The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

With Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, alienation is represented on a purely physical plane.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

The first capability is represented by a combination of manned bombers, carrier-based aircraft, and intercontinental and intermediate range missiles.

The second capability is represented by our deployed ground, naval, and air forces in essential forward areas, together with ready reserves capable of effecting early emergency reinforcement.

From the volume standpoint, the total market represented by the sign industry is impressive.

Hard-surface cleaning in household application is represented by two classes of alkaline products: ( 1 ) the formulations made expressly for machine dishwashers, and ( 2 ) the general-purpose cleaners used for walls and woodwork.

Type 1, is represented by the cow, sheep, and pig ; ;

The second situation is illustrated by the operator T on Af ( F any field ) represented in the standard basis by Af.

Each form represented by the dictionary is looked up in the text-form list.

The differentiation, however, is not very much greater, as shown by the fact that Athabascan shows 3.46 stems per meaning slot as against 2.75 for Yokuts, with a slightly greater number of languages represented in our sample: 24 as against 21.

Finally, the gyro-stabilized platform characteristic is represented by Af.

One way to do this is by `` proxy sittings '', wherein the person seeking a message does not himself meet with the medium but is represented by a substitute, the proxy sitter.

In another sense, it is represented in the arguments of the `` true believers '' who seek to disprove the validity of all other beliefs and ideas in order to retain confidence in theirs.

For we have said, in effect, that of the two alternatives to his position variously represented by the other participants in the demythologizing discussion, only one is really an alternative.

Whereas Bultmann's `` center '' position is structurally inconsistent and is therefore indefensible on formal grounds alone, the general position of the `` right '', as represented, say, by Karl Barth, involves the rejection or at least qualification of the demand for demythologization and so is invalidated on the material grounds we have just considered.

It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '', which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, is found in much that is significant in American and English theology.

It will be recalled from the discussion in Section 7 that the position of the `` right '', as represented by Barth, rests on the following thesis: The only tenable alternative to Bultmann's position is a theology that ( 1 ) rejects or at least qualifies his unconditioned demand for demythologization and existential interpretation ; ;

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

It is softened by the saltbush and the bluebush, has a peaceful quality, the hills roll softly.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.

As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.

The unit of form is determined subjectively: `` the Heart, by the way of the Breath, to the Line ''.

Besides using the flag, the Council also uses a defaced version of the flag as its emblem: it is the existing design with a stylised, green " e " over the stars.

English Elizabethan and Stuart composers had often evolved their music from folk themes, the classical suite was based upon stylised folk-dances and Joseph Haydn's use of folk melodies is noted.

For this reason, the term is often applied to films and plays of a stylised nature with heightened acting, melodrama and theatrical effects such as Sweeney Todd, Sleepy Hollow, Quills, and the Hammer Horror films that went before them.

Wearing of amulets and devotional medals to provide protection or ward off evil is common in some cultures ; these may take the form of symbols ( such as the ankh ), stones, plants, animals, body parts ( such as the Khamsa ), or glyphs ( such as stylised versions of the Throne Verse in Islamic art ).

While incomplete and subtitled a " fragment ", its language is highly stylised with a strong emphasis on sound devices that change between the poem's original two stanzas.

* Lambda is occasionally used in graphic design to represent a stylised ' A '.

Marini is particularly famous for his series of stylised equestrian statues, which feature a man with outstretched arms on a horse.

The first, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier in 1944, is a colourful and highly stylised version which begins in the Globe Theatre and then gradually shifts to a realistic evocation of the Battle of Agincourt.

* A stylised illustration of part of a male Superb Lyrebird's tail is the logo for the Lyrebird Arts Council of Victoria.

The stylised tree is quite unlike any other tree in the tapestry.

In the three orders of Ancient Greek architecture, the sculptural decoration, be it a simple half round astragal, a frieze of stylised foliage or the ornate sculpture of the pediment, is all essential to the architecture of which it is a part.

Although Stoppard uses language reflective of his periods — historical or modern speech patterns and lexicons in keeping with his characterizations — this is a stylised dialogue used to convey " look and feel " according to the perceptions of the modern audience.

The set is a brightly coloured and stylised park containing the eponymous roundabout ( a fairground carousel ).

More specifically, in music notation, flat means, " lower in pitch by a semitone ( half step )," and has an associated symbol (), which is a stylised lowercase " b " that may be found in key signatures or as an accidental, as may sharps.

The school is noted for its use of stepped volute capitals and its stylised " tree of life " motif on tympana.

" Commenting on then Cardinal Ratzinger, he said, " Ratzinger, who is, in his mind-set, a Nazi " because he is " afraid to tell the truth ," and because he and John Paul II " won't even let themselves be in the presence of the truth, because it would shatter their very stylised view of things.

The best-known ass in Kuurne is ' Ambroos ' ( Ambrose ), a larger-than-life and somewhat stylised statue in front of the town hall.

The traditional heraldic symbol of Oltenia, also understood as representing Banat, is nowadays present in the Coat of Arms of Romania ( lower dexter ): on gules field, an or lion rampant, facing dexter, holding a sword, and standing over an or bridge ( Apolodor of Damascus Bridge at Drobeta Turnu Severin ) and stylised waves.

There is a private preparatory school in Woodhall Spa, near Lincoln, named after St Hugh, which uses a stylised ball and wall as its school emblem.

* As each Christmas approaches, a silver-coloured structure is erected in St Martin's Square which resembles a stylised Christmas tree.

Because of his use of stylised figures and the lack of weather effects in many of his landscapes he is sometimes characterised as a naïve ' Sunday painter ' although this is not the position of the galleries that have organised retrospectives of his works.

Wong Kar-wai, BBS ( born 17 July 1958 ) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild ( 1990 ), Ashes of Time ( 1994 ), Chungking Express ( 1994 ), Fallen Angels ( 1995 ), Happy Together ( 1997 ) and 2046 ( 2004 ).