Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

By analogy, the word " signature " may be used to refer to the characteristic expression of a process or thing.

* In research, a characteristic of an object ( person, thing, etc.

In Greek and Scholastic philosophy, " form " is the specific characteristic of a thing that makes it what it is.

The period between 1862 and 1880 was one of quiet ambitions, of a characteristic insouciance, of life accepted as a thing of many-balanced interests rather than as a matter of sturm und drang.

While they would have the press believe that their characteristic arguments were a thing of the past, excesses typical to the era took their toll.

Some argue that omnipresence is a derived characteristic: an omniscient and omnipotent deity knows every thing and can be and act everywhere, simultaneously.

He gets Euthyphro to agree that we call a carried thing " carried " simply because it is carried, not because it possesses some inherent characteristic or property that we could call " carried ".

That is, being carried is not an essential characteristic of the thing carried ; being carried is a state.

The copula is used to describe the permanent identity or characteristic of a person or thing ( e. g. " who " or " what "), as opposed to temporary aspects such as " how ", " where ", " why " and so on.

A derivative is a financial contract or instrument that “ derives ” its value from the price or other characteristic of an underlying “ thing ” ( or “ commodity ”).

The essential characteristic of the frith-borh was the compulsory sharing of responsibility in legal matters among its members, which were traditionally ten in number, a group referred to as a teothung or tything, i. e. a " thing ( assembly ) of ten men ".

Most characteristic of Aristotle's causes is his final cause, the purpose for which a thing is made.

Shape is the characteristic surface configuration of a thing ; an outline or contour.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

Recently, for example, a paranoid woman's large-scale philosophizing, in the session, about the intrusive curiosity which has become, in her opinion, a deplorable characteristic of mid-twentieth-century human culture, developed itself, before the end of the session, into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast, as indeed I was.

This coincides with the appearance of the characteristic Beaker culture ; again it is unknown whether this was brought about primarily by folk movement or by cultural assimilation, and again it may be a mixture of both.

* Hussite War-wagons, presenting detailed information about the Hussites ' most characteristic tactic, by Matthew Haywood

Following World War II, a nationwide movement pressed to return to pre-war society as quickly as possible in the U. S. When combined with the increasing national paranoia about communism and psychoanalytic theory that had become pervasive in medical knowledge, homosexuality became an undesired characteristic of employees working for the U. S. government in 1950.

The defining characteristic of observation is that it involves drawing conclusions, as well as building personal views about how to handle similar situations in the future, rather than simply registering that something has happened.

Postmodern philosophy is often particularly skeptical about simple binary oppositions characteristic of structuralism, emphasizing the problem of the philosopher cleanly distinguishing knowledge from ignorance, social progress from reversion, dominance from submission, and presence from absence.

There is considerable agreement about defining the characteristic features of a profession.

The historical relations between these sects and the beliefs about reincarnation that were characteristic of Neoplatonism, Orphism, Hermeticism, Manicheanism and Gnosticism of the Roman era, as well as the Indian religions has been the subject of recent scholarly research.

The electrons interact with electrons in the sample, producing secondary electrons, back-scattered electrons, and characteristic X-rays that can be detected and that contain information about the sample's surface topography and composition.

Depending on the region from which accounts of trolls stem, their appearance varies greatly ; trolls may be ugly and slow-witted or look and behave exactly like human beings, with no particularly grotesque characteristic about them.

A fundamental characteristic delimiting what sort of entity we are talking about when we discuss God is that of will.

Information about the instantaneous frequency ( as distinct from spectral characteristic ) of the original voice signal is discarded ; it wasn't important to preserve this for the purposes of the vocoder's original use as an encryption aid, and it is this " dehumanizing " quality of the vocoding process that has made it useful in creating special voice effects in popular music and audio entertainment.

It started as a model of syntax, whose most distinctive characteristic is its use of dependency grammar, an approach to syntax in which the sentence's structure is almost entirely contained in the information about individual words, and syntax is seen as consisting primarily of principles for combining words.

The area's characteristic weak winds blow at about 2 m / s from the west — Moravian Gate.

Each spin exhibits a characteristic frequency of gyration ( relative to the field strength ) which reveals information about the analyte.

Trichuris trichiura has characteristic football-shaped eggs, which are about 50-54 um long and contain polar plugs ( also known as refractile prominences ) at each end.

He quickly established a characteristic style, marked by slow, episodic and ambiguous narrative structures as well as long takes ( The Travelling Players, for example, consists of only 80 shots in about four hours of film ).

