( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

And it is expressed, at least to their taste, in a perfect form.

The unit of form is determined subjectively: `` the Heart, by the way of the Breath, to the Line ''.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

But in this approach it is the artist's ultimate insight, rather than his immediate impressions, that gives form to the work.

It is through the metamorphosed dancer that the germ of form is discovered.

It only means that there will be new form, and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else.

That is why the form itself becomes a preoccupation, because it exists as a problem separate from the material it accommodates.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now ''.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses.

But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

In a bold, sometimes careless, form there is nothing academic ; ;

This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

But let us not complain of the evils of capitalism by referring to a form that is not truly capitalistic.

In the United States, the usual written form is December 7, 1941, spoken as " December seventh, nineteen forty-one " or colloquially " December the seventh, nineteen forty-one ".

Spinning is the twisting together of drawn out strands of fibres to form yarn, though it is colloquially used to describe the process of drawing out, inserting the twist, and winding onto bobbins.

The change from a progressive local taxation based on property values to a single-rate form of taxation regardless of ability to pay ( the Community Charge, but more popularly referred to as the Poll Tax ), led to widespread refusal to pay and to incidents of civil unrest, known colloquially as the ' Poll Tax Riots '.

Ursa Minor is colloquially known as the Little Dipper because its seven brightest stars seem to form the shape of a dipper ( ladle or scoop ).

In recent times, a milder form of the rip, ' sign for information ', colloquially known as an " info ", has been introduced, which must also be signed by the boy's housemaster and tutor.

At the highest level there is a longer kata ( known colloquially as " Go Down Moses ") in which all 3 kata are combined into a single form.

Orthostatic hypotension, also known as postural hypotension, and colloquially as head rush or dizzy spell, is a form of hypotension in which a person's blood pressure suddenly falls when standing up or stretching.

These villages, the town, and the CDP share a common history and together form a larger community colloquially referred to as " Chevy Chase.

" Octane " is colloquially used as a short form of " octane rating " ( named for the ability of octane's branched-chain isomers, especially isooctane, to reduce engine knock ), particularly in the expression " high octane.

A rudimentary form of this maneuver was also employed by Genghis Khan, known colloquially as the ' horns ' tactic.

The most common form of disembowelment was referred to in Japanese as seppuku ( or, colloquially, hara-kiri ), literally " stomach cutting ," involving two cuts across the abdomen, sometimes followed by pulling out one's own viscera.

In cold climates, houses with their heating systems form dissipative systems, often resulting in a loss of energy ( known colloquially as " Heat Bleed ") that makes home interiors uncomfortably cool or cold.

The oil sands are loose sand or partially consolidated sandstone containing naturally occurring mixtures of sand, clay, and water, saturated with a dense and extremely viscous form of petroleum technically referred to as bitumen ( or colloquially tar due to its similar appearance, odour and colour ).

A negative pressure ventilator ( often referred to colloquially as an iron lung ) is a form of medical ventilator that enables a person to breathe when normal muscle control has been lost or the work of breathing exceeds the person's ability.

In the 19th century The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, colloquially called Mormons, attempted to live a form of Christian communalism called the Law of Consecration, using organizations described as the United Order.

First published in 1948 by Dr. Arnold Kegel, a pelvic floor exercise, more commonly called a Kegel exercise, consists of repeatedly contracting and relaxing the muscles that form part of the pelvic floor, now sometimes colloquially referred to as the " Kegel muscles ".

Habibi ( ح َ بيبي ) is an Arabic word whose literal meaning is my beloved ( for a male object of affection ; the feminine form is habibati and colloquially habibti ).

Colostrum ( also known colloquially as beestings, bisnings or first milk ) is a form of milk produced by the mammary glands of mammals ( including humans ) in late pregnancy.

Geographically, the Ringbahn takes the form of a dog's head and is colloquially known to Berliners by that name ( Hundekopf ).

After second world war it was also colloquially used for ' teacher ' ( as a elliptical form of the official tovariš učitelj ( m .), tovarišica učiteljica ( f .) ' comrade teacher ').

Some Portuguese triphthongs appears in places where some speakers can break the first segment to form a hiatus ( that is, or are not equivalent to standard Portuguese semivowels and in this case ), and as such they are deemed as non-triphthongs by standard, although many or most speakers produce them as such ( and even more frequently when speaking colloquially ):

An accused's history of convictions are called antecedents, known colloquially as " previous " or " form " in the UK and " priors " in the United States and Australia.

Fungus Rock, which is colloquially known in Maltese as ' Il-Ġebla tal-Ġeneral ' ( the General's Rock ), is a small islet in the form of a 60 metres high massive lump of limestone at the entrance to an almost circular black lagoon in Dwejra, on the coast of Gozo, itself an island in the Maltese archipelago.

The format of orchestra varies ; in the most common form, it usually has one or two tamburitzas, a violin, a guitar and a contrabass ( colloquially referred to as " begeš "); sometimes it also includes an accordion.