Adolescents have a much-discussed tendency to polarize ideas and values, to perceive things as `` either-or '', black or white -- nuances of meaning are relatively unimportant.

Originally a neutral term, since the mid-1960s it has acquired a somewhat derogatory meaning, implying a paranoid tendency to see the influence of some malign covert agency in events.

This etymology was furthered in the Chinese by the tendency of some Chinese translators, notably Kumarajiva, to use the variant Guānshìyīn, literally " he who perceives the world's lamentations " -- wherein lok was read as simultaneously meaning both " to look " and " world " ( Skt.

When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.

The Roman playwright Plautus is famous for his tendency to make up and change the meaning of words to create puns in Latin.

The analogue of fitness for a quasispecies is the tendency of nearby relatives within the cloud to be well-connected, meaning that more of the mutant descendants will be viable and give rise to further descendants within the cloud.

" Electromotance ", meaning ( literally ) tendency to move ("- motance ") electrical charge, is semantically more accurate, but not widely adopted.

For him, Alvy " is the victim of a tendency toward overdetermination of meaning -- or in modernist terms ' the tyranny of the signified ' -- and his involvement with Annie can be viewed as an attempt to establish a spontaneous, intellectually unencumbered relationship, an attempt which is doomed to failure.

On a linguistic level, these cases also exemplify an extensively documented tendency, in many languages, towards conservatism and economy in neologization, with some languages historically only allowing for the expansion of meaning within already existing word-forms.

The 11th point ( on either side ) is often called le case d ' écolier, or ' schoolboy's point ' ( case meaning ' square ', literally ) after the tendency of inexperienced players to rush to this point too soon in the game.

Since the fertile soil of the Nile was so black that the word for black ( Khem ) became the Egyptian word for Egypt, and bulls in this region had a tendency to black colouring, the bull selected to be the Mnevis was traditionally completely black, thus being referred to as Kemwer, meaning great black ( one ).

Another scribal tendency is called homoioteleuton, meaning " same endings ".

Sullivan had a tendency to write scripts that were too long, meaning pages of material had to be cut.

comes from the verb bokeru ( 惚ける or 呆ける ) which carries the meaning of " senility " or " air headed-ness " and is reflected in the boke < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s tendency for misinterpretation and forgetfulness.

The piece has a relatively simple large-scale dynamic shape: the outer movements are written for large ensembles, the second and fourth movements for smaller groups, and the third movement is for a group of just ten instrumentalists and the soprano, meaning the overall tendency is that the piece starts and ends loudly, becoming quieter in the middle.

In philosophy, " the Absurd " refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any.

Science fiction critic Thomas Wagner underscores the desire for meaning, or pattern recognition, using a comparison between the film clips and Cayce's search for her father after the attacks: he very randomness and ineffability of the clips flies in the face of our natural human tendency towards pattern recognition ... he subculture that surrounds " following the footage " ... an effective plot device for underscoring the novel's post-9 / 11 themes: to wit, the uncertainty of the fabric of day-to-day life people began to feel following that event … as people don't like uncertainty, don't like knowing that there's something we can't comprehend.

While these musicians may not sound similar to earlier cool artists, they share the same values: " clarity of expression ; subtlety of meaning ; a willingness to depart from the standard rhythms of hot jazz and learn from other genres of music ; a preference for emotion rather than mere emoting ; progressive ambitions and a tendency to experiment ; above all, a dislike for bombast.

The name ' Lupin ' derives from the Latin word lupinus ( meaning wolf ), and was given with regard to the fact that many found that the plant has a tendency to ravage the land on which it grows.

In informal discussions the distinction is seldom important, and tendency is towards the broader second meaning.

In reference to the harsh criticism, Sanders said that Peters had " brought this upon herself " and acknowledged that " patient researchers have found numerous examples of sloppiness in her scholarship and an occasional tendency not to grasp the correct meaning of a context from which she has extracted a quotation.

The tendency to indicate semantic meaning using methods that are purely presentational ( e. g. larger or smaller font sizes, using different font colors, or images or multimedia to provide information ) restricts meaningful access to some users.

In any event, logical empiricism, with its emphasis on scientific models of knowledge and on the logical analysis of meaning, soon emerged as a, and perhaps the, dominant tendency in American philosophy.

Džamonja's work shows a tendency towards technical and formative experiments, reducing form to the dynamic and intense shapes of symbolical meaning.

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.