Each cathode can be made to glow in the characteristic neon red-orange color by applying about 170 volts DC at a few milliamperes between a cathode and the anode.

One can be prejudiced against, or have a preconceived notion about someone due to any characteristic they find to be unusual or undesirable.

Stimulation of the lymphocytes by antigens can accelerate the migration process to about 10 times normal, resulting in characteristic swelling of the lymph nodes.

Serving the drink was characteristic of the shieldmaiden in the stories about Valhalla.

Slash fiction was the subject of several notable academic studies in the early 1990s, as part of the cultural studies movement within the humanities: Most of these, as is characteristic of cultural studies, approach slash fiction from an ethnographic perspective and talk primarily about the writers of slash fiction and the communities that form around slash fiction.

That the anti-infective characteristic is not specific to vitamin A is a mystery ; however, there was no doubt about its effectiveness in this particular experiment, action mechanisms elucidated or not.

A characteristic of Gothic church architecture is its height, both absolute and in proportion to its width, the verticality suggesting an aspiration to Heaven.

His stay in the city is marked by two characteristic and important productions: the superb écorché ( 1767 ), an anatomical model which has served as a guide to all artists since his day, and the statue of Saint Bruno in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome.

The most characteristic features are the tall tower above the entrance and the massive roof that seems to dwarf the main body of the church.

The church was built in the 12th century over a pre-existing Palaeo-Christian edifice, and renovated a century later with the addition of the characteristic façade made of loggias with small arches surmounted by all different-styled columns.

The chapel of St John's College, Cambridge is characteristic of Scott's many church designs

The church of Saint Etienne is a specimen of the Romanesque style of Auvergne of which the disposition of the apse with its three radiating chapels is characteristic.

The early church of Saint Apostles Peter and Paul at Ras, can be dated to the 9th – 10th century, with the rotunda plan characteristic of first court chapels.

*# St. Bartholomew's parish church with Manneristic, magnificent, architectural tombstone of Stanisław Przyjemski on the north wall of the main nave seems to be the most characteristic example of local Mannerism.

The current church is Baroque with a characteristic onion dome on its belfry.

Around the rural church, there are some characteristic small houses ( in Sardinian language muristenes or cumbessias ) that host the pilgrims during the religious feasts.

St Oswald's church lies close to the river a little North of the village, and the road up the dale crosses the river past Bridge End where Charles Kingsley stayed, and Old Cotes, built in 1650, whose gabled porch has a 3-light window somewhat characteristic of late 17th-century houses in this area of the dales.

The village site at the Trait-Carré had a rather characteristic triangular parcelling-out of the land radiating outwards from a central square, in the centre of which the church was located.

A key characteristic of an authentic church planting movement is the rapidity with which a new congregation itself starts another similar church.

The oldest building in Kursk is the upper church of the Trinity Monastery, a good example of the transition style characteristic of Peter the Great's early reign.

The plan synthesizes the central planning of the High Renaissance, expressed by the grand scale of the dome and the prominent piers of the crossing, with the extended nave that had been characteristic of the preaching churches, a type of church established by Franciscans and Dominicans since the thirteenth century.

# Dissimilarity: " if the earliest form of a saying or story differs in emphasis from a characteristic teaching or concern both of contemporary Judaism and of the early church, then it may be authentic.

The church has a late-Renaissance appearance that breaks the characteristic Baroque mold of most of the island of Sicily.

The crenellations and machicolations are very prominent, and again, more characteristic of a fortress than of a church.

At the center of the cloister stands the characteristic Pozzo della Bufala ( Well of the Buffalo ) in travertine ; another well is located in the square outside the church.

This lack of decisive or effective authority along with the Protestant view of the legal interpretation as well as the value of the land and the characteristic dislike for all things Catholic led several princes to secularize the Catholic lands under the treaty established and customary practice of Cuius regio, eius religio ; this usually occurred when a Catholic head of the church converted to Lutheranism, so was seen ( by some ) still within the accords of the Peace of Augsburg.

This church follows the Gothic church characteristic of a cruciform in plan.

The period is remarkable for its characteristic architecture which can still be observed in old Bulgarian towns such as Tryavna, Koprivshtitsa and Veliko Tarnovo, the rich literary heritage of authors like Ivan Vazov and Hristo Botev that inspired the Bulgarian struggle for independence and an autonomous church, and the April Uprising, a significant event of armed opposition to Ottoman rule, which ultimately led to the Russo-Turkish Liberation War of 1877-78.