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fact and passionate
In her review in The Washington Post, Rita Kempley, giving it a mixed review, wrote that the film " isn't as passionate as the title suggests — in fact, it's facile — but Ryan and Kevin Kline, as her attractive opposite, are irresistible together.
The fact that many critics of the Warren Report have remained passionate advocates of the Garrison investigation, even condoning tactics which they might not condone on the part of others, is a matter of regret and disappointment.
Portugal never developed a great Dramatic theatre tradition due primarily to the fact that the Portuguese were more passionate about lyric or humorous works than dramatic art.
was introduced as a new show, Russo was not happy about writing two more hours of shows per week, especially due to the fact he was feeling overworked, burnt out, and less passionate working in the WWF creative team for so long.
The first site to receive the award was Immeritus, a fan site mostly devoted to Sirius Black, and about which Rowling wrote, " I am so proud of the fact that a character, whom I always liked very much, though he never appeared as much more than a brooding presence in the books, has gained a passionate fan-club.
In fact he seemed to consciously undercut the divine stage show and the passionate words said in his honor.
Peace testimony does not mean that Quakers engage only in passive resignation ; in fact, they often practice passionate activism.
This was due to the fact that despite having an older husband who she did not possess any passionate feelings for, his title and position in society were such that he could provide her whatever she might desire.
Nikolai Gumilyov was outraged by the thought that his passionate romantic correspondence might in fact have been with a mocking Maximilian Voloshin.
A less known fact about Walter P. Kistler is that he is a passionate lover of shorthand and has invented the Newrite system of shorthand now being propagated in India.

fact and descriptions
Hare, and Simon Blackburn have argued in favor of the fact / norm distinction, meanwhile, with Gibbard going so far as to argue that, even if conventional English has only mixed normative terms ( that is, terms that are neither purely descriptive nor purely normative ), we could develop a nominally English metalanguage that still allowed us to maintain the division between factual descriptions and normative evaluations.
In these cases, two descriptions of the same phenomenon appear contradictory, whereas, in fact, the difference is merely one of perspective: one description takes the viewpoint of the " attributes of action " and the other, of the " negative attributes ".
The problem with the mythology is partly the fact that there are no contemporary sources about the crusade and partly because there are no pictures or descriptions of the flag until the middle of the 16th century.
Of particular concern was the fact that a Bombay detective had wired the names and descriptions of the assassins along with the fact that they were known to be in Delhi stalking Gandhi.
These describe the observation that individuals will give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people.
Many attempts have been made to reconstruct the plot of the play, but none of them is more than hypothetical, because of the scanty remains that survive from its text and of the total absence of ancient descriptions or résumés-though it has been suggested that a part of Hyginus ' narration of the Oedipus myth might in fact derive from Euripides ' play.
Europeans also interpreted descriptions of howdahs to mean that Indian elephants were capable of carrying actual stone castles on their backs, albeit only big enough to be garrisoned by three or four men ; note that turreted war elephants were in fact used, though they did not use stone.
Milton ’ s iconic descriptions of the garden are shadowed by the fact that we see it from Satan ’ s perspective and are thus led to commiserate with him.
The " facts " contained in the book were in fact an amalgam of other travel reports, and were especially influenced by accounts of the Aztec and Inca civilization in the New World and by embellished descriptions of Japan.
Russell held the view that most of the apparent proper names in English are in fact " disguised definite descriptions ".
In fact, his archives reveal that he drafted one of the first job descriptions of a VP-level corporate public relations position.
The fact that Euro-American observers found African work-singers so remarkable ( as can be gleaned from the tone of their descriptions ) suggests that work songs were indeed rather foreign to their culture.
In job advertisements and descriptions, the fact that the employer is an equal opportunity employer is sometimes indicated by the abbreviations EOE or MFDV which stands for Minority, Female, Disabled, Veteran.
Although Hickok photographs seem to indicate he had dark hair, all contemporary descriptions confirm he was, in fact, golden blond ( as reddish shades of hair appeared black in early photographic processes ).
While abroad Kennedy became a friend of William Makepeace Thackeray and wrote or outlined the fourth chapter of the second volume of The Virginians, a fact which accounts for the great accuracy of its scenic descriptions.
In fact, they have a straightforward but nontrivial relationship ; see Mathematical descriptions of opacity.
Barnum's observation that " we've got something for everyone ") is the observation that individuals will give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people.
Gaussian corporation disputes the accuracy of these descriptions of its policy and actions, noting that all of the listed institutions do in fact have licenses for everyone but directly competing researchers.
Although he refused to explicitly endorse such a theory, he indicated that such an approach was far more promising than the then popular descriptive theory of names introduced by Russell, according to which names are in fact disguised definite descriptions.
In fact property in parts of Prairie du Chien, Portage, Kaukauna and Green Bay, all along the Waterway, still use French long-lot descriptions.
At the time, though, the one thing that journalists and politicians focused on in the novel was its graphic descriptions of flogging and the horrors caused by its arbitrary use ; in fact, because Harper & Bros. made sure the book got into the hands of every member of Congress, White-Jacket was instrumental in abolishing flogging in the U. S. Navy forever.
Brief casting and plot descriptions are given each time it is mentioned, making it clear that this is in fact two different films both titled See You Next Wednesday.

