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The meaning of Chigurh's coin-flipping is left ambiguous ( in both the book and the film ), and has led to considerable discussion: commentators suggest, for example, that Chigurh views himself as simply following the will of the universe, or is " merely cruel ," or that it is an inevitable outgrowth of his ( perceived ) atheism or that Chigurh is in fact a stand-in for fate, or alternatively that his adherence to chance is a way for him to deny responsibility for his actions or to displace that responsibility onto his victims.
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Hemingway's fiction is supported by a `` moral '' backbone and in its search for ultimate meaning hints at a religious dimension.
The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.
This, no doubt, is part of what Gilbert Seldes implies when he says of the arts, `` They give form and meaning to life which might otherwise seem shapeless and without sense ''.
Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.
One of them is that it gives meaning and purpose to life.
The religious quest is often intense and deep, and there are students on every campus who are seriously wrestling with the most profound questions of meaning and value.
This is not to assume that his work was without merit, but the validity of his assumptions concerning the meaning of history must always be considered against this background of an unprofessional approach.
One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.
Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.
Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.
For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.
and where it is not, it is left with no residue, and the social meaning of this is enormous.
This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).
And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today, `` Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ''.
The meaning of this variation in distribution of the bronchial artery as found in the horse is not clear.
There is also the possibility, among higher religions, of experiencing consistent meaning in life and enjoying guidance and expansiveness.
in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.
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It is known in Yoruba as efo tete or arowo jeja ( meaning " we have money left over for fish ").
The transition to the meaning " shield " may have come by folk-etymology among a people familiar with draping an animal skin over the left arm as a shield.
Except for a few primitive types such as sponges ( which have no nervous system ) and jellyfish ( which have a nervous system consisting of a diffuse nerve net ), all living animals are bilaterians, meaning animals with a bilaterally symmetric body shape ( that is, left and right sides that are approximate mirror images of each other ).
The literal translation of Benjamin is son of right ( as opposed to left ), generally interpreted as meaning son of my right hand, though sometimes interpreted as son of the right side.
The first moment is seen to vanish, meaning that the Brownian particle is equally likely to move to the left as it is to move to the right.
Bliss found especially useful their " triangle of reference ": the physical thing or " referent " that we perceive would be represented at the right angle ; the meaning that we know by experience ( our implicit definition of the thing ), at the top angle ; and the physical word that we speak or write, at the left angle.
A more moderate position such as J. L. Mackie's error theory suggests that false beliefs should be stripped away from a mental concept without eliminating the concept itself, the legitimate core meaning being left intact.
During a taping of Mason's monologue Sullivan, off camera, gestured that Mason should wrap things up by giving him two fingers, meaning " two minutes left ", as the show was suddenly shown live following an abbreviated address by President Lyndon Johnson, which was expected to preempt the entire show.
Tefillin ( Hebrew: ת ְ פ ִ ל ִּ ין ), known in English as phylacteries ( from the Greek word φυλακτήριον, meaning safeguard or amulet ), are two square leather boxes containing biblical verses, attached to the forehead and wound around the left arm by leather straps.
Since definitions of left and right based on the geometry of the natural environment are unwieldy, in practice, the meaning of relative direction words is conveyed through tradition, acculturation, education, and direct reference.
In the primary logo, designed by sports cartoonist Ray Gatto, each part of the skyline has special meaning — at the left is a church spire, symbolic of Brooklyn, the borough of churches ; the second building from the left is the Williamsburg Savings Bank, the tallest building in Brooklyn ; next is the Woolworth Building ; after a general skyline view of midtown comes the Empire State Building ; at the far right is the United Nations Building.
* Oculus sinister, meaning " left eye " in eyeglass prescriptions
The meaning of left-wing and right-wing varies considerably between different countries and at different times, but generally speaking, it can be said that the right wing often values tradition and social stratification while the left wing often values reform and egalitarianism, with the center seeking a balance between the two such as with social democracy or regulated capitalism.
It says, " Learn till old, live till old, and there is still one-third not learned ," meaning that no matter how old you are, there is still more learning or studying left to do.
Note that because the meaning of binary messages is not hardwired into Smalltalk-80 syntax, all of them are considered to have equal precedence and are evaluated simply from left to right.
Heracles succeeded in freeing only Theseus, and left behind his buttocks attached to the rocks-from which Theseus came to be called hypolispos, meaning " with hinder parts rubbed smooth.
* 1492: The death of Sunni Ali Ber left a leadership void in the Songhai Empire, and his son was soon dethroned by Mamadou Toure who ascended the throne in 1492 under the name Askia ( meaning " general ") Muhammad.
