Thus the student of literature may sometimes find it helpful to classify a poem or an essay as being in idea or in ideal content or subject matter typical or atypical of its period.

When he discusses the subject matter of poetry, he asks what moral effect the scenes will have.

However, his subject matter and basic themes have remained surprisingly consistent, and these, together with certain key poetic images, may be traced through all his work, including the new jazz experiments.

Gradually Schiele evolved a somber style of his own -- and he had few inhibitions about his subject matter.

It is this subject matter that has brought Mason a large and enthusiastic following among sportsmen, but it is his exceptional performance with this motif that commends him to artists and discerning collectors.

Ordinary politeness may have militated against this opinion being stated so badly but anyone with a wide acquaintance in both groups and who has sat through the many round tables, workshops or panel discussions -- whatever they are called -- on this subject will recognize that the final, boiled down crux of the matter is education.

On the whole they maintain much the same high standard, but they are much more difficult to discuss in detail because of their wider variety of subject matter.

Or is this subject a matter of self-determination, a matter of states rights or county rights??

The joint investigations of linguistics and psychiatry have established, in point of fact, that no matter what the subject of conversation is or what words are involved, it is impossible for people to talk at all without telling over and over again what sort of people they are and how they relate to the rest of the world.

As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.

In its present artless, low-budget form, the subject matter seems designed to invite censorial wrath.

But no matter what he writes about he brings to his subject his own original mind and his own sensitive reactions.

He was no longer able to relax in the presence of his parents and found it difficult to keep up a conversation with his mother or father, no matter the subject.

Given the similarities in the two characters ' names, professions, written works and generally dark subject matter, it is likely that Lovecraft's Alhazred provided the main inspiration for al-Hazir.

His style consisted of delicate colors and gentle forms painted within a frivolous subject matter.

The exploration of how the world would look today if various changes occurred and what these alternate worlds would be like forms the basis of this vast subject matter.

At that time, the ENIAC was considered to be the first computer in the modern sense, but in 1973 a U. S. District Court invalidated the ENIAC patent and concluded that the ENIAC inventors had derived the subject matter of the electronic digital computer from Atanasoff ( see Patent dispute ).

Judge Larson explicitly stated, " Eckert and Mauchly did not themselves first invent the automatic electronic digital computer, but instead derived that subject matter from one Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff ".

Folk songs may be classified by subject matter, such as: drinking songs, sporting songs, train songs, work songs, war songs, and ballads.

One play, The Demi-Virgin in 1921, prompted a court case because of its suggestive subject matter, including a risque game of cards, " Stripping Cupid ", where a bevy of showgirls teased the audience in their lingerie.

At the start of his career, he won public attention by creating small, intimate modestly scaled works in unconventional media and with eccentric subject matter.

Although its author is unknown, its themes and subject matter are rooted in Germanic heroic poetry, in Anglo-Saxon tradition recited and cultivated by Old English poets called scops.

The question of whether Beowulf was passed down through oral tradition prior to its present manuscript form has been the subject of much debate, and involves more than the mere matter of how it was composed.

Because of the subject matter and graphic violence of some of De Palma's films, such as Dressed to Kill, Scarface and Body Double, they are often at the center of controversy with the Motion Picture Association of America, film critics and the viewing public.

Once many years ago I sat at dinner next to Arthur Train, and the subject of The Nation came up.

I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:

To my immense relief, she changed the subject in the next sentence: `` Shall we go to the Louvre today ''??

Through Grigson, Morris would meet the subject of his next film, 36 year-old Randall Dale Adams.

The next year he published a much longer paper in German on the same subject.

The next step was to ask how this undifferentiated bundle comes to be experienced as a unity-as a single subject.

Hegel's next step, however, is to identify this power to move, this unrest that is the subject, as pure negativity.

There was, consequently, the astonishing spectacle of the definition of murder, still a matter of common law, being the subject of no less than six appeals to the House of Lords within the next 40 years ( Director of Public Prosecutions v. Smith A. C. 290 ; Hyam v. Director of Public Prosecutions A. C. 55 ; Regina v. Cunningham A. C. 566 ; Regina v. Moloney A. C. 905 ; Regina v. Hancock A. C. 455 ; Regina v. Woollin 4 A11 E. R.

For instance, if immigration has become more and more restricted under the law, then the next legal decision on that subject may serve to restrict it further still.

Technology and software jobs were supposed to be the replacement for factory and agriculture jobs lost to cheaper foreign labor, but if those are subject to free trade losses, then the nature of the next generation of replacement careers is not clear at this point.

Kurzweil's next book published in 2004, returned to the subject of human health and nutrition.

With the Discovery launch moving to November, Endeavour mission " cannot fly as planned, so the next available launch window is in February 2011 ," NASA said, adding that the launch dates are subject to change.

Fortuyn's victory made him the subject of hundreds of interviews during the next three months, and he made many statements about his political ideology.

After The Mikado opened in 1885, Gilbert, as usual, promptly turned his thoughts to finding a subject for a next opera.

A sorites is a form of argument in which a series of incomplete syllogisms is so arranged that the predicate of each premise forms the subject of the next until the subject of the first is joined with the predicate of the last in the conclusion.

Some common French prepositions are: à ( to, at, in ), à côté de ( next to, beside ), après ( after ), au sujet de ( about, on the subject of ), avant ( before ), avec ( with ), chez ( at the home / office of, among ), contre ( against ), dans ( in ), d ' après ( according to ), de ( from, of, about ), depuis ( since, for ), derrière ( in back of, behind ), devant ( in front of ), durant ( during, while ), en ( in, on, to ), en dehors de ( outside of ), en face de ( facing, across from ), entre ( between ), envers ( toward ), environ ( approximately ), hors de ( outside of ), jusque ( until, up to, even ), loin de ( far from ), malgré ( despite ), par ( by, through ), parmi ( among ), pendant ( during ), pour ( for ), près de ( near ), quant à ( as for, regarding ), sans ( without ), selon ( according to ), sous ( under ), suivant ( according to ), sur ( on ), vers ( toward ).

The next year, however, Sun Quan would have yet another misadventure in his dealings with Gongsun Yuan, as Gongsun sent messengers to him, offering to be his subject.

At the same meeting of the board of trustees at which Professor Moore was elected president of Williams College, May 2, 1815, Dr. Packard of Shelburne introduced the following motion: " That a committee of six persons be appointed to take into consideration the removal of the college to some other part of the Commonwealth, to make all necessary inquiries which have a bearing on the subject, and report at the next meeting.

Although he exhibited annually in the Salon during the next five years, he submitted no more history paintings, and his Steeplechase — The Fallen Jockey ( Salon of 1866 ) signaled his growing commitment to contemporary subject matter.

Mouseton's location in Calisota and its positioning with regard to Duckburg ( the cities being next to one another ) were the subject of speculation early on, but have generally been treated consistently in American publications from 2003 onward.

He passed the next decade in obscurity as one of many kings subject to Penda.

Her salary is the subject of several jokes, as she and other characters frequently point out that she " earns next to nothing ".

The reading passage ( RP ) style is next down on the formal register, and the interview style ( IS ) is when an interviewer can finally get into eliciting a more casual speech from the subject.

In the game the object is to lose all of one's cards, with the last player to do so being the " shithead ", who must deal the next game and may be subject to some minor forfeit of the group's choice, such as fetching the next round of drinks.