Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

Water, air, fruit, poetry, music, the human form -- these things are important to Persians, and they experience them with an intense and discriminating awareness.

If we look at recent art we find it preoccupied with form.

Each aspired to be a god in human form, but with each it was a different kind of god.

The corporation in America is in reality our form of socialism, vying in a sense with the other socialistic form that has emerged within governmental bureaucracy.

But while the corporation has all the disadvantages of the socialist form of organization ( so cumbersome it cannot constructively do much of anything not compatible with its need to perpetuate itself and maintain its status quo ), unluckily it does not have the desirable aspect of socialism, the motivation to operate for the benefit of society as a whole.

In the case of social decay, form is displaced simply by the process of dissolution with no form at the terminus of the process.

When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.

Mercer's Whiteman association brought him into contact with Hoagy Carmichael, whose `` Snowball '' Mercer relyriced as `` Lazybones '', in which form it became a hit and marked the real beginning of Mercer's song-writing career.

It should have a dramatic form with pleasing language, and it should portray incidents which so arouse pity and fear that it purges these emotions in the audience.

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

He had read his poetry with musicians as early as 1951, and his entire career has been characterized by radical experiments with the form and presentation of his poetry.

In order to form a new government it must deal with one of the two rival parties which gained strength.

The form was swathed in an army blanket, much patched, fastened at the neck with a cord.

They form effective fallout shelters when mounded over with earth, as shown in figure 10.

The Associations sponsor many traditional campus events and provide students with opportunities to form new friendships, to broaden their interests, and to engage in worthwhile service projects.

`` When working from one of my sketches I square it up and project its linear form freehand to the watercolor sheet with charcoal.

The backbend is of extreme importance to any form of free gymnastics, and, as with all acrobatics, the sooner begun the better the results.

Then in 2 we show that any line involution with the properties that ( A ) It has no complex of invariant lines, and ( B ) Its singular lines form a complex consisting exclusively of the lines which meet a twisted curve, is necessarily of the type discussed in 1.

Other reports in identical form, but with somewhat varying content, have been issued.

Or, equally often, a concretistic-seeming, particularistic-seeming statement may consist, with its mundane exterior, in a form of poetry -- may be full of meaning and emotion when interpreted as a figurative expression: a metaphor, a smile, an allegory, or some other symbolic mode of speaking.

The straight column under load is in stable equilibrium if a lateral force, applied between the two ends of the column, produces a small lateral deflection which disappears and the column returns to its straight form when the lateral force is removed.

These and similar names for the ends of the carotenoid molecules form the basis of a systematic naming scheme, according to which:

Following the apparent death of Bucky at the hands of Sin ( in the form of Skadi ), Steve Rogers ends up changing into his Captain America outfit.

The mechanism of DNA ligase is to form two covalent phosphodiester bonds between 3 ' hydroxyl ends of one nucleotide, (" acceptor ") with the 5 ' phosphate end of another (" donor ").

Then the quotient space X /~ can be naturally identified with a torus: take a square piece of paper, bend and glue together the upper and lower edge to form a cylinder, then bend the resulting cylinder so as to glue together its two open ends, resulting in a torus.

Around 4 July, Poisson declared Galois ' work " incomprehensible ", declaring that " argument is neither sufficiently clear nor sufficiently developed to allow us to judge its rigor "; however, the rejection report ends on an encouraging note: " We would then suggest that the author should publish the whole of his work in order to form a definitive opinion.

Our generic formula φ now is a sentence, in normal form, and its prefix starts with a universal quantifier and ends with an existential quantifier.

Subsequently, the TV series has Urquhart defeating Samuels in the second leadership ballot and ends with him being driven to Buckingham Palace to be invited to form a government by the Queen.

Capsizing ( or spilling ) a knot refers to changing a knot's form and rearranging its parts, usually by pulling on specific ends in certain ways.

The " offset null " pins may be used to place external resistors in parallel with the two 1 kΩ resistors ( typically in the form of the two ends of a potentiometer ) to adjust the balancing of the Q5 / Q6 current mirror and thus indirectly control the output of the op-amp when zero signal is applied between the inputs.

In his natural philosophy, he differs from the schools on two major points: First, he rejects the analysis of corporeal substance into matter and form ; second, he rejects any appeal to ends — divine or natural — in explaining natural phenomena.

Since the planned outcomes are the desired ends of the project, they form a relatively stable set of categories in which the costs of the planned actions needed to achieve them can be collected.

*** Continuous rod: Metal bars welded on their ends form a compact cylinder of interconnected rods, which is violently expanded into a contiguous zig-zag-shaped ring by an explosive detonation.

The basic form of the first Zeppelins was a long cylinder with tapered ends and complex multi-plane fins.

A model can easily be created by taking a paper strip and giving it a half-twist, and then joining the ends of the strip together to form a loop.

# switching in metal surfaces, known as roof capacitance, at the aerial ends which form capacitors to earth.

The DS3 is delivered in its familiar form, two coax cables ( 1 for send and 1 for receive ) with BNC connectors on the ends.

The abdomen bears pleopods, and ends in a telson, which bears the anus, and is often flanked by uropods to form a tail fan.

Conductivity grows with the fourth power of diameter, so increased diameter has huge rewards ; vessel elements, consisting of a number of cells, joined at their ends, overcame this limit and allowed larger tubes to form, reaching diameters of up to 500 μm, and lengths of up to 10 m.

When all of the details are worked out one ends up with an expression that again takes the form of an Arrhenius exponential multiplied by a slowly varying function of T. The precise form of the temperature dependence depends upon the reaction, and can be calculated using formulas from statistical mechanics involving the partition functions of the reactants and of the activated complex.

" Mallees " are multi-stemmed from ground level, usually less than in height, often with the crown predominantly at the ends of the branchlets and individual plants may combine to form either an open or closed formation.

Similarly, most adjectives ' masculine and feminine plural forms are formed from their corresponding singular forms by adding-s, though sometimes-x is added instead, and nothing is added if the corresponding singular form already ends in-s ,-x, or-z.

A tercet also ends sestinas where the keywords of the lines before are repeated in a highly ordered form.

The roofline, gable ends, buttresses and other parts of the building are often terminated by small pinnacles, Milan Cathedral being an extreme example in the use of this form of decoration.