Presupposed in Plato's system is a doctrine of levels of insight, in which a certain kind of detached understanding is alone capable of penetrating to the most sublime wisdom.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

Equally penetrating in its fashion is the following remark by a lady in the course of a literary conversation: `` So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it ''.

The loud volume and penetrating tone make it suitable for single-note soloing, and it is frequently employed as a lead instrument in gypsy swing.

A short distance from Enfide is the entrance to a narrow, gloomy valley, penetrating the mountains and leading directly to Subiaco.

It is likely that harder hitting, or at least higher penetrating, weapons will become more common, due to a rise in use of body armor, making weaker weapons ineffective.

The conical bore of the cornet is primarily responsible for its characteristic warm, mellow tone, which can be distinguished from the more penetrating sound of the trumpet.

' Matter disappears ' means that the limit within which we have hitherto known matter disappears, and that our knowledge is penetrating deeper ; properties of matter are disappearing that formerly seemed absolute, immutable, and primary, and which are now revealed to be relative and characteristic only of certain states of matter.

The loud volume and penetrating tone make it suitable for single-note soloing and it is frequently employed as a lead instrument in gypsy swing.

A submachine gun is desirable for its compact size and ammunition capacity, however a pistol round lacks the penetrating capability of a rifle round.

It is the densest point of the ionosphere, which implies signals penetrating this layer will escape into space.

The bomb is 3. 05 m ( 10 ft ) long and weighs 560 kg ( 1, 234 lb ), of which 380 kg ( 837 lb ) is a hardened, armor-piercing warhead capable of penetrating up to 1. 5 m ( 4 ft 11 in ) of reinforced concrete.

The latter is being aggressively marketed by InterSystems and has had success in penetrating new markets, such as telecommunications, in addition to existing markets.

Char Aznable and the crew of Pegasus II ( White Base ), along with handpicked men under Kycilia Zabi's command, make a deep penetrating attack against the Side 3 and together kill Gihren Zabi, after which Kycilia is killed by Char.

Despite this, there is unanimity amongst researchers that these items were used to increase the penetrating potential of light projectiles such as harpoons, assegais, javelins and arrows.

Case ascends to cyberspace to find the icebreaker has succeeded in penetrating its target ; Lady 3Jane is induced to give up her password and the lock is opened.

According to the League of American Orchestras, this is done because the pitch of the oboe is secure and its penetrating sound makes it ideal for tuning purposes.

UV radiation capable of penetrating nitrogen is divided into three categories, based on its wavelength ; these are referred to as UV-A ( 400 – 315 nm ), UV-B ( 315 – 280 nm ), and UV-C ( 280 – 100 nm ).

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.

We divided the country into five regions plus Hawaii and Alaska and in each is included a general description of the area plus specific recommendations of places and events to cover.

A typical `` sonogram '' of a human eye, together with a description of the anatomical parts, is shown in Fig. 5.

Freeman, Cameron and McGhie, in their description of the disturbances of thinking found in chronic schizophrenic patients, say, in regard to condensation, that `` the lack of adequate discrimination between the self and the environment, and the objects contained therein in itself is the prototypical condensation ''.

Finally, information is retrieved from the dictionary as required by stages of the translation process -- the grammatical description for sentence-structure determination, equivalent-choice information for semantic analysis, and target-language equivalents for output construction.

It is not positivism which has isolated metaphysics from reality by distinguishing between description and prescription.

What follows is therefore a description of three separate undertakings, the new frescoing of the gap, and the successive essays in conservation, with some discussion of problems that arose in connection with each.

A full description of the DIOCS, DTF, and DUF statements is contained in the 7070 Data Processing System Bulletin `` IBM 7070 Input/Output Control System '', form Aj.

There is a complete synonymy at the beginning of each species description.

References are given at the end of each mineral description and a general index is given at the end of each volume.

A Yankee sergeant gave the following description of his sweetheart: `` my girl is none of your one-horse girls.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

That is almost a perfect description of the predicament in which we find ourselves today, isn't it??

Field Marshal Slim is striking in description, amusing in many anecdotes.

Claude Jannequin's vocal description of a battle ( the French equivalents of tarantara, rum-tum-tum, and boom-boom-boom are very picturesque ) is lots of fun, and the singers get a sense of grace and shape into other chansons by Jannequin and Lassus.

This is an exact description of what Mr. Sansom does.

As amoebas themselves are polyphyletic and subject to some imprecision in definition, the term " amoeboid " does not provide identification of an organism, and is better understood as description of locomotion.

Holtorf ’ s description of the archaeologist as a detective is very similar to Christie ’ s Poirot who is hugely observant and is very careful to look at the small details as they often impart the most information.

The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.

In The Plague, a key description of Oran occurs early, when it is explained that the town is built in such a way that it " turns its back on the bay, with the result that it's impossible to see the sea, you always have to go to look for it.

`` This is our tultul, a jumping platform, aku.

It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.

`` Amen '', said the Reverend Doran, grabbing his rifle propped up against a tombstone, `` and now my brethren, it would seem that our presence is required elsewhere ''.

`` Dandy is to be our house guest, Louis.

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.

Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

the temperature of our homes is independent of the seasons ; ;

In fact the accumulation of the hardware of destruction is day by day increasing our fear of each other.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.

It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in.

The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

Who will say that our country is even now a homogeneous community??

This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.

This is, however, symptomatic of our national malaise.