I found myself becoming one of that group of people who, in Carlyle's words, `` are forever gazing into their own navels, anxiously asking ' Am I right, am I wrong ' ''??

In other words, as students go through college, those who are most successful academically tend to become more committed to a `` Bill of Rights '' orientation.

To achieve this destiny, acts as well as words are needed -- not only acts that lead to physical strength but also acts that lead to strength based on right doing and respect.

No one who has studied the radical Right can suppose that words are their sole staple in trade.

To all, the Foundation gives the kind of thanks which are more than thanks: to them we are grateful beyond the possibility of conveying in words how grateful we are.

Signs are meant to convey a message, and in most cases, this requires words and letters.

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These examples are illustrative of the use of the words `` trial '' and `` experiment '' as they are used in this chapter, but they are quite flexible words and it is well not to restrict them too narrowly.

These words are more expressive than labels like `` A '' and `` not-A ''.

and which, more often than all these, conveys a welter of feelings which could in no way be conveyed by any number of words, words which are so unlike this welter in being formed and discrete from one another.

in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.

Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.

The desire to contrast the first parts of words which are alike in their last components produces an exceptional disregard of the normal patterns of stress of Chinese and Japanese.

Syllables are genuine units, but division of words and sentences into them presents great difficulties.

For the only time in the opera, words are not set according to their natural inflection ; ;

Again, as Boris feels himself nearing death, a procession files into the hall singing a hymn, its modal harmonies adding a churchly touch to the grim atmosphere: The words are hardly calculated to put the Tsar's mind at ease.

if any words or phrases are formulaic, they will be.

Note that orthography is not a good guide for identifying clitics: clitics may be written as independent words, bound affixes, or separated by special characters ( e. g., apostrophe ).

Alternatively the determinant may be a noun in the genitive case, placed before or after the base-word, either directly or separated from the base-word by intervening words.

Even when run together, the words can be separated in only one way.

The letters of a word are separated by a space equal to three dots ( one dash ), and two words are separated by a space equal to seven dots.

For a language like English, this is fairly trivial, since words are usually separated by spaces.

Whereas some text search engines require users to enter two or three words separated by white space, other search engines may enable users to specify entire documents, pictures, sounds, and various forms of natural language.

In other words, slowing down the recording lowers the pitch, speeding it up raises the pitch, and the two effects cannot be separated.

( In other words, each tone consists of ten sine waves with frequencies separated by octaves ; the intensity of each is a gaussian function of its separation in semitones from a peak frequency, which in the above example would be B ( 4 ).

Hyperbaton () is a figure of speech in which words that naturally belong together are separated from each other for emphasis or effect.

The literal translation given in the table below is an exact word-by-word translation in the original word order, where the meanings of the individual words are separated by dashes.

Each line is tokenized into a set of words separated by spaces or other characters with special meaning, including parentheses, piping and input / output redirection operators, semicolons, and ampersands.

When speaking of the church alone, which dates from the mid 12th century, it is separated into two words: Aa Kirke.

Clarence also speaks Richard's " Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun ,/ Not separated with the racking clouds / But severed in a pale clear-shining sky " ( ll. 26 – 28 ); Edward's " Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon / Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay " ( ll. 68 – 69 ); and Richard's " Great lord of Warwick, if we should recount / Our baleful news, and at each word's deliverance / Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told ,/ The words would add more anguish than the wounds " ( ll. 96 – 100 ).

Clarence also speaks Richard's " Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun ,/ Not separated with the racking clouds / But severed in a pale clear-shining sky "; Edward's " Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon / Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay "; and Richard's " Great lord of Warwick, if we should recount / Our baleful news, and at each word's deliverance / Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told ,/ The words would add more anguish than the wounds ".

The words were often, but not always, separated by two points.

The words " Vienoti Latvijai " beneath the statue ( meaning " United for Latvija ") symbolize Latgale's decision to reunite with the rest of Latvia during the Republic's formation in 1918, even though Latgale had been politically separated from the rest of Latvia for 300 years.

It is sometimes possible for a modifier to be separated from its head by other words, as in The man came who you bumped into in the street yesterday, where the relative clause who ... yesterday is separated from the word it modifies ( man ) by the word came.

Reserved words and identifiers are separated by spaces.

For the first several decades of publication, the Scripps annual study booklet was named Words of the Champions, which offered 3, 000 words in a list separated into beginning, intermediate & expert groupings.

In inscriptions, words are often separated by a dot at the height of the upper triangle.

Tmesis ( or ; Ancient Greek: tmēsis, " a cutting " < temnō, " I cut ") is a linguistic phenomenon in which a word or set phrase is separated into two parts, with other words occurring between them.

This intervention of the object in the middle of the phrasal verb can be viewed as a form of tmesis even though the semantic unit being separated is written as two words even when not separated.

Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

Though the slave's dying words about the woman troubled the coroner's panel, Dandy's accusation was adjudged an aberration by the jury and disregarded.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

by this term he means to ridicule their professions of acting in the interest of the Church despite their own education and manner of life -- a gibe, in other words, at the `` Presbyterianism '' in Harley's family and at Bolingbroke's reputed impiety.

The Negro composer Hall Johnson studied the American-Negro Suite and said of it, `` Of all the many songs written by white composers and employing what claims to be a Negroid idiom in both words and music, these six songs by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler easily stand far out above the rest.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??