms is " A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

Although disconcerting to the patient, the effect is normally temporary and after a period of six to eight weeks, the cornea usually returns to its former transparency.

They're like jewelled self-dribbling basketballs and there are many of them and they come pounding toward you and they will stop in front of you and vibrate, but then they do a very disconcerting thing, which is they jump into your body and then they jump back out again and the whole thing is going on in a high-speed mode where you're being presented with thousands of details per second and you can't get a hold on ... and these things are saying " Don't give in to astonishment ", which is exactly what you want to do.

On the style of the album, critic Steve Huey wrote in AllMusic: " Mr. Bungle is a dizzying, disconcerting, schizophrenic tour through just about any rock style the group can think of, hopping from genre to genre without any apparent rhyme or reason, and sometimes doing so several times in the same song.

This is disconcerting because commercial database systems typically use locking.

It is disconcerting to find that in such a cosmic year the Earth does not condense out of interstellar matter until early September, dinosaurs emerge on Christmas Eve ; flowers arise on December 28th ; and men and women originate at 10: 30 P. M on New Year's Eve.

So The Polar Express is at best disconcerting, and at worst, a wee bit horrifying.

He is very good at finding disconcerting moves.

Neither is the bounce too disconcerting nor is the movement extravagant. It also does not assist spin like the sub continent pitches and hence for quality batsman they could be batting paradises.

She told Rolling Stone in 1991, " I've never approached music from a categorization process, so to be a casualty of it is real disconcerting to me ".

This reckless and amusing satire described with the most disconcerting accuracy the faults of the various actors and actresses on the London stage ; in a competition judged by Shakespeare and Jonson, Garrick is named the greatest English actor.

Most disconcerting is the whiteness of the skin, an overt contrivance of " aristocratic pallor "; by contrast her red ear is a jarring reminder of the color of flesh unadorned.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.

This is nevertheless a minority view.

But it is true, nevertheless.

Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.

But there is, nevertheless, always a subtle difference in the way in which supposedly similar opinions are held.

If this choice is less exciting than New York Democrats may wish, it nevertheless must be made.

Falling somewhere in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas -- difficult to see but undeniably there, nevertheless -- is the tropical green `` city '' of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost no residents, limited access and an unlimited future.

Although Sam Rayburn affects a gruff exterior in many instances, nevertheless he is fundamentally a man of warm heart and gentle disposition.

It's not a science as involved as determining what makes the earth rotate on its axis or building a rocket or putting a satellite into orbit but it is, nevertheless, a science.

He said his plan is designed to `` meet the needs of those millions who have no wish to receive care at the taxpayers' expense, but who are nevertheless staggered by the drain on their savings -- or those of their children -- caused by an extended hospital stay ''.

This is a bouncy show which may get a little too frantic at times, but is nevertheless worth your appraisal.

Yet such is the dramatic power of his writing that the audience is nevertheless left in the grip of the terrible power and potency of that which came over Salem.

In this connection, it has been observed that the increasing number of Irish Catholics, priests and laity, in England, while certainly seen as good for Catholicism, is nevertheless a source of embarrassment for some of the more nationalistic English Catholics, especially when these Irishmen offer to remind their Christian brethren of this good.

That Ambrose could nevertheless occasionally say a good word for the Jews is shown by a passage in his " Enarratio in Psalmos " ( i. 41, xiv.

While the house is clearly intended for a wealthy family, Aalto nevertheless argued that it was also an experiment that would prove useful in the design of mass housing.

But this universal agent, whilst it is not univocal, nevertheless is not altogether equivocal, otherwise it could not produce its own likeness, but rather it is to be called an analogical agent, as all univocal predications are reduced to one first non-univocal analogical predication, which is being.

The general tendency of his mind, nevertheless, was counter to tradition, and he is remarkable as resuming in his individual history all the phases of Protestant theology from Luther to Fausto Sozzini.

Though inaccessible directly, God is nevertheless seen as conscious of creation, with a will and purpose that is expressed through messengers termed Manifestations of God.

His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

That he read some of the books assigned to him with a studied carefulness is evident from his notes, which are often so full that they provide an unquestionable basis for the identification of reviews that were printed without his signature.

One cannot read the records of scientists, officials and travelers who have penetrated to the minds of the most savage races without realizing that each individual met with is a person.

For the sad truth is that while one might write well without having read Bartleby The Scrivener, one is more likely, to write well if one has `` read it, and much else.

`` I have read an advance copy of the Snow book which is to be titled, ' Science And Government.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of July 3, 1952 ( 66 Stat. 328 ) as amended ( 42 U.S.C. 1952-1958 ), is further amended to read as follows: Section 1.

42 U. S. C. 1958 ( ) ), is hereby amended to read:

In the primary grades, reading permeates almost every aspect of school progress, and the children's early experiences of success or failure in learning to read often set a pattern of total achievement that is relatively enduring throughout the following years.

We accomplish this by compiling a list of text forms as text is read by the computer.

If each text form is marked when matched with a dictionary form, the text forms not contained in the dictionary can be identified when all dictionary forms have been read.

This selection-rejection process takes place as the file is read.

The Mathematical Appendix presents the rigorous argument, but is best read after Part 1, in order that the assumptions underlying the equations may be explicit.

But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.