( 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.

German Alpen is the accusative in origin, but was made the nominative in Modern German, whence also Alm.

It is a noun that is having something done to it, usually joined ( such as in Latin ) with the nominative case, making it an indirect object.

* as the subject of an indirect statement ( e. g. Dixit me fuisse saevum, " He said that I had been cruel ;" in later Latin works, such as the Vulgate, such a construction is replaced by quod and a regularly structured sentence, having the subject in the nominative: e. g., Dixit quod ego fueram saevus ).

The pronoun whom is a remnant of the dative case in English, descending from the Old English dative pronoun " hwām " ( as opposed to the nominative " who ", which descends from Old English " hwā ") — though " whom " also absorbed the functions of the Old English accusative pronoun " hwone ".

Here, the subject, Ich, is in the nominative case, the direct object, das Buch, is in the accusative case, and zum Verleger is in the dative case, since zu always requires the dative ( zum is a contraction of zu + dem ).

*** For nouns, The is for the nominative, for the accusative, and for the genitive.

The word dragon entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French dragon, which in turn comes from Latin draconem ( nominative draco ) meaning " huge serpent, dragon ," from the Greek word δράκων, drakon ( genitive drakontos, δράκοντος ) " serpent, giant seafish ", which is believed to have come from an earlier stem drak -, a stem of derkesthai, " to see clearly ," from Proto-Indo-European derk-" to see " or " the one with the ( deadly ) glance.

In linguistics, declension is the inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and articles to indicate number ( at least singular and plural ), case ( nominative or subjective, genitive or possessive, etc.

) In addition, a few English pronouns have distinct nominative and objective forms ; that is, they decline to reflect their relationship to a verb or preposition.

* ( nominative ) " man " a subject ( e. g., the man is standing there )

Though widely used, it differs in form from the nominative only in the masculine singular of the second declension ( that is, never in the plural, never in the feminine or neuter, and never in any declension other than the second ).

: This is the nominative singular form of the Latin noun.

In addition to indicating direct objects, the accusative / allative case is used with nouns, adjectives and adverbs to show the destination of a motion, or to replace certain prepositions ; the nominative / oblique is used in all other situations.

Many aspects of the syntax of Greek have remained constant: verbs agree with their subject only, the use of the surviving cases is largely intact ( nominative for subjects and predicates, accusative for objects of most verbs and many prepositions, genitive for possessors ), articles precede nouns, adpositions are largely prepositional, relative clauses follow the noun they modify, relative pronouns are clause-initial.

This occurs in the context of Irenaeus ' work On the Detection and Overthrow of Knowledge Falsely So Called, ( Greek: elenchos kai anatrope tes pseudonymou gnoseos genitive case, ἔλεγχος καὶ ἀνατροπὴ τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως ) where the term " knowledge falsely so-called " ( nominative case pseudonymos gnosis ) covers various groups, not just Valentinus, and is a quotation of the apostle Paul's warning against " knowledge falsely so-called " in 1 Timothy 6: 20.

In many European languages, the word for " case " is cognate to the English word, all stemming from the Latin casus, related to the verb cadere, " to fall ", with the sense that all other cases have fallen away from the nominative.

On this sign in Russian memorializing an anniversary of the city of Balakhna, the word Balakhna on the right is in the nominative case, while the word Balakhne is in the dative case in Balakhne 500 Let (' Balakhna is 500 years old ') on the front of the sign.

This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

he is very close to being a mental case.

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

In the case of social decay, form is displaced simply by the process of dissolution with no form at the terminus of the process.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

There may be a case of this sort, but it is not one we wish to argue, here.

In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;

The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.

Such, he implies, is the case with his friend, who is not really a new convert himself but merely a favorer of new converts.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

In any case, who ever thought that New York is typical of anything??

American history should clinch the case when Congress is asked to approve.

Senator Mundt's gross distortion of President Eisenhower's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to be entirely false, is another case in point.

The Connally amendment says that the United States, rather than the court, shall determine whether a matter is essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States in a case before the World Court to which the United States is a party.

If the case is thus determined by us to be domestic, the court has no jurisdiction.

Besides the lack of an adequate ethical dimension to the Governor's case, one can ask seriously whether our lead over the Russians in quality and quantity of nuclear weapons is so slight as to make the tests absolutely necessary.

In my own case, I submit that such reasonable and fair exercise is woefully lacking.

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