Anecdotal literature reinforces this impression of general societal acceptance of the public celebration of male-male love ( which hostile Western caricatures of Islamic societies in medieval and early modern times simply exaggerate ).

These made a lasting impression on the general population of the city: many pagans converted to Christianity as a result of the homilies.

There will be very little detail visible in the shot, as it is meant to give a general impression rather than specific information.

Although Jardine may simply have worn the cap out of superstition, it conveyed a negative impression to the spectators ; his general demeanour drew one comment of " Where's the butler to carry the bat for you?

This does not conform with the picture given elsewhere in the bible, where sacrifices are offered by a wide range of people ( e. g. Manoah the judge, Samuel and Elijah the prophets, and kings Saul, David and Solomon, none of whom are priests ) and the general impression is that any head of family could make a sacrifice.

High-precision test of general relativity by the Cassini-Huygens | Cassini space probe ( artist's impression ): radio signals sent between the Earth and the probe ( green wave ) are Shapiro effect | delayed by the warping of space and time ( blue lines ) due to the Sun's mass.

But there is a general impression that the Belgae were a relatively stable population going back to Urnfield times, but with a much more recently immigrated elite class who would have been of more interest to Caesar.

In general, unlike Sei Shōnagon, Murasaki gives the impression in her diary that she disliked court life, the other ladies-in-waiting, and the drunken revelry.

The general impression is of a reduction or breakdown of royal authority in the midlands and north.

Among Esperanto speakers there was a general impression that the Delegation would of course choose Esperanto, as it was the only auxlang with a sizable speaker community at the time ; it was felt as a betrayal by many Esperanto speakers when in 1907 the Delegation came up with its own reformed version of Esperanto, Ido.

The influence of the television series has given the general public the impression that Mason is highly ethical.

The committee were left with the impression that the choice of therapeutic regime was based on the general whim of the naturopath and, since the suggested applications in the various textbooks and dispensations overlap to an enormous extent, no specific indications are or can be taught.

Even though scurvy was cured through the native remedy ( Thuja occidentalis infusion ), the impression left is of a general misery, and of Cartier's growing conviction that he had insufficient manpower either to protect his base or to go in search of the Saguenay Kingdom.

Each movement conveys a general impression of its subject's personality ; in addition, most of them contain a musical reference to a specific characteristic or event, such as Dorabella's stutter, Winifred Norbury's laugh, or the walk in the woods with Jaeger.

Free jazz normally retains a general pulsation and often swings but without regular meter, and often with frequent accelerando and ritardando, giving an impression of the rhythm moving in waves.

That means that the concept at the beginning cannot be seized physically, but rather as a general impression, which one lends to a body.

More than 80 % of the area is covered with forests, making it live up to the general public's impression of the " dark " province of Småland.

The professional criminal had now been tied to the general specifics of the judiciary, giving the rather false impression that the working population were susceptible to criminal law breaking and anti-social behaviour.

Low power ( 2 × to 6 ×) may be used to obtain a general impression of the surface architecture.

There is the impression that the private sector in general continues to grow as The JET Programme loses share in the market.

Because sailors who had sung shanties were by this time very old or dead, and the general public had little opportunity to experience performances of shanties, the representations by these authors were all the more influential in mediating information and creating the impression of " standard " versions of songs.

It seems that in Old English " mark " meant " boundary " or " sign of a boundary ", and the meaning later evolved into " sign in general ", " impression or trace forming a sign ".

This allowed the Navy to perform at a higher operational tempo, while giving the Japanese the general impression of naval assets greater than what was actually available.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

He was referring not only to the general college situation but more especially to the preparatory schools.

However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

As far as I'm concerned, it was a separate matter from the general Committee study of Bang-Jensen's conduct.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

He was allowed forty-four pounds in all, including fees to the masters of requests, Mr. Fanshawe of the Exchequer, the solicitor general, and other officials and their clerks.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

But there was one thing that he had to stress, and that was that the contribution to the general church expenses, the dollar money, had been seriously falling behind in this church, and that must be looked after immediately.

For many years a state tax on cities and towns was paid by the several municipalities to the state from the proceeds of the general property tax.

The wording of the question was quite general and may have been subject to different interpretations.

On this point there was fairly general agreement that assessors would like to do more than they are doing now.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

Of majestic build, rubicund and slash-mouthed, he resembled the late General Winfield Scott, who was said to be the most imposing general of his century, if not of all centuries.

But the warm joy of her brown eyes was open to the general public.

This patient was a 65-year-old white male accountant who entered the New York Hospital for his fourth and terminal admission on June 26, 1959, because of disabling weakness and general debility.

He found, as he had suspected, a general consensus that perhaps over half of the present functionally designed course was not really functional for these students.

The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.

As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.

Fifty years ago the general raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen was an example of this movement.

The general intellectual outlook which had appeared in the eleventh century was now consolidated to a significant degree.

If it failed on occasion to elect its candidates for general state offices by majorities, the failure was due to a lingering remnant of the Know-Nothing party, which called itself the American Republican party.