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The motif of bureaucratic absurdity is further explored in 1994's Closing Time, Heller's sequel to Catch-22.
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It is this subject matter that has brought Mason a large and enthusiastic following among sportsmen, but it is his exceptional performance with this motif that commends him to artists and discerning collectors.
Once he has been identified, however, a new melody is used to accompany his narrative, a bleak motif with barren octaves creating a rather ancient effect:
" This is the iconic motif by which Actaeon is recognized, both in ancient art and in Renaissance and post-Renaissance depictions.
It is an example of the widespread motif of Greek ( or Indo-European more generally ) names expressing " battle-prowess ", in this case the ability to withstand or push back an enemy battle line.
The subject has been popular in art since classical times ; it is one of several Greek myths of a Greek hero's rescue of the intended victim of an archaic sacred marriage, giving rise to the " princess and dragon " motif.
Prayer is a major motif in both the Gospel of Luke and Acts.
* The allene motif is frequently encountered in carbomers.
Inspired by the Black Death, The Dance of Death, an allegory on the universality of death, is a common painting motif in the late medieval period.
This trend is already apparent by the 8-coordination in CsCl, vs the halite motif adopted by the other alkali metal chlorides.
Also called the " caesium chloride structure ", this structural motif is composed of a primitive cubic lattice with a two-atom basis, each with an eightfold coordination ; the chloride atoms lie upon the lattice points at the edges of the cube, while the caesium atoms lie in the holes in the center of the cubes.
One of the potential helmet designs Brown rejected was a striped motif that was similar to the helmets adopted by the team in 1981 and which is still in use to this day ; however, that design featured yellow stripes on a turquoise helmet which were more uniform in width.
The echinus itself is decorated with an egg-and-dart motif.
According to David Leeming, writing in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, the harrowing of hell is an example of the motif of the hero's descent to the underworld, which is common in many mythologies.
The contrasts between the tall, thin, fancy-struck, and idealistic Quixote and the fat, squat, world-weary Panza is a motif echoed ever since the book ’ s publication, and Don Quixote's imaginings are the butt of outrageous and cruel practical jokes in the novel.
The motif is continued in Greek Apollo, and the early Christian narratives about Archangel Michael and Saint George.
Dedham pottery is a cherished class of antiques, characterized by a distinctive crackle glaze, blue-and-white color scheme, and a frequent motif of rabbits and other animals.
In the tradition of Holy Writ, the impossibility of coming face to face with God is a recurring motif, thus the commandment against graven images ( Exodus 20. 4-5 ).
The other motif that appears is Epictetus ' opinion on the judgment of events:
The design of the first Stars and Stripes by Hopkinson had the thirteen stars arranged in a " staggered " pattern technically known as quincuncial because it is based on the repetition of a motif of five units.
The flag is a common motif on decals for car windows, and clothing ornaments such as badges and lapel pins.
This sculpture is typical of the themes and style of this artist, and the most significant example of his " inside / outside " motif.
In most GTPases, the specificity for the base guanine is imparted by the base-recognition motif, which has the consensus sequence KXD.
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In the late 1920s, Heinzer Dehmer suggested Beowulf as contextually based in the folktale type “ The Hand and the Child ,” due to the motif of the “ monstrous arm ”— a motif that distances Grettis saga and Beowulf and further aligns Beowulf with Irish parallelism.
If I have fought for a quarter of a century, most of it alone, to keep this work from serving to uphold the enslavers of Man, to keep it free from some destructive " pitch " or slant, then you certainly can carry that motif a little further.
Taking that motif one step further, the poet equates the vast range of American experience with himself without being egotistical.
Davidson further links the motif of the ship associated with Nehalennia with the Germanic Vanir pair of Freyr and Freyja, as well as the Germanic goddess Nerthus and notes that Nehalennia features some of the same attributes as the Matres.
Michael Estok presses further, highlighting a motif in Lent ’ s aesthetic: " Primarily, however, Lent is an artist of the ‘ negative space ’ of unadorned day-to-day existence.
Konami later released an enhanced version of Salamander in Japan bearing the American title of Life Force which further fleshes out the organic motif.
Within each category, folktale types are further subdivided by motif patterns until individual types are listed.
It leads without further modulation back to the Lyonel's prayer motif, and so the overture ends.
The presence of the Centaur as a motif, a typical element of Greek mythology, floral motifs, and the realistic rendering further reinforce the identification of the soldier as Greek.
motif and explored
This peasant motif will be later explored in the finale, where it is presented more obviously, without the fireworks of the solo layered on top of it, but less convincingly, for the same reason.
Some of the episodes have a less prominent motif, while others explored topics outside any of the main story arcs.
Whilst through the character of Jan Howard and her attempts to go it alone as a businesswoman through establishing her own fashion label, the series explored a standard 1980s melodramatic motif of female emancipation via capitalism cf.
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Establishing this difference is the general motif running through Being and Time.
The Herman Hupfeld song " As Time Goes By " appears as a continuing musical and emotional motif throughout the film.
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The motif of Faust's love for Helen of Troy goes back to the sources of the Faustian legend.
A biting, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of modern life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four thousand French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre.
Now Rangoni comes to the point, and we hear, for the first time, a long, downward chromatic scale that will become the characteristic motif of his sinister power.
In the orchestra we hear first a hushed, hesitant pizzicato figure, then the insistent `` police '' motif as it appeared in the opening scene.
The vivacity of the masquers' party at Leonato's palace, with the Spanish motif in the music and dancing in honor of the visiting Prince of Arragon, cast a spell of delight.
Therefore, shell forms became the principal motif in Rococo.
168, No. 1 ( I: Moderato cantabile ), provides the title and a motif for the French novella Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras.
Though associated with the Sassanid Persians and with Mithradates VI Eupator ( who for a time incorporated the city into his empire ), by the late Hellenistic or early Roman period, the star and crescent motif had been associated to some degree with Byzantium.
In 1954, the Assyriologist and Sumerologist Samuel Noah Kramer presented a Sumerian text treating the " Job motif " of the righteous sufferer.
Tristanne J. Connolly makes a similar observation, stating that the husband-wife motif reflects marriage as it was understood at the time.
The legend was a popular motif in art during Greek and Roman antiquity and served as an antithetical cautionary tale.
Positive feedback loops, such as the simple X activates Y and Y activates X motif, essentially links output signals to their input signals and have been noted to be an important regulatory motif in cellular signal transduction because positive feedback loops can create switches with an all-or-nothing decision.
Mucalinda, the nāga king who shielded Gautama Buddha | Buddha as he sat in meditation, was a favorite motif for Cambodian Buddhist sculptors from the 11th century.
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