However, even if the latent demand for demythologization is not nearly as widespread as we are claiming, at least among the cultured elements of the population there tends to be an almost complete indifference to the church and its traditional message of sin and grace.

The most nearly complete collection of Aldine editions ever brought together was in the Althorp library of the 2nd Earl Spencer, now in the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

One nearly complete example of the Code survives today, on a diorite stele in the shape of a huge index finger, tall ( see images at right ).

They included two nearly complete copies of the text, referred to as Text A () and Text B (), both of which reverse the traditional ordering and put the Te Ching section before the Tao Ching, which is why the Henricks translation of them is named " Te-Tao Ching ".

The atoll forms a nearly complete rim of land around a lagoon, enclosing 90 percent of its perimeter, with an opening only in the north.

Ecuador's president Rafael Correa said March 3, 2008 that a deal to release political prisoners — including former Colombian Sen. Ingrid Betancourt -- was nearly complete before the March 1, 2008 Colombian raid into his country.

Other translations include Erich Prokosch's nearly complete German translations of the tenth volume, the 2004 introductory work entitled The World of Evliya Çelebi: An Ottoman Mentality written by University of Chicago professor Robert Dankoff, and Dankoff and Sooyong Kim's 2010 translation of select excerpts of the ten volumes An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Çelebi.

Thus, a nearly complete separation of zirconium and hafnium is necessary for their use in nuclear power.

Gorbachev did not consult Nazarbayev until talks were nearly complete.

Originally, a nearly complete version of Windows code was included with OS / 2 itself: Windows 3. 0 in OS / 2 2. 0, and Windows 3. 1 in OS / 2 2. 1.

This enables a very simple and coherent syntax where a complete program is syntactically nearly identical to a single procedure or function ( except for the keyword itself, of course.

More fossil specimens of Pteranodon have been found than any other pterosaur, with about 1, 200 specimens known to science, many of them well preserved with nearly complete skulls and articulated skeletons.

By the middle of 1938, the Army facility had been separated from the Luftwaffe facility and was nearly complete, with personnel moved from Kummersdorf.

World War II was unkind to Radio Row, and in 1944 the Times lamented that the " one-time repository of nearly everything from a tube socket to a complete radio station " was " bargainless and practically setless, too, due to wartime scarcities " but that it still catered to " tinkerers and engineers " and that an " old spirit " and " magical quality " were still there.

Nasals are acoustically sonorants, as they have a non-turbulent airflow and are nearly always voiced, but they are articulatorily obstruents, as there is complete blockage of the oral cavity.

This led to a lengthy recovery process ( during which he nearly became addicted to pain medications ) after which, complete with a permanent disability and wearing a back brace, he left the Marine Corps.

It was soon discovered that the seal was not complete, so technicians spent nearly an hour removing all the screws and sealing the hatch again.

In translating the 39 books of the Hebrew Bible, Jerome was relatively free in rendering their text into Latin, but it is possible to determine that the oldest surviving complete manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, which date from nearly 600 years after Jerome, nevertheless transmit a consonantal Hebrew text very close to that used by Jerome.

The show was nearly complete in the fall of 1956, but almost everyone on the creative team needed to fulfill other commitments first.

Capable of absorbing enormous flood flows and storing the water for use in prolonged drought as well as navigation and electricity generation, it gave inhabitants of the Sacramento Valley nearly complete control over the whims of the river.

There are four complete or nearly complete extant English biblical collections of plays ; although these collections are sometimes referred to as " cycles ," it is now believed that this term may attribute to these collections more coherence than they in fact possess.

Drawing published in the Transactions of the Geological Society of the nearly complete Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus skeleton found by Anning in 1823

Anning discovered yet another important and nearly complete plesiosaur skeleton in 1830.

A blight in the early 20th century wiped out nearly every American Chestnut tree, but those in western Michigan developed a mysterious resistance and survived.

