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Such a comparison reminds us that in employing low characters in his works Faulkner is recording actuality in the South and moreover is following a long-established literary precedent.
Such characters, with their low existence and often low morality, produce humorous effects in his novels and tales, as they did in the writing of Longstreet and Hooper and Harris, but it need not be added that he gives them far subtler and more intricate functions than they had in the earlier writers ; ;
Such Unicode control characters are called marks.
Such things as what attributes and skills will define characters are left to be determined by the Game Master and players, and several different optional systems for resolving actions and conflicts are offered.
Such passports have an area where some of the information otherwise written in textual form is written as strings of alphanumeric characters, printed in a manner suitable for optical character recognition.
Such differences include ( i ) the use of characters created in Japan, ( ii ) characters that have been given different meanings in Japanese, and ( iii ) post-World War II simplifications of the kanji.
Such Sweet Thunder ( 1957 ), based on Shakespeare's plays and characters, and The Queen's Suite, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II, were products of the renewed impetus which the Newport appearance helped to create.
Such characters were generally referred to as " mystery men " in the so-called Golden Age of Comic Books to distinguish them from characters with super-powers.
Such rocks, for example, as limestones, dolomites, quartzites and aluminous shales have very definite chemical characters which distinguish them even when completely recrystallized.
Such characters typically combine elements of combat gaming with emphasis on stealth skills, and specialise in defeating an enemy without becoming involved in a close-quarter battle.
Such people, who may be real but impersonated people or fictitious characters played by the con artist, could include, for example, the wife or son of a deposed African or Indonesian leader or dictator who has amassed a stolen fortune, or a bank employee who knows of a terminally ill wealthy person with no relatives or a wealthy foreigner who deposited money in the bank just before dying in a plane crash ( leaving no will or known next of kin ), a US soldier who has stumbled upon a hidden cache of gold in Iraq, a business being audited by the government, a disgruntled worker or corrupt government official who has embezzled funds, a refugee, and similar characters.
Such findings have raised concerns about violence on television ; for example, Larson and his coworkers ( 1968 ) found that 56 % of the time children's television characters achieve their goals through violent acts.
Such characters can have a tough time prevailing against even fairly mundane opponents.
Such characters also occur throughout medieval literature, in popular farces both before and during Shakespeare's life, and in folklore.
Such characters as Romeo of course require the appearance of youth and those graces of person which will alone commend the Mantuan lover to his Juliet.
Such unexpected properties are usually used to rule out conventional origins for the BDO and increase the sense of mystery, and even fear, for the characters interacting with it.
" Such a view finds general critical consensus, viewing the vignettes as allegorical appropriations of the book's characters and themes ; for example, Schwartz argues that " The Willingdone Museyroom " episode represents the book's " archetypal family drama in military-historical terms.
Such elements include the essential idea of narrative structure, with identifiable beginnings, middles and endings, or exposition-development-climax-resolution-denouement, normally constructed into coherent plot lines ; a strong focus on temporality, which includes retention of the past, attention to present action, and protention / future anticipation ; a substantial focus on characters and characterization which is " arguably the most important single component of the novel "; a given heterogloss of different voices dialogically at play – " the sound of the human voice, or many voices, speaking in a variety of accents, rhythms and registers "; possesses a narrator or narrator-like voice, which by definition " addresses " and " interacts with " reading audiences ( see Reader Response theory ); communicates with a Wayne Booth-esque rhetorical thrust, a dialectic process of interpretation, which is at times beneath the surface, conditioning a plotted narrative, and other at other times much more visible, " arguing " for and against various positions ; relies substantially on now-standard aesthetic figuration, particularly including the use of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony ( see Hayden White, Metahistory for expansion of this idea ); is often enmeshed in intertextuality, with copious connections, references, allusions, similarities, parallels, etc.
Such alumni have been known to write characters as students of Tufts or a thinly-veiled substitute, such as the title characters of Two Guys and a Girl and the lead character of Christopher Golden's Body of Evidence mystery novels.
Such characters are called 甲骨文 jiǎgǔwén " shell-bone script " or oracle bone script.
Such cosplayers are usually characterised by attention to detail in their garments and their choice of popular characters.

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Such agates, when cut transversely, exhibit a succession of parallel lines, often of extreme tenuity, giving a banded appearance to the section.
Such boards often featured faster and higher capacity memory interfaces and hard disk controllers.
Such judges decide, often when called upon by counsel rather than of their own motion, what evidence is to be admitted when there is a dispute ; though in some common law jurisdictions judges play more of a role in deciding what evidence to admit into the record or reject.
Such studies are often used to determine the genes implicated in a disorder: one might compare microarray data from cancerous epithelial cells to data from non-cancerous cells to determine the transcripts that are up-regulated and down-regulated in a particular population of cancer cells.
Such literature is " marked by distinctive literary features, particularly prediction of future events and accounts of visionary experiences or journeys to heaven, often involving vivid symbolism.
Such dedicated paths often have to be shared with in-line skaters, scooters, skateboarders, and pedestrians.
Such acts of recognition of a saint were authoritative, in the strict sense, only for the diocese or ecclesiastical province for which they were issued, but with the spread of the fame of a saint, were often accepted elsewhere also.
Such treatment often, though not always, is for health-related problems, and a practitioner's patient may request help for personal problems as well, such as relationships, problems of employment or housing and so on.
Such rationalism often affirms Maimonidean views of God.
Such cartoons often have pinpricks along the outlines of the design ; a bag of soot was then patted or " pounced " over the cartoon, held against the wall to leave black dots on the plaster (" pouncing ").
Such files are known as CGI scripts ; they are programs, often stand-alone applications, usually written in a scripting language.
Such visits are supposed to be universally horrible events that often end in death for one or more of the living, which would then warrant the exhumation of the draugr's tomb by a hero.
Such prayers are often appreciative ( that is, " Thank you for ...") rather than supplicative ( that is, " Please God grant me ...").
Such inputs are often created by sampling a continuous function, such as the amplitude of a person's voice over time.
Such decrees are often labeled as ' Canons ' and they often have an attached anathema, a penalty of excommunication, against those who refuse to believe the teaching.
Such exploits are referred to as ' zero day exploits ' and to obtain access to such exploits is the primary desire of unskilled attackers, often nicknamed script kiddies.
Such experiences have often been reported to be much stronger and more obvious than those observed in laboratory experiments.
Such compartmentalization is often used in early Central Indian painting to depict multiple spaces or scenes on a single flat
Such games can often have team sizes that vary considerably from 11-a-side, use a limited and / or modified subset of the official rules, and are likely to be self-officiated by the players.
Such movies were commercially successful and often enjoyed international distribution, but won little acclaim from critics.
Such a play is " insured " against all lower pairs, but far too often player with a lower pair calls at expensive times only to make sure he or she is not bluffed.
Such a preserved specimen is called a " fossil " if it is older than some minimum age, most often the arbitrary date of 10, 000 years ago.
Such etymologies often have the feel of urban legends, and can be much more colorful than the typical etymologies found in dictionaries, often involving stories of unusual practices in particular subcultures ( e. g. Oxford students from non-noble families being forced to write sine nobilitate by their name, soon abbreviated to s. nob., hence the word snob ).

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