" In the Revue musicale issue of 1 February 1835 he wrote of the Symphonie Fantastique, " had no taste for melody and but the feeblest notion of rhythm ; that his harmony, composed by piling up tones into heaps that were often monstrous, was nevertheless flat and monotonous.

There were seven immense gates of granite ; and seven watchdogs guarding them: seven lean, eager wolves would easily have been vanquished in the conflict by even the feeblest and puniest of those dogs.

While the streets and roads are for all, of necessity the pedestrians, and the feeblest of these, should receive the supreme consideration.

If we let Him — for we can prevent Him, if we choose — He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine, a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly ( though, of course, on a smaller scale ) His own boundless power and delight and goodness.

A red filter, Zeiss barrier filter with the code ( Schott ) designation BG 23, was also used in the ocular lens assembly as it improved the contrast between specific and nonspecific fluorescence.

This recommendation was based on the fact that the hymen was not the only barrier to smooth consummation of the sex act.

Her permanent titanium shell was recessed behind an even more indestructible barrier in the central shaft of the scout ship.

Image showing shock waves from NASA's X-43A hypersonic research vehicle in flight at Mach 7, generated using a computational fluid dynamics algorithm. On September 30, 1935 an exclusive conference was held in Rome with the topic of high velocity flight and the possibility of breaking the sound barrier.

The sound barrier was broken using the Bell X-1 aircraft twelve years later, thanks in part to those individuals.

By the time the sound barrier was broken, much of the subsonic and low supersonic aerodynamics knowledge had matured.

The sea was a communication medium rather than a barrier

As well as industrial uses, the Royal Military Canal on the Romney Marsh was built so as create a barrier against invading troops, and hiding places for British troops during the Napoleonic Wars.

This design philosophy was decided on to lower the cost of building devices, and in turn lower the entry barrier to becoming familiar with chorded keyboards.

Under Veeck's leadership, one of Cleveland's most significant achievements was breaking the color barrier in the American League by signing Larry Doby, formerly a player for the Negro League's Newark Eagles in, eleven weeks after Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.

The Teutonic Order's strategy was to move down the Vistula and secure the delta, establishing a barrier between the Prussians and Danzig ( Present day Gdańsk ).

When the tide came in water was allowed to flow in behind a barrier.

The sound barrier was broken, and after a few false starts due to required changes in controls, speeds quickly reached Mach 2 — past which aircraft can't maneuver to avoid attack.

Nevertheless, these fighters could only achieve modest increases in top speed due to problems of compressibility created as aircraft and their propellers approached the sound barrier, and it was apparent that propeller-driven aircraft were approaching the limits of their performance.

There was a huge language barrier as Japanese was unlike other languages the missionaries had previously encountered.

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He considered trying to resume his career as a goalkeeper but even he had to accept that the loss of binocular vision was an obvious barrier to maintaining his goalkeeping livelihood, and announced his retirement from playing on 8 August 1973.

However, the compositional style employed in the opera, with few stand-alone arias, was criticized at the time and remains a barrier to the opera's complete acceptance into the standard repertoire.

The most prominent frontier barrier was the Berlin Wall, constructed in 1961, which finally closed the loop hole in the East German border between East Berlin and West Berlin.

He was underlining the support of the United States for West Germany 22 months after the Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall as a barrier to prevent movement between East and West.

It also shows the extent to which an Irish man was interrogated by British Police and how he failed to be able to answer their questions due to a language barrier.

To overcome the political barrier of nationalism, Lenin said it was necessary to acknowledge the existence of nationalism among oppressed peoples, and to guarantee their national independence, as the right of secession ; and that, based upon national self-determination, it was natural for socialist states to transcend nationalism and form a federation.

In his monograph entitled " Light ," Richard C. MacLaurin explains Fresnel diffraction by asking what happens when light propagates, and how that process is affected when a barrier with a slit or hole in it is interposed in the beam produced by a distant source of light.

So this proxy situation has set up at least a partial barrier between the medium's ESP and the absent sitter's mind.

Following each individual brick should be a layer of adobe mortar, recommended to be at least an inch thick to make certain there is ample strength between the brick ’ s edges and also to provide a relative moisture barrier during the seasons where the arid climate does produce rain.

Also, the power of the cell diminishes over time because the hydrogen gas is not released, accumulating instead on the surface of the zinc electrode and forming a barrier between the metal and the electrolyte solution.

His adventurous life, his forcible character, the position of his state as a barrier between the Indian and the Russian empires, and the skill with which he held the balance in dealing with them, combined to make him a prominent figure in contemporary Asian politics and will mark his reign as an epoch in the history of Afghanistan.

In the pamphlet for an April 1919 exhibition entitled " Exhibition of Unknown Architects ", Gropius proclaimed his goal as being " to create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist.

The cell wall of Bacillus is a structure on the outside of the cell that forms the second barrier between the bacterium and the environment, and at the same time maintains the rod shape and withstands the pressure generated by the cell's turgor.

Stretching across Cameroon from the western mountain area, the Adamaoua forms a barrier between the north and south.

It decreases the kinetic barrier by decreasing the difference in energy between starting material and transition state.

It does not change the energy difference between starting materials and products ( thermodynamic barrier ), or the available energy ( this is provided by the environment as heat or light ).

" This fire would form a barrier between the land of the living and the land of the dead.

Alan Watts ( 1975: xix ) explains using Wade – Giles " in spite of its defects " but writes: " No uninitiated English-speaking person could guess how to pronounce it, and I have even thought, in a jocularly malicious state of mind, that Professors Wade and Giles invented it so as to erect a barrier between profane and illiterate people and true scholars.

Plotinus marks his arguments with the disconnect or great barrier that is created between the nous or mind's noumenon ( see Heraclitus ) and the material world ( phenomenon ) by believing the material world is evil.

During the War of 1812, the Detroit River served as a major barrier between the American Michigan Territory and British Upper Canada, especially during the Battle of Fort Detroit in August 1812, when Detroit briefly fell to the British.

*** Dielectric barrier discharge, the electrical discharge between two electrodes separated by an insulating dielectric barrier

Depending on the fashion at the time of construction it is either a single standard carriageway road, usually wide, or a 2 + 1 road, a wide road with two lanes in one direction and one in the other with a steel wire barrier in between, or sometimes a motorway with two lanes in each direction.

Several clinical and experimental data have implicated the failure of blood – brain barrier ( BBB ) function in triggering chronic or acute seizures, some studies implicate the interactions between a common blood protein — albumin and astrocytes.

This genre soon also became an important political tool, although in most cases directors were able to keep a distinguishing barrier between art and politics.

A firewall is a fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.

The term firewall is also commonly used by automotive mechanics to refer to the barrier between the passenger and engine compartments of a vehicle.

She wrote of the Americans, " The boy learns to make advances and rely upon the girl to repulse them whenever they are inappropriate to the state of feeling between the pair ", as contrasted to the British, where " the girl is reared to depend upon a slight barrier of chilliness ... which the boys learn to respect, and for the rest to rely upon the men to approach or advance, as warranted by the situation.

Yet there is a nucleation barrier, which implies an interfacial discontinuity ( or internal surface ) between the glass and the melt.

At its largest, Lake Chad may have acted as a barrier between West African and Kordofan giraffes during the Holocene.