Lacking almost any dialogue the film is shown as Jarman's own subjective musings, which are tempered by the reality of his own mortality — when HIV-positive Jarman made the film he was facing death from AIDS.

Lacking in numbers, Eugene could not seriously disrupt Tallard's march ; nevertheless, the French Marshal's progress was proving pitifully slow.

Lacking telescopes to work with, he increased his accuracy by increasing the length of his sextant ; the so-called Fakhri sextant had a radius of about 36 meters ( 118 ft ) and the optical separability of 180 " ( seconds of arc ).

He wrote several chess books including Chess Springbok, My Book of Fun and Games, Grosse Remispartien ( in German ; an English edition entitled Draw !, edited by John Nunn, was published in 1982 ), and Lacking the Master Touch ( 1970 ).

Lacking confidence, she initially disliked stage school ; her father encouraged her to endure and she grew to enjoy her time there.

Lacking the lavish production values and visual spectacle of its Hollywood equivalents, Elstree Calling is now something of a curio item interesting chiefly for two reasons: Alfred Hitchcock ( then contracted to BIP ) was one of several directors employed on the production ; and the film is quite possibly the first ever to refer directly to television ( the linking narrative concerns a television broadcast of the revue, some six years before the BBC began regular television transmissions ).

Lacking a vocalist, they were strictly an instrumental band until the addition of singer Al Jackson in 1963 ; they began playing rock and roll songs and secured a residency at Solihull Civic Hall.

Lacking a centralized intelligence authority, he was unaware of the previous success ; when Washington's ships arrived in Bermuda in October 1775, the gunpowder had been gone for two months and British ships patrolled Bermuda waters.

Lacking a local militia or garrison of soldiers, there were no military stores ; uniforms had to be fashioned from scratch.

Lacking the respected and effective institutions that consensus helps provide, minority parties, such as the P.D.I. in 1957 and the progressive Istiqlal faction in 1958, clamor for elections when out of power, but are not at all certain they wish to be controlled by popular choice when in power.

Lacking the moral influence of Ben or the need to stay secret for his aunt, Peter broke out of the orphanage he was sent to and began to defeat criminals for the reward money, matters coming to a head when he nearly killed the Green Goblin in a fight.

Lacking success, he was on the point of enlisting when he suddenly sprang into fame as the author of a play called El trovador ( The Troubadour ), which was played for the first time on 1 March 1836.

Lacking the razor-sharp talons and curved, tearing beak of a raptor, the Great Black-backed Gull relies on aggression, physical strength and endurance when hunting.

Lacking in proper social skills, her most famous trademark was that, when nervous, she would stick her hands under her armpits and then smell them.

Lacking videotaped studio material, this also meant that it was the only story, to date ( excluding the TV movie ), to be shot entirely on film ( other stories in the original series intercut material from either source as required or, especially in the last four years when film was eschewed even on location, were entirely on tape ).

Lacking a sense of purpose in his personal life since the collapse of his marriage, he came to believe that, when Jesus revealed Himself, He quite literally rescued him from an early grave.

Lacking an heir, Attalus III Philometer, the last of the Attalid kings of Pergamum, bequeathed his kingdom, including Philadelphia, to his Roman allies when he died in 133 BC.

Lacking immediate victims to hunt, zombies will often fumble through crude motions reminiscent of life activities, often when prompted by a familiar artifact such as a telephone or car.

Lacking armoured support, which had failed to arrive, they fought through the morning and into the afternoon, but when their position was assaulted by two German tanks they were forced to withdraw.

Lacking access to material of value and out of touch with Soviet intelligence, he all but ceased to operate as a Soviet agent.

Lacking siege engines and sufficient manpower to take the city of Rome itself, he had planned to turn the Italian allies against Rome and starve the city out through a siege.

Lacking enough water to put out the flames, buildings in the fire's path were dynamited to deny the fire fuel.

Lacking a hit 45 and released too late in the year, it sold out its original run but was never reprinted, suggesting somewhat disappointing sales.

Lacking water, the Nabataeans were forced out of their camp for battle, but were defeated in this last battle.

Lacking funds, he seeks out the bandit Rughalt of the sore knees, his accomplice, to provide him shelter and funds.

Lacking sufficient financial support to pay for radio advertising, O ' Brien commissioned campaign songs from local folk artists promoting his themes, recorded them, then played them out of a loudspeaker on a truck driven through town.

Lacking the proper means to create their own warjacks the Mercenaries have created their own by scavenging discarded and out of date parts, which they've refitted into working ' jacks capable of doing battle with newer ones.

Lacking any influence or naval contacts himself, Dixon Hoste asked his landlord, Thomas Coke, for assistance and was introduced to Nelson, then living nearby in Burnham Thorpe and who had recently been appointed as Captain of a 64-gun third-rate, which was being fitted out at Chatham Dockyard.

Lacking the investment necessary to enable the company to compete effectively in newly emerging markets, Parker-Hale was eventually sold out to the Midlands engineering group, Modular Industries.

Lacking any advertising or promotion in the mainstream book industry, the novel has remained a top seller on Amazon. com since it came out in 1996.

Lacking a real cooperative bigfoot, Patterson and Gimlin would have needed a costume to present a reasonable representation of the creature supposedly encountered.

