Sobel states she is a chaser of solar eclipses and that " it's the closest thing to witnessing a miracle ".

William James believed that the varieties of religious experiences should be sought by psychologists, because they represent the closest thing to a microscope of the mind — that is, they show us in drastically enlarged form the normal processes of things.

One of the slogans of the television advertisements stated that Intellivision was " the closest thing to the real thing "; one example in an advertisement compared golf games.

The Atlantic has described the process as " arguably the closest thing that modern finance has to a victimless crime ".

There are two portions of Manichaean scriptures that are probably the closest thing to the original Manichaean writings in their original languages that will ever be available.

He was a member of the " Children's Literature research club ," the " closest thing to a comics club in those days.

" This was the closest thing to romance for Atta.

In the same episode, Q says that Picard is " the closest thing in this universe that I have to a friend.

Until the advent of the Trans-Am series in 1967, NASCAR homologation cars were the closest thing that the public could buy that was actually very similar to the cars that were winning the national races.

The closest thing to a national paper the U. S. has is USA Today.

In North America the closest thing to variety shows are in casinos, in places like Las Vegas, where jugglers perform alongside singers, comedians and others.

Bentham claimed to have borrowed this concept from the writings of Joseph Priestley, although the closest that Priestley in fact came to expressing it was in the form " the good and happiness of the members, that is the majority of the members of any state, is the great standard by which every thing relating to that state must finally be determined ".

Group study sessions typically take place in the evenings in private residences or university or high school classrooms, and are described by David Ownby as " the closest thing to a regular ' congregational experience '" that Falun Gong offers.

Hook did not appear in early drafts of the play, with the capricious and coercive Peter Pan as the closest thing to a " villain " in it.

Indeed, the other Roman gods are repeatedly perplexed, humiliated, and made ridiculous by Amor, an otherwise relatively minor god of the pantheon, who is the closest thing this putative mock-epic has to a hero.

* Playwright / Composer Lionel Bart lived the latter part of his life in an apartment on Churchfield Road, citing the area as the closest thing he could find to the community feel of the East London " of old ".

Not really a character, but the closest thing he has to a recurring sidekick and frequently makes " talk " via squeaky-voiced ventriloquism.

The closest thing that California has had to a governor's mansion since 1967 was located in Arden-Arcade from 1984 until 2004.

Danzig called the performances " the closest thing to a Misfits reunion anyone is ever going to see ".

* Downtown, commonly referred to as Town, is the closest thing to a " main street " in Briarcliff Manor.

With most countries using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, New Year's Day is the closest thing to being the world's only truly global public holiday, often celebrated with fireworks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts.

Added Perle ; " Sy Hersh is the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist, frankly.

The closest thing to a punishment Chivington suffered was the effective end of his political aspirations.

This calculated duality means that Contarini ’ s doge, which the second book of De magistratibus is almost entirely devoted to discussing, represents the closest point in his text to what actually occurred, because the Doge served as a literal embodiment of the idealisation of the reality of Venetian politics.

It is always situated towards the middle of the opened book display ; i. e., on the side of the page closest to the binding.

It turned out, for certain temperaments, a seductive book .” For biographer David King Dunaway, The Doors of Perception, along with The Art of Seeing, can be seen as the closest Huxley ever came to autobiographical writing.

As the book progresses, Seldon loses those closest to him, including his wife, Dors Venabili, as his own health deteriorates into old age.

This is a recreation of the craniometry | craniometric dendogram entitled " Cranial Cluster 28 Groups " in a book by anthropologist William White Howells, professor of anthropology at Harvard University who said " Indigenous peoples of the Americas | Indians " or " Indigenous peoples of the Americas | American populations " are closest in " studies of cranial distance " to " Europeans " as seen above and that among " Indians " or " American populations ", only " Eskimo s " are " strongly Mongoloid race | Mongoloid in form ".

The closest one has to an autobiography of Kahnweiler is the series of interviews Mes galeries et mes peintres first aired on French television then published and translated as a book.

