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.

The most obvious of these is the quadratic complex of tangents to Q, each line of which is transformed into the entire pencil of lines tangent to Q at the image of the point of tangency of the given line.

Most others have been content to give only the most general attention to the broadest and most obvious features of the phonology when designing orthographies.

First, and most obvious, was the growing nationalism and the tendency to regard the state, and the individual's identification with the state, as transcending other ties of social solidarity.

( Pp. 228-229 ) in any event, it is obvious that the anti-trust laws did not prevent the formation of some of the greatest financial empires the world has ever known, held together by some of the most fantastic ideas, all based on the fundamental notion that a corporation is an individual who can trade and exchange goods without control by the government ''.

On the final round at Pensacola, the luck of the draw paired Palmer and Player in the same threesome and, although it was far from obvious at the time, the gallery was treated to the first chapter of what promises to be one of the most exciting duels in sport for a long time to come.

This was most obvious in the ' Culture and Personality ' studies carried out by younger Boasians such as Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict.

The application of acoustics can be seen in almost all aspects of modern society with the most obvious being the audio and noise control industries.

The most obvious regional difference is in local signs.

The most obvious ones are their width and flow speed.

It is now appreciated that most or all gene loci are highly polymorphic, with multiple alleles, whose frequencies vary from population to population, and that a great deal of genetic variation is hidden in the form of alleles that do not produce obvious phenotypic differences.

While the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran deeper.

The most obvious detriment concerning abiotic stress involves farming.

One of the most obvious differences was the 5200's lack of a keyboard.

The most obvious difference between the brains of mammals and other vertebrates is in terms of size.

However, while increases in crop yield are the most obvious applications of modern biotechnology in agriculture, it is also the most difficult one.

By far the most visible and obvious power of many modern central banks is to influence market interest rates ; contrary to popular belief, they rarely " set " rates to a fixed number.

The most obvious uses are to view the actors from above or to move up and away from them, a common way of ending a movie.

One of the most obvious applications of catalysis is the hydrogenation ( reaction with hydrogen gas ) of fats using nickel catalyst to produce margarine.

The most obvious example is blackmail, where the threat consists of the dissemination of damaging information.

The most obvious commonality to civil wars are that they occur in fragile states.

The most obvious criticism is the near identical nature of " political tutelage " and " constitutional democracy " which consisted of one party rule until the 1990s.

In this role of father confessor, he has always been most characteristic and most helpful.

It is no coincidence that the hebephrenic patient, the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients, shows, as one of his characteristic symptoms, laughter -- laughter which now makes one feel scorned or hated, which now makes one feel like weeping, or which now gives one a glimpse of the bleak and empty expanse of man's despair ; ;

`` Neutral Tones '' we immediately recognize as a fine poem in Hardy's most characteristic style: the plain but not quite colloquial language, the hard, particular, colorless images, the slightly odd stanza-form, the dramatic handling of the occasion, the refusal to resolve the issue -- all these we have seen in Hardy's best poems.

Dartmouth's favorite and most characteristic recreation is skiing.

In the savannas the most characteristic trees are the monkey bread tree or baobab ( Adanisonia digitata ), doum palm ( Hyphaene ) and euphorbias.

Among the birds most characteristic of Africa are the ostrich and the secretary-bird.

The northern and western sides consist of stony but fertile plains, which are well cultivated and produce luxuriant crops of grain, with some cotton, vines, almonds, olives and figs, but the most characteristic crop of Aegina today ( 2000s ) is pistachio.

This is most likely a secondary evolved characteristic which means there is not necessarily a connection between the teeth and the original dermal scales.

He worked for other managers and produced during his stay in that city some of his most characteristic works.

The Egyptians, Persians and other civilizations mostly used columns for the practical purpose of holding up the roof inside a building, preferring outside walls to be decorated with reliefs or painting, but the Ancient Greeks, followed by the Romans, loved to use them on the outside as well, and the extensive use of columns on the interior and exterior of buildings is one of the most characteristic features of classical architecture, in buildings like the Parthenon.

A classical order is one of the ancient styles of classical architecture, each distinguished by its proportions and characteristic profiles and details, and most readily recognizable by the type of column employed.

Upham shows a balanced and complicated view of Cotton Mather such as this first mention: " One of Cotton Mather's most characteristic productions is the tribute to his venerated master.

A notable characteristic of Linebarger's science fiction is that most of his stories are set in the same universe, with a unified chronology.

A quasithin group is one whose 2-local subgroups have p-rank at most 2 for all odd primes p, and the problem is to classify the simple ones of characteristic 2 type.

A distinguishing feature of most Compactrons is the placement of the evacuation tip on the bottom end, rather than the top end as was customary with " miniature " tubes, and a characteristic 3 / 4 " diameter circle pin pattern.

Greuze's most characteristic pictures were the rendering in colour of the same sentiments of domestic virtue and the pathos of common life, which Diderot had attempted to represent upon the stage.

* In the plane ( d = 2 ), if there are b vertices on the convex hull, then any triangulation of the points has at most 2n − 2 − b triangles, plus one exterior face ( see Euler characteristic ).

But the most noticeable of his productions is A Discourse of Wit ( 1685 ), which contains some of the most characteristic metaphysical opinions of the Scottish philosophy of common sense.

* Single-ended output stages ( be they tube or transistor ) have an asymmetrical transfer function, meaning that even order harmonics in the created distortion tend not to be canceled ( as they are in push – pull output stages ); by using tubes OR FETs most of the distortion is from the square law transfer characteristic and so second-order, which some consider to be " warmer " and more pleasant.

While a truly characteristic euphonium sound is rather hard to define precisely, most players would agree that an ideal sound is dark, rich, warm, and velvety, with virtually no hardness to it.

Researchers found that positive belief in faith healing was mainly a characteristic of conservative Christians, most especially those with charismatic experience.

The most characteristic and ancient element of Greek cuisine is olive oil, which is frequently used in most dishes.