' Her face, with its glamour-gorgon makeup, softens, as Madame Armfeldt seems to melt into memory itself, and the wan stage light briefly appears to borrow radiance from her.

It was the king's intention to take one as his mistress, but William threatened to kill whichever he chose rather than have her dishonoured in this way, whereupon Alfred " answerid that he meant to take one of them to wife, and chose Etheldrede that had fat bottoks, and of her he had Alurede that wan first all the Saxons the monarchy of England.

Important players and teachers in the 20th century include Wang Xunzhi ( 王巽之, 1899 – 1972 ) who popularized the Wulin zheng school based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang ; Lou Shuhua, who rearranged a traditional guzheng piece and named it Yu zhou chang wan ; Liang Tsai-Ping ( 1911 – 2000 ), who edited the first guzheng teaching manual, Nizheng pu in 1938 ; Cao Dongfu ( 1898 – 1970 ), from Henan ; Gao Zicheng ( b. 1918 ) and Zhao Yuzhai ( b. 1924 ), both from Shandong ; Su Wenxian ( 1907 – 1971 ); Guo Ying ( b. 1914 ) and Lin Maogen ( b. 1929 ), both from Chaozhou ; the Hakka Luo Jiuxiang ( 1902 – 1978 ); and Cao Guifen and Cao Zheng ( 1920 – 1998 ), both of whom trained in the Henan school.

* Paul Cohen cited Arthur W. Hummel, Sr. in " The Eminent Chinese of the Ch ' ing Period " ( 1943 – 44 ), stated the date of the first issue of Tsun wan yat Po was January 5, 1874.

The previous night's horror -- the absolute failure, overcast with the intrusions of the press, had left them all with a wan sense of uselessness, of play-acting.

Thai cuisine employs bay leaf ( Thai name bai kra wan ) in a few Arab-influenced dishes, notably massaman curry.

Article 1 of the 1990 Constitution said that Afghanistan wan an " independent, unitary and Islamic state.

Article 1 of the 1990 constitution said that Afghanistan wan an " independent, unitary and Islamic state.

* SHEN SUNG-CHIAO ( a ): Wo yi wo xue jian Xuanyuan-Huangdi shenhua yu wan Qing de guozu jiangou 黃帝神話與晚清的國族建構, in: Taiwan shehui yanjiu jikan, Ausgabe 28, Dezember 1997, S. 1-77.

*" sophisticashun wan "-as in " you so sophisticashun wan lah " i. e. ' you are so sophisticated '; an example of Manglish's tendency to use a noun as an adjective.

Your car is so noob, so slow wan.

It is also sometimes rendered as " wan.

Upon its release, Time magazine called it a " wan bit of whimsy ... makes no more sense than its synopsis, though Meg Ryan beguiles in three different roles.

Rolling Stone gave the album a mixed review, saying that though the transition to shorter songs generally works, the lyrics are " a wan and ridiculous rehash of the bargain-basement exoticism employed by the British art-rock crowd.

At that time, films that were very popular internationally, such as " Nosferatu " ( directed by F. W. Murnau, starring actor Max Schreck ), depicted dehumanized forms with very wan complexions, long noses and long ears, and cadaverous body shapes, who drank blood.

As the result the child would be wan, Vyasa told his mother, who begged for another child.

** each of the nine Mahjong character suit tiles ( 1 to 9 ) represents ten thousand ( wan ) coins, or one hundred strings of one hundred coins.

Byron introduces his wan and raggedy troupe, including Simon, a traumatized boy who communicates by transmitting visions.

The viscous mud was ankle-deep, and in places great puddles spread across the road and reflected the murky light.

These light elements keep being spread too fast and too tightly in the Big Bang process ( see nucleosynthesis ) due to which they formed stable medium-sized atomic nuclei, like iron and nickel.

However, when this " single-slit experiment " is actually performed, the pattern on the screen is a diffraction pattern in which the light is spread out.

Written from the 1650s onwards, with such titles as Friends, seek the peace of all men or To Friends, to know one another in the light, they give enormous insight into the detail of Fox's beliefs, and show his determination to spread them.

Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments have come to light only in a few locales.

Depending on the design of the cavity ( whether the mirrors are flat or curved ), the light coming out of the laser may spread out or form a narrow beam.

A diffuser and two polarizers then spread the light out evenly across the whole display.

A light diffuser is then used to spread the light evenly across the whole display.

Since any fluorescence image is made up of a large number of such small fluorescent light sources, the image is said to be " convolved by the point spread function ".

The spectrum of solar light at the Earth's surface is mostly spread across the visible and near-infrared ranges with a small part in the near-ultraviolet.

