: ( 1 ) in France, a kind of " cookie " ( or " biscuit " in British English ), similar to a biscotto ;

In retrospect, it reminds me of a cookie baked by a first grader — tasty enough, but kind of lumpy and burned on the bottom.

It is often served with some kind of cookie but the main focus is on the coffee.

* Shortbread, a kind of biscuit in the British sense ( cookie )

Another two apparently unrelated calls appear to subtly reference each other ; a caller who indicates he is fond of eating animals of any kind says he sometimes finds pigeons that have notes attached, commenting " it's like a fortune cookie with wings ".

I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

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.

And ( D ) all action of a physical kind pertinent to the mission is relegated to the line of men on the lower rank.

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.

Seemingly, order is perceived as a kind of subsistent entity now covered by adventitious accretions.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

There is another kind of ardor, a quiet, sure devotion to the fundamental decencies of human life, but no angry utopian contentions.

This is the good kind of sophistication, and with all our problems and crises this kind of sophistication has flowered in the United States during recent years.

Under this kind of pressure, it is not surprising that Wright would make sweeping statements to the newspapers.

The immediate need for this kind of co-operation is underscored by the strain in this nation's international balance of payments.

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.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

The entire exercise, Latin and English, is most suggestive of the kind of person Milton had become at Christ's during his undergraduate career ; ;

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

What is now called Christian fellowship is often little more than the social chumminess of having a gracious time with the kind of people one likes.

It is not developing an awareness of the new kind of missionary strategy that is called for as young churches emerge in Asia and Africa.

Mr. Robards -- Jenny was the only person she knew of in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood who called him that -- was kind but too easygoing.

His solution was a kind of corporatism called " group government ".

By allowing a new kind of equality among citizens this opened the way to democracy, which in turn called for a new means, chattel slavery, to at least partially equalise the availability of leisure between rich and poor.

This kind of formal English, particularly written English, is often called " standard English ".

An accumulator machine, also called a 1-operand machine, or a CPU with accumulator-based architecture, is a kind of CPU where, although it may have several registers, the CPU mostly stores the results of calculations in one special register, typically called " the accumulator ".

By extension, the term " embark " literally means to board the kind of boat called a " barque ".

Additional help was given by a kind of Catholic Churchman's Almanack, called the Ordo Recitandi Divini Officii, published in different countries and dioceses, and giving, under every day, minute directions for proper reading.

Most scholars of copyright agree that it can be called a kind of property, because it involves the exclusion of others from something.

The mathematicians and computer programmers that do this kind of work are called gaming mathematicians and gaming analysts.

At the turn of the 1st century AD, a kind of folded parchment notebook called pugillares membranei in Latin became commonly used for writing in the Roman Empire.

This kind of cultural imperialism is derived from what is called " soft power ".

The fruit is often a kind of modified berry called a pepo.

In order to remove aliasing, all rendering algorithms ( if they are to produce good-looking images ) must use some kind of low-pass filter on the image function to remove high frequencies, a process called antialiasing.

The district was originally called Sacopenapã ( translated from the tupi language, it means " the way of the socós ( a kind of bird )") until the mid-18th century.

Other people called for the General Secretary to either be elected by the people, or a " kind of party referendum ".

Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the “ dean of the Impressionist painters ", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also " by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality ”.

In linguistics, creaky voice ( sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry ), is a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together ; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact.

Cactus spines are produced from specialized structures called areoles, a kind of highly reduced branch.

A varied group of individuals are on a pilgrimage to solicit a kind of demon-god called " the Shrike " on the planet " Hyperion " in a universe on the edge of the apocalypse.

Aristotle developed a comprehensive theory of being, according to which only individual things, called substances, fully have being, but other things such as relations, quantity, time, and place ( called the categories ) have a derivative kind of being, dependent on individual things.

This presentation also emphasizes the notation of the two kinds of Bernoulli numbers, called the first and the second kind, which are of equal legitimacy, and in principle not to favor of each other.