However, they do not have book lungs as most of their closest relatives, the spiders, do.

Strauss ' closest friend was Jacob Klein but he also was intellectually engaged with Karl Löwith, Julius Guttman, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Franz Rosenzweig ( to whom Strauss dedicated his first book ), Gershom Scholem, Alexander Altmann, and the Arabist Paul Kraus, who married Strauss ' sister Bettina ( Strauss and his wife later adopted their child when both parents died in the Middle East ).

The book is considered the closest to an encyclopaedia of medieval saint lore that survives today ; as such it is invaluable to art historians and medievalists who seek to identify saints depicted in art by their deeds and attributes.

This is a recreation of the craniometry | craniometric dendogram entitled " Cranial Cluster 28 Groups " in a book by anthropologist William White Howells, professor of anthropology at Harvard University who said " Indigenous peoples of the Americas | Indians " or " Indigenous peoples of the Americas | American populations " are closest in " studies of cranial distance " to " Europeans " as seen above and that among " Indians " or " American populations ", only " Eskimo s " are " strongly Mongoloid race | Mongoloid in form ". See Also: Kennewick man

In the techniques used in the binding, apart from the raised decoration, the closest resemblance is to an even smaller Irish pocket gospel book from some 50 years later, the Cadmug Gospels at Fulda, which is believed to have belonged to Saint Boniface.

Rand observes in the foreword to this book that We the Living was the closest she would ever come to writing an autobiography.

Found in the book Land of Eight Million Dreams ( by James A. Moore ) these are the closest equivalent to kithain native to the realms of central and western Asia.

Her closest friend among the other children is a Jordan kitchen boy named Roger Parslow, whose disappearance early in the first book is Lyra's driving force throughout Northern Lights.

" Locus reviewer Tom Whitmore calls the book " a masterful pastiche " and "… the closest thing to a classic Dick sf novel anyone has ever done.

He also published the book The Nearby Galaxies Catalog in 1988 with 3D locations for the closest 68, 000 galaxies to Earth.

Marinescu's closest collaborators were Ion Minea ( with contributions to neuroinfections ), Anghel Radovici ( with whom Marinescu described the kinn reflex, author of the monograph La Syphilis nerveuse, 1928 ), Nicolae Ionescu-Siseşti ( who was his successor as head of the department, author of the monographs Tumeurs Médullaires, 1929, Syringobulbie, 1932 ), State Drăgănescu ( author of the book Lichidul cefalo-rahidian ( The Cerebrospinal Fluid ), 1932 and of the monograph Encefalite Virotice Umane ( Human Viral Encephalitis, 1962, with Arcadie Petrescu ), Oskar Sager ( Head of the department after the death oh N. Ionescu-Siseşti in 1954, author of studies on the physiology of the thalamus with J. G.

Joss Whedon characterizes the comic book Connor as " the closest thing to a superhero hell has ' because he has powers without any of the weaknesses of the vampire, and is well adjusted.

Although the Wicked Witch of the West is the most famous of Oz's villains ( thanks to the popular 1939 film The Wizard of Oz ), the Nome King is the closest the book series has to a main antagonist.

This approach to magic is closest to comic book characters who don't seem to be restricted as much as classical fantasy characters.

Although Tobias wrote a book on the topic and spearheaded the California initiative, funding a large part of it himself, he is quick to point out that neither pay-at-the-pump nor " true no-fault " ( which he says Michigan comes closest to in the U. S .) is an idea original with him.

He writes that Nausea " may well be Sartre's best book for the very reason that in it the intellectual and the creative artist come closest to being conjoined.

Of all the relationships in the book, Grady is closest with his horse and although an equestrian at heart, his love moves beyond admiration to pure understanding.

Tom Anderson = “ The King of the District ;” every year he published a blue book of every whore in New Orleans ; closest thing to a patron Buddy Bolden ever had ; would give him money for the family and for sending him two bottles of whiskey every day