To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

The family is largely broken up ; ;

Everyone is ambivalent about his profession, if he has practised it long enough, but there were still moments when he loved the stage and all those unseen people out there, who might cheer you or boo you, but that was largely, though not entirely, up to you.

These roads are largely of less than highway standards, and usually carry traffic which is related to use of the National Forests.

American technology in engine and hull design is largely responsible for the plentiful interest in American boating.

If, as I suspect, the problem is largely of the second sort, then development of a theory better able to handle tone will result automatically in better theory for all phonologic subsystems.

The treatment seems unnecessarily loose-jointed and complex, largely because the method is lax and the analysis seems never to be pushed to a satisfactory or even a consistent stopping-point.

The record is clear that increase in school desegregation last year came largely as a result of a court order ; ;

Depicted, Cubist flatness is now almost completely assimilated to the literal, undepicted kind, but at the same time it reacts upon and largely transforms the undepicted kind -- and it does so, moreover, without depriving the latter of its literalness ; ;

This sort of manipulation is especially troublesome in Fromm's work because, although his system is derived largely from certain philosophic convictions, he asserts that it is based on empirical findings drawn both from social science and from his own consulting room.

It is largely a matter of finding passages that suit one's purposes.

One of the significant things about Jewish culture in the older teen years is that it is largely college-oriented.

One of the significant developments in American-Jewish life is that the cultural consumers are largely the women.

This is largely because of the unpredictability of the man who operates the helm of the state government and is the elected leader of its two million inhabitants -- Gov. Ross Barnett.

Place kicking is largely a matter of timing, Moritz declared.

`` Furhmann's faculty is proud that this has been a spontaneous effort, started largely among the students themselves, because of fondness for Vicky and sympathy for her entire family, Pohly said.

Therefore, her wardrobe is largely mobile, to be packed at a moment's notice and to shake out without a wrinkle.

The importance of this 5 can largely be explained by the natural mathematical properties of the middle number and its special relationship to all the rest of the numbers -- quite apart from any numerological considerations, which is to say, any symbolic meaning arbitrarily assigned to it.

Professional responsibility is seen to consist largely in serving the wishes of the client fairly and in an efficient manner.

In short, the book, based largely on lectures delivered at Harvard University, is both reliable and readable ; ;

To contrast with the more stereotyped descriptions, Christie often characterised the " foreigners " in such a way as to make the reader understand and sympathise with them ; this is particularly true of her Jewish characters, who are seldom actually criminals.

Agate () is a microcrystalline variety of silica, chiefly chalcedony, characterised by its fineness of grain and brightness of color.

The test is unstable ( i. e. the crack propagates along the entire specimen once a critical load is attained ) and a modified version of this test characterised by a non constant inertia was proposed called the tapered double cantilever beam ( TDCB ) specimen.

Alcoholism is characterised by an increased tolerance of and physical dependence on alcohol, affecting an individual's ability to control alcohol consumption safely.

French poet Paul Verlaine's " Chanson d ' automne " (" Autumn Song ") is likewise characterised by strong, painful feelings of sorrow.

The town is characterised by low population density.

The culture is characterised by a high degree of sophistication in the production of metal and ceramic artefacts, as well as of uniformity over a vast area.

It is characterised by " eerie dissonances providing a backdrop to sounds of nature and lonely melodies " ( Schneider 2006, 84 ).

It has been noted that the bipolar disorder diagnosis is officially characterised in historical terms such that, technically, anyone with a history of ( hypo ) mania and depression has bipolar disorder whatever their current or future functioning and vulnerability.

Brass instruments may also be characterised by two generalizations about geometry of the bore, that is, the tubing between the mouthpiece and the flaring of the tubing into the bell.

The third stage is characterised by the transfer of information through controlled waves and electronic signals.

Casuistry (), or case-based reasoning, is a method in applied ethics and jurisprudence, often characterised as a critique of principle-or rule-based reasoning.

Candide is characterised by its sarcastic tone, as well as by its erratic, fantastical and fast-moving plot.

The layout of this is not, however, well characterised apart from the compaction of one of the two X chromosomes in mammalian females into the Barr body.

It is, however, not well characterised.

This miaphysite position, historically characterised by Chalcedonian followers as " monophysitism " though this is denied by the dissenters, formed the basis for the distinction from other churches of the Coptic Church of Egypt and Ethiopia and the " Jacobite " churches of Syria and Armenia ( see Oriental Orthodoxy ).

Canada is often characterised as being " very progressive, diverse, and multicultural ".

A smaller population ( the ' hot population ') is characterised by highly inclined, more eccentric orbits.

Charcot – Marie – Tooth disease ( CMT ), also known as Charcot – Marie – Tooth neuropathy, hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy ( HMSN ) and peroneal muscular atrophy ( PMA ) — is a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of inherited disorders of the peripheral nervous system characterised by progressive loss of muscle tissue and touch sensation across various parts of the body.

Paul Russell suggests that perhaps Hume's position is best characterised by the term " irreligion ".

Because " Hume's plan is to extend to philosophy in general the methodological limitations of Newtonian physics ", Hume is characterised as an empiricist.

According to Nielsen ( 2008 ) a dictionary may be regarded as a lexicographical product that is characterised by three significant features: ( 1 ) it has been prepared for one or more functions ; ( 2 ) it contains data that have been selected for the purpose of fulfilling those functions ; and ( 3 ) its lexicographic structures link and establish relationships between the data so that they can meet the needs of users and fulfill the functions of the dictionary.

It is characterised by a combination of scientific training and its practical applications.