The Heechee's home planet evolved near a naturally occurring microwave source, making the background radiation a necessary requirement for an ambient environment ; the extended absence of the radiation will cause illness and death.

Beckett's appearance is rough-hewn Irish.

For Plato, `` imitation '' is twice removed from reality, being a poor copy of physical appearance, which in itself is a poor copy of ideal essence.

It is filled with the usual personal abuse of Steele, especially of his physical appearance ; ;

Its original appearance is shown in an engraving published in the `` Massachusetts Magazine '' in May 1793, which is reproduced herewith ( Fig. 1 ).

badness, in the only sense in which it is involved at all, waited for its appearance till I came and looked and felt.

Psychical blindness is a condition in which there is a total absence of visual memory-images, a condition in which, for example, one is unable to remember something just seen or to conjure up a memory-picture of the visible appearance of a well-known friend in his absence.

Partly because low-level heat treatment is needed to inactivate enzymes before radiosterilization, treated fresh meats have the appearance of boiled or canned meat.

The typical appearance of these various mechanisms is illustrated in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, which are single frame enlargements of high speed movies taken during the course of the knife removal process.

Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.

* The Afroasiatic identity of Ongota is also broadly questioned, as is its position within Afroasiatic among those who accept it, due to the " mixed " appearance of the language and a paucity of research and data.

The frog Allobates zaparo is not poisonous but mimics the appearance of other toxic species in its locality, a strategy that may deceive predators.

In a criminal case, there is usually an arraignment or some other kind of appearance before the defendant comes to court.

The aardvark is vaguely pig-like in appearance.

In some fictional works, the difference between a robot and android is only their appearance, with androids being made to look like humans on the outside but with robot-like internal mechanics.

Thelymitra is an example of a genus where the lower petal is similar in appearance to the other petals.

A central massif composed of uplifted blocks and downfolded troughs, covered by recent deposits and giving the appearance of a plateau with rough terrain, is wedged between two folded mountain ranges that converge in the east.

Americium is a relatively soft radioactive metal with silvery appearance.

Astatine is sometimes described as being a black solid ( assuming that it follows this trend ), or as having a metallic appearance ( if it is a metalloid or a metal ).

Note that just because a player is described as being " at bat " in this sense, he will not necessarily be given an at bat in his statistics ; the phrase actually signifies a plate appearance ( assuming it is eventually completed ).

Johnson also described Teach in times of battle as wearing " a sling over his shoulders, with three brace of pistols, hanging in holsters like bandoliers ; and stuck lighted matches under his hat ", the latter apparently to emphasise the fearsome appearance he wished to present to his enemies.

Woman with Flowers ( 1949 ) has been described as a tribute to Modigliani and African art makes another strong appearance in Ceremonial ( 1950 ).

Crete senesi are literally ‘ Siennese clays ’, and the distinctive grey colouration of the soil gives the landscape an appearance often described as lunar.

Exploiting his androgynous appearance, the original cover of the UK version unveiled two months later would depict the singer wearing a dress: taking the garment with him, he wore it during interviews — to the approval of critics, including Rolling Stones John Mendelsohn who described him as " ravishing, almost disconcertingly reminiscent of Lauren Bacall "— and in the street, to mixed reaction including laughter and, in the case of one male pedestrian, producing a gun and telling Bowie to " kiss my ass ".

The planet makes its first appearance in the revived series in " The Sound of Drums ", where the Citadel, enclosed in a glass dome ( as described by the Doctor in " Gridlock "), is seen in flashback as the Doctor describes it.

A hate crime is a category used to described bias-motivated violence: " assault, injury, and murder on the basis of certain personal characteristics: different appearance, different color, different nationality, different language, different religion.

In the same source, her appearance is described as half-black and half-flesh coloured and as further having a gloomy, down-cast appearance.

On the first day of the tournament, a bout of individual jousting, a mysterious masked knight, identifying himself only as " Desdichado " ( which is described in the book as Spanish for the " Disinherited One ", though actually meaning " Unfortunate "), makes his appearance and manages to defeat some of the best Norman lances, including Bois-Guilbert, Maurice de Bracy, a leader of a group of " Free Companions " ( mercenary knights ), and the baron Reginald Front-de-Boeuf.

It was the first appearance in print of Keats's poetry, and Charles Cowden Clarke described it as his friend's red letter day, the first proof that Keats's ambitions were valid.

Nerds can either be described by their hobbies and interests, or by abstract qualities such as personality, status, social skills, and physical appearance.

* A second theory concerns the fact that Adriaen Block, during his expeditions in the 1610s, passed by Aquidneck, described in a 1625 account of his travels as " an island of reddish appearance " ( in 17th-century Dutch, " een rodlich Eylande ").

It is often described as beginning with the age of metallurgy, thus placing it between the first metalworking and the appearance of writing.

127 light years distant, it has been described as yellow, or reddish in appearance.

In the spring of 1865 the Grants went to New York and Grant made an appearance at Cooper Union ; the New York Times thus described the reception for the war hero: "... the enhanced and bewildered multitude trembled with extraordinary delight.

Corpses thought to be vampires were generally described as having a healthier appearance than expected, plump and showing little or no signs of decomposition.

Mozart's physical appearance was described by tenor Michael Kelly, in his Reminiscences: " a remarkably small man, very thin and pale, with a profusion of fine, fair hair of which he was rather vain ".

The boy was described of Caucasian appearance and 4 to 6 years old.

Sviatoslav's appearance has been described very clearly by Leo the Deacon, who himself attended the meeting of Sviatoslav with John I Tzimiskes.

On the occasion of his 300th umpiring appearance in 2008, McLaren described Hird's outburst as a " defining moment " in his career.

This is debated often because their appearance is described differently throughout history.

At this, his last public appearance, he made what the New York Times described as a " friendly speech " during which, when offered a bouquet of flowers by a black woman, he accepted them as a token of reconciliation between the races and espoused a radically progressive ( for the time ) agenda of equality and harmony between black and white Americans.

The Boston Globe described Quinto's performance in the 2009 film as " something special ", and that Nimoy's appearance " carries much more emotion than you'd expect ".