Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

Art may have been for him the most enduring, orderly, and noble activity of man.

Still, if the courage of Agathocles in entering into and extricating himself from dangers be considered, together with his greatness of mind in enduring overcoming hardships, it cannot be seen why he should be esteemed less than the most notable captain.

In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film.

The most valuable American comics have combined rarity and quality with the first appearances of popular and enduring characters.

Similarly, in the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, the so-called święconka, i. e. blessing of decorative baskets with a sampling of Easter eggs and other symbolic foods, is one of the most enduring and beloved Polish traditions on Holy Saturday.

The Britannica was primarily a Scottish enterprise ; it is one of the most enduring legacies of the Scottish Enlightenment.

This is one of the most enduring titles, Caesar and its transliterations appeared in every year from the time of Caesar Augustus to Tsar Symeon II of Bulgaria's removal from the throne in 1946.

Perhaps Piaget's most enduring contribution is his insight that people actively construct their understanding through a self-regulatory process.

The fable is one of the most enduring forms of folk literature, spread abroad, modern researchers agree, less by literary anthologies than by oral transmission.

Britain's canal network, together with its surviving mill buildings, is one of the most enduring features of the early Industrial Revolution to be seen in Britain.

Since its inception in 1857, the City Market has been one of the largest and most enduring public farmers ' markets in the midwest, linking growers and small businesses to the Kansas City community.

Rolling Stone magazine described them as " the heaviest band of all time ", " the biggest band of the ' 70s " and " unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history ".

Rock critic Mikal Gilmore said, " Led Zeppelin — talented, complex, grasping, beautiful and dangerous — made one of the most enduring bodies of composition and performance in twentieth-century music, despite everything they had to overpower, including themselves ".

The Middle Ages is one of the three major periods in the most enduring scheme for analyzing European history: classical civilization, or Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the modern period.

In 1944, one of the city's most enduring cultural hubs was inaugurated, Malmö Stadsteater ( Malmö Municipal Theatre ) with a repertory embracing both stage theatre, opera, musical, ballet, musical recitals and theatrical experiments.

His critical study of the bureaucratisation of society became one of the most enduring parts of his work.

Perhaps the most enduring legacy of Mitchell's Gone with the Wind is that people worldwide would think it was the " true story " of the Old South and how it was changed by the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

The papacy is one of the most enduring institutions in the world and has had a prominent part in human history.

His first regular television spot was on Granada Television's Braden Beat with Bernard Braden, where he featured his most enduring character: the static, dour and monotonal E. L. Wisty, whom Cook had conceived for Radley College's Marionette Society.

It was while wearing this uniform style and color motif that the club achieved its most enduring success, including a World Series title in 1980 and another World Series appearance in 1983.

His longest and most enduring work is the story of his life, the Commentaries, which is the only autobiography ever written by a reigning Pope.

One of Descartes ' most enduring legacies was his development of Cartesian or analytic geometry, which uses algebra to describe geometry.

Among the key themes of Romanticism, and its most enduring legacy, the cultural assertions of romantic nationalism have also been central in post-Enlightenment art and political philosophy.

Screwball comedy has proven to be one of the most popular and enduring film genres.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

Proponents of single elements tend to ensure predominance of that element without determining if it is justified, and the element with the most enthusiastic and vociferous proponents has assumed the greatest importance.

The most positive element to emerge from the Oslo meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Foreign Ministers has been the freer, franker, and wider discussions, animated by much better mutual understanding than in past meetings.

The satirical element of the pamphlet is often only understood after the reader notes the allusions made by Swift to the attitudes of landlords, such as the following: " I grant this food may be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for Landlords, who as they have already devoured most of the Parents, seem to have the best Title to the Children.

This is not the most general situation of a Cartesian product of a family of sets, where a same set can occur more than once as a factor ; however, one can focus on elements of such a product that select the same element every time a given set appears as factor, and such elements correspond to an element of the Cartesian product of all distinct sets in the family.

As the criminal law evolved, element one was weakened in most jurisdictions so that a reasonable fear of bodily injury would suffice.

For example, if the sorted list to which we apply binary search has n elements, and we can guarantee that each lookup of an element in the list can be done in unit time, then at most log < sub > 2 </ sub > n + 1 time units are needed to return an answer.

Scarlatti's style, however, is more than a transitional element in Western music ; like most of his Naples colleagues he shows an almost modern understanding of the psychology of modulation and also frequently makes use of the ever-changing phrase lengths so typical of the Napoli school.

It is a synthetic element whose most stable known isotope, < sup > 270 </ sup > Bh, has a half-life of 61 seconds.

While most prophets had heroic names ( e. g., Isaiah means " God has saved "), Jonah's name carries with it an element of passivity.

During conjugation the donor cell provides a conjugative or mobilizable genetic element that is most often a plasmid or transposon.

However, iron is the most abundant element ( by mass ) making up the Earth, and oxygen is the most common element in the Earth's crust.

While most elements are generally viewed as stable, a small amount of natural transformation of one element to another also occurs in the present time, through decay of radioactive elements as well as other natural nuclear processes.

Two thirds of the chemical elements occur on Earth only as compounds, and in the remaining third, often the compound forms of the element are most common.

The standard state, or reference state, of an element is defined as its thermodynamically most stable state at 1 bar at a given temperature ( typically at 298. 15 K ).

Iron-56 is particularly common, since it is the most stable element that can easily be made from alpha particles ( being a product of decay of radioactive nickel-56, ultimately made from 14 helium nuclei ).

It is the second most abundant halogen and 21st most abundant chemical element in Earth's crust.

Chromium is the 24th most abundant element in Earth's crust with an average concentration of 100 ppm.

Caesium is the most electropositive stable chemical element.