* 10 Visual Motifs that American Science Fiction Borrowed from Anime

Motifs for his works ( reliefs, statues, and busts ) were drawn mostly from Greek mythology, as well as works of classic art and literature.

Motifs of Cohl's can be found in Little Nemo and later films by McCay: the dots coalescing into Little Nemo reflect effects in Un Drame chez les fantoches and Les Joyeaux Microbes ; the metamorphosis of the rose into the Princess may have been inspired by Fantasmagorie ; the titular character of The Story of a Mosquito ( 1912 ) sharpening his beak comes from Un Drame chez les fantoches ; the live-action / animation interaction of McCay throwing a pumpkin to Gertie the Dinosaur ( 1914 ) may have been an answer to the matador hurling his hatchet at the moon in " Clair de lune espagnol ".

Motifs consisted of two classes: the first type being simple geometric motifs such as the checkerboard and gau ( amulet ) design that probably formed part of an ancient Tibetan design repertoire, mingled with medallion designs and other motifs derived from Chinese decorative traditions.

16: Fantaisie sur deux Motifs de la « Norma » (" Fantasy on Themes from opera Norma ")

Motifs such as chhajja ( A sunshade or eave laid on cantilever brackets fixed into and projecting from the walls ), corbel brackets with richly carved pendentive decorations ( described as stalactite pedentives ), balconies, kiosks or chhatris and minars ( tall towers ) were characteristic of the Mughal architecture style, which was to become a lasting legacy of the nearly four hundred years of the Mughal rule.

Motifs drawn from the Italianate style were incorporated into the commercial builders ' vocabulary, and appear in Victorian architecture dating from the mid-to-late 19th century.

Motifs also draw inspiration from Islamic decorations.

Motifs ranges from whales, elks, boats and people.

Motifs of those reliefs were taken from Roman art ; sometimes figures from the Bible appeared alongside this decoration, like relief in Holy Nedjeljica in Zadar, and then they were subdued by their pattern.

Motifs were derived from the arts of the " barbarian ," such as grotesque figures, beasts, and geometric patterns, which were all important additions, particularly in the regions north of the Alps.

Motifs: a legend ; a protective pentacle ; a supernatural manifestation ; protection from one supernatural entity by another, more powerful one ; a creature or creatures unknown to science ; a vigil.

The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare.

* Huys, Marc, The Tale of the Hero Who Was Exposed at Birth in Euripidean Tragedy: A Study of Motifs, Cornell University Press ( December 1995 ).

Motifs on a ceremonial stone palette found at the Moundville Archaeological Site in Moundville, Alabama

Examples of sequence motif databases are the Prosite catalog ( http :// www. expasy. ch / prosite ) and the Stanford Motifs Database ( http :// dna. stanford. edu / emotif /).

Motifs are similar to coastal Cirebon Batik, but the thickness of coloring share the same styles as inland batik.

Motifs do not allow us to predict the biological functions because they are found in proteins and enzymes with dissimilar functions.

Motifs include human figures, weapons, and animal species such as rabbit, puma, lynx, deer, wild goat / sheep, whale, turtle, tuna, sardine, octopus, eagle, and pelican ; there are also abstract elements of various forms.

Motifs that are usually found in punk clothing, such as tattered fabric, ties, safety pins and chains, screen-printed fabrics, plaids, and short, androgynous hairstyles are incorporated into the Lolita look.

“ Motifs that were carved include the ornamental heads of bulig ( mudfish ), naga ( dragon ) and dapu ( crocodile ) which are said to be sacramental figures of old Kapampangan belief system.

Motifs are created using a variety of traditional embroidery stitches as well as a tufted stitch.

* Sinfonietta on Estonian Motifs ( 1940 )

Smith, Y. Jiang, Finding Motifs for Insufficient Number of Sequences with Strong Binding to Transcription Factor, Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology ( RECOMB 2004 ), Westin Hotel Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA USA, March 2004

Image: Decorations_on_Stone_Boat_Songliat_Dol. jpg | Motifs on the Stone Boat of Sangliat Dol, East Yamdena

* James Stevens Curl, The Egyptian Revival: Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West, Routledge 2005

Motifs such as The Empty Cross and Golgotha ( both c. 1900 ) reflect a metaphysical orientation, and also echo Munch's pietistic upbringing.

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Motifs painted in numerous caves include depictions of humans, human hands, animal tracks and birds.

* Finnegans Wake Motifs I, II and III edited by C. George Sandulescu

Motifs were strongly influenced by traditional designs of bird or animal pairs surrounded by elaborate scrollwork.

Several Southeastern Ceremonial Complex # Motifs | S. E. C. C.

Motifs or designs may be added as many letterpress machines use movable plates that must be hand-set.

H. Neill McFarland, Professor of Theology, discusses the feminine representations of Bodhidharma in his article Feminine Motifs in Bodhidharma Symbology in Japan.

), Political Violence and Terror: Motifs and Motivations ( University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-05605-1 ) 61-89.

The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs Shambhala.

* John Allman, " Motherless Creation: Motifs in Science Fiction ", North Dakota Quarterly, v. 58, n. 2, pp. 124 – 132 ( Spring 1990 ).

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Those writers known collectively as the `` Southern school '' have received accolades from even those critics least prone to eulogize ; ;

Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;

The malady was popularly known as the `` Spanish flu '' from the alleged locale of its origin.

In light of the scholarly reappraisals engendered by the higher criticism this is a most remarkable statement, particularly coming from one who was well known for his antifundamentalist views.

This is a phenomenon familiar to all radio listeners, resulting from reflection of skywave signals at night from the ionized layer in the upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere.

The turret screw machine, now known as the Brown & Sharpe hand screw machine, takes its ancestry directly from Mr. Brown's efforts to introduce equipment to simplify the manufacture of the sewing machine.

At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.

Until better records have been kept over longer periods of time and much more is known about the maximum dimensions, it will be wise to refrain from drawing conclusions.

It was assumed that the shift in autonomic hypothalamic balance occurring spontaneously in neuropsychiatric patients from the application of certain therapeutic procedures follows the pattern known from the sleep-wakefulness cycle.

In this case the stage R operating with conditions Af transforms the state of the stream from Af to Af, but only the probability distribution of Af is known.

Consultation with a reputable wine dealer and constant experimentation -- `` steering ever from the known to the unknown '' -- are the requisites.

It is known that Morse did associate with a group of itinerant horse traders who made their headquarters at Westport, a town not far from Fall River.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

What was omitted from `` A Neglected Education '' were those essentials known as `` the facts of life ''.

Perhaps he had known then where that hundred dollar bill had come from and where it was taking his wife.

Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners ' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity.

As sun-god and god of light, Apollo was also known by the epithets Aegletes ( ; Αἰγλήτης, Aiglētēs, from αἴγλη, " light of the sun "), Helius ( ; Ἥλιος, Helios, literally " sun "), Phanaeus ( ; Φαναῖος, Phanaios, literally " giving or bringing light "), and Lyceus ( ; Λύκειος, Lukeios, from Proto-Greek * λύκη, " light ").

For this he was also known as Parnopius ( ; Παρνόπιος, Parnopios, from πάρνοψ, " locust ") and to the Romans as Culicarius ( ; from Latin culicārius, " of midges ").

To the Romans, he was known in this capacity as Averruncus ( ; from Latin āverruncare, " to avert ").