The folk tale explaining the origin of this Vietnamese tradition is a good illustration of the belief that the combination of areca nut and the betel leaf is ideal to the point they are practically inseparable, like an idealized married couple.

Brian Bethune of Maclean's describes Life of Pi as " head-scratching combination of dense religious allegory, zoological lore and enthralling adventure tale, written with warmth and grace ".

The combination of the Christian biblical theme, the erotic and the murderous, which so attracted Wilde to the tale, shocked opera audiences from its first appearance.

In the hands of modern writers this combination of vague ancient reports and modern guesswork has sometimes evolved into a much more emphatic and colourful tale.

After the production of their first feature-length animation Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, with its highly successful score by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey, which included the songs ' Whistle while you work ', ' Some Day My Prince Will Come ', and ' Heigh-Ho ', the mould for a combination of animation, fairy tale and distinctive songs was set that would carry through to the 1970s with songs from films such as Pinocchio ( 1940 ) and Song of the South ( 1946 ).

After the production of their first feature-length animation Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1937, with its highly successful score by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey, the mould for a combination of animation, fairy tale and distinctive songs was set that would carry through to the 1970s with songs from films such as Pinocchio ( 1940 ) and Song of the South ( 1946 ).

The opera has great appeal because of its combination of fairy tale and folk music ; it is very close in feel to a Czech tone poem.

In the 1960s, the park opened " Fairyland Forest ", using a combination of fairy tale characters and animals to help attract families and appeal to young children.

James Plath of Movie Metropolis wrote, " In many ways, The Great Raid adheres to the genre right down to the character types and before-battle thoughts, but it's also a curious combination of modern war tale in the manner of Saving Private Ryan and the kind of patriotic films that were made in the waning years of the war and in the fifties.

Part adventure story, part guide to self-discovery, this compelling tale delivers the perfect combination of enchantment and insight.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

it is only a matter of adjusting accounting methods, careful fiscal planning and management, or some like combination of techniques.

The first capability is represented by a combination of manned bombers, carrier-based aircraft, and intercontinental and intermediate range missiles.

The first step is a comprehensive self study made by faculty, by outside consultants, or by a combination of the two.

To determine car speed for a given combination of engine speed, gear ratio, and tire size, the formula is: Af.

To determine engine speed for a given combination of the other three factors the formula is: Af.

To determine the rear axle gear ratio for a combination of the other three factors, the formula is: Af.

This result suggests a very high temperature at the solid surface of the planet, although there is the possibility that the observed radiation may be a combination of both thermal and non-thermal components and that the observed spectrum is that of a black body merely by coincidence.

For the case of Jupiter, the radio emission spectrum is definitely not like the spectrum of a black-body radiator, and it seems very likely that the radiation reaching the earth is a combination of thermal radiation from the atmosphere and non-thermal components.

The major postwar development is the certainty that these elements should not be considered singly but in combination and as being mutually supporting.

The first two forces are directly interrelated and depend upon film thickness, whereas Af is independent of these two and is a constant for a given knife/coating combination.

The person using these tests must determine which combination of procedures is practical for any specific item in order to evaluate the dimensional changes of textile fabrics or garments after laundering procedures commonly used in the home or commercial laundry.

A gyro-stabilized platform system, using restrained gyros, is well suited for automatic leveling because of the characteristics of the gyro-platform-servo combination.

Thus if the gyro and platform-controller combination maintains the platform with zero angular deviation about the **yf axis, the system can be rotated with an angular velocity Af if a torque is supplied to the gyro output axis Aj.

The answer is that it was a combination of circumstances.

The potato chip industry these days is growing, not only as a result of population increase and public acceptance of convenience foods, but also because of a combination of circumstances that has led to growth by merger.

The present company is a combination of several smaller ones that date back to 1834.

Black and white is her favorite color combination along with lively glowing pinks, reds, blues and greens.

And every sound that might be the rain also might be the man who thinks after he has raped you he has to beat your brains out with a tire tool so you won't tell, a combination like ham and eggs, rape her and kill her, and that is being an old maid too.

; Experimental unit: The entity to which a specific treatment combination is applied.

Richard's contemporaneous image was that of a king who was also a knight, and that was apparently the first such instance of this combination.

The scene shows White ( Luzhin ) play an apparently brilliant combination culminating in a queen sacrifice followed by Rd1-d8 #.

The specific definition of wit which Johnson applied to the school was: "... a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.

In the late 19th century it was known that coordination compounds ( formerly called “ molecular compounds ”) were formed by the combination of atoms or molecules in such a manner that the valencies of the atoms involved apparently became satisfied.

Until the middle of the 20th century, it was a commercially valuable fish, with about a half million tonnes being landed during the period from about 1880 to the late 1950s, when the populations collapsed, apparently through a combination of overfishing, anthropogenic eutrophication, and competition with the introduced rainbow smelt.

She had apparently succumbed to a fatal combination of alcohol and barbiturates, possibly concurrent with a heart attack.

Since the early 1980s, the combination of a public opinion apparently biased against war, a less interventionist US foreign policy, and a relative absence of American wars and military ' Vietnam paralysis '.

Cirebon suffered a famine in 1844, apparently triggered by a combination of drought and the shift from subsistence agriculture to cash crops, particularly indigo and sugarcane.

The combination of apparently static surface textures and extremely active harmonic movement generates a highly original music that, while having things in common with early drone-based Minimalism, is utterly distinct in sound and technique.

His plans are apparently shattered by a combination of the sudden appearance of Titano, and Ambush Bug waking from a nightmare.

Again, sensations are not single, but generally combined with others, which either confirm or contradict them ; and the greater this combination the greater is the probability of that being true which the rest combine to confirm ; and the case in which the greatest number of conceptions, each in themselves apparently most true, should combine to affirm that which also in itself appears most true, would present to Carneades the highest probability, and his nearest approach to truth.

Such a combination was actually very powerful for 1929, and indicates that Hill apparently understood the concepts of a meet-in-the-middle attack as well as confusion and diffusion.

While it is possible to hurt her, as shown when the superhuman strong Kingsley Rice cut her, she apparently even survived a direct nuclear explosion through a combination of her nigh-invulnerability and her life-force transference capabilities.

The subspecies was apparently extirpated in the Great Lakes by about 1983 through a combination of anthropogenic eutrophication, overfishing and competition with the introduced rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax.

Birthrights version of Luthor is a combination of both versions of the character, and though his knowledge as a general scientist is apparently unmatched ( he is referred to as the smartest man in the world ), astrobiology is his particular forte.

The large miniatures by the Master of Anthony of Burgundy are especially sophisticated in style, and those by the young Master of the Dresden Prayer Book ( above ) are notable for " their startlingly ambitious palette and combination of colors, agitated and vibrantly modelled drapery, an apparently inexhaustible range of well-designed figure poses, and challenging placement of figures within complex spaces " ( McKendrick ).

Whichever the original image, it was almost certainly a poster of a celebrated late 19th-century snake charmer who performed under the stage name " Nala Damajanti " ( apparently a combination of the names of two husband-and-wife characters from the Indian epic the Mahabharata, which appeared in several variations, particularly " Maladamatjaute ") at numerous venues, including the Folies Bergère in 1886.