Although he is perfectly willing to cooperate with Scotland Yard