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.

It appears that the dominant tendency of Mann's early tales, however pictorial or even picturesque the surface, is already toward the symbolic, the emblematic, the expressionistic.

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.

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 ).

The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.

I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.

In the electronics industry, this tendency is well illustrated by inventories of TV sets.

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

With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.

Obviously, if colloidal particles bear charges of opposite sign or, if one kind is charged and the other kind is not, the attraction will be intensified and the tendency to agglomerate will be greatly reinforced.

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 is toward putting dominant stress at the end.

There is a parallel to this tendency in the assignment of time in long-known hymn tunes.

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

This tendency is, perhaps, most clearly revealed in the literature on religious conversions and experiences of adolescents.

He was critical of what he feels is President Kennedy's tendency to be too conciliatory.

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.

Again, although the shareholders of the company are the nominal top of the hierarchy, in reality many companies are run at least in part as personal fiefdoms by their management ; corporate governance rules are an attempt to mitigate this tendency.

Propensity theorists think of probability as a physical propensity, or disposition, or tendency of a given type of physical situation to yield an outcome of a certain kind or to yield a long run relative frequency of such an outcome.

Governments have had the tendency to " bail out " poorly run businesses, often due to the sensitivity of job losses, when economically, it may be better to let the business fold.

The rainbow trout of New Zealand still show the steelhead tendency to run up rivers in winter to spawn.

By early 1942, Raeder and Dönitz were openly feuding with each other, with Dönitz mocking Raeder's obsession with " dinosaurs ", as Dönitz called battleships, and Raeder complaining of Dönitz's massive ego and his tendency to run the U-boat arm as it were his own private navy.

The theoretical foundation of post-Keynesian economics is the principle of effective demand, that demand matters in the long as well as the short run, so that a competitive market economy has no natural or automatic tendency towards full employment.

Other genetic disorders include " waltzing disease " ( deafness coupled with a tendency to run in circles ), palsy, and tremor conditions.

* Weakening of containing membranes or muscles is usually congenital ( which explains part of the tendency of hernias to run in families ), and increases with age ( for example, degeneration of the annulus fibrosus of the intervertebral disc ), but it may be on the basis of other illnesses, such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or Marfan syndrome, stretching of muscles during pregnancy, losing weight in obese people, etc., or because of scars from previous surgery.

Anything may be used in its place, but oils are preferred for their thickness and tendency not to run or bleed.

Whether Pope had really understood the tendency of his own work has always been doubtful, but there is no question that he was glad of an apologist, and that Warburton's jeu d ' esprit in the long run helped more than all his erudition.

The producers of MacGyver had a tendency to use the same actor in multiple roles throughout a series run.

In the Cartoon Network run and English localization of Mobile Suit Gundam, the Zeons were also derisively referred to as " Zeeks ", originally taken from Gundam Sentinel: 0079, one of the many Gundam side stories written by Masaya Takahashi and added by translator Neil Nadelman, to reflect the tendency to nickname war enemies, i. e. Yankees / Rebs ( Civil War ), Jerries / Tommies ( World War I ), Japs ( World War II ), Ivan ( Cold War ), Charlie ( Vietnam ).

Despite his cowardice, and tendency to run from any kind of danger or fight, Rimmer is the member of the crew most willing to kill, preferably in the safest and most cowardly way possible, although, due to a mixture of cowardice, and the fact that for much of the series he cannot physically harm anyone, he seldom manages to.

Since the early 1990s, considerable research continues to characterize OCPD and its core features, including the tendency for it to run in families along with eating disorders and even to appear in childhood.

However, his tendency to run in privately entered cars did him no favours on the Grand Prix scene, winning just one major international race, the 1936 French Grand Prix.

In other words, in nature there is a tendency to the dissipation ( energy loss ) of mechanical energy ( motion ); hence, by extrapolation, there exists the view that the mechanical movement of the universe will run down, as work is converted to heat, in time due to the second law.

Elephants had a tendency to panic themselves: after sustaining painful wounds or when their driver was killed they would run amok, indiscriminately causing casualties as they sought escape.

Both circles are complexes of events with no tendency towards equilibrium ( at least in the short run ).

This absent-mindedness was particularly obvious in his tendency to run out his partners at the crease: Trevor Bailey declared that ' a call for a run from Compton should be treated as no more than a basis for negotiation.

The term is a syncope, derived from a shortened phonetic rendition of the pronunciation of the word " Australian " in an exaggerated Broad Australian accent, drawing upon the tendency of this accent to run words together in a form of liaison.

This extension of the foot has a tendency to put stress on two tendons and the ligament that run along its side.

He becomes Dorothy's servant and protector, and, despite his tendency to run down at crucial moments, helps to subdue the Nome King.

This also reduces any tendency of a pulley to twist sideways and run up and off of the cable with obvious disastrous results.

It is activated at high rpm to extend the engine's rev range, capitalizing on a two-stroke's tendency to rev higher momentarily when the mixture is lean.

This was originally thought to be a tendency for groups to be riskier than their members would be alone ( the risky shift ), but later found to be a tendency for extremity in any direction based on which way the members individually tended to lean before discussion ( group polarization ).

The newly elected pope often contrasts dramatically with his predecessor, a tendency expressed by the Italian saying " After a fat pope, a lean pope ".

Politically Devon has had a tendency to lean towards the Conservative and Liberal / Liberal-Democrat parties.

This process often requires little or no physical effort, because the geometry of the steering system of most bikes is designed in such a way that the front wheel has a strong tendency to steer in the direction of a lean.