In light of the Russian border forces ' withdrawal from the Tajik-Afghan border, the U. S. Government leads an international donor effort to enhance Tajikistan's territorial integrity, prevent the transit of narcotics and material or technology related to weapons of mass destruction ( WMD ), and support a stable, peaceful Tajikistan in order to prevent the spread of influence and activities of radical groups and terrorists.

The main result of this interference is to spread out the light from the narrow slit into a broader image on the screen.

X-ray crystallography is a method of determining the arrangement of atoms within a crystal, in which a beam of X-rays strikes a crystal and causes the beam of light to spread into many specific directions.

Far away from the narrowest part of the beam, the spread is roughly linear with distance — the laser beam forms a cone of light in the " far field ".

The result is that the angles determined by Snell's law also depend on frequency or wavelength, so that a ray of mixed wavelengths, such as white light, will spread or disperse.

Though Jupiter would appear 900 times brighter than the full moon, its light would be spread over an area some 8500 times greater and it would not look as bright per surface unit.

The method followed by its illustrious author Sir Newton ... spread the light of mathematics on a science which up to then had remained in the darkness of conjectures and hypotheses.

Every religion on Earth see there god in the form of light, the spread of some beam light, Islam noor, Christian rays of light it nothing but it Shiva.

In those episodes and films, the Federation is described as an interstellar federal polity with, as of the year 2373, more than 150 member planets and thousands of colonies spread across 8, 000 light years of the Milky Way Galaxy and taking the form of a post-capitalist liberal democracy and constitutional republic.

However, highly localized lighting effects ( such as specular highlights, e. g. the glint of reflected light on the surface of an apple ) will not be rendered correctly, and if a highlight lies in the middle of a polygon, but does not spread to the polygon's vertex, it will not be apparent in a Gouraud rendering ; conversely, if a highlight occurs at the vertex of a polygon, it will be rendered correctly at this vertex ( as this is where the lighting model is applied ), but will be spread unnaturally across all neighboring polygons via the interpolation method.

The clouds parted and hard gashes of sunlight swooped down to stain the earth with streaks of white and gold light so that the shadows of the running horses flowed like dark streams over the dazzling snow.

Hamilton was bent over his desk, drafting a legal paper by the light of a candle.

Lunch was over, and we walked back to the hotel with the light and dark of Paris screaming at us.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

Somewhere over there another patrol had need of light.

The light supper over, Claire went to him and, slipping an arm about his shoulder, sat on his knee.

These cases in which light is already visible at the other end of the tunnel are ones which over the next few years will absorb the bulk of our capital assistance.

We put a light mulch over the seedlings ; ;

Without further discussion he appeared the next morning with a pile of boards sticking over the end of his light truck and proceeded with the paneling, which he then stained and waxed according to his taste.

In series 1, the relative light intensity was varied by varying the distance of the lamp from the reaction cell over the range from 14.7 to 29.2 cm..

`` You and Barney get her over to Rose's before it gets too light.

he'd hung another half of a blanket over the boarded window so no light would show through.

`` Git over by the window while there's light, an' I'll put th' candle out.

he could only see the light coming over the horizon.

Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.

This time B'dikkat smiled pleasantly at the little head which had grown out of Mercer's thigh -- a sleeping child's head, covered with light hair on top and with dainty eyebrows over the resting eyes.

The concept being measured over the circuit, whether sound, light, pressure, temperature, or an exceeded limit, remains from end to end.

The intervening elements react differently at different frequencies of light as they whip in and out of view, causing Alioth to have very strange spectral lines that fluctuate over a period of 5. 1 days.

In the summer of 1993, Dick Zimmerman, a 44-year-old retired broadcasting executive from Larkspur, California, happened to see the episode in which Butt-head joked, “ Hey, Beavis, let ’ s go over to Stewart ’ s house and light firecracker in his cat ’ s butt .” Five days later, a cat was found killed by a firecracker in nearby Santa Cruz.

There is also a fountain ( şadırvan ) where worshipers can perform ritual ablutions before prayer ; the dome over the şadırvan is capped by a skylight which creates a soft, serene light below ; thus playing an important role in the illumination of the large building.

Although the mechanics of ballpoint pens remain relatively unchanged, ink composition has evolved to solve certain problems over the years, resulting in unpredictable sensitivity to light and some extent of fading.

Between a pure black and a very light mulatto over a dozen racial categories would be recognized in conformity with the combinations of hair color, hair texture, eye color, and skin color.

One can solve this problem by granting some degree of moral relativism and accepting that norms may evolve over time and, therefore, one can criticize the continued enforcement of old laws in the light of the current norms.