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 it plausible that some of the suspect works that form part of Alexander's corpus should be ascribed to his father.

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.

The European court ruled that the Teacake was not, in fact, a biscuit but a cake and as such Marks and Spencer have begun a legal battle in the UK to retrieve the taxes paid which could amount to as much as 3. 5 million UK pounds sterling ($ 5. 6 million ).

In fact, the food industry started in Umag in the early 20th century with the opening of the " Arrigoni " plant for packing fish and tomatoes and the building of a flour mill, the predecessor of today's bakery and biscuit factory.

Morvo was in fact George Meikle Kemp, forty-five year old joiner, draftsman, and self-taught architect.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

The Inca forces greatly out numbered the Spanish, however the Spanish superiority of weapons, tactics and the fact that the most trusted in Inca Generals were in Cusco led to an easy defeat and the capture of the Incan Emperor.

" the brethren ", Acts 18: 27, in addition to Priscilla and Aquila ), and it is easy to connect a sojourn of John in these provinces with the fact that the Holy Ghost did not permit the Apostle Paul on his second missionary journey to proclaim the Gospel in Asia, Mysia, and Bithynia ( Acts 16: 6 sq .).

Their popularity seems to be partly due to the fact that their vagueness and lack of dating make it easy to quote them selectively after every major dramatic event and retrospectively claim them as " hits " ( see Nostradamus in popular culture ).

The owner has in effect added a vulnerability — the fact that the entry key is stored under the doormat — to the system, and one which is very easy to guess and exploit.

She recorded that their adolescence was not in fact a time of " storm and stress " as Erikson's stages of development suggest, but that the sexual freedom experienced by the adolescents actually permitted them an easy transition from childhood to adulthood.

The advantages of ESWL include its noninvasive nature, the fact that it is technically easy to treat most upper urinary tract calculi, and that, at least acutely, it is a well-tolerated, low-morbidity treatment for the vast majority of people.

There is nothing special about such a monotonous sequence except that it is easy to describe ; the same fact applies to any nameable specific sequence, such as " RGRGRG " repeated forever, or " abaabbaaabbb ...".

In fact, it is easy to find cork oaks in many parts of the region and the whole area is rich in granite, especially in vicinity of Monte Limbara. Santa Teresa di Gallura

The book is listed as one of 50 " timeless spiritual classics " in a book by Tom Butler-Bowdon, who noted that " it is easy now, 35 years on, to overlook the originality of the book's concept, and though some find it rather naïve, in fact it expresses timeless ideas about human potential.

Bands on the walls of tubes, in fact apparent from the early Silurian onwards, are an early improvisation to aid the easy flow of water.

In support of this idea is the fact that none of his enemies commented on what would be an easy target.

A Q-ship would appear to be an easy target, but in fact carried hidden armaments.

Given Switzerland's particularly strong opinions on who is " Swiss " and who is " other ", it is easy to see that groups such as Stoffunita make use of the fact that hip hop " is still considered a voice for the oppressed " as hip hop scholar and author Jeff Chang notes.

Applying the rules and customs of prize law, the courts decided whether the Letter of Marque was valid and current, and whether the captured vessel or its cargo in fact belonged to the enemy ( not always easy, when flying false flags was common practice ), and if so the prize and its cargo were " condemned ", to be sold at auction with the proceeds divided among the privateer's owner and crew.

Reasons that have been advanced in opposition to granting U. S. citizenship to all enrolled members of the Nation include the fact that births on the reservation have been for a large part informally recorded and the records are susceptible to easy alteration or falsification.

The fact that uniform limits on compact sets of analytic functions are analytic is an easy consequence of Morera's theorem.

The use of these types of diagrams in formal logic, according to Ruskey and M. Weston, is " not an easy history to trace, but it is certain that the diagrams that are popularly associated with Venn, in fact, originated much earlier.

In fact, an elliptic function must have at least two poles ( counting multiplicity ) in a fundamental parallelogram, as it is easy to show using the periodicity that a contour integral around its boundary must vanish, implying that the residues of any simple poles must cancel.

") The Finnish sauna is not thought of as an easy way to get physical exercise, and it is not intended for weight loss ; in fact, it predates these modern ideas.

The trick is rendered very easy by the fact that the card sharper has his coat buttoned at the top, so that the lower part of it lies open and permits the introduction of the hand, which is completely masked.

The reason that several companies attempted to succeed in what proved to be a failing enterprise was the fact that the furnace was within easy distance of the Williamsport and Elmira Railroad which connected the industrial centers of Williamsport, Pennsylvania and Elmira, New York.

In fact it is easy to see that the class of a fractional ideal I in Frac ( R )/ Prin ( R ) is invertible if and only if I itself is invertible.

One of the marvelous things about John Bonham which made things very easy a producer was the fact that he really knew how to tune his drums, and I tell you what, that was pretty rare in drummers in those days.

The use of plastic pipe tethered with stakes became common, as it allowed for relatively easy reconfiguration of fields and at least some impact-absorption, and was the precursor to the modern inflatable bunker ( in fact, certain common features in inflatable fields, such as " can " and " snake " bunkers, were derived from similar features built with plastic drainage pipe ).