If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

What is wrong with advertising is not only that it is an `` outrage, an assault on people's mental privacy '' or that it is a major cause for a wasteful economy of abundance or that it contains a coercive tendency ( which is closer to the point ).

In soft woods with pronounced grain, there is sometimes a tendency for the hole to wander, due to the varying hardness of the wood.

There is a marked tendency for religions, once firmly established, to resist change, not only in their own doctrines and policies and practices, but also in secular affairs having religious relevance.

The tendency for general business activity to soften somewhat is becoming more evident.

However, to the extent that the monetary authorities, in their effort to ease credit in the next several months, conduct their open market operations in longer-term Government bonds, they will certainly act to accentuate any tendency for long-term interest rates to ease as a result of market forces.

But he didn't play golf, didn't seem to belong to any local clubs -- his work took him away a lot, of course -- which probably accounted for his tendency to keep to himself.

A frequent pitfall in this sort of arrangement, experts warn, is a tendency to pay the wife more than her job is worth and to set aside an excessive amount for her as retirement income.

Reprisals are not unheard of in such situations, but the recent tendency has been for the Congress to forgive its prodigal sons.

`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.

Advertisers have discovered the tendency of Negroes to shop for brand names they have heard on stations catering to their special interests.

Notably, for skewed distributions, the arithmetic mean may not accord with one's notion of " middle ", and robust statistics such as the median may be a better description of central tendency.

There is a tendency for males to tolerate the holders of neighbouring territories while vigorously attacking unknown intruders.

The stronger of two acids will have a higher K < sub > a </ sub > than the weaker acid ; the ratio of hydrogen ions to acid will be higher for the stronger acid as the stronger acid has a greater tendency to lose its proton.

Poirot regards Hastings as a poor private detective, not particularly intelligent, yet helpful in his way of being fooled by the criminal or seeing things the way the average man would see them, and for his tendency to unknowingly " stumble " onto the truth.

The justification for attributing life to objects was stated by David Hume in his Natural History of Religion ( Section III ): " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.

An exception to this general tendency is his Latin treatise " De falconibus " ( later inserted in the larger work, De Animalibus, as book 23, chapter 40 ), in which he displays impressive actual knowledge of a ) the differences between the birds of prey and the other kinds of birds ; b ) the different kinds of falcons ; c ) the way of preparing them for the hunt ; and d ) the cures for sick and wounded falcons.

There were a few reasons for this, one of which was political, as the kings of England preferred to appoint bishops from the south to the northern bishoprics, hoping to counter the northern tendency towards separatism.

29 .</ ref > This tendency to identify one specific underlying reality made up of a material thing constitutes the bulk of the contributions for which Anaximenes is most famed.

There was also a tendency for the four meetings to be aggregated toward the end of each state month.

In BrE, both irregular and regular forms are current, but for some words ( such as smelt and leapt ) there is a strong tendency towards the irregular forms, especially by users of Received Pronunciation.

Known for decades as competent managers with a left-leaning tendency towards building up Ontario social programs ( such as health care and education ), they found themselves losing this ground to the Liberals and their youthful leader, Peterson.

People with autism showed a significant tendency to closely paraphrase and repeat content from the original statement ( for example: " Don't cut flowers before they bloom ").

History has a tendency to repeat itself, and Dutoit's departure, like that of his predecessor Fruhbeck a quarter of a century earlier, occurred due to a minor spat pitting the ego of the individual against the ego of the collective.

Tarde also emphasised the tendency of the criminal to return to the scene of the crime and to repeat it, which he saw as part of a wider process of repetition compulsion.

The hybrid résumé has a tendency to repeat itself and is therefore less widely used than the other two

He also has the tendency to repeat himself ; at one point he repeats the same line four times when he tries to explain how fear has driven his wife and him out of their home.

Historically, however, opening credits have been the only source of crew credits and, largely, the cast, although over time the tendency to repeat the cast, and perhaps add a few players, with their roles identified ( as was not always the case in the opening credits ), evolved.

Though the two relationships function chiefly as a means of demonstrating Bogus Trumper's tendency to repeat his mistakes, Irving is often regarded for his strong, independent female characters, and Tulpen and Biggie can be seen as markers in the development of the strong women in his more popularly successful novels, particularly The World According to Garp ( 1979 ).

The artists grew more practised in figure-drawing, and while there was still the tendency to repeat the same subjects in the same conventional manner, individual effort produced in this century many miniatures of a very noble character.

