As symptomatic of the common man's malaise, he is most significant: a liberal and a Catholic, elected by the skin of his teeth.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Bridges, tunnels and ferries are the most common methods of river crossings.

Certain pianistic traits are common to all five Schnabelian renditions, most notably the `` Schnabel trill '' ( which differs from the conventional trill in that the two notes are struck simultaneously ).

The common ultimate values, ends and goals fostered by religion are a most important factor.

There is a common problem behind most of these federal question and diversity cases.

The basic mystery of dreams, which embraces all the others and challenges us from even the most common typical dream, is in the fact that they are original, visual continuities.

One of the most common of camp maladies was diarrhoea.

the most common type of letter was that of soldier husbands to their wives.

The most common reference to `` wet stock '' was with the meanin' that such animals had been smuggled across the Rio Grande after bein' stolen from their rightful owners.

Today, as Harrison's Principles Of Internal Medicine, a standard internist's text, puts it, `` The most common form of malnutrition is caloric excess or obesity ''.

The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although there are other methods.

Apollo's most common attributes were the bow and arrow.

When they tried to depict the most abiding qualities of men, it was because men had common roots with the unchanging gods.

The two most common systems are the classification adopted by the website AmphibiaWeb, University of California ( Berkeley ) and the classification by herpetologist Darrel Frost and the American Museum of Natural History, available as the online reference database Amphibian Species of the World.

The suborder Neobatrachia is by far the largest group and includes the remaining families of modern frogs, including most common species.

The analysis of variance has been studied from several approaches, the most common of which uses a linear model that relates the response to the treatments and blocks.

There are dozens of alphabets in use today, the most common being the Latin alphabet ( which was derived from the Greek ).

For most of these scripts, regardless of whether letters or diacritics are used, the most common tone is not marked, just as the most common vowel is not marked in Indic abugidas ; in Zhuyin not only is one of the tones unmarked, but there is a diacritic to indicate lack of tone, like the virama of Indic.

Really, you are most indiscreet to drive him here yourself '', he said, frowning with displeasure.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Now we must become vague, for we are approaching one of the nation's most guarded secrets.

These things are important to almost all Persians and perhaps most important to the most ordinary.

The men crying love poems in an orchard on any summer's night are as often as not the lutihaw, mustachioed toughs who spend most of their lives in and out of the local prisons, brothels, and teahouses.

The most effective political inventions seem to make maximum use of natural harbors and are aware that restraining breakwaters can play only a minor part in the whole scheme.

The most primitive feelings are rudimentary value feelings, both positive and negative: a desire to appropriate this or that part of the environment into oneself ; ;

Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.

they are the most valuable of commodities -- and the most salable, for their demand far exceeds supply.

True, ideas are important, perhaps life's most precious treasures.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.

nor is there need to add that among them are some of the most highly individualized and most successful of his characters.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

By the same test predispositions destructive of human personality exercise their most sinister impact, with the result that men of good will are often trapped and nullified.

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.

In this essay, we are, along with most historians, interested in the more general or more inclusive ideas, that are so to speak `` writ large '' in history of literature where they recur continually.

In a twisted nematic device ( still the most common liquid crystal device ), the surface alignment directions at the two electrodes are perpendicular to each other, and so the molecules arrange themselves in a helical structure, or twist.

One of the most sophisticated tools was a 25 mm diameter twist drill bit, perfect for drilling hole for treenails.

For one example, he expressed this playfulness in what is perhaps his most famous rhyme, a twist on Joyce Kilmer's verse: " I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree ", which drops " billboard " in place of poem and adds, " Indeed, unless the billboards fall / I'll never see a tree at all.

It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs.

Rod twist is minimized by orienting the rod guides along the side of the rod with the most ' give '.

Civilian AR-15 rifles are commonly found with 1 in or 54. 8 calibers for older rifles and 1 in or 41. 1 calibers for most newer rifles, although some are made with 1 in or 32 calibers twist rates, the same as used for the M16 rifle.

The first and traditionally most common method expresses the twist rate in the length required to complete one full projectile revolution in the rifled barrel.

This twist has since been used in the Danish, Norwegian, and American versions, most notably in Survivor: Fiji.

In his review for The New York Observer, Andrew Sarris wrote, " here is the ironic twist in my acceptance of Pearl Harbor-the parts I liked most are the parts before and after the digital destruction of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese carrier planes " and felt that " Pearl Harbor is not so much about World War II as it is about movies about World War II.

In her most recent " death ", the " Aunt May " who died shortly after learning of Peter's secret identity, was, in a widely-derided plot twist, revealed to be a " genetically-altered actress " who impersonated her while May was held captive by villains.

* Bruce Springsteen's 1993 performance included a twist in where most of his set was performed with amplified instruments.

The zoomable sniper rifle was praised as one of the game's most impressive and entertaining features, Edge describing it as a " novel twist " and Jeff Gerstmann of GameSpot noting its ability to alleviate the game's distance fog.

It was a strange twist of fate that saw him spend most of his life as a coal miner in a pit in Chester-le-Street, County Durham.

It is one of Christie's best known and most controversial novels, its innovative twist ending having a significant impact on the genre.

In an odd twist, the original Stellar group was left with most of the corporate power.

Booth's Deringer was unusual in that the rifling twisted counterclockwise ( left-handed twist ), rather than the typical clockwise twist used on most Philadelphia Deringers.

Around the same time, Viacom bought out Spelling Entertainment, incorporating its library into that of Paramount itself ( in a twist of irony, Spelling's holdings contained most of the programming assets once owned by Taft, which, as mentioned before, owned the theme parks and some of the TV stations that were later acquired by Paramount ; additionally, CBS had owned a former Taft station that TVX intended to keep, WFOR-TV-formerly WCIX-in Miami, but would be sold to the network instead in 1988 ).

For the most part, the atlanto-occipital joint allows the skull to move up and down, while the atlanto-axial joint allows the upper neck to twist left and right.

Traditional practices are being given a modern twist, most often for marketing purposes.

" It was an exceptional twist of fate that the most important, most visible church in the colony managed to have the most unconventional of all prominent Puritan ministers in John Cotton.

The most common type of semi-independent suspension is the twist beam.