This complacency was blown to bits by the relativity of Einstein, the revelation of the complex anatomy of the atom and the discovery of the expanding universe.

`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.

Charity as she knew it was complex and reciprocal, and almost every roof she saw signified charity.

Centrally, however, the administrative problem was more complex and the sheer prestige of office was very likely an unfair advantage.

O'Banion was a complex and frightening man, whose bright blue eyes stared with a kind of frozen candour into others'.

C & O president Walter J. Tuohy was summoned back for cross-examination by New York Central attorneys before examiner John Bradford who is hearing the complex case.

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

The new element was isolated from its oxides in a complex, multi-step process.

Jean-Robert Argand introduced the term " module " ' unit of measure ' in French in 1806 specifically for the complex absolute value and it was borrowed into English in 1866 as the Latin equivalent " modulus ".

Egyptians also believed that being mummified and put in a sarcophagus ( an ancient Egyptian " coffin " carved with complex symbols and designs, as well as pictures and hieroglyphs ) was the only way to have an afterlife.

This was because Woolfson and Parsons saw themselves mainly in the roles of writing and production, and also because of the technical difficulties of reproducing on stage the complex instrumentation used in the studio.

Armanum was located on the Euphrates River between Ebla and Tell Brak, most likely at the Citadel of Bazi – Tall Banat complex.

There are then three functions: the officeholders organized and saw to the complex protocols ; Ho boulomenos was the initiator and the proposer of content ; and finally the people, massed in assembly or court or convened as lawmakers, made the decisions, either yes or no, or choosing between alternatives.

The term originally came from antibody generator and was a molecule that binds specifically to an antibody, but the term now also refers to any molecule or molecular fragment that can be bound by a major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) and presented to a T-cell receptor.

The Auschwitz complex of camps was located administratively in Germany, Provinz Oberschlesien, Regierungsbezirk Kattowitz, Landkreis Bielitz, approximately 30 km south of Katowice and 50 km west of Kraków, encompassing a large industrial area rich in natural resources.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

The Falcons 78, 000 square foot headquarters and training facilities or located on a 50-acre site in Flowery Branch, Ga., the complex which was one of the first of its kind was completed in 1999.

The upper storey features a scale model of the Abbey complex, a computer-generated ' fly-through ' reconstruction of the church as it was when complete, and a viewing gallery with excellent views of the ruins.

The bulk of the documents relate to the running of a large, private estate is named after Heroninos because he was phrontistes ( Koine Greek: manager ) of the estate which had a complex and standarised system of accounting which was followed by all its local farm managers.

Robert Hooke, in 1674, published his observations of γ Draconis, a star of magnitude 2 < sup > m </ sup > which passes practically overhead at the latitude of London, and whose observations are therefore free from the complex corrections due to astronomical refraction, and concluded that this star was 23 ″ more northerly in July than in October.

The square root of-1 was represented by < code >< u > i </ u ></ code >, which was treated as a fixed complex constant = i.

Two other books, How the Mind Works ( 1997 ) and The Blank Slate ( 2002 ), broadly surveyed the mind and defended the idea of a complex human nature which comprises many mental faculties that are adaptive ( and is an ally of Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins in many disputes surrounding adaptationism ).

His younger brother Robert Moresby was also a distinguished maritime surveyor and captain of the British Royal Navy, who surveyed the Red Sea and the complex Indian Ocean atoll groups of the Maldive and Chagos Archipelagos.

The book surveyed and synthesized the large, complex body of research on moral development and translated it for the general public.

The Serbian crisis triggered a complex set of formal and secret military alliances between European states, causing most of the continent, including France, to be drawn into war within a few short weeks.

Raphael's figures begin to take more dynamic and complex positions, and though as yet his painted subjects are still mostly tranquil, he made drawn studies of fighting nude men, one of the obsessions of the period in Florence.

In more complex systems warm air in the building can be allowed to rise and flow out upper openings to the outside ( stack effect ) thus forcing cool outside air to be drawn into the building naturally through openings in the lower areas.

He was ignored, however, a dispensation was secured after Burgundian bribes secured Papal acquiescence, and a complex agreement was drawn up between England and Burgundy, covering mutual defence, trade, currency exchange, fishing rights and freedom of travel, all based on the marriage between the Duke and Margaret.

Because so little historic fabric survives, and the two historic buildings are not visible from the public road, the mill complex has been drawn out of the district.

Totemism is a complex of varied ideas and ways of behaviour based on a worldview drawn from nature.

The time delays can be drawn from several distributions and the reaction rates from complex

Provisional plans have been drawn up to convert the site into a hotel complex.

In more complex systems warm air in the building can be allowed to rise and flow out upper openings to the outside ( stack effect ) thus forcing cool outside air to be drawn into the building naturally through openings in the lower areas.

Walkers and cyclists are drawn to Rhayader for the abundance of trails and bridleways surrounding the town, which is the gateway to a massive complex of reservoirs and dams ( The Elan Valley ), known as the ' Lakeland of Wales '.

The magician used wands, staves, incense and fire, daggers and complex diagrams drawn on parchment or upon the ground.

This was the result of a complex publication / distribution agreement drawn up between the two independent companies.

* Charlie and Lola uses a complex combination of photographic and drawn elements to imitate the collage style of the books-by Lauren Child.

Plans for the Belvedere garden complex were drawn up immediately.

The nationalization of the Belvedere palace complex was also laid down in the draft document to reorganize the former imperial collections drawn up by Hans Tietze in 1920 – 21.

The conclusion drawn was that segmentation of the hindbrain contributes to the way axons project within the vestibular complex.

The software would then use a primitive morphing technology to generate frames in-between the user-created frames, allowing complex animations to be created without the requirement that every frame be drawn by the user.

What had been, in Disney's earliest cartoons a simplistic Mickey Mouse figure, transitioned into full-blown, well drawn, complex and sophisticated animated productions such as Snow White.

Clinical training at the San Juan Bautista Medical Center brings the student into contact with a patient population drawn from many different socio-economic groups whose health problems represent all categories of medical conditions requiring complex tertiary care to routine and preventive care.

Everything is drawn on a small scale, thereby emphasising the vastness of the underground complex.

Conversion of ethylene to diethyl ketone using a cobalt carbonyl, while the reaction used a cobalt carbonyl diphosphine complex for clarity the reaction has been drawn out, assuming that a cobalt carbonyl is responsible for the reaction

In the armistice of 1940 the new Finnish-Soviet border was deliberately drawn to leave the factory complex on the Soviet side.

The wanton despoliation of the environment through mining has drawn comparisons to the Norilsk complex in Russia, one of the ten most polluted cities in the world.

The pixels are then drawn on the screen using a certain color ; current systems are capable of deciding the color that results in these triangles — for e. g. a texture can be used to ' paint ' onto a triangle, which is simply deciding what color to output at each pixel based on a stored picture ; or in a more complex case, at each pixel, one can compute if a certain light is being seen or not resulting in very good shadows ( using a technique called shadow mapping ).