Standard traffic patterns are left-handed, meaning all turns are made to the left.
They were beaten by Liverpool in the FA Cup while the title challenge was ended with a few games left after a bust-up between Docherty and several of his first-team players – though not Bonetti – meaning that a much-weakened team was fielded in a key match against Burnley, in which Bonetti conceded six goals.
This is probably because Edgar had given up his English properties when he left for Italy, not meaning to return.
It was held in R v Dawson and James ( 1978 ) that " force " is an ordinary English word and its meaning should be left to the jury.
Like, is left invariant by, and on this set the iteration is repelling, meaning that for all w in a neighbourhood of z ( within ).
Opus Dei retained some of the original song's English lyrics, but was delivered in a musical style that left the meaning of the lyrics open to further interpretation.
meaning and ambiguous
The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).
The actual use of diacritics for Filipino, however, is rare, and is meant only to distinguish between homonyms with different stresses and meanings that either occur near each other in a text or to aid the reader in ascertaining its otherwise ambiguous meaning.
The meaning of " free market " has varied over time and between economists, the ambiguous term " free " facilitating a diversity of uses.
Ostdeutschland ( an ambiguous term meaning simultaneously East or Eastern Germany ) was not commonly used in East or West German common parlance to refer to the German Democratic Republic, because Ostdeutschland usually referred to the former eastern territories of Germany.
A minority still stubbornly use the term in both original senses despite the controversy, leaving context to clarify ( or leave ambiguous ) which meaning is intended.
He argued that in Berkeley's case the fallacy is not obvious and this is because one premise is ambiguous between one meaning which is tautological and another which, Stove argues, is logically equivalent to the conclusion.
Even though this sentence may be somewhat ambiguous to some laypersons, who can, and who have actually interpreted it as meaning that they will not get a lawyer until they confess and are arraigned in court, the U. S. Supreme Court has approved of it as an accurate description of the procedure in those states.
Thus, the algorithm matched locally unambiguous meanings ( for instance, while the word seal as such is ambiguous, there is only one meaning of " seal " in the animal subhierarchy ).
The words are too ambiguous to make an exact determination of Pytheas ' meaning, whether diurnal or spring and neap tides are meant, or whether full and new moons or the half-cycles in which they occur.
The words protein, polypeptide, and peptide are a little ambiguous and can overlap in meaning.
Pedobaptists point out that the passage is ambiguous enough to interpret that a person becomes a disciple directly through baptism, meaning children could be baptized.
In French the word flûte is similarly ambiguous ( the French translation is " flûte à bec ", literally " beaked flute "), and it is also called flauta de pico in Spanish, meaning the same.
Critical translations of the Old Testament, while using the Masoretic Text as their basis, consult the Septuagint as well as other versions in an attempt to reconstruct the meaning of the Hebrew text whenever the latter is unclear, undeniably corrupt, or ambiguous .. For example, the Jerusalem Bible Foreword says, "... only when this ( the Masoretic Text ) presents insuperable difficulties have emendations or other versions, such as the ... LXX, been used.
Originally co-creator Sam Rolfe wanted to leave the meaning of UNCLE ambiguous so it could be viewed as either referring to " Uncle Sam " or the United Nations.
In statutory interpretation, it refers to the problem of giving meaning to groups of words where one of the words is ambiguous or inherently unclear.
In this line of thinking, the words curelom and cumom were transliterated instead of translated, meaning that while the ancient word is roughly transmitted, the actual animal intended is ambiguous.
The name amphibole ( Greek αμφιβολος-amphibolos meaning ' ambiguous ') was used by René Just Haüy to include tremolite, actinolite, tourmaline and hornblende.
The expression survives, with an increasingly ambiguous meaning.
After Caul has worked his magic on merging and filtering different tapes, the final result is a sound recording in which the words themselves become crystal clear, but their actual meaning remains ambiguous.
* a third linguistic work on words of ambiguous or uncertain meaning, comprising at least seven books
Obfuscation ( or beclouding ) is the hiding of intended meaning in communication, making communication confusing, wilfully ambiguous, and harder to interpret.
Another possible meaning is the ambiguous northern use, which refers ironically to small-time troublemakers, usually young, as " likely ", either as an ironic comment on the above sense or as an expression of the sentiment that they are likely to be the cause of any trouble.
She also tells him that there is a way for him to " survive ", but her meaning is ambiguous.
Many groups have translation checkers to reduce the chances of letting translation errors slip through, and / or to give an alternative wording / meaning of a certain line to aid in editing an ambiguous translation.
Usually, only those words with a specialized or ambiguous meaning are printed in hanja.
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