Fourteen of the sculptures you took possess properties of a most curious and terrifying nature, as you will observe when your limbs begin to wither and your hair falls out in patches.

Boulder routes are commonly referred to as problems ( a British appellation ) because the nature of the climb is often short, curious, and much like problem solving.

Their slow-moving, curious nature, coupled with dense coastal development, has led to many violent collisions with propeller-driven boats and ships, leading frequently to maiming, disfigurement, and even death.

Experience has shown that adolescents are curious about some or all the aspects of their sexuality as well as the nature of sexuality in general, and that many will wish to experience their sexuality.

They tend to be curious by nature.

* " Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ' how ', while others of a more curious nature will ask ' why '.

Their curious nature can take them into dangerous places or situations.

That guide was the inspiration for the " Junior Woodchucks Guidebook " ( Il Manuale delle Giovani Marmotte ), a series of several Disney books with tips, advice, general culture, and curious facts about nature and life, released in Italy by Mondadori in seven volumes between 1969 and 1974, and later translated into several languages.

Although he had no patience for games or sports, the curious child took to nature at an early age, collecting bugs and exploring Lobos Creek all the way to Baker Beach and the sea cliffs leading to Lands End, " San Francisco's wildest and rockiest coast, a place strewn with shipwrecks and rife with landslides.

There is, however, a curious passage in a letter from Boileau to Racine in which he regrets that " nature has not made La Bruyère as agreeable as he would like to be.

These long years of frustration have left in the subject a curious affection for the infinities and a passionate belief that they are an inevitable part of nature ; so much so that even the suggestion of a hope that they may after all be circumvented-and finite values for the renormalization constants computed-is considered irrational.

The fourth essay is a systematic treatment of the nature of colour, with a description of many curious experiments and a discussion of the rainbow, halos, parhelia, diffraction, and the more purely physiological phenomena of colour.

The New Yorker reviewer Paul Goldberger called the book, " a despairing look at the state of things, and like everything Jacobs wrote, it is a curious combination of plainspoken common sense based on simple, empirical observation of the world around her, and broad generalizations about the nature of cities and cultures.

Although this represents a curious judgment of his music, which is often flashy and energetic, it may reflect a nature that allowed him to drift gently from view to a point of obscurity where it became necessary to inquire in the Journal general de la France ( 27 November 1788 ) ' what has become of M Duphlis, former harpsichord teacher in Paris, where he was in 1767.

The fundamental premises of the school are: that all people are curious by nature ; that the most efficient, long-lasting, and profound learning takes place when started and pursued by the learner ; that all people are creative if they are allowed to develop their unique talents ; that age-mixing among students promotes growth in all members of the group ; and that freedom is essential to the development of personal responsibility.

This, as well as the curious operating nature of the CVT gearbox, mean that relatively few CVT-equipped 400 series cars exist.

After meeting Alpha, her " older sister " production-wise, Kokone becomes curious about the history and nature of robots.

The title story consists of eleven letters written by the archangel Satan to archangels, Gabriel and Michael, about his observations on the curious proceedings of earthly life and the nature of man's religions.

Its lack of fear for man and an unaggressive and curious nature also contributed to its demise.

Since ' worse eye dominance ' goes against nature and common sense ( i. e., in ' handedness ', the stronger / faster / better hand is dominant, enabling quicker and more accurate actions, reactions, and decision-making ) it is curious that in myopic patients the more seriously afflicted eye is dominant.

The race having apparently been rigged by Wayl, the narrator is declared the victor and takes home his prize, an adze with curious designs, apparently of a ritual nature, engraved on it.

The island had no physical improvements and had essentially become a nature preserve over the last ten years, hosting the occasional scientific visit, and curious boaters.

Near the city is the Parque Nacional de Tingo María of 180 km² () that preserves nature and a curious limestone mountain range in the shape of a woman that sleeps, that is called " The Sleeping Beauty " (" La bella durmiente ").

These long years of frustration have left in the subject a curious affection for the infinities and a passionate belief that they are an inevitable part of nature ; so much so that even the suggestion of a hope that they may after all be circumvented-and finite values for the renormalization constants computed-is considered irrational.

