In a 2004 interview with The New York Times, playwright Tony Kushner used the term " Moonies " to refer to religious converts who lacked " spiritual liveliness or freedom of thought ".

The term " artificial reality ", coined by Myron Krueger, has been in use since the 1970s ; however, the origin of the term " virtual reality " can be traced back to the French playwright, poet, actor, and director Antonin Artaud.

Wagner referred to " Tristan und Isolde " not as an opera, but called it " Eine Handlung " ( literally drama or plot ), which was the equivalent of the term used by the Spanish playwright Calderón for his dramas.

The English playwright William Shakespeare used the word Scotch to describe a jig, but always employed the term Scottish when people were the subject.

In the first ( 1961 ) edition, Esslin presented the four defining playwrights of the movement as Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet, and in subsequent editions he added a fifth playwright, Harold Pinter – although each of these writers has unique preoccupations and characteristics that go beyond the term " absurd.

The word itself originates with the Roman comic playwright Plautus, who coined the term somewhat facetiously in the prologue to his play Amphitryon.

The term First World War was used in the book The First World War: A Photographic History, edited by playwright and war veteran Laurence Stallings and published in 1933.

She also claimed a long term affair in the 1940s with playwright Miguel Mihura and mentioned that science wizard Severo Ochoa, a Nobel Prize winner, was the true love of her life.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca was the first playwright to adopt the term zarzuela for his work entitled El golfo de las sirenas (" The Gulf of the Sirens ", 1657 ).

The term indie theatre, or independent theatre, coined by playwright Kirk Bromley has been suggested to replace Off-Off-Broadway as a term.

Expressionism was also a literary movement, and included the later work of the playwright August Strindberg, who coined the term " dream play " for a style of narrative that did not distinguish between fantasy and reality.

In addition, according to some accounts Shklovsky's Russian friend playwright Sergei Tretyakov taught Brecht Shklovsky's term during Brecht's visit to Moscow in the spring of 1935.

While the historical origin of the term is unclear, it has been particularly popularized by the Nobel-winning Italian playwright Dario Fo.

Ebony magazine prefers the term " urban theater circuit " for recent work like that of playwright and actor Tyler Perry.

The term " android " appears in US patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature human-like toy automatons.

The term Animism appears to have been first developed as animismus by German scientist Georg Ernst Stahl, circa 1720, to refer to the " doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial soul.

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

The Hebrew term Abaddon (, ), an intensive form of the word " destruction ", appears as a place of destruction in the Hebrew Bible.

The term abaddon appears six times in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible ; abaddon means destruction or " place of destruction ", or the realm of the dead, and is associated with Sheol.

The term ahimsa appears in the text Taittiriya Shakha of the Yajurveda ( TS 5. 2. 8. 7 ), where it refers to non-injury to the sacrificer himself.

The term bretwalda also appears in a charter of Æthelstan.

The term or, which gives the ( unnormalised ) relative probability of a state, is called the Boltzmann factor and appears often in the study of physics and chemistry.

It appears that the particular term, with its more definite sense, was coined by Heisenberg in the 1950s, while criticizing alternate " interpretations " ( e. g., David Bohm's ) that had been developed.

The term " West Saxon " appears only in the late seventh century, after the reign of Cædwalla.

The modern sense of the term first appears sometime around the 12th century ; its popularity spread in the medieval period along with the terms isle, ylle, inis, eilean, oileán There is some confusion on what the term crannog originally referred to, the structure atop the island or the island itself The additional meanings of crannog can be variously related as " structure / piece of wood ; wooden pin ; crow's nest ; pulpit ; driver's box on a coach and vessel / box / chest " for crannóg.

Here, again, a new term appears in the record, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the first time using the word scottas, from which Scots derives, to describe the inhabitants of Constantine's kingdom in its report of these events.

The signal for formation of a regional centromere appears to be " epigenetic "-a widely used term that in this instance most likely refers to a particular set of post-translational modifications of the histone proteins, or different histone variants being present.

in which the term proportional to the square of the rate of rotation appears on the acceleration side as a " centripetal acceleration ", that is, a negative acceleration term in the direction.

This term appears as the second term in the multipole expansion of an arbitrary electrostatic potential Φ ( r ).

The term dagger appears only in the Late Middle Ages, reflecting the fact that while the dagger had been known in antiquity, it had disappeared during the Early Middle Ages, replaced by the hewing knife or seax.

The Old French term dague appears to have referred to these weapons in the 13th century, alongside other terms such as poignal and basilard.

The term English Civil War appears most commonly in the singular form, although historians often divide the conflict into two or three separate wars.

The name, which can also mean " hard cleft " in Irish, appears in the plural, caladbuilc, as a generic term for " great swords " in the 10th century Irish translation of the classical tale The Destruction of Troy, Togail Troi )

Confusion arises from the introduction of the additional term svartálfar " black elves ", which at first appears synonymous to the " dark elves "; Snorri identifies with the dvergar and has them reside in Svartálfaheim.

However, the term " the Unwashed " with the same meaning, appears in The Parisians: " He says that Paris has grown so dirty since the 4 September, that it is only fit for the feet of the Unwashed.

U Thant of course, will hold office until the spring of 1963, when Mr. Hammarskjold's term would have come to an end.

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Many songs have used this term, including the American patriotic songs " America, The Beautiful " and " God Bless the USA ".

Conversely, the vowel marks of the Tigrinya abugida and the Amharic abugida ( ironically, the original source of the term " abugida ") have been so completely assimilated into their consonants that the modifications are no longer systematic and have to be learned as a syllabary rather than as a segmental script.

The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).

Authors have used the term android in more diverse ways than robot or cyborg.

The subsequent Bronze Age civilizations of Greece and the Aegean Sea have given rise to the general term Aegean civilization.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

However, it is the Jewish artists, Gustav Mahler and Franz Kafka in music and literature that have embraced the theme of angst so highly in their work that they have become synonymous with the term to the point of popular joking and cartoons today.

As for the term " Compositae ", more ancient but still valid, it obviously makes reference to the fact that the family is one of the few angiosperms that have composite flowers.

The term may be common to Italo-Celtic, because the Celtic languages have terms for high mountains derived from alp.

In the Roman Catholic Church, abbots continue to be elected by the monks of an abbey to lead them as their religious superior in those orders and monasteries that make use of the term ( some orders of monks, as the Carthusians for instance, have no abbots, only priors ).

Alternate history is related to but distinct from counterfactual history — the term used by some professional historians when using thoroughly researched and carefully reasoned speculations on " what might have happened if ..." as a tool of academic historical research.

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

They generally have other terms specific to U. S. nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, Arabic أمريكاني amriikaanii ( as opposed to the more-common أمريكي amriikii ), and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American.

Thus, over the past 1, 500 years, some Christians have used the term Arian to refer to those groups that see themselves as worshiping Jesus Christ or respecting his teachings, but do not hold to the Nicene creed.

The term ' aromatic ' was assigned before the physical mechanism determining aromaticity was discovered, and was derived from the fact that many of the compounds have a sweet scent.

Its coastal acquisition may have been one reason yellow amber came to be designated by the same term as ambergris.

Contrary to modern usage, the term did not have the extended connotation of overweening pride, self-confidence or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution.

Ambrosians is a term that might be applied either to members of one of the religious brotherhoods which at various times since the 14th century have sprung up in and around Milan or, exceptionally to a 16th century sect of Anabaptists.