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the fire of love is dead, and Hardy stands, as the speaker does in the last poem of the sequence, over the burnt circle of charred sticks, and thinks of past happiness and present grief, honest and uncomforted.
As his last work he prepared the text for the book Paris sans fin, a sequence of 150 lithographs containing memories of all the places where he had lived.
However, traditional films have frequently had much of the same sort of the issues to deal with ; film shoots may last several months and as scenes are frequently shot out of story sequence, footage shot weeks apart may be edited together as part of the same day's action in the completed film.
By default, however, an animation displays the sequence of frames only once, stopping when the last frame is displayed.
Although large airliners and, increasingly, smaller aircraft now carry their own terrain awareness and warning system TAWS, these are primarily backup systems providing a last layer of defense if a sequence of errors or omissions causes a dangerous situation.
In 2008, Alexander guest-starred on the CBS show Criminal Minds in the season four episode " Masterpiece " as Prof. Rothschild, a well-educated serial killer obsessed with the Fibonacci sequence who sends the team into a race against time to save his last victims.
The multi-sentence version of the liar paradox generalizes to any circular sequence of such statements ( wherein the last statement asserts the truth / falsity of the first statement ), provided there are an odd number of statements asserting the falsity of their successor ; the following is a three-sentence version, with each statement asserting the falsity of its successor:
Its strongest strategy, history matching, searches for a sequence in the past that matches the last few moves in order to predict the next move of the algorithm.
* The last, second to last, and third to last items in a sequence.
In the last equation of the sequence, the bounds of the integral over the source function have been made explicit.
** Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado kills 115 in Flint, Michigan ( the last to claim more than 100 lives until the 2011 Joplin tornado ).
ISDN subscribers would get a sequence of 10 subsequent subscriber numbers, the last digit of which being the EAZ.
In telecommunication, a burst error or error burst is a contiguous sequence of symbols, received over a data transmission channel, such that the first and last symbols are in error and there exists no contiguous subsequence of m correctly received symbols within the error burst.
Hence, the new term is the sum of the last two terms in the sequence.
Although Das Rheingold comes first in the sequence of Ring operas, it was the last to be conceived.
Lebesgue presents six conditions which it is desirable that the integral should satisfy, the last of which is " If the sequence f < sub > n </ sub >( x ) increases to the limit f ( x ), the integral of f < sub > n </ sub >( x ) tends to the integral of f ( x ).
When the folding sequence is such that the last flap to be closed is on a short side it is referred to in commercial envelope manufacture as a '" pocket "'-a format frequently employed in the packaging of small quantities of seeds.
The sequence was published in 1998, although a number of small gaps were present ; the last gap was finished by October 2002.
The Popol Vuh gives a sequence of four efforts at creation: First were animals, then wet clay, wood, then last, the creation of the first ancestors from maize dough.
A consequence of the eight second limit on the duration of each note is that if one wants to play chords that last longer than eight seconds, one must release different notes in sequence in a process that has been compared to a spider crawling across the keyboard.
These led to cuts of approximately ten minutes, mainly in the last portion of the film: the carnival sequence and the gondola parade which had been filmed to show off the huge set were heavily cut.
There are also " set dances " which go through only once that often consist of a sequence of non-repeating figures that last much longer than normal times through ( e. g. Bonnie Anne ( 96 bars ), MacDonald of Sleat ( 128 bars )).
At the end of this sequence, the last one in the room would close the door, and the picture would break up in pieces and crash down.

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It is the last of the three tests of manhood which the women impose, to discover if a male is worthy of survival there.
He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
as Piepsam says to the crowd in his last moments: `` His justice is not of this world ''.
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 when the bird is found at last, it turns out to be a fake.
The dweller at p is last to hear about a new cure, the slowest to announce to his neighbors his urgent distresses, the one who goes the farthest to trade, and the one with the greatest difficulty of all in putting over an idea or getting people to join him in a cooperative effort.
One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.
In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;
but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.
There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.
That is, we must find Saxons in East Anglia, Kent, Sussex and Hampshire in the last half of the fourth century.
My last gift to him is complete silence until the book is out and the first heated discussion dies down.
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.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.
For as his companions gradually dissolve back into a state of primitive confrontation with elemental necessity, as they lose all the appanage of their acquired culture, he is overcome by the feeling that he is at last being confronted with the essence of mankind.
Actually it amounts to $1,250,000 above what the institution already is receiving, considering the additional half-million dollars Gov. Vandiver allocated last year from the state surplus.
But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.

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