He had no idea how much time Budd would give him.

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

She had hated the whole idea before they started.

At first it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

The idea had come from Herold, who had once been a chemist's clerk.

He had no idea where Seward's room would be.

He had no idea where he was.

Their names had not come up in any discussions with Laura, and he had no idea what they would be like.

He realized that he had no idea where the telephone was.

Kate had no idea what they were talking of, although she had seen the blue lights and strange fires burning and winking on the ridges at night, had heard horsemen on the River Road and hill trails through the nights till dawn.

Rector had no idea why Kayabashi wanted to visit the mission.

I had no idea of what subjects one discussed when alone with a girl, or how one behaved: Should I hold her hand while walking or only when crossing the street??

He also bought a huge square of pegboard for hanging up his tools, and lumber for his workbench, sandpaper and glue and assorted nails, levels and T squares and plumb lines and several gadgets that he had no idea how to use or what they were for.

Instructions to relax, i.e., to be `` spontaneous '', and react immediately to whatever impulse they might have, was not sufficiently reassuring until some idea of the possibilities of normal reactions had been given.

By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.

) By its greater corporeal presence and its greater extraneousness, the affixed paper or cloth serves for a seeming moment to push everything else into a more vivid idea of depth than the simulated printing or simulated textures had ever done.

For weeks he had been saying that Hudson's idea of sailing through to Java was absurd.

The pamphlets are about law, the corporation, forms of government, the idea of freedom, the defense of liberty, the various lethargies which overtake our major institutions, the gap between traditional social ideals and the working mechanisms that have been set in motion for their realization.

Outstanding among these is the idea of human nature itself, including the many definitions that have been advanced over the centuries ; ;

Again, he may discover embodied within its texture a theme or idea that has been presented elsewhere and at other times in various ways.

For many nights afterward, the idea of her having been so close to me in that imagined bed would return and fill me with obscure and painful desires, would cause me to lie awake in shame, tossing with irresolution, longing to fall into a deep sleep.

This whole development is certain to be of interest to the readers, for the idea has so often been mentioned, somewhat wistfully.

Well, it hadn't been what it seemed, he'd had no idea the girl was in there.

`` Do you have any idea who might have been in charge at the time ''??

He'd had no idea how unhappy his sweet peach had been.

Their strategy was sound enough and, he reasoned, had been defeated only by Philip Spencer's unwillingness to sanction an idea he had not originated.

It is important to note that, while research supports the idea that altruistic acts bring about happiness, it has also been found to work in the opposite direction — that happier people are also kinder.

However, as has been pointed out by Alexis Manaster Ramer and Paul Sidwell ( 1997 ), Strahlenberg actually opposed the idea of a closer relationship between the languages which later became known as " Altaic "..

It has been characterized by Sergei Starostin as " an idea now completely discarded ".

The idea of negative matter appears in past theories of matter that have now been abandoned.

These operations are compounding ( or the addition of one idea onto another, such as a horn on a horse to create a unicorn ); transposing ( or the substitution of one part of a thing with the part from another, such as with the body of a man upon a horse to make a centaur ); augmenting ( as with the case of a giant, whose size has been augmented ); and diminishing ( as with Lilliputians, whose size has been diminished ).

Another problem is that Dutton's categories seek to universalise traditional European notions of aesthetics and art forgetting that, as André Malraux and others have pointed out, there have been large numbers of cultures in which such ideas ( including the idea " art " itself ) were non-existent.

Most significantly has been the idea of Preventive conservation.

One of the guiding principles of conservation has traditionally been the idea of reversibility, that is that all interventions with the object should be fully reversible, and the object should be able to be returned to the state in which it was prior to the conservators intervention.

The idea of merging Aarau with its neighboring suburbs has been recently discussed in the hope of arresting the slowly progressing losses.

The French explored reopening the lagoon and developing a harbor for trade and tourism during the 1970s, but this idea, too, was ultimately abandoned.

Asimov also explored the idea of the cyborg in relation to robots in his short story " Segregationist ", collected in The Complete Robot.

Terry Molloy has reprised his role as Davros in the spin-off audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions, mostly notably Davros ( taking place during the Sixth Doctor's era ), which, through flashbacks, explored the scientist's life prior to his crippling injury, which is attributed to a Thal nuclear attack ( an idea that first appeared in Terrance Dicks ' novelisation of Genesis of the Daleks ).

Scientists such as Beverly Rubik have explored the idea of a human biofield using Kirlian photography research, attempting to explain the Chinese discipline of Qigong.

Approximately a year into her husband's first term, Nancy Reagan explored the idea of ordering new state china service for the White House.

While easy to grasp in principle, this is the hardest idea to understand about general relativity, and its consequences are profound and not fully explored, even at the classical level.

These subsequent writers have further explored the history of the idea, and also outlined how a modern republic should function.

The idea was explored in more detail, with the intention to produce a prototype system, as part of two contemporaneous programs.

In the wake of Snuff, numerous films explored the idea of snuff films, or used them as a plot device.

* Steven Lisberger's 1982 film Tron explored the idea of virtual reality ; transporting real-life characters into an alternate, computer-generated world.

The idea is well explored in Sabine Baring-Gould's work The Book of Werewolves.

The equivalence principle, explored by a succession of researchers including Galileo, Loránd Eötvös, and Einstein, expresses the idea that all objects fall in the same way.

The idea of internalised unconscious processes in the mind was also instigated in antiquity and has been explored across a wide variety of cultures.

Arising from the dominant discourse of the Jewish suffering during the years of Nazi domination, and building on the divergence of differential victimhoods brought to light by studies of the Roma and the mentally ill, who suffered massively under the eugenics programs of the Third Reich, the idea of a “ Gay Holocaust ” was first explored in the early 1970s.

Carlos Ginzburg has explored fractal art and developed a concept called " homo fractalus " which is based around the idea that the human is the ultimate fractal.

Symbols must be explored for their personal significance to the patient, instead of having the dream conform to some predetermined idea.

In this essay, he explored the idea that the progress of culture is associated with the deletion of ornament from everyday objects, and that it was therefore a crime to force craftsmen or builders to waste their time on ornamentation that served to hasten the time when an object would become obsolete.

The essential idea was first explored by Edward S. Morse and patented by him in 1881.

This idea, and a detailed examination of the underlying processes, was first extensively explored by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in their work Metaphors We Live By.

The little grey / green man's burden idea was commonly explored by Harry Turtledove's Worldwar and Colonization series.

In 1883, James Lorimer published " The Institutes of the Law of Nations " in which he explored the idea of a world government establishing the global rule of law.

Another concept explored in science fiction is the idea of more than one running " copy " of a human mind existing at once.

The initial concept behind CalArts ' interdisciplinary approach came from Richard Wagner's idea of Gesamtkunstwerk (" total artwork "), which Disney himself was fond of and explored in a variety of forms, beginning with his own studio, then later in the incorporation of CalArts.

If one accepts the validity of the idea of social reality, scientifically, it must be amenable to measurement, something which has been explored particularly in relation to trust.

This would be further explored in the film version of The Lawnmower Man, and the idea reversed in Virtuosity as computer programs sought to become real persons.