This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

A puzzling aspect of BTV is its survival between midge seasons in temperate regions.

This behavior is so puzzling that it has been called the black hole information loss paradox.

The puzzling phenomenon of two individuals being exposed to the same evidence and being able to reach different conclusions, has been frequently explained ( particularly by Daniel Kahneman ) by reference to a ' bounded rationality ' - that is most judgments are made by fast acting heuristics ( system 1 ) that work well in every day situations, but are not amenable to decision making about complex subjects such as climate change.

Glenn A. Baker, author of Monkeemania: The True Story of the Monkees, commented in 1986 that " for an artist as versatile and confident as Jones, the relative failure of his post-Monkees activities is puzzling.

Black hole entropy is deeply puzzling — it says that the logarithm of the number of states of a black hole is proportional to the area of the horizon, not the volume in the interior.

Why opposite sides of the mountain should show different styles of deformation is puzzling.

This may be puzzling, because quantum mechanics is generally thought of as more complicated than classical mechanics.

Such a correction concerns the temples dedicated on the Capitol ; it does not address the question of the dedication of the temple on the Island, which is puzzling, since the place is attested epigraphically as dedicated to the cult of Iuppiter Iurarius and Vediove in the Fasti Praenestini and to Jupiter according to Ovid's.

Understanding Fort's books takes time and effort: his style is complex, violent and poetic, profound and occasionally puzzling.

This rule by itself is very puzzling since it looks like it could be used without bothering with fuzzy logic, but remember that the decision is based on a set of rules:

Astronomers think that the sun had about 70 – 75 % of the present luminosity, yet temperatures appear to have been near modern levels even within 500 Ma of Earth's formation, which is puzzling ( the faint young sun paradox ).

Their stay is brief but puzzling, for Tom and Goldberry are clearly more than they seem.

As a copy command, this is puzzling: " Go back four characters and copy ten characters from that position into the current position ".

The first dance part is known as a hash call, which is characterized by its unstructured and often puzzling dance choreography.

An elaborate and not very amusing joke, this " puzzling " poem has been considered historically significant by some scholars as a signal from Ibycus that he is now turning his back on epic themes to concentrate on love poetry instead: a new vision or recusatio.

Many modern readers will find it puzzling that one and the same thing is called the Good, the source of being ( the being of the forms, at least ), something that ( somehow ) sheds light on all other forms, and a universal.

What many consider to be the most puzzling teosinte is Z. m. huehuetenangensis which combines a morphology rather like Z. m. parviglumis with many terminal chromosome knobs and an isozyme position between the two sections.

In Sanchuniathon's account Hadad is once called Adodos but mostly named Demarûs, a puzzling form, possibly a Greek corruption of Hadad Ramān.

More problematic, and never properly addressed by Cumont or his successors, is how real-life Roman Mithraists subsequently maintained a quite complex and sophisticated Iranian theology behind an occidental facade.

The name Trimalchio is formed from the Greek prefix τρις and the Semitic melek in its occidental form Malchio or Malchus.

Unlike occidental archers ( who, with some exceptions, draw the bow never further than the cheek bone ), kyudo archers draw the bow so that the drawing hand is held behind the ear.

The album is often seen as one of the most innovative of the 1980s, with its fusion of occidental and oriental sounds.

Biosemiotics attempts to integrate the findings of scientific biology and semiotics, proposing a paradigmatic shift in the occidental scientific view of life, demonstrating that semiosis ( sign process, including meaning and interpretation ) is its immanent and intrinsic feature.

They indicate that the speaker is whispering .< BR > Another form, sometimes encountered in manga, looks like an occidental thought bubble.

Otis Green argues in his España y la tradición occidental that in Abravanel's work human love is spiritualized, placing it in connection with divine love, by posing the necessity of going beyond physical union to merge minds and souls.

The summer is usually wet and mild, but hotter than areas at the same altitude in the occidental valleys.

The earliest record of tea in a more occidental writing is said to be found in the statement of an Arabian traveler, that after the year 879 the main sources of revenue in Canton were the duties on salt and tea.

There is a very strong Spanish influence in their festivals, thus making the Philippines, distinctively occidental.

Alternately, it is used to describe non-Inuit Canadian society, or even occidental society as a whole.

The album is considered the most occidental of the band, which was common for all Japanese bands at that time.

The occidental gerbil, Gerbillus occiduus, is distributed mainly southwestern Morocco.

Odontolite, also called bone turquoise or fossil turquoise or occidental turquoise, is fossil bone or ivory that has been traditionally thought to have been altered by turquoise or similar phosphate minerals such as vivianite.

The mind has betrayed them, reason is the foe of life ; ;

Gone is the tabula rasa of the mind.

In this respect experience is broader and full of a richer variety of potential meanings than the mind of man or any of his arts or culture are capable of making clear and distinct.

No consideration of risk urges itself upon him now: for this is what the mind does with the ideas on which it has not properly focussed.

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

Faulkner's is not the mind of the apologist which Mr. O'Donnell implies that it is.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

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.

Although it is constantly made to look foolish ( too simple to come in out of the rain, people say, who have found in the innocent an impediment ), it does not mind looking foolish because it is not concerned with how it looks.

An idea, of the sort that we have in mind, although of necessity readily available to imagination, is more general in connotation than most poetic or literary images, especially those appearing in lyric poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience.

Like most major works of synthesis, The History Of England is informed by the positive views of a first-class mind, and this is surely a major work.

I bethought me of the Lord's Prayer, and these words came to mind: `` Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ''.

In Plato's mind there is an irresolvable conflict between the poet and the philosopher, because the poet imitates only particular objects and is incapable of rising to the first level of abstraction, much less the highest level of ideal forms.

It is not between Euripides and Shakespeare that the western mind turns away from the ancient tragic sense of life.

This is certainly an irrational dogmatism, in which the modern mind attempts to understand the spirit of the sixteenth century on twentieth-century terms.

The existence of a community is a state of mind -- a conviction that goals and values are widely shared, that effective communication is possible, that mutual trust is reasonably assured.