Many contemporaries of Godard and Truffaut followed suit, or achieved international critical acclaim with styles of their own, such as the minimalist films of Robert Bresson and Jean-Pierre Melville, the Hitchcockian-like thrillers of Henri-Georges Clouzot, and other New Wave films by Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais.

Many contemporaries and later historians, such as Ron Chernow, noted that Madison and President Jefferson ignored their " strict construction " view of the Constitution to take advantage of the purchase opportunity.

Many of the disaffected barons came from the north of England ; that faction was often labelled by contemporaries and historians as " the Northerners ".

Many early feminists and advocates of women's rights were considered left-wing by their contemporaries.

Many economists, even contemporaries, have criticized this model of economic man.

Many of Paulinus's letters to his contemporaries, including Ausonius and Sulpicius Severus in southern Gaul, Victricius of Rouen in northern Gaul, and Augustine in Africa are preserved.

Many of his contemporaries compared his music with that of classically trained musicians, although Orbison never mentioned any classical music influences.

Many of Porter's contemporaries criticized his administration, and historians since have disparaged his leadership.

Many Patton contemporaries, including those who knew him personally or served with him, have applauded Scott's characterization of Patton for accurately capturing the essence of the man – war-loving, egotistical, overbearing, obsessive, conflicted, and enigmatic, yet unrivalled in his ability to inspire and lead large forces of men in a desperate and ultimately victorious struggle against a determined enemy.

Many authors fled to the U. S. and Canada ( Josef Škvorecký ), Germany ( Peroutka ), Austria ( Kohout ), France ( M. Kundera ), but they generally did not fare much better than their contemporaries in Czechoslovakia, largely due to the absence of a readership.

Many Williamite troops at the Boyne, including their very effective irregular cavalry, were Protestants from Ulster, who called themselves " Inniskillingers " and were referred to by contemporaries as " Scots-Irish ".

Many of his contemporaries explored the extremes of human emotion, while Bournonville, using enthusiastic footwork and fluid phrases in his work, portrayed a more balanced human nature.

Many of his contemporaries as well as boxing writers believe that, had it not been for his premature death, Sanchez could have gone on to become the greatest Featherweight boxer of all time.

Many of the Absurdists were contemporaries with Jean-Paul Sartre, the philosophical spokesman for Existentialism in Paris, but few Absurdists actually committed to Sartre's own Existentialist philosophy, as expressed in Being and Nothingness, and many of the Absurdists had a complicated relationship with him.

Many contemporaries perceived All Saints ' as Italian in character, though in fact it combines fourteenth century English details, with a German-style spire.

Many of Adolf ’ s contemporaries considered this action to be simony.

Many of Rubinstein's contemporaries felt he bore a striking resemblance to Ludwig van Beethoven.

Many contemporaries predicted the failure of electric telegraphs because " they are so easy to cut.

Many contemporaries warned of the ease of sabotage and interruption of service by cutting a wire.

Many of the most popular R & B songs were not performed in the rollicking style of Jordan and his contemporaries ; instead they were performed by white musicians like Pat Boone in a more palatable mainstream style, which turned into pop hits.

Many of his contemporaries said that either Keppard was past his prime when he recorded or that his recordings do not do him justice.

Many contemporaries and historians have doubted his suitability for this command, given his lack of familiarity with naval aviation.

Many reforms in the penal codes of the principal European nations can be traced to Beccaria's treatise, although few contemporaries were convinced by Beccaria's argument against the death penalty.

Many of his buildings are airy and elegant, yet he was considered a maverick genius by his contemporaries and exerted little influence on subsequent generations of Bohemian architects.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

Many critics considered Johnson's actions were passive and delayed, and thought his defense of the Monroe Doctrine in this instance was weak.

Many find aberration to be counter-intuitive, and a simple thought experiment based on everyday experience can help in its understanding.

Many scholars in those days thought it reasonable to believe that there exist means for transforming cheaper ( base ) metals into gold.

Many who thought themselves smarter.

Many concepts once thought to be analogous, such as the Chinese Wu Xing, are now understood more figuratively.

Many Christian Scientists thought the book violated the church's by-laws, and the editors of the church's religious periodicals and several other church employees resigned in protest.

Many thought the incident would end his season early, but Earnhardt refused to give up.

Many labels expected New York freestyle and Miami freestyle to have the same audience and thought that the same promotional strategy would work for both genres, which often led to poor results for the New York – based freestyle.

Many philosophers argue to the contrary, believing that, for example, the laws of thought cannot be revised and may be " held come what may ".

Many patients are initially unhappy at the thought of having to take a thyroid hormone pill for the rest of their lives.

Many writers note that historical materialism represented a revolution in human thought, and a break from previous ways of understanding the underlying basis of change within various human societies.

Many believed religion had been used as a source of conflict since time eternal, and that logical, rational thought was the way forward for mankind.

Many bear pictographic inscriptions generally thought to be a form of writing or script.

" Many people thought I was being reactionary ," he said.

Many thought Kemp had destroyed his own political future with the endorsement, and Kemp profusely apologized to Dole's campaign offices.

Many people with LEMS, both with and without VGCC antibodies, have detectable antibodies against the M1 subtype of the acetylcholine receptor ; it is thought that their presence participates in a lack of compensation for the slow calcium influx.

* Many everyday activities carried out without a thought are uses of mathematical models.

Many schools of Hindu thought espouse monistic theism, which is thought to be similar to a panentheistic viewpoint.

Many measures are part of modern psychophysiology including measures of brain activity such as ERPs, brain waves ( electroencephalography, EEG ), fMRI ( functional magnetic resonance imaging ), measures of skin conductance ( skin conductance response, SCR ; galvanic skin response, GSR ), cardiovascular measures ( heart rate, HR ; beats per minute, BPM ; heart rate variability, HRV ; vasomotor activity ), muscle activity ( electromyography, EMG ), changes in pupil diameter with thought and emotion ( pupillometry ) and eye movements, recorded via the electro-oculogram ( EOG ) and direction-of-gaze methods.

Many of the results of quantum mechanics are not easily visualized in terms of classical mechanics — for instance, the ground state in a quantum mechanical model is a non-zero energy state that is the lowest permitted energy state of a system, as opposed to a more " traditional " system that is thought of as simply being at rest, with zero kinetic energy.

Many long sections are ruler-straight, but it should not be thought that all of them were.

Victorian England was divided on Richard: " Many of them admired him as a crusader and man of God, erecting an heroic statue to him outside the Houses of Parliament ; Stubbs, on the other hand, thought him " a bad son, a bad husband, a selfish ruler, and a vicious man ".

Many experimental languages are concerned with the relation between language and thought.