For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.

Though it centers around the brilliant and enigmatic figure of Charles 12,, the true hero is not finally the king himself.

An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

It is a Whig history of the `` Tory reaction '' which preceded the Reform Bill of 1832, and it uses the figure of Grey to give some unity to the narrative.

For the figure of Vincent Berger Malraux has obviously drawn on his studies of T. E. Lawrence ( though Berger fights on the side of the Turks instead of against them ), and like both Lawrence and Malraux himself he is a fervent admirer of Nietzsche.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

The national average is more than $4 and that figure is considered by experts in the mental health field to be too low.

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

Some government scientists say privately that the figure probably is closer to 80 megatons, and that the full 50-megaton bomb that Khrushchev mentioned may still be detonated.

Based on this figure and considering depreciation costs of vehicles, pool personnel have determined that travel in excess of 10,000 miles annually is more economical by state car than by payment of allowances for use of personally-owned vehicles.

The ideal girl -- possessed of talent, poise, intelligence, personality and beauty of face and figure -- is chosen each year to represent Rhode Island.

The shelter illustrated in figure 12 is based on such a room built in a new home in the Washington, D.C. area in the Spring of 1959.

Next to it is a copper section, with cooking utensils and a figure of the chief cook in an elaborate, floor-length robe.

The figure five is important in insurance.

This result is plotted along with the 8.6-mm observations of Gibson ( 1958 ) in figure 1, A.

Another anode holder used in the experiments is shown in figure 3.

The best way to determine the correct figure ( in captives ) is by direct observation of pairs isolated from birth, a method that produced surprising results: maturing of a male Indian python in less than two years, his mate in less than three ; ;

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

This expectation is what really `` sold '' point and figure.

If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.

Or, he might remind Fromm that the 41 per cent figure is really astonishingly low: after all, the medieval guild system was dedicated to the proposition that 100 per cent of the workers ought to turn out only the average amount ; ;

After all, the henpecked husband with his shrewish wife is a comic figure of long standing, in literature and on the stage, as Dr. Schillinger points out.

Assassination is the murder of a prominent person or political figure by a surprise attack, usually for payment or political reasons.

Rummel has responded that the 20 million estimate is based on a figure from Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror, and that Conquest's qualifier " almost certainly too low " is usually forgotten.

These shows have featured large collections of his gridfonts, his ambigrams ( pieces of calligraphy created with two readings, either of which is usually obtained from the other by rotating or reflecting the ambigram, but sometimes simply by " oscillation ", like the Necker Cube or the rabbit / duck figure of Joseph Jastrow ), and his " Whirly Art " ( music-inspired visual patterns realized using shapes based on various alphabets from India ).

In languages other than English and Russian, figure skating is usually referred to by a name that translates as " artistic skating ".

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.

The figure shows how Hawala works: ( 1 ) A customer ( A, left-hand side ) approaches a hawala broker ( X ) in one city and gives a sum of money ( red arrow ) that is to be transferred to a recipient ( B, right-hand side ) in another, usually foreign, city.

This figure is usually generated by tertiary industry.

In photography, filmmaking and video production, a long shot ( sometimes referred to as a full shot or a wide shot ) typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings.

A long pole surmounted by the figure of a bird, usually a dove, derived from the standards used in battle, was placed by the family in the ground at the home of a man who had died far afield in war and who could not be brought home for funeral and burial.

To score by submission, the wrestler must make his opponent give up, usually, but not necessarily, by putting him in a submission hold ( e. g. figure four leg-lock, arm-lock, sleeper-hold ).

A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things, usually by employing the words " like " or " as ".

Vectors are usually shown in graphs or other diagrams as arrows ( directed line segments ), as illustrated in the figure.

In certain circumstances, waves of unchanging shape also can occur in nonlinear media ; for example, the figure shows ocean waves in shallow water that have sharper crests and flatter troughs than those of a sinusoid, typical of a cnoidal wave, a traveling wave so named because it is described by the Jacobi elliptic function of m-th order, usually denoted as.

This is a figure of merit usually used for rockets, where the fuel is actually reaction mass.

Higher DC voltage ranges, current, resistance, AC and other ranges will usually have a lower accuracy than the basic DC volts figure.

When light encounters a boundary between two media with different refractive indices, some of it is usually reflected as shown in the figure above.

The noise figure is the difference in decibels ( dB ) between the noise output of the actual receiver to the noise output of an “ ideal ” receiver with the same overall gain and bandwidth when the receivers are connected to matched sources at the standard noise temperature ( usually 290 K ).

This makes the noise figure a useful figure of merit for terrestrial systems where the antenna effective temperature is usually near the standard 290 K. In this case, one receiver with a noise figure say 2 dB better than another, will have an output signal to noise ratio that is about 2 dB better than the other.

Isabella became a popular " femme fatale " figure in plays and literature over the years, usually portrayed as a beautiful but cruel, manipulative figure.

The origin is usually the center of mass of the earth, a point close to the Earth's center of figure.

The trade-off between compression power, speed, and fidelity ( including artifacts ) is usually considered the most important figure of technical merit.