This " classical " big bang cosmology was overthrown when it was discovered that nearly 70 % of the energy in the universe was tied up in a mysterious and difficult to characterize form of dark energy.

To most people in the 19th century, cryptography was mysterious and those able to break the codes were considered gifted with nearly supernatural ability.

The origins of this epic are somewhat more mysterious than those of the Book of Dede Korkut: many believe it to have arisen in Anatolia sometime between the 15th and 17th centuries ; more reliable testimony, though, seems to indicate that the story is nearly as old as that of the Book of Dede Korkut, dating from around the dawn of the 11th century.

* Laurence Olivier as Dr. Totenkopf, the mysterious mad scientist and supervillain ; Olivier had been deceased for nearly 13 years at the time of filming, and was depicted in the film via computer manipulation of video and audio from when he was a young actor.

Later, a mysterious automaton reaches out to touch a housemaid, who nearly dies of fright, and a thumbograph ( an early toy associated with the taking of fingerprints ) disappears from a locked library.

:: Kyuzo is originally a nearly silent, mysterious bodyguard for Ayamaro.

The film was nearly scuttled by the mysterious drowning death of Natalie Wood during a break in production.

These acts include the great Spanish gold theft in 1954 which nearly toppled the Spanish economy ; the mysterious disappearance of 83 high-ranking Nazi officers from Germany at the end of World War II and their sudden reemergence in Buenos Aires ; and the abduction of a bus full of teenage girls in Naples, Italy who were sold into white slavery in Casablanca.

One day, a mysterious monk came to Hatsune's nest and nearly annihilated her for taking a villager's life.

In the episode, the Simpson family wins a free spa weekend, and Homer is nearly killed when a mysterious figure locks him in a sauna.

At the spa, Homer is nearly killed when a mysterious person locks him into an incredibly hot steam room with a spanner.

However, a mysterious stranger chases them off the island, and on their return to shore, they nearly crash into an iceboat piloted by Ted Carson and Ike Nash, two reckless and obnoxious youths.

* Curiously unexplained: Benson's fight in the Marr plant with a mysterious man who is nearly his physical equal ; this man traps Benson, then rescues him before he is killed.

The four have a massive battle in Times Square, which they nearly demolish with the help of the VDI Mechs, prompting the mysterious figure, AKA Nick Fury, to take them to the Vault prison for their safe keeping.

He is nearly as mysterious as Wizard.

Air traffic controllers had not noticed the disappearance from radar of BE 548, while the emergency services only became aware of the accident after 15 minutes had passed and did not know the precise circumstances of it for nearly an hour.

* In early 1977, nearly a dozen motorists in and around Milan reported giving lifts to another vanishing nun, who ( prior to her unexpected disappearance ) forewarned her benefactors of the impending destruction of Milan by earthquake on 27 February ( this disaster did not happen ) ( La Stampa, 25 and 26 February, 1 March 1977 ; Dallas Morning News 25 February 1977 ).

O ' Neil also failed to provide why he neglected to inform anyone of Cam's disappearance for nearly six months.

Furthermore, the nearly complete disappearance of the Dalmatian Italians ( there were 45, 000 or nearly 20 % of the total Dalmatian population in 1848, while now there are only 300 ) has been related to democide and ethnic cleansing by scholars like R. J. Rummel.

The father and Móric ( who was nearly 14 years old ) and the other suspected persons denied any knowledge of the disappearance of the girl and of her conjectured murder.

* Bregalad: Also known as Quickbeam, Bregalad was a relatively young Ent at the time of the War of the Ring, roughly " middle aged " and not nearly as old as Treebeard ( though he was a full adult ; there had been no Ent children since the disappearance of the Entwives ).

Over time, with the disappearance of landline telegraphy, and the end of commercial radio use of Morse Code, American Morse has become nearly extinct in some states.

The " disappearance " of the Italian speaking populations in Dalmatia was nearly complete after World War II.