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 practical difference between dynamic and positive displacement pumps is their ability to operate under closed valve conditions.

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 consequence is the occurrence of occasional conflicts because private owners of some inholdings object to public programs of use on neighboring National Forest or other Federal land, or because such ownerships are developed for uses that are not compatible with use for the public of neighboring National Forest land.

One might use such findings to indicate the strength of informal primary associations in the factory, an interpretation which would run counter to Fromm's theory of alienation.

One such instance has already been presented: his use of alienation.

One of the most desirable solutions is achieved by the use of a non-linear amplifier for Af.

One can even argue -- though this is a delicate matter -- that every justification existed for their returning the Public Lecture to the First Church, and so to suppress it, rather than let Parker use it as a sounding board for his propaganda when his turn should come to occupy it.

One patriarch is supposed to have relegated sacred scriptures for use in an outhouse.

One could hardly blame Newbold Morris, the Parks Commissioner, for devoting so much grateful mention to the department's technicians who at short notice provided the stage with its rising platforms, its balcony, its generous wings and even its impressive trapdoors for the use of the villains.

One motivation for this use is that a number of generally accepted mathematical results, such as Tychonoff's theorem, require the axiom of choice for their proofs.

One variation avoids the use of choice functions by, in effect, replacing each choice function with its range.

One argument given in favor of using the axiom of choice is that it is convenient to use it because it allows one to prove some simplifying propositions that otherwise could not be proved.

One of the other main reasons why French critics called it ' American Shot ' was its frequent use in westerns.

One method of building a mooring is to use three or more conventional anchors laid out with short lengths of chain attached to a swivel, so no matter which direction the vessel moves one or more anchors will be aligned to resist the force.

One of the primary characteristics of this technique is the use of a swivel as follows: the first anchor is set normally, and the vessel drops back to the limit of anchor cable.

One such example is the common use of western broccoli ( xīlán, 西蘭 ) instead of Chinese broccoli ( jie lan, 芥蘭 jièlán ) in American Chinese cuisine.

One century later, their use of the symbols which became 2, 7 and 9 was recorded, but Brahmi numerals lacked a symbol for 0.

One concern with this therapeutic strategy is the use of genetically engineered viruses, which limits certain aspects of phage therapy.

One of the novel aspects of the RT design was the use of a microkernel, called Virtual Resource Manager ( VRM ).

One can correctly use " the car " as the subject of a sentence also: " The car is parked here.

One of the most studied applications has been the use of mistletoe extracts in cancer therapy.

One paper has found that alcohol use at an early age may influence the expression of genes which increase the risk of alcohol dependence.

One way to use the savings is to purchase larger lots, which permits more amenities at the same cost.

One possible use of the air station would be an alternate or partnered site with San Francisco for 34th America's Cup.

NATO pilots use the brevity code Fox One in radio communication to signal launch of a Semi-Active Radar Homing Missile such as the Sparrow.