fact and acts
The first two acts were successfully premièred in Zürich in 1937, but for personal reasons Helene Berg subsequently imposed a ban on any attempt to " complete " the final act, which Berg had in fact completed in particell ( short score ) format.
Married persons who are known to commit such acts may in fact lose privileges in the congregation as they are supposed to be setting a good example to the congregation.
A fact finding mission of 1985 – sponsored by the International Human Rights Law Group and the Washington Office on Latin America, and carried out independently of any Nicaraguan government interference or direction-found that the contras with some frequency deliberately targeted Nicaraguan citizens in acts of terroristic violence.
* He noted the exceptional fact that PSL ( 2, p ) is simple and acts on p points if and only if p is 5, 7, or 11.
In fact, the definition of a square may be recast in terms of both of the abstractions, where one acts as the genus and the other acts as the differentia:
But as it turned out, in fact all these acts were carried out by deliberate design, with the conscious intention of causing just such a discrediting of women's education.
: A practical issue is whether the fact that an accused is labouring under a " mental disability " should be a necessary but not sufficient condition for negating responsibility i. e. whether the test should also require an incapacity to understand what is being done, to know that what one is doing is wrong, or to control an impulse to do something and so demonstrate a causal link between the disability and the potentially criminal acts and omissions.
In fact, Noah is never seen to speak ; he simply listens to God and acts on his orders.
The commonly held belief that a grain of sand acts as the irritant is in fact rarely the case.
In defending this view, reliabilists ( and externalists generally ) are apt to point to examples from simple acts of perception: if one sees a bird in the tree outside his window and thereby gains the belief that there is a bird in that tree, he might not at all understand the cognitive processes that account for his successful act of perception ; nevertheless, it is the fact that the processes worked reliably that accounts for why his belief is justified.
" Through the tour, however, both acts quickly learned to get along, a process made easier by the fact that the Beatles admired his work.
So the syntactic category for an intransitive verb is a complex formula representing the fact that the verb acts as a function word requiring an NP as an input and produces a sentence level structure as an output.
This may be partly due to the fact that several acts were inspired by post punk bands ; Tricky and Massive Attack both covered and sampled songs of Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure.
But when he asks a question for information, when he testifies a fact, when he gives a command to his servant, when he makes a promise, or enters into a contract, these are social acts of mind, and can have no existence without the intervention of some other intelligent being, who acts a part in them.
Balaclava ( not officially have the status of a separate town, in fact, acts as a regional center )
* Terrorism, the fact of performing acts of terror, as defined above
It is a sad fact that the perpetration of those acts is not confined to that class of people which might be called the rabble.
*" George W. Bush has a vision which can be described with two other words: Manichaean paranoia ... the notion that he is leading the forces of good against the empire of evil, that in that setting, the fact that we are morally superior justifies us committing immoral acts.
Choosing s to measure up from the ground, the acceleration a must be in fact − g, since the force of gravity acts downwards and therefore also the acceleration on the ball due to it.
The Council also acts as the highest court for administrative appeal ( Subarticle 2 and 3 ); it thus has the final say on the way the country is actually ruled, though this is limited by the fact such appeals can only be made on formal or procedural grounds.
His personal diaries describe his sexual activity in great detail including the fact that Gill sexually abused his own children, had an incestuous relationship with his sister and performed sexual acts on his dog.
The fact that international involvement and the imposition of " neoliberal " policies usually serves to make things worse and acts against the interests of the country being " saved ", has led some to argue that the policies have nothing to do with any form of liberalism, but hide some other purpose.
Thus, even acts of generosity and altruism are in fact egoist acts in disguise.

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