F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.

One effect of the spirited give-and-take of these discussions was to focus attention on practical applications and the necessity of being armed with the facts: knowledge of the destructive force of even the tiniest `` tactical '' atomic weapon would have a bearing on judgments as to the advisability of its use -- to defend Berlin, for example ; ;

:* One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry

One explanation for this silence is that such questions distract from activity that is practical to realizing enlightenment and bring about the danger of substituting the experience of liberation by conceptual understanding of the doctrine or by religious faith.

One of the practical goals of AI is to implement aspects of human intelligence in computers.

One important characteristic of many normative moral theories such as consequentialism is the ability to produce practical moral judgements.

One of the roles of computational complexity theory is to determine the practical limits on what computers can and cannot do.

One practical example: The link structure of a website could be represented by a directed graph.

One of the main anti-personnel features of napalm is that it sticks to human skin, with no practical method for removal of the burning substance.

One of the considered practical applications of phrenology was education.

One early ( 1984 ) experiment by Paul MacCready used practical aerodynamics to test the flight of Quetzalcoatlus.

In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War One, Steiner worked to establish various practical endeavors, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.

One of the practical applications being researched in this area is medical imaging of the brain with magnetoencephalography ( MEG ).

One feature of this method is the use of Maimonides ' Mishneh Torah as a guide to Talmudic interpretation, as distinct from its use as a source of practical halakha.

One result of these experiments was to reinstate indigo dyeing as a practical industry and generally to renew the use of those vegetable dyes, like madder, which had been driven almost out of use by the anilines.

One of the more practical schemes is a variant of a pebble bed reactor.

One could also limit the theoretical performance of a rather practical " ultimate laptop " with a mass of one kilogram and a volume of one litre.

The passengers, including " Zeph " the burro, that rode the Zephyr on the " Dawn-to-Dusk Dash " gather for a group photo in front of the train after arriving in Chicago on May 26, 1934. One interesting and enduring exhibit was the 1933 Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition that demonstrated modern home convenience and creative practical new building materials and techniques with twelve model homes sponsored by several corporations affiliated with home decor and construction.

One of the practical purposes of fasting or sawm during the month of Ramadan is to help one empathize with the hunger pangs of those less fortunate, to enhance sensitivity to the suffering of others and develop compassion for the poor and destitute.

One journal for librarians published a writer's opinion that " asking persons without cataloging experience to design automated catalogs ... is as practical as asking Raymond Burr to pole vault.

One of the most difficult operations of practical optics was to polish the spherical surfaces of large object glasses accurately.

One practical routing algorithm is to pick the pin farthest from the center of the board, then use a greedy algorithm to select the next-nearest pin with the same signal name.

One of the first practical and successful proposals for European cooperation came in 1951 with the European Coal and Steel Community.

One practical function of the ziggurats was a high place on which the priests could escape rising water that annually inundated lowlands and occasionally flooded for hundreds of miles, as for example the 1967 flood.

One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.

One prediction had been made about the difference in security or self-confidence between those subjects who shifted their Kohnstamm reactivity when informed and those who did not.

One experiment showed the greatest one-year difference occurring between the eleventh and twelfth years.

One striking difference when comparing the Bundestag with the British Parliament is the lack of time spent on serving constituents in Germany.

One significant difference of modern naval battles as opposed to earlier forms of combat is the use of marines, which introduced amphibious warfare.

One notable difference in the pilot, as in many pilots, is the casting.

One major difference between these two approaches is the agent's responsibility.

One difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic genes is that eukaryotic genes can contain introns ( intervening DNA sequences ) which are not coding sequences, in contrast with exons, which are DNA coding sequences.

One of the main sources of confusion in popular classifications is the difference between a dialect and a language.

One major difference between DNA and RNA is the sugar, with the 2-deoxyribose in DNA being replaced by the alternative pentose sugar ribose in RNA.

One major difference lies in the nature of the problems that each subject tries to address.

One major difference between the Ramsay's family coat of arms and the university seal, is that while the Ramsay seal features a griffin and greyhound, the Dalhousie seal instead has two dragons supporting the eagle-adorned shield.

One lemma states that the difference of the cubes of two rational numbers is equal to the sum of the cubes of two other rational numbers, i. e. given any a and b, with a > b, there exist c and d, all positive and rational, such that

One henry is the inductance that will induce a potential difference of one volt if the current through it changes at a rate of one ampere per second.

One of the most remarkable features of American society is that the difference between the " uneducated " and the " educated " is so slight.

One important difference in modern field hockey is the absence of an offside rule.

One difference between false cognates and false friends is that while false cognates mean roughly the same thing in two languages, false friends bear two distinct ( sometimes even opposite ) meanings.

One difference between them is that the older black powder burns at nearly the same rate in the open as when contained, while in smokeless powders the burn rate accelerates more rapidly within a closed chamber, making for a sharper rise in pressure which could rupture older weapons designed for black powder.

One difference between the film and the novel is the staircase scene in which Rhett carries Scarlett up the stairs.

One major difference between Vista and earlier versions of Windows, Windows 95 and later, is that the original start button was replaced with just the Windows icon.

One key difference between the rugby and gridiron variants of the backward pass is that the gridiron lateral is based solely on the path of the ball, unlike in rugby, where it is based on the position of the player.

One way this difference of viewpoint plays out is in the philosophical debate as to whether mathematics is created ( as in art ) or discovered ( as in science ).

One notable difference, however, is that prokaryotic RNA polymerase associates with mRNA-processing enzymes during transcription so that processing can proceed quickly after the start of transcription.

One recent study notes that the difference between summer and winter flow volumes has increased significantly in the last 100 – 200 years.

One other difference in these controllers is that the earliest releases of the silver joystick were removable.