Mr. Papp has directed a performance that has verve and pace, although he has tolerated obvious business to garner easy laughs where elegance and consistency of style would be preferable.

The concrete definition given above is easy to work with, but has some minor problems: to use it we first need to represent a Lie group as a group of matrices, but not all Lie groups can be represented in this way, and it is not obvious that the Lie algebra is independent of the representation we use.

It's usually quite easy to determine whether an instrument is pitched in, say, F or B ♭ or E ♭, but it is not always obvious which octave of F or B ♭ the designation refers to.

#* Definition of the undesired event can be very hard to catch, although some of the events are very easy and obvious to observe.

These routes are not always obvious, but mountaineering books generally mention them ; they are often used as the safe and easy way to descend from a more difficult route.

Together with Japanese and Korean which are major modern languages, these ' poor relations ' resist any easy or obvious linguistic classification, either with other groups or with each other.

When milled, the ergot is reduced to a red powder, obvious in lighter grasses but easy to miss in dark rye-flour.

… His quest to construct a pleasing and seamless model of the universe tends to jump to easy conclusions and to spackle over problematic gaps and inconsistencies in the ideas he presents — is obvious to all but his most starry-eyed fans.

This strikes speakers of European languages as obvious ; but in Chinese the concept of " word " is not easy to pin down.

These had obvious drawbacks for easy maintenance.

* " The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

Additionally, the tragedy prompted the pharmaceutical industry to move away from capsules, which were easy to contaminate as a foreign substance could be placed inside without obvious signs of tampering.

When casually glancing at a coin, the difference is not easy to tell, but when magnified, the difference is obvious on most coins.

In the languages where they are more obvious, ejectives are often described as sounding like " spat " consonants ; but ejectives are often quite weak and, in some contexts, and in some languages, are easy to mistake for tenuis or even voiced stops.

In a parody of ubiquitous general knowledge quizzes, the final round is off-topic and called " General Ignorance ", focusing upon seemingly easy questions which have obvious but wrong answers.

It is easy to arrange 12 spheres so that each touches a central sphere, but there is a lot of space left over, and it is not obvious that there is no way to pack in a 13th sphere.

And all along, the US media will not only simply roll over and play half-dead, as usual, but will cheerfully accept the easy, comfortable way out, never bothering to ask the obvious questions, never pointing to the decades-old record of rejection from Ariel Sharon, his open refusal to accept a viable Palestinian state, his brutality, his war crimes, and his relentless sabotaging of all chances, minor or major, at advancing political dialog.

These routes are not always obvious, but mountaineering books generally mention them ; they are often used as the safe and easy way to descend from a more difficult route.

As there are few economies that can operate smoothly in a chaotic climate, the dilemma would seem to be easy to resolve, but since fallacious justifications for restricting trade are easily imagined, just as fallacious justifications for theft are easily imagined at the family level, the seemingly obvious resolution becomes clouded by the suspicion of an illegitimate motive.

One critic commented, " Wood does flip cynicism with such precise, easy rhythms and with such obvious pleasure in naughtiness that she's impossible to hate.

In filmed entertainment, they can have obvious physical differences with the protagonist — such as facial hair ( often a goatee ), eyepatches, scars or distinctive clothing — that make it easy for the audience to visually identify the two characters.

Diagnosis is less easy in the early stages, when the three features are not yet obvious.

:" We must never forsake the plain, obvious, easy and natural sense, unless where the nature of the thing itself, parallel places, or evident reason, afford a solid and sufficient reason for so doing.

While some captures featured in the show were easy and straightforward due to obvious oversights or mistakes by the offenders, many others were much tougher and sometimes required greater resources.

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.

A further division is made between chukim (" decrees " — laws without obvious explanation, such as shatnez, the law prohibiting wearing clothing made of mixtures of linen and wool ), mishpatim (" judgments " — laws with obvious social implications ) and eduyot (" testimonies " or " commemorations ", such as the Shabbat and holidays ).

This is the most satisfactory, as it is the most obvious, explanation of his utter indifference in presence of one of the most momentous problems that ever pressed for solution on an English statesman.

Jonathan Spence writes " there is no obvious explanation for this grim event, nor can one be found.

In the absence of any obvious functional explanation, the greater prevalence of emmer wheat in the diet of ancient Egypt may simply reflect a marked culinary or cultural preference, or may reflect growing conditions having changed after the Third Dynasty.

An explanation of this may lie in the analysis of the massacre in terms of social anthropology by the religious historian Bruce Lincoln, who describes how the religious divide, which gave the Huguenots different patterns of dress, eating and pastimes, as well as the obvious differences of religion and ( very often ) class, had become a social schism or cleavage.

It is obvious enough that Condillac's anti-spiritual psychology, with its explanation of personality as an aggregate of sensations, leads straight to atheism and determinism.

Simek says that " the most obvious explanation is to identify Óðr with Odin ," noting the similarity between their names ( and agreeing with the Ullr / Ullin parallel ), the long absences ( comparing them to Odin's exile in Gesta Danorum ), and Óðr's marriage with Freyja.

The obvious defects of this theory, ( 1 ) that the senses alone cannot apprehend matter itself, ( 2 ) that it is not clear how the multiplicity of phenomena could result from these two forces, thought it is no less convincing than Aristotles hot / cold, dry / wet explanation, and ( 3 ) that he adduced no evidence to substantiate the existence of these two forces, were pointed out at the time by his pupil, Patrizzi.

However, the most obvious explanation is that the title is a reference to the area in which the novel is set, which is near California's grapevine-filled Wine Country.

The obvious explanation for the popular use of the oven in the homes would most likely involve its use for cooking food.

All the accounts of the burial state that it was made in a vault and it is therefore surprising and disappointing that no evidence whatever was found and there does not seem to be any obvious explanation for it.

For others, there is no obvious explanation ( like ' to be sick ').

Stroke without an obvious explanation is termed " cryptogenic " ( of unknown origin ); this constitutes 30-40 % of all ischemic strokes.

Using the Hale telescope, Schmidt found the same odd spectra, but was able to demonstrate that it could be explained as the spectrum of hydrogen, shifted by a very large 15. 8 .% If this was due to the physical motion of the " star ", it would represent a speed of 47, 000 km / s, far beyond the speed of any known star and defying an obvious explanation.

The most obvious explanation is that the form of the templon resembles a pagan temple.

O ' Hara never gives any obvious cause or explanation for his behavior, which is apparently predestined by his character.

However, while sexual variation is the most obvious explanation for the presence or absence of long tail feathers, other factors cannot be ruled out.

In 1957 the press had eulogised him at every opportunity-after Cardiff they were seeking an explanation as to why our runners had been unsuccessful and missed the obvious answer that they were up against runners like Elliott and Murray Halberg.

Seeking a less obvious route such as suddenly suggesting the use of a condom may be difficult without explanation of the implications to the other partner.

Provided that the abnormal result is reproduced on a good specimen and there is no obvious explanation from the history, the next thing to do is a mixing study.

Building the Ring had the appearance of being destructive on a galactic scale because its larger purpose was not understood until the very far future, and many smaller Xeelee projects, such as changing the orbit of Callisto to preserve the bacteria living in the ice, lacked an obvious explanation.

The obvious explanation is that it alludes to the Trojan Horse, and specifically to Virgil's famous " timeo danaos et dona ferentes " (" I fear the Greeks even they are bringing gifts ", Aeneid II. 49 ).