In 1846, he visited Spain, wishing to witness the wedding of Isabella II and the Duke of Cádiz, but he was also curious to assess developments in Spanish culture.

It appears to me, that the general conclusions established by Mesmer ’ s practice, with respect to the physical effects of the principle of imagination [...] are incomparably more curious than if he had actually demonstrated the existence of his boasted science " animal magnetism ": nor can I see any good reason why a physician, who admits the efficacy of the moral psychological agents employed by Mesmer, should, in the exercise of his profession, scruple to copy whatever processes are necessary for subjecting them to his command, any more than that he should hesitate about employing a new physical agent, such as electricity or galvanism.

“ It is a curious fact that with ‘ Looking-Glass ’ the faculty of making drawings for book illustrations departed from me, and [...] I have done nothing in that direction since .”

They came out raising my brother and myself with the idea that it didn ’ t look like there was any God as far as they could see, but if we wanted to explore it for ourselves at a point where we were old enough and curious enough, then they wouldn't have any objections.

French philosopher Jean Guitton said that Pope Paul VI's intention was to assimilate the Catholic liturgy to the Protestant :" The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with the Protestant liturgy — but what is curious is that Paul VI did that to get as close as possible to the Protestant Lord ’ s supper ... there was with Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or least to correct, or at least to relax, what was too Catholic, in the traditional sense, in the Mass and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist Mass.

A curious event took place on Worthington ’ s very first Fourth of July celebration.

Historian Paul Avrich characterizes Razin ’ s revolt as a “ curious mixture of brigandage and revolt ,” similar to other popular uprising of the period.

While appreciating the force of Ruskin ’ s criticisms, Henry James was more appreciative: “ A structure not supremely interesting, not logical, not … commandingly beautiful, but grandly curious and superbly rich.

From its curious and irregular shape it is commonly called the ‘ Hunchback Bridge ’; also the ‘ Devil ’ s Bridge ’ after many legends: the famous legend tells that it was built by the Devil in one night after he made a pact with Saint Columbanus who promised him the soul of the first passerby ; but when the bridge was finished the Irish Saint sent a dog.

I think he ’ s intellectually curious.

When Simon ’ s adoptive father Joe arrives to pick him up in the morning, Kerewin get to know their curious story.

Clayton tried to produce a ‘ home-from-home ’ effect by doing the house out in rugs and, in what must have been a curious sight for soldiers used to the mud of the trenches, as many vases of flowers as was possible.

Even now I feel a curious magic about Mumbai ’ s Flora Fountain.

The telescope ’ s huge field of view allows the whole nebula and its surroundings to be imaged in a single picture and its infrared vision also means that it can peer deep into the normally hidden dusty regions and reveal the curious antics of the very active young stars buried there.

Cleon I ’ s reign represented a curious interval of quiet between troubled times.

In July 2009, Haddon wrote on his blog that " curious incident is not a book about asperger ’ s .... if anything it ’ s a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way.

As the Doctor and Leela explore, something moves Ben ’ s body out of the lighthouse and onto the island, and they witness a curious electric crackling which seems to have killed fish nearby.

It is such a curious position, hollow and rotten to the heart ’ s core, to have made all over the State large uncomfortable communities of people whom you call refugees and say you are protecting, but who call themselves prisoners of war, compulsorily detained, and detesting your protection.

: But for my part, I find so tremendously much in Israëls, for instance, that I ’ m not particularly curious about or eager for something different or newer.

" It is beyond words for me to explain to others how miserable it made us feel to sing and dance — albeit for money — in front of curious tourists from throughout Japan when we weren ’ t even happy or excited ," ( Kayano 119 ).

Hundreds of thousands of dollars are raised on this night alone, when more than fifty of Canada ’ s top writers mingle with curious guests.

In 1888, political economist William Petty wrote that larger populations should be a benefit to society, claiming “ t is more likely that one ingenious curious man may rather be found out amongst 4, 000, 000 than 400 persons .” Although a " conservationist " movement in the United States concerned itself with resource depletion and natural protection in the first half of the twentieth century, Desrochers and Hoffbauer write, " It is probably fair to say ... that it was not until the publication of Osborn ’ s and Vogt ’ s books that a Malthusian revival took hold of a significant segment of the American population.