Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

One can only speak of what is in front of him, and that now is simply the mess ''.

The cyclist, a sufficiently commonplace young fellow, is not named but identified simply as `` Life '' -- that and a license number, which Piepsam uses in addressing him.

Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;

The cyclist, by contrast, blond and blue-eyed, is simply unreflective, unproblematic Life, `` blithe and carefree ''.

he is simply thrown out of the shop by the porter.

Experience is not seen, as it is in classical rationalism, as presenting us initially with clear and distinct objects simply located in space and registering their character, movements, and changes on the tabula rasa of an uninvolved intellect.

What is simply an opinion formed in defiance of the laws of human probability, whether or not it is later confirmed, has become by September of the election year `` a firm conviction ''.

In the case of social decay, form is displaced simply by the process of dissolution with no form at the terminus of the process.

But The Holy Sinner is not simply a retelling of old stories for an old man's entertainment.

His birth, education, and fortune, he says, have all been ridiculed simply because he has spoken with the freedom of an Englishman, and he assures the reader that `` whoever talks with me, is speaking to a Gentleman born ''.

His point is simply that the Tories have showered him with personal satire, despite the fact that as a private subject he has a right to speak on political matters without affronting the prerogative of the Sovereign.

The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.

They point out simply that `` it is the law of the land ''.

-- Her choice of one color means she is simply enjoying the motor act of coloring, without having reached the point of selecting suitable colors for different objects.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

`` I'd simply like to know if it is as good as you kind people seem to think '', he said.

The fact is simply that state-owned vehicles have remained in practically the same proportion as employees to use them.

In many communities there is simply no financial problem ; ;

For most small children, learning a forward roll is simply a matter of copying another child who can.

This is especially striking between Pimen's quiet exit and Grigori's vehement outburst against Boris.

It is quite true, as has been often said, that “ we are all socialists up to a certain point ”; but Mr. Gladstone fixed that point lower, and was more vehement against those who went above it, than any other politician or official of my acquaintance.

Because of Derrida's vehement attempts to " rescue " Heidegger from his existentialist interpreters ( and also from Heidegger's " orthodox " followers ), Derrida has at times been represented as a " French Heidegger ", to the extent that he, his colleagues, and his former students are made to go proxy for Heidegger's worst ( political ) mistakes, despite ample evidence that the reception of Heidegger's work by later practitioners of deconstruction is anything but doctrinaire.

Not in order to be liberated from terror and pity, not in order to purge oneself of a dangerous affect by its vehement discharge — which is how Aristotle understood tragedy — but in order to celebrate oneself the eternal joy of becoming, beyond all terror and pity — that tragic joy included even joy in destruction.

A taboo is a vehement prohibition of an action based on the belief that such behavior is either too sacred or too accursed for ordinary individuals to undertake, under threat of supernatural punishment.

In response to these complaints, Demosthenes delivers the Second Philippic, which is a vehement attack against Philip II.

" Anathema " is a word used mainly in the English language to describe vehement disagreement to something.

An unduly vehement vengeance is considered a venial sin unless it seriously goes counter to the love of God or of one's neighbor.

) as * tṷaiašaratha, Vedic Tvastr " whose chariot is vehement " ( Mayrhofer, Etym.

) as * tṷaiašaratha, Vedic Tvastr " whose chariot is vehement " ( Mayrhofer, Etym.

Besides his translations of Aristotle's Metaphysics and Xenophon's Memorabilia, his most important work is a treatise directed against George of Trebizond, a vehement Aristotelian who had written a polemic against Plato, which was entitled In Calumniatorem Platonis (" Against the Slanderer of Plato ").

Marko's answer is a vehement no, but he does agree to visit the set.

This is a novel bound to arouse strong responses, to generate vehement discussion, and so not easily to be forgotten.

The ultimate Jewish origin of the Mandaeans can still be found despite the vehement polemics against the Jews in Mandaean literature, in which Moses is a false prophet and Adonai ( one of the names of God ) is an evil God.

Lane's vehement response to this infringement on her right of free speech resulted in a flurry of newspaper articles and the publishing of a pamphlet, " What is this, the Gestapo ?," that was meant to remind Americans to be watchful of their rights, despite the wartime exigencies.

It is possible that the origin of the pamphlet is partly to be accounted for by his vehement passion for Marie Fel, the prima donna of the Paris Opera, who was one of the few French singers capable of performing Italian arias.

In the description of scholar Gordon Rumson, Wild Men's Dance is a " work of vehement, unruly rhythm, compounded of dense chord clusters ... and brutal accents.

Justice Frank Murphy issued a vehement dissent, saying that the exclusion of Japanese " falls into the ugly abyss of racism ," and resembles " the abhorrent and despicable treatment of minority groups by the dictatorial tyrannies which this nation is now pledged to destroy ".

In Norse mythology, Óðr ( Old Norse for " mad, frantic, furious, vehement, eager ", as a noun " mind, feeling " and also " song, poetry "; Orchard ( 1997 ) gives " the frenzied one ") or Óð, sometimes angliziced as Odr or Od, is a figure associated with the major goddess Freyja.

Alexei Pichugin, the former Security Chief of Yukos, has been convicted on multiple counts of murder and attempted murder, and is now under investigation along with Yukos partner Nevzlin for the shooting death of Vladimir Petukhov, the mayor of the Yugansk oil province and a vehement opponent of Yukos, on Khodorkovsky's birthday in 1998.

Nay, what is so bitter and vehement as the torment of love ?... It would be improper for a man to think that sinners in Gehenna are deprived of the love of God ... it torments sinners ... Thus I say that this is the torment of Gehenna: bitter regret.