However, he has taken on a beautiful appearance and his seeming goodness and persuasive tongue soon corrupts most Númenóreans and he becomes the chief adviser to the King.

The next morning Bob is ejected from town, but Beauchamp decides to stay and write about Bill, who has impressed him with his tales of old gunfights and seeming knowledge of the inner workings of a gunfighter's psyche.

This seeming dialectic has been pointed out by several New Testament scholars, notably Gregory J. Riley, April DeConick, and Elaine Pagels.

Shadbolt often has a way of seeming to say one thing and then coming back at you with something totally unexpected.

) For the first time, perhaps, a real, favourable opportunity has been afforded to them of joining hands with us, and if now the ideal that we all have at heart comes to be realised, the result will be that out of this moment of seeming danger we will win for our country the most inestimable treasure to be obtained, in creating a free and united Ireland – united North and South, Catholic and Protestant.

Duress has been defined as a " threat of harm made to compel a person to do something against his or her will or judgment ; esp., a wrongful threat made by one person to compel a manifestation of seeming assent by another person to a transaction without real volition ".

The truck has stopped just a little further up the road, seeming to contemplate what's about to happen.

The character also has a cameo in Sandman # 5, seeming uncharacteristically friendly.

This seeming gentleness is in contrast to later similar Aztec deities such as Cihuacoatl, who frequently has a warlike aspect.

The bullroarer has sometimes been incorrectly used as a means of seeming to demonstrate the Doppler effect in sound waves.

Despite it initially seeming pivotal to New Labour's reform of policing and the antecedent of a new race equality agenda, it has remained a contested concept that has been critiqued by multiple constituencies.

Radio Cornwall has also been criticised for seeming to overuse the word " county " to describe Cornwall.

In one episode, Niles asks Martin for his gun, but Martin replies that he doesn't believe that civilians should be armed, seeming to imply that he supports gun control ( though this may be due at least in part to the fact that he was shot by an armed robber and that his son has poor hand-eye coordination ).

She lives by a set of her own rules and shows little interest in Astrid, seeming to forget she has a daughter at all.

It has been linked with the altered states of mind that accompany psychosis ( the reality-bending mental state that typically involves delusions and hallucinations ) with the transformation only seeming to happen in the mind and behavior of the affected person.

She reveals that she, like Omri, has inherited some of Jessica Charlotte's psychic powers and, seeming to read his mind, explains that she's known the truth since the beginning but has kept it to herself.

Ichigo's loss of time and her sense of life cruelly having passed her by due to the illness ( she wistfully reveals to Kei that she has a younger sister who is now married and expecting a child ) tends to cause her to have a much more cynical and serious demeanor than is normal for someone of her seeming age, which is sometimes commented upon by her ( much younger ) friends.

But if he meant by giving it to the School of Medicine to perhaps save some other sufferer from what he has gone through ( no doctor seeming to know what was wrong or able to help him ) it was a fine thing to do.

A quasi-organic systems link to the operating system controlling Kazami's cloaked and submerged starship and its transporter functions, he has been nicknamed " Fushigi-chan " (" Little Wonder " in English ) by Karen for his ability to materialize almost anywhere, often after being summoned without any seeming communications device employed.

It has been suggested that the impetus for NHTSA's seeming preoccupation with market control rather than vehicular safety performance is a result of overt market protections such as tariffs and local-content laws having become politically unpopular due to the increasing popularity of free trade.

The city of Patavium, Padua has been suggested by J. D. Campbell based on a seeming bias in favor of the region in the Punica and the prevalence of the name Asconius in inscriptions from the region.

Despite the seeming high tension between him and Zero, Zero called him " the best lieutenant Space City has.

Fine's work showed that, taking locality as a given, there exist scenarios in which two statistical variables are correlated in a manner inconsistent with counter-factual definiteness, and that such scenarios are no more mysterious than any other, despite the inconsistency with counter-factual definiteness seeming ' counter-intuitive '.

In Scotty's case, it created a seeming continuity error, given Scotty's dialogue in the TNG episode " Relics ".

Thomson's own description of his legal problems is given in flat, understated New England dryness and couched in seeming venal paranoia .... After finishing the later material, offering 3rd party perspective, you realize that Thomson's movement had affected a million or more Americans, started a medical reformation that would not peak for another 50 years, and the brightest medical minds of the time were split vehemently both against and for Thomson's right to practice ... bitterly divided between Federalists and Republican politics ... Populists and Elitists ... rural and urban.

Others claim he was imprisoned for years, but given Gam ’ s seeming participation in the Battle of Pwll Melyn in 1405 they certainly cannot be true.

It is also surprising to find the Kuo Toa still in business, given the seeming superior military power of the Drow, but who knows?

"... But as all courtiers, who rise too quick, as he did, are envied, so his great Favour with the King, and powerful Interest in the House, raised a great Party against him, which he strengthened, by seeming to despise them.

He explains that Oz is on a retrograde planet, where the direction of rotation relative to the poles is reversed, resulting in the sun seeming to rise in what would normally be the west.

The seeming discrepancy comes from the difference in the number of allowed runs ( 309 ) versus earned runs ( 108 ).

By seeming to be a suitable target for the U-boat's deck gun, a Q-ship might encourage the U-boat captain to make a surface attack rather than use one of his limited number of torpedoes.

In several instances, individual managers, apparently dissatisfied with the Naskapis ’ seeming lack of commitment to trapping withheld from them the ammunition that they needed to hunt for food, thereby directly causing a considerable number of deaths from starvation.

In folk music a tune-family is, " a seeming multiplicity of melodies ," reducible, " to a small number of ' models ' or sets.

These are usually illustrated with " paradoxes " in which an event appears different when observed from two different points of view, seeming to violate " common sense ".

They live in a network of caves called Fraggle Rock, populated by a variety of creatures, and seeming to connect to at least two different worlds in separate dimensions of time and space.

Many factors explain this seeming contradiction, including a different time of bombing than Hiroshima, terrain, and crucially, a lower fuel loading in the city than that of Hiroshima.

The original Transformers animated series is infamous for its seeming slip-ups regarding the Constructicons, presenting contradictory stories that give different origins for the group.

The Documentary Hypothesis and the Composition of the Pentateuch offers itself as an elegantly phrased examination of the " five pillars " of the Documentary Hypothesis: 1, the claim that the use of the divine names Yahweh and Elohim testified to at least two different authors and two entirely distinct source documents ; 2, the claim that each literary style and distinctive grammatical usage found in the Pentateuch must be viewed as the product of a different writer and distinct " document "; 3, the claim that there were different world-views, theologies and ethics in each of the hypothesized documents, each independent and not complementary to each other, proving their different authorship and provenance ; 4, the claim that the existence of repetitions and even seeming contradictions proved there were different documents cut-and-pasted into the text, sometimes even as bits and pieces within single sentences ; and 5, the claim that descriptive passages can be analyzed into composite narratives drawing upon overlapping but different documents.

Although traditional ghost stories stick to one of three different kinds of ghosts, Gardner uniquely populates this novel with all three: real supernatural entities, " psychological " ghosts that originate in the imaginings of a character, and supernatural seeming occurrences that have natural explanations.

Some early Western visitors to the Imperial Chinese gardens felt they were chaotic, crowded with buildings in different styles, without any seeming order.

The political instabilities that had been beneath the surface of many Restoration comedies were still present, but with a different side seeming victorious.

Australian political theorist Robert E. Goodin argues that the problem with dog-whistling is that it undermines democracy, because if voters have different understandings of what they were supporting during a campaign, the fact that they were seeming to support the same thing is " democratically meaningless " and does not give the dog-whistler a policy mandate.

The second was a discovery in the world of mathematics of non-Euclidean geometry, which overthrew the 2000 year-old seeming absolutes of Euclidean geometry and threw into question conventional Renaissance perspective by suggesting the possible existence of multiple dimensional worlds and perspectives in which things might look very different.