The action is punctuated by episodes of song which develop towards the end into scenes that are almost operatic ; Resnais said that his starting point had been the desire to make a film in which dialogue and song would alternate.

The stated intent of the Goldwater-Nichols legislation is broadly accepted as valid for effective political discourse on issues affecting the nation's security -- the Congress and the Executive need a common understanding of the strategic environment and the administration's intent as a starting point for future dialogue.

TeenNick, which has more relaxed program standards than the other Nickelodeon channels allowing for moderate profanity, suggestive dialogue and some violent content ( though Nickelodeon series and some off-network programs airing on the channel do not include this ), once shared the evening and overnight portion of each day with Noggin as The N ( in a similar manner to Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite ) starting with The N's initial launch on April 1, 2002, but on December 31, 2007 it took over Nickelodeon GAS's satellite transponder and became a stand-alone channel.

The aim of the group is to show that the language of science and Christian theology are similar, forming a starting point for a dialogue between the two.

He used the Bissinger article as a starting point which gave him a line of dialogue on which to hook the entire character of Glass which was, " Are you mad at me?

" This dialogue offered Aristotle, first a student and then a teacher at Plato's Academy, a more positive starting point for the development of rhetoric as an art worthy of systematic, scientific study.

He began the dialogue by having his wife announce that one does not invade people's homes without warning them that one is coming, and went on from that with the entire catalogue of his social gaucheries.

Emerson, in his lecture, refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before, whether dreaming or waking, a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue, at some former hour, they know not when ''.

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

Reading about famous oratory aroused Johnson's interest in political dialogue and private debates with customers having opposing views on issues of the day.

With narration of direct speech, both styles retain punctuation inside the quotation marks, with a full stop changing into a comma if followed by explanatory text, also known as a dialogue tag.

In recent years, it has given high priority in establishing political dialogue with other strategic actors such as India, Russia, China and South Africa through participation in international groupings such as BASIC, IBSA and BRICS.

This organization facilitates dialogue of Benedictine communities with each other and the relationship between Benedictine communities and other religious orders and the church at large.

It is common to see films that feature dialogue with English words ( also known as Hinglish ), phrases, or even whole sentences.

It consisted of racy and often satirical spoken ( English ) dialogue, interspersed with songs that are deliberately kept very short to minimize disruptions to the flow of the story.

Until he began making spoken dialogue films with The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), he never shot from a completed script, but instead usually started with only a vague premise — for example " Charlie enters a health spa " or " Charlie works in a pawn shop.

These churches are generally not in communion with Eastern Orthodox Churches with whom they are in dialogue for erecting a communion.

Made on a mere US $ 17 million budget, with dialogue in Mandarin, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a surprise international success, grossing $ 213. 5 million.

# The participation of the Republic of Cuba in the OAS will be the result of a process of dialogue initiated at the request of the Government of Cuba, and in accordance with the practices, purposes, and principles of the OAS.

In the Timaeus, Plato's major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid he associated with fire was the tetrahedron which is formed from four triangles and contains the least volume with the greatest surface area.

In the Timaeus, his major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid associated with air is the octahedron which is formed from eight equilateral triangles.

In the Timaeus, his major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid associated with water is the icosahedron which is formed from twenty equilateral triangles.

Jews individually and collectively participate in an eternal dialogue with the God of Israel through tradition, rituals, prayers and ethical actions.

She enters into a dialogue, a movement between question and answer, with these allegorical figures that is from a completely female perspective.

In doing so, Brown created believable, under-played, naturalistic dialogue scenes stripped of melodrama, pulsing with the honest rhythms of real-life conversation.

Commenting on the example cited by Winter, the science writer Martin Gardner asserts that " nothing could be clearer from the above dialogue than the fact that the dianetic explanation for the headache existed only in the mind of the therapist, and that it was with considerable difficulty that the patient was maneuvered into accepting it.

The Inter-Congolese dialogue, that set-up the transitional institutions, created a bicameral parliament, with a National Assembly and Senate, made up of appointed representatives of the parties to the dialogue.

`` Just you wait '', advised Arlene, echoing the dialogue in a recent British movie.

Nichiren Buddhism emphasizes the sanctity of life and absolute non-violence: “ To deprive a being of life is to commit the gravest kind of sin ”, and considers debate or dialogue as the only avenue to resolve disputes: “ When in public debate, although the teachings that you advocate are perfectly consistent with the truth, you should never on that account be impolite or abusive, or display a conceited attitude.

She recalls learning English " kinda of late " only knowing the dialogue she had learned for the casting beyond that, she could only say, “ How are you ?” and “ Thank you .”

In a lecture delivered on 12 September 2006, Pope Benedict XVI quoted from a dialogue believed to have occurred in 1391 between Manuel II and a Persian scholar and recorded in a book by Manuel II ( Dialogue 7 of Twenty-six Dialogues with a Persian ) in which the Emperor stated: " Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.

Andrew Sarris in the New York Observer wrote, " the main incentive to see this movie is its witty, pungent and idiomatic dialogue, such as you never hear on the screen anymore in this age of special-effects illiteracy ".

* Feathers's dialogue was occasionally inspired by the character of " Slim " ( Lauren Bacall ) in the 1944 " To Have and Have Not ", as when, after the first kiss, she says: "... it's better when two people do it ," recalling the phrase " it's even better when you help ;" and again later when she says, " I'm hard to get-you're going to have to say you want me ," recalling Slim's " I'm hard to get, Steve-all you have to do is ask me.

Roger Ebert gave the film one and a half stars and wrote, " The film has been directed without grace, vision, originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialogue, it will not be because you admire them " and criticized its liberties with historical facts: " There is no sense of history, strategy or context ; according to this movie, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because America cut off its oil supply, and they were down to an 18-month reserve.

* Goldfinger ( 1964 ): the character Random Task modelled on Oddjob ; the dialogue " do you expect them to pay?

Planescape: Torments gameplay often focuses on the resolution of quests through dialogue rather than combat, and many of the game's combat encounters can be resolved or avoided through dialogue or stealth ; a review of the game in incite PC Gaming says that " The game is almost entirely story driven, and by asking the right questions you should only have to get violent a handful of times.

A remarkably detailed three-dimensional digital model, for CGI shots, along with the whole of its surrounding environment including the Pelennor Fields and Mindolluin ( but not the Rammas Echor, which was visually omitted from the films, despite being mentioned in the dialogue, where Théoden gave the order to the Rohirrim beginning " After you pass the Wall ..." quoted directly from the book.

Drusilla's madness is exhibited in her often-strange dialogue, which is peppered with non sequiturs like " Spike, do you love my insides?

The San Francisco Chronicle praised Hawke and Delpy's performances: " interact so gently and simply that you feel certain that they helped write the dialogue.

* The dialogue spoken during the song (" You have had all that money can give you ", " Kill for a thrill ", etc.

In particular, Mann's song " Deathly ", on her album Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo, features the lyric " Now that I've met you / Would you object to / Never seeing each other again ", which was used by Claudia as line of dialogue in the film.

On the other side you have an opposition which is not prepared for dialogue and it is not prepared to accept reforms.

Dawson affectionately ridiculed the show with dialogue such as " And for the benefit of anyone who hasn't got an Argos Catalogue, here's some of the rubbish you might be saddled with tonight .".

Some of the dialogue spoken by the two contains subtle references to Skies of Arcadia, such as Aika's line when rescuing a fallen comrade " If you die on me, then I'm taking all your treasure!