:" I have continued the revolution I began in Il giuramento: varied forms, cabalettas banished, crescendos out, vocal lines simplified, fewer repeats, more originality in the cadances, proper regard paid to the drama, orchestration rich but not so as to swamp the voices, no long solos in the ensembles ( they only force the other parts to stand idle to the detriment of the action ), not much bass drum, and a lot less brass band ".

The reviewer in The Observer of 13 February 1927 did not expect originality when reading a book dealing with the themes of The Big Four but did admit that, " When one opens a book and finds the name Li Chang Yen and is taken to subterranean chambers in the East End ' hung with rich Oriental silks ,' one fears the worst.

On the whole the Italian novels of the 13th century have little originality, and are a faint reflection of the very rich legendary literature of France.

Roger Ebert gave the film one and a half stars and wrote, " The film has been directed without grace, vision, originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialogue, it will not be because you admire them " and criticized its liberties with historical facts: " There is no sense of history, strategy or context ; according to this movie, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because America cut off its oil supply, and they were down to an 18-month reserve.

Perti maintained in his Op. 1 that he was influenced by the melodic style of Francesco Cavalli, Antonio Cesti, and Luigi Rossi ; however he shows considerable originality in instrumentation, use of dialogue and countermelody.

But Woe to him who lies, in spite of its humour of situation, its sparkling dialogue and the originality of its idea-namely, that the hero wins by invariably telling the truth, where his enemies invariably expect him to lie-was too strange to meet with approval in its day.

" But this originality does not always bring large financial reward ; as Pei replied to the successful architect: " Just once, I'd like to make the kind of money you do.

Both works showed little originality of thought ; they achieved wide popularity at the time of their publication, but have long been superseded.

It endeavors to stimulate in workmen an appreciation of the dignity and value of good design ; to counteract the popular impatience of Law and Form, and the desire for over-ornamentation and specious originality.

The quality of this coverage was recognized specifically by the Canadian Journalism Foundation ; editor-in-chief Tony Burman later accepted the Excellence in Journalism Award ( 2004 ), for " rigorous professional practice, accuracy, originality and public accountability ", on behalf of the service.

In the case of Djamileh, the accusation of " Wagnerism " was raised again, as audiences struggled to understand the score's originality ; many found the music pretentious and monotonous, lacking in both rhythm and melody.

During the early 1900s Holmfirth was well known for film making ; the West Yorkshire film industry, for a time, surpassed that of Hollywood in terms of productivity and originality.

In France, for example, the Ordinance of Marine of Louis XIV was published under the auspices of Colbert in 1691, and was the first complete code of maritime and commercial law ; and " when we consider the originality and extent of the design and the ability with which it is executed, we shall not hesitate to admit that it deserves to be ranked among the noblest works that legislative genius and learning have ever accomplished.

Some, such as the composer André Campra, were stunned by its originality and wealth of invention ; others found its harmonic innovations discordant and saw the work as an attack on the French musical tradition.

Critics highlighted various aspects of Rip the Jackers originality, both in terms of beats and lyrics ; Stoupe had employed a large number of samples from often obscure compositions, while Canibus himself undertook a variety of topics from various perspectives.

It wouldn't be entirely accurate to say that they've left their influences behind ; rather, they've integrated them more completely and created a sound that is completely satisfying without having to prove anything about its own originality.

Young himself reinforced his reputation as a pioneer of romanticism by precept as well as by example ; in 1759, at the age of 76, he published a piece of critical prose under the title of Conjectures on Original Composition which put forward the vital doctrine of the superiority of " genius ," of innate originality being more valuable than classic indoctrination or imitation, and suggested that modern writers might dare to rival or even surpass the " ancients " of Greece and Rome … The Conjectures was a declaration of independence against the tyranny of classicism and was at once acclaimed as such becoming a milestone in the history of English, and European, literary criticism.

An ardent humanist and student of the antique, he yet vindicated resolutely the French tradition in opposition to Italian tendencies ; he was a man of independent mind and a vigorous originality.

You have to have originality in your games ; you have to have some kind of interesting message.

Mario Party 5 was positively received by the media ; reviewers enjoyed the new minigames of the series, although a perceived lack of originality was criticized.

Jazz writer and historian William Russell has commented that other jazz trumpeters would be better off avoiding the too frequent imitations of Armstrong's introduction on the number ; while the most virtuosic may have the technical ability to duplicate Armstrong's notes, they still suffer in comparison to Armstrong's feeling and originality.

This institutional service did not diminish the creativity and originality of his research program, which led to three postulates for the binding mechanism for ATP synthesis — that energy input was not used primarily to form ATP but to promote the binding of phosphate and mostly the release of tightly bound ATP ; that three identical catalytic sites went through compulsory, sequential binding changes ; and that the binding changes of the catalytic subunites, circularly arranged on the periphery of the enzyme, were driven by the rotation of a smaller internal subunit.

(...) his theater is one of negation: negation of the avant-gardist concept of originality, negation of logic and reason, negation of the desire to assign uniform cultural meanings to diverse phenomena ; negation of a worldview that distrusts the unfamiliar and the unconventional.

" He was transparent in character, chivalrous, kindly, firm, eloquent and sagacious ; his purity of motive and unselfishness commanded absolute confidence ; he had originality and initiative in dealing with new and difficult circumstances, and great aptitude for business details.

His other books include The Fourfold State, one of the religious classics of Scotland ; The Crook in the Lot, a short book noted for its originality ; and his Body of Divinity and Miscellanies.

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