Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

The great absorbency of this tissue and the fact that it is easier to control than a sponge makes it an ideal tool for the watercolorist.

This, for obvious reasons, makes their techniques superbly useful in studying the psychiatric interview, so useful, in fact, that they have been successfully used to suggest ways to speed diagnosis and to evaluate the progress of therapy.

Whatever projection one makes, the striking fact about congregational and parochial life is the extent to which it is a vehicle of the social identity of middle-class people.

He even buys a lot of the products he sees advertised -- despite the fact that the copy makes no special bid for his favor and sponsors rarely use any but white models in commercials.

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.

Often, the fact that sometimes only a thin surface layer of violet color is present in the stone or that the color is not homogeneous makes for a difficult cutting.

This fact makes therapeutic target development extremely difficult – a drug that harms an apicomplexan parasite is also likely to harm its human host.

Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.

The one New Testament reference to the city of Armageddon found in Revelation 16: 16 in fact also makes no specific mention of any armies being predicted to one day gather in this city, but instead seems to predict only that " they ( will gather ) the kings together to .... Armageddon.

The fact that atoms and molecules are three-dimensional makes it difficult to use a single technique for indicating orbitals and bonds.

The fact that large and interesting classes of non-compact spaces do in fact have compactifications of particular sorts makes compactification a common technique in topology.

However, the fact that they can be used " off the shelf ", as well as their amortized cost over many applications and instances, makes them an attractive alternative ( Vs. one-time development ) whenever they meet an application's requirements.

Pliny makes clear the fact in the preface to his work that he had checked his facts by reading and comparing the works of others, as well as referring to them by name.

" The Ambassador's word choice, along with the estimation of the British Ambassador in Addis Ababa, makes quite clear the fact that the Eritrea aspiration was for Independence.

The Euclidean structure makes E < sup > n </ sup > an inner product space ( in fact a Hilbert space ), a normed vector space, and a metric space.

The fact that Paul makes the expectation of his own temporal freedom explicit by demanding that Philemon prepare for his literal return is thus a poetic reinforcement of the fact that he expects Onesimus ' temporal freedom to be granted as well.

Apparently, she finds accused men extremely attractive — the fact of their indictment makes them irresistible to her.

Furthermore, each Riemannian metric is naturally associated with one particular kind of connection, the Levi-Civita connection, and this is, in fact, the connection that satisfies the equivalence principle and makes space locally Minkowskian ( that is, in suitable locally inertial coordinates, the metric is Minkowskian, and its first partial derivatives and the connection coefficients vanish ).

] Moore makes accusations that have no basis in fact " although Greenpeace themselves have vehemently denied Watson's claim of being a Greenpeace Founder.

He enjoys destroying things, mauling the mailman, tormenting Odie, kicking Odie off the table ; he also makes snide comments, usually about Jon's inability to get a date ( in one strip, when Jon bemoans the fact that no one will go out with him on New Year's, Garfield replies, " Don't feel bad Jon.

This fact, combined with a high excitation energy resulting in a particularly rich spectrum of decay gamma rays produced when the metastable state de-excites, makes this isotope useful in nuclear physics experiments as a means for calibrating energy responses and intrinsic efficiencies of gamma ray spectrometers.

Bayesians would argue that this is right and proper — if the issue is such that reasonable people can put forward different, but plausible, priors and the data are such that the likelihood does not swamp the prior, then the issue is not resolved unambiguously at the present stage of knowledge and Bayesian statistics highlights this fact.

Aside from the fact that Leofric would have known little about Asser and so would have been unlikely to construct a plausible forgery, there is strong evidence dating the Cotton manuscript to about 1000.

In fact, the implanted defibrillator system represents an imperfect solution in search of a plausible and practical application.

The Heechee in fact originated as a plot device enabling Pohl to give a plausible reason for humans to make the effort of colonizing the inhospitable planet that space probes have proven Venus to be.

Boyer's leaving the motel room with almost all of Cooke's clothing, regardless of exactly why she did so, combined with the fact that tests showed Cooke was inebriated at the time, provided what inquest jurors deemed a plausible explanation for Cooke's bizarre behavior and state of dress, as reported by Franklin and Carr.

A modern commentator, Solomon Landers, believes that a plausible alternative is that Jephthah's vow was most likely modified and that she was not in fact sacrificed, but rather, her fate may have been perpetual virginity or solitary confinement.

* That the work relies on one or more conspiracy theories or hidden-hand explanations, when the principle of Occam's razor would recommend a simpler, more prosaic and more plausible explanation of the same fact pattern.

It had probably not seemed plausible that there would be ' enough ' such rational factors, before the conjecture was enunciated ; and in fact the numerical evidence was slight until around 1970, when tables began to confirm it.

Although the statement may be possible or plausible, it is not based on fact.

Entanglement with the parachute appears plausible in view of the fact that the parachute's strop was shortened from the original design to save mass.

James D. G. Dunn addressed Wells ' statement and stated that he knew of no other scholar that shared that view, and most other scholars had other and more plausible explanations for the fact that Paul did not include a narrative of the life of Jesus in his letters, which were primarily written as religious documents rather than historical chronicles at a time when the life story of Jesus could have been well known within the early Church.

In fact, the implanted defibrillator system represents an imperfect solution in search of a plausible and practical application.

Yet another plausible answer is that the first version did, in fact, use egg and cream, but due to the food limitations in WWII they were dropped from the recipe.

It is plausible that the code means " third type " ( C ) in its first ( A ) production version ; a further indication for this lies in the fact that it was not uncommon to use a reversed order: AC.

The Master appears on the Matrix screen to claim responsibility and to demonstrate that the Doctor's allegation that the Matrix has been breached is, in fact, plausible.

Whether Johann Georg was in fact Hitler's biological paternal grandfather is considered unknown by modern historians, but his case is the most plausible and widely accepted.

This is made plausible by the fact that " Thaddeus " seems to be a nickname ( see Thaddeus ).

Rata Blanca was internationally approved: in fact, it is plausible to state that their classic metal sound was more popular outside Argentina than within.

There are plausible arguments that this was in fact the Peloponnesian War ; but G. W.

Instead, it is plausible to conclude that the honest and straightforward, but intellectually and politically unsophisticated, Butler perceived in simplistic terms what were, in fact, complex trends and events.

In chapter VII, he maintains that " order-from-order " is not absolutely new to physics ; in fact, it is even simpler and more plausible.

The term was used in the play Inherit the Wind ( a parable that fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes " Monkey " Trial ), when the character of Matthew Brady ( representative of William Jennings Bryan ) argued that " Ladies and gentleman, devolution is not a theory but a cold fact ... the ape devolved from man ", mocking evolutionary theory by offering an alternative he considers just as plausible.

Thus, the fact that women discovered the empty tomb first is seen as very plausible, and the ( presumably devout ) disciples taking the body is seen as a less likely explanation.

In fact, roundarm has a more plausible origin.