GameSpot awarded the Close Quarters Battle version of game a rating of 8. 3 / 10, commenting that " SWAT 3's most impressive feature has to be the amazing artificial intelligence employed by friend and foe alike " and praising the graphics and level design, but criticising the lack of multiplayer in the initial release, the tendency for some dialogue to repeat, the need to " radio in " every suspect or hostage secured, and the need to restart missions from scratch should the player be killed.

After the ascendency of Christianity in the Roman Empire, the consular processions in Constantinople retained their religious character, now proceeding to Hagia Sophia, where prayers and offerings were made ; but in Rome, where Christianity was not so widely spread among the upper classes, at first the tendency was to convert the procession into a purely civil function, omitting the pagan rites and prayers, without substituting Christian ones Only after Theodosius did the processions become a religious event, repeat with icons, crosses, and banners.

He was described as neither well-spoken nor articulate, and had a tendency to repeat platitudes in private as well as in public.

His personality reflects that of his G1 incarnation, in that he speaks at an extremely fast rate and has a tendency to rattle on in long-winded speeches, however unlike G1 Blurr, he does not repeat his words as he speaks.

As the New South snowballs toward further urbanization, it becomes more and more homogeneous with the North -- a tendency which Willard Thorp terms `` Yankeefication '', as evidenced in such cities as Charlotte, Birmingham, and Houston.

An evolutionary psychology explanation is that increased anxiety serves the purpose of increased vigilance regarding potential threats in the environment as well as increased tendency to take proactive actions regarding such possible threats.

Individuals who were not familiar with astrology had no such tendency.

This tendency effected the narrowing field of artistic possibility to such forms of art as Arabesque, mosaic, Islamic calligraphy, and Islamic architecture, as well as any form of abstraction that can claim the status of non-representational art.

In the meantime a strong tendency emerged to drop all ' decorative ' steps such as entrechats and ronds de jambes that had found a place in the Quadrilles and other dances.

The latter refers to the tendency of oral societies, such as that of Europe in the medieval period, to view knowledge as the product, expression, and property of the collective.

The media have a tendency to start to seek culprits if an event occurs that is of such significance that it does not drop off the news agenda within a few days.

Those who disapprove of coalition governments believe that such governments have a tendency to be fractious and prone to disharmony.

A yarn's usefulness is judged by several factors, such as its loft ( its ability to trap air ), its resilience ( elasticity under tension ), its washability and colorfastness, its hand ( its feel, particularly softness vs. scratchiness ), its durability against abrasion, its resistance to pilling, its hairiness ( fuzziness ), its tendency to twist or untwist, its overall weight and drape, its blocking and felting qualities, its comfort ( breathability, moisture absorption, wicking properties ) and its appearance, which includes its color, sheen, smoothness and ornamental features.

Univariate analysis involves describing the distribution of a single variable, including its central tendency ( including the mean, median, and mode ) and dispersion ( including the range and quantiles of the data-set, and measures of spread such as the variance and standard deviation ).

Guy Claxton has questioned the extent that learning styles such as VAK are helpful, particularly as they can have a tendency to label children and therefore restrict learning.

Thus, entropy is also a measure of the tendency of a process, such as a chemical reaction, to be entropically favored, or to proceed in a particular direction.

Among other conclusions, he found a tendency among the inhabitants of Ebla to replace the name of El, king of the gods of the Canaanite pantheon ( found in names such as Mikael ), with Ia.

In the U. S., a post-WW2 tendency toward questioning the establishment and societal norms and the early activism of the Civil Rights Movement was reflected in Hollywood films such as Blackboard Jungle ( 1955 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), Paddy Chayefsky's Marty and Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men ( 1957 ).

While the number of regions is somewhat stable ( the only modification to the original set is the separation of Molise from Abruzzo ), there has been a tendency in later years to create new provinces, such as Crotone, Verbania, Lodi, Biella, Lecco and others.

The advantage of this capture is debatable due to the alleged tendency of Zulu warriors to close their eyes when firing such weapons.

Roughly speaking, bosons have a tendency to clump into the same quantum state, which underlies phenomena such as the laser, Bose – Einstein condensation, and superfluidity.

He criticized the tendency for delegates to cater to the particular interests of their constituents, even if such interests were destructive to the state at large.

According to Annemarie Schimmel, the tendency among Shia authors to include leading mystical poets such as Rumi and Attar among their own ranks, became stronger after the introduction of Twelver Shia as the state religion in the Safavid Empire in 1501.

Of course, such an arrangement is unstable, and the bridge would have a tendency to fall down.

Fabrics in which the number of knit and purl stitches are not the same, such as stockinette, have a tendency to curl ; by contrast, those in which knit and purl stitches are arranged symmetrically ( such as ribbing, garter stitch or seed stitch ) tend to lie flat and drape well.