They laughed and, true to national form and manners, never talked long or solemnly on any subject at all, but some of them worried out loud about short memories and ghosts.

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.

They join together to form short polymer chains called peptides or longer chains called either polypeptides or proteins.

The word " allele " is a short form of allelomorph (' other form '), which was used in the early days of genetics to describe variant forms of a gene detected as different phenotypes.

* Aba short form of Abaya, a middle eastern robe

In Welsh, the shortened form Y Fenni may have come into use for a very short period after about the 15th century, although pronounced similarly in English or Welsh the English spelling Abergavenny is in general use.

Seven of the eight scrolls originally contained the entire book of Daniel in the short form as it is in the Masoretic Text, however none have the long form as preserved in the Septuagint.

More recently, a Roman-based orthography named Brolikva which is short form of Brahui Roman Likvar has been developed by the Brahui Language Board of the University of Balochistan in Quetta.

This usually takes the form of a list of enemies with short descriptions ( e. g. the Metroid Prime and Castlevania games, as well as Dark Cloud and Final Fantasy ) and may even be central to the plot ( Pokemon series ).

Gradually there were added to these psalter choir-books additions in the form of antiphons, responses, collects or short prayers, for the use of those not skilful at improvisation and metrical compositions.

Catullus's poems have been preserved in an anthology of 116 carmina ( the actual number of poems may slightly vary in various editions ), which can be divided into three parts according to their form: sixty short poems in varying metres, called polymetra, eight longer poems, and forty-eight epigrams.

Several countries have used a system which is known as short form / long form.

Everyone receives the short form questions.

Smith's works consist of: a single novel, originally published in two volumes in edited form as The Planet Buyer, also known as The Boy Who Bought Old Earth ( 1964 ) and The Underpeople ( 1968 ), and later restored to its original form as Norstrilia ( 1975 ); and 32 short stories ( collected in The Rediscovery of Man ( 1993 ), including two versions of the short story " War No. 81-Q ").

alt = A short dry-stone wall retains boulders to form a cairn.

Rhyming slang terms for Jew have included " Chelsea Blue ", " Stick of Glue ", " Four by Two ", " Buckle my shoe ", and " Front Wheel Skid ", which is a more palatable form of the insulting term " Yid ", short for Yiddish, the language spoken by many Jewish immigrants to the UK in the early 20th century.

The ability for others to create custom levels and otherwise modify the game, in the form of custom WAD files ( short for Where is All the Data ), turned out to be a particularly popular aspect of Doom.

However, over the last hundred years or so, authorities have recognized that the dagger, in its contemporary or mature form, has come to incorporate certain definable characteristics, including a short blade with a sharply-tapered point, a central spine or fuller, and ( usually ) two cutting edges sharpened the full length of the blade, or nearly so.

Notorious examples include the " Slashdot effect ", the " Instalanche " ( when a smaller site gets links by the popular blog Instapundit ), or a website being " Farked " or Drudged ( where the target site is crashed due to the large number of hits in a short time ).

* short blog entry about statistical parsimony

* Strategy, including: Funding sources ( individuals, corporations, foundations, donors / governments, endowments, sales / events ) and business model ( independent research, contract work, advocacy ); The balance between research, consultancy, and advocacy ; The source of their arguments: Ideology, values or interests ; applied, empirical or synthesis research ; or theoretical or academic research ( Stephen Yeo ); The manner in which the research agenda is developed — by senior members of the think tank or by individual researchers, or by the think tank of their funders ; Their influencing approaches and tactics ( many researchers but an interesting one comes from Abelson ) and the time horizon for their strategies: long term and short term mobilisation ; Their various audiences of the think tanks ( audiences as consumers and public-this merits another blog ; soon ) ( again, many authors, but Zufeng provides a good framework for China ); and Affiliation, which refers to the issue of independence ( or autonomy ) but also includes think tanks with formal and informal links to political parties, interest groups and other political players.

The site also includes a blog, on a range of topics from inventions to " short sharp " science.

According to a SourceForge. net announcement on their blog as a short term response, they have taken down services such as CVS Hosting, ViewVC ( web-based code browsing ), New Release upload capability, and Interactive Shell services.

Shehan's return to Los Angeles signified the end of the band's hiatus and on February 13, 2009, the band published a blog post, entitled " There is hope for us ....", on their Myspace page, with a short message promising more from the band soon.

* Sign of the Owl A blog with short articles about artists ' books and the artists ' book field.

He later published a commentary on The Guardian, titled Stop Bullying Iran, in which he elaborated on his short blog post on why he defends Iran.

On 15 October 2010 videos of the songs and interview were published on the " Maximum Performance " blog along with a short article.

* interactive and blog site for those with an interest in awareness, includes short videos telling one woman's story of awareness alerting her to other errors.

