Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to the stage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.

" Piety, that it may become truth and reality, demands morality as its fulfilment, as the only concrete element in which the idea of fellowship with God is realized ; morality, that it may find its perfect unfolding, requires the aid of piety, in the light of which alone it can comprehend its own idea in all its breadth and depth.

It does not define the essence of piety, what piety is in itself ; it does not give the idea of piety, so it cannot be a universal definition of ' piety.

While Safran's definitions were influenced by the idea of the Jewish diaspora, he recognised the expanding use of the term.

The use of tabernacle terminology in Hebrews has been used to date the epistle before the destruction of the temple, the idea being that knowing about the destruction of both Jerusalem and the temple would have influenced the development of the author's overall argument to include such evidence.

Stafford was greatly influenced by the ideas on mythology of Joseph Campbell, and echoes of Campbell's work are to be found in many aspects of Glorantha ; for instance the story of the " God Learners " can be seen as an exercise on the implications of Campbell's idea of a unifying monomyth, and the story of Prince Argrath an exploration of Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

These plays, influenced by the fairy work of James Planché, are founded upon the idea of self-revelation by characters under the influence of some magic or some supernatural interference.

Some modern scholars have suggested that Manichaean ways of thinking influenced the development of some of Augustine's ideas, such as the nature of good and evil, the idea of hell, the separation of groups into elect, hearers, and sinners, and the hostility to the flesh and sexual activity.

This idea directly influenced computer pioneers J. C. R.

Postmodern novelist Thomas Pynchon, who was also influenced by Beat fiction, experimented since the 1960s with the surrealist idea of startling juxtapositions ; commenting on the " necessity of managing this procedure with some degree of care and skill ", he added that " any old combination of details will not do.

For the Dutch geographer Christiaan van Paassen, the world consisted of socio-spatial entities of different scales formed by what he referred to as a " syn-ecological complex ", an idea influenced by existentialism.

The two major Chinese philosophical schools discussed below, Confucianism and Legalism, strongly influenced the idea of law in China.

* Synchronicity as a mode of relationship that is not causal, an idea that has influenced Wolfgang Pauli ( with whom he developed the notion of unus mundus in connection with the notion of non-locality ) and some other physicists.

These plays, influenced by the fairy work of James Planché, are founded upon the idea of self-revelation by characters under the influence of some magic or some supernatural interference.

It is not known whether the Italian inventor was influenced by the earlier design, but he may have learnt about the idea through the intensive oral communication among artist-engineers of the time.

The idea that highway design could be influenced by acoustical engineering considerations first arose about 1973.

* Gay men and lesbians are significantly more likely to be left-handed or ambidextrous than non-gay men and women ; Simon LeVay argues that because " and preference is observable before birth ... he observation of increased non-right-handness in gay people is therefore consistent with the idea that sexual orientation is influenced by prenatal processes ," perhaps heredity.

The idea that behavior is learned by observing others has influenced debates on the effect of television violence and parental role models.

They used this new form of expression, influenced by American hip hop, to explore and deal with the idea of being " strangers " or " foreigners " even when they had been born German.

" As Wagner here implies, Berlioz himself was indifferent to the idea of what was called " la musique du passé " ( music of the past ), and clearly influenced both Liszt and Wagner ( and other forward-looking composers ) although he increasingly began to dislike many of their works.

In particular, de Saussure, who lectured on Sanskrit for three decades, may have been influenced by and Bhartrihari ; his idea of the unity of signifier-signified in the sign is somewhat similar to the notion of Sphoṭa.

Instead of taking on the classical criticism of art that involved knowledge of color, composition and line, Gautier was strongly influenced by Denis Diderot's idea that the critic should have the ability to describe the art so as the reader can " see " the art through his description.

This is the idea that certain things are true only in certain times and places ( a view influenced by pragmatism ) however, this does not make them less true.

Particularly, he influenced her idea of equality, distinguished from universality: " the whole field of the canvas is important " ( p. 8 ).

These novels influenced his writing style and his idea of writing.

The " American journalist " who had the idea that influenced the director was Otis C. Guernsey, a respected reporter who was inspired by a true story during World War II when a couple of British secretaries created a fictitious agent and watched as the Germans wasted time following him around.

Shuster's idea was probably influenced by Mexican cartonería ( papier-mâché sculpture ), especially the effigies exploded during the burning of Judas that takes place on Holy Saturday or New Year's Eve, as a way of ridding oneself or one's community of evil.

but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East -- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities -- recognized only four??

To make a Turing machine that speaks Chinese, Searle gets in a room stocked with algorithms programmed to respond to Chinese questions, i. e., Turing machines, programmed to correctly answer in Chinese questions asked in Chinese, and he finds he's able to process the inputs to outputs perfectly without having any understanding of Chinese, nor having any idea what the questions and answers could possibly mean.

This idea may be traced back to early Chinese shamanistic beliefs, such as the king being the axle between the sky, human beings, and the Earth.

The Confucian idea of " Rid of the two ends, take the middle " is a Chinese equivalent of Hegel's idea of " thesis, antithesis, and synthesis ", which is a way of reconciling opposites, arriving at some middle ground combining the best of both.

Chinese astronomers, many of them brilliant men by any standards, continued to think in flat-earth terms until the seventeenth century ; this surprising fact might be the starting-point for a re-examination of the apparent facility with which the idea of a spherical earth found acceptance in fifth-century B. C.

Greek thalassocracy was receptive to the idea, unlike the Chinese, whose cosmology was firmly land-based.

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.

Voltaire and François Quesnay wrote favourably of the idea, with Voltaire claiming that the Chinese had " perfected moral science " and Quesnay advocating an economic and political system modeled after that of the Chinese.

In China, the claim that Mao had " adapted Marxism – Leninism to Chinese conditions " evolved into the idea that he had updated it in a fundamental way applying to the world as a whole ; consequently, the term " Marxism – Leninism – Mao Zedong Thought " ( commonly known as Maoism ) was increasingly used to describe the official Chinese state ideology as well as the ideological basis of parties around the world who sympathized with the Communist Party of China ( such as the Communist Party of the Philippines, Marxist – Leninist / Mao Zedong Thought, founded by Jose Maria Sison in 1968 ).

When the government official Dan Song proposed the Chinese calendar should be reformed in 123 to adopt certain apocryphal teachings, Zhang opposed the idea.

After the Cultural Revolution devastated the ranks of intellectuals and legal professionals, it took until 1982 for the idea of individual rights to reemerge as a significant influence on Chinese law.

The tradition of tracing Chinese political history from heroic early emperors to the Xia to succeeding dynasties comes from the idea of the Mandate of Heaven, in which only one legitimate dynasty can exist at any given time, and was promoted by the Confucian school in the Eastern Zhou period, later becoming the basic position of imperial historiography and ideology.

Adoption of the new alphabet was stifled by the inertia of Korea's cultural elite, who were "... appalled at the idea of losing Chinese, the badge of their elitism.

Guanxi describes the basic dynamic in personalized networks of influence, and is a central idea in Chinese society.

The idea of Chinese reunification is controversial, as is the term " reunification " itself, with varying and sometimes conflicting definitions.

In the case of Chinese, the vast majority of characters are a fixed combination of a radical that indicates its semantic category, plus a phonetic to give an idea of the pronunciation.