Whereas Sergei Eisenstein viewed his montage of attractions as a propaganda tool through which the film-viewing masses could be subjected to “ emotional and psychological influence ” and therefore able to perceive “ the ideological aspect ” of the films they were being shown, Vertov believed the Kino-Eye would influence the actual evolution of man, “ from a bumbling citizen through the poetry of the machine to the perfect electric man .”

In the first ' be ' is part of the progressive aspect, used with "- ing " on the verb, and in the second it is part of the passive, as indicated by the perfect participle of a transitive verb.

* aspect — Ancient Greek: imperfective, perfective ( traditionally called aorist ), perfect ( sometimes also called perfective ; see note about terminology );

The tenses of Ancient Greek are similar, though having a three-way aspect contrast in the past, the aorist, the perfect and the imperfect.

For example, the K ' iche ' language spoken in Guatemala has the inflectional prefixes k-and x-to mark incompletive and completive aspect ; Mandarin Chinese has the aspect markers-le 了 ,-zhe 着, zài-在, and-guò 过 to mark the perfective, durative stative, durative progressive, and experiential aspects, and also marks aspect with adverbs ; and English marks the continuous aspect with the verb to be coupled with present participle and the perfect with the verb to have coupled with past participle.

Languages that lack this aspect ( such as Portuguese, which is closely related to Spanish ) often use the past perfective to render the present perfect ( compare the roughly synonymous English sentences " Have you eaten yet?

These two tenses may be modified further for progressive aspect ( also called continuous aspect ), for the perfect, or for both.

* Futuro anteriore ( future perfect ): io avrò mangiato (" I shall have eaten ")-future tense and perfect tense / aspect

:* perfect, which combines elements of both aspect and tense, and in which both a prior event and the state resulting from it are expressed ( as in " I have studied well ")

The perfect aspect can be formed by using tiha ona.

The general aspect of the district is that of a flat even country, dotted with clusters of bamboo and betelnut trees, and intersected by a perfect network of dark-coloured and sluggish streams.

Morphy ’ s room was always kept in perfect order, for he was very particular and neat, yet this room had a peculiar aspect and at once struck the visitor as such, for Morphy had a dozen or more pairs of shoes of all kinds which he insisted in keeping arranged in a semi-circle in the middle of the room, explaining with his sarcastic smile that in this way, he could at once lay his hands on the particular pair he desired to wear.

He believed that the Christian Church had not yet presented " its final or its most perfect aspect to the world "; that " the belief of each successive age of Christendom had as a matter of fact varied enormously from the belief of its predecessor "; that " all confessions and similar documents are, if taken as final expressions of absolute truth, misleading "; and that " there still remained, behind all the controversies of the past, a higher Christianity which neither assailants nor defenders had fully exhausted.

In general, it is the perfective aspect of the past tense ( not to be confused with the similarly named perfect aspect ) and may thus be more precisely called the perfective past.

Dubbed The Supervisor, it learns at an unprecedented rate and quickly becomes the perfect multi-task, ultra-intelligent robot, the pinnacle of artificial intelligence and more than capable of managing every aspect of the plant ’ s day-to-day operations.

By the light of this divine fact of the Incarnation, Christ's life as atonement, vicariously lived in humanity's place, is seen to develop itself naturally and necessarily as a perfect and complete reconciliation ; the penal element in the sufferings of Christ is but one aspect or facet of the atonement.

The Taegeuk represents the origin of all things in the universe ; holding the two principles of yin and yang in perfect balance ; the former being the negative aspect rendered in blue, and the latter as the positive aspect rendered in red.

Jèrriais distinguishes between simple, progressive and perfect aspect:

Spanish and Ancient Greek, for example, have a perfect ( not the same as the perfective ), which refers to a state resulting from a previous action ( also described as a previous action with relevance to a particular time, or a previous action viewed from the perspective of a later time ).

Designed by Senemut, her Vizier ( Ancient Egypt ) | vizier, the building is an example of perfect symmetry that predates the Parthenon, and it was the first complex built on the site she chose, which would become the Valley of the Kings

* Ancient Roman and Greek statues, showing perfect command of the human anatomy, are fakes crafted in the Renaissance, when such command was for the first time attained.

" Aorist " comes from Ancient Greek aóristos " indefinite ", because it was the unmarked ( default ) form of the verb, and thus did not have the implications of the imperfective aspect, which referred to an ongoing or repeated situation, or the perfect, which referred to a situation with a continuing relevance, but described an action " pure and simple ".

The Australian Grafton Elliot Smith for instance, in his works The Children of the Sun ( 1923 ) and The Growth of Civilisation ( 1924 ), put forward the idea that agriculture, architecture, religion and government had all developed in Ancient Egypt, where the conditions were perfect for the development of such things, and that these ideas were then diffused into other cultures.

The specific descriptor proteles also comes from the Ancient Greek and means " perfect before the end ", which refers to Sauroposeidon's status as the last and most specialized giant sauropod known in North America, during the Early Cretaceous.

Ancient Greek also had a mediopassive in the present, imperfect, perfect, and pluperfect tenses, but in the aorist and future tenses the mediopassive voice was replaced by two voices, one middle and one passive.

It semantically corresponds to the distinction between the morphological forms known respectively as the aorist and imperfect in Greek, the preterite and imperfect in Spanish, the simple past ( passé simple ) and imperfect in French, and the perfect and imperfect in Latin ( from the Latin " perfectus ", meaning " completed ").

For example, following the ideas of Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, scientists reasoned that a cannonball falls down because its natural position is in the earth ; the sun, the moon, and the stars travel in circles around the earth because it is the nature of heavenly objects to travel in perfect circles.

These first four perfect numbers were the only ones known to early Greek mathematics, and the mathematician Nicomachus had noted 8, 128 as early as 100 AD.

The Greek poet Hesiod, around the 8th century BC, in his compilation of the mythological tradition ( the poem Works and Days ), explained that, prior to the present era, there were other four progressively more perfect ones, the oldest of which was the Golden Age.

Although the Greek philosophers believed that the true nature of the universe was perfect, they attributed the observed imperfections to man's limited perception.

Dating from 1675, this document envisaged hundreds of works, including the Bible in Greek, editions of the Coptic Gospels and works of the Church Fathers, texts in Arabic and Syriac, comprehensive editions of classical philosophy, poetry, and mathematics, a wide range of medieval scholarship, and also " a history of insects, more perfect than any yet Extant.

Apophatic theology ( from Greek ἀπόφασις from ἀπόφημι – apophēmi, " to deny ")— also known as negative theology or via negativa ( Latin for " negative way ")— is a theology that attempts to describe God, the Divine Good, by negation, to speak only in terms of what may not be said about the perfect goodness that is God.

As the four strings led to seven and eight by doubling the tetrachord, or series of four tones filling in the interval of a perfect fourth, so the trichord is connected with the hexachord or six-stringed lyre depicted on many archaic Greek vases.

When these games turned out less than perfect and were overshadowed by the Exposition Universelle, the IOC supported the Greek idea by granting them a second series of quadrennial games in between the first series.

" in order to illustrate how in this first principle are combined unity and multiplicity, perfect simplicity with the most contradictory attributes, we are referred to the Greek letter ι, the single stroke of which represents units ; and which also represents the number ten.

When finished, it was the grandest and most perfect monument in the history of Greek art.

The Greek solution was to propose the existence of a secondary divine being-the Demiurge-which, although tremendously powerful in its own right, was a little lower than God Himself ( being neither perfect nor immutable in the absolute sense ), and could therefore be safely associated with the creative process.

Impassibility in the Western tradition traces back to ancient Greek philosophers like Aristotle and Plato, who first proposed the idea of God as a perfect, omniscient, timeless, and unchanging being not subject to human emotion ( which represents change and imperfection ).

Hence, thinking in a circular and very Greek fashion, one would be perfect, since one would be forgiven ; however, since Christ was also human, and one is still entirely alive and living in the world, then one would still need to continue striving to live the best, or most " perfect " life possible, because Christ was God and man.

Of Elizabeth, he later wrote: " Yea, I believe, that beside her perfect readiness in Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish, she readeth here now at Windsor more Greek every day than some prebendary of this church doth read Latin in a whole week.

The theatre is marveled for its exceptional acoustics, which permit almost perfect intelligibility of unamplified spoken word from the proscenium or skênê to all 15, 000 spectators, regardless of their seating ( see Ref., in Greek ).

Garfield's motivation was his obsessive, narcissistic desire to construct another perfect garden with Mrs. Drake's money on a Greek island that she has secretly purchased.

Orthodontics, formerly orthodontia ( from Greek orthos " straight or proper or perfect "; and odous " tooth ") is the first specialty of dentistry that is concerned with the study and treatment of malocclusions ( improper bites ), which may be a result of tooth irregularity, disproportionate jaw relationships, or both.

Although he uses the Peshitta as a basis, he knows that it is not perfect, and therefore controls it by the Hebrew, the Septuagint, the Greek versions of Symmachus, Theodotion, Aquila, by Oriental versions, Armenian and Coptic, and finally by the other Syriac translations, Heraclean, Philoxenian and especially the Syro-Hexapla.

To a perfect knowledge of Greek and Latin he added an intimate acquaintance with several modern languages.