" Cross Campus ", a daily feature on the front page of the News is a collection of short, pithy news items and is published online as a blog.

An entry in a blog with many entries is accessible from the site's front page for only a short time.

Starve Better, a short how-to guide made up primarily of reprinted blog posts and essays from magazines such as The Smart Set and The Writer was published in 2011, and nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in the category of Achievement in Non-Fiction.

* 500 — The short story blog from The Southern Writer's Group.

Some component blogs from the Mormon blogosphere's first two years were short lived, however one of its first bloggers, Dave Banack, began his longstanding Mormon Inquiry blog on August 19, 2003.

On May 25, 2008, a song titled " From China With Love " was posted on the official MySpace along with a short blog entry explaining that Claudio Sanchez now wasn't sure that leaving it off My Brother's Blood Machine was the best idea, and that it was being released online to tide fans over until the next album, which the reader is assured is in the works.

For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.

Calling on congressional approval for the United States to " support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures ," or in short a policy of " containment ", Truman articulated a presentation of the ideological struggle that became known as the " Truman Doctrine.

" The name was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story " Cyberpunk ," published in 1983.

Gibson defined cyberpunk's antipathy towards utopian SF in his 1981 short story " The Gernsback Continuum ," which pokes fun at and, to a certain extent, condemns utopian science fiction.

The science-fiction editor Gardner Dozois is generally acknowledged as the person who popularized the use of the term " cyberpunk " as a kind of literature, although Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke coined the term in 1980 for his short story " Cyberpunk ," which was published in the November 1983 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

Spending $ 478. 28 of that on purchasing the second-hand Bolex camera " of dreams ," Lynch produced a new animated short, but upon getting the film developed, realized that the result was simply a blurred, frameless print.

A fan of Philip K. Dick, author of " We Can Remember it For You Wholesale ," the short story upon which the film was based, Cronenberg related ( in the biography / overview of his work, Cronenberg on Cronenberg ) that his dissatisfaction with what he envisioned the film to be and what it ended up being pained him so greatly that for a time, he suffered a migraine just thinking about it, akin to a needle piercing his eye.

One of Wollheim's short stories, " Mimic ," was made into the feature film of the same name, released in 1997.

In November 2011, Morris premiered a documentary short, " The Umbrella Man ," featuring Josiah " Tink " Thompson on the Kennedy assassination, on the opinion page of The New York Times online.

A reference to Erewhon and specifically " The Book of Machines " opens Miguel de Unamuno's short story, " Mecanópolis ," which tells of a man who visits a city ( called Mecanópolis ) which is inhabited solely by machines.

The exception is a Latin " Epistle to the Laodiceans ," which is actually a short compilation of verses from other Pauline epistles, principally Philippians, and on which scholarly opinion is divided as to whether it is the lost Marcionite forgery or alternatively an orthodox replacement of the Marcionite text.

( This is pronounced " G mod N ," where " mod " is short for modulo.

" I was only on Merseyside a short time, nine or 10 months in total really, but it was still a happy time personally, while professionally it was one of the most successful periods of my career ," he says.

For events of short durations in the past, the distinction often coincides with the distinction in the English language between the simple past " X-ed ," as compared to the progressive " was X-ing " ( compare " I wrote the letters this morning " ( i. e. finished writing the letters: an action completed ) and " I was writing letters this morning ").

Gilbert found a subject in one of his own short stories, " The Elixir of Love ," which concerned the complications arising when a love potion is distributed to all the residents of a small village.

Melville also wrote Billy Budd, White-Jacket, Israel Potter, Redburn, Typee, Omoo, Pierre, The Confidence-Man and many short stories, including " Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street " and " Benito Cereno ," and works of various genres.

However, spaces between words are not counted, so for instance " hat " is normally short, but it is long in " hat throw ," due to the " th " in the next word.

" The New York Times called 1996's Hallelujah Junction " a two-piano work played with appealingly sharp edges ," and 2001's " American Berserk " " a short, volatile solo piano work.

In Thomas Pynchon's 1964 short story " The Secret Integration ," a boy's dreams are affected " when the thing in the sky, the Heaviside layer, was right for it.

* Wells Tower's short story, " Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned ," is centred around a Viking raid on Lindisfarne.

The " broken octave ," a variation of the aforementioned short octave, similarly used split keys to add accidentals left out of the short octave.

* The most important work by Paul S. Fiddes is The Creative Suffering of God ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 ); see also his short overview " Process Theology ," in A. E. McGrath, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought ( Oxford: Blackwell, 1993 ), 472 – 76.

" In short ," writes Louis Fisher in summary, " congressional policy announced in a statute necessarily prevails over inconsistent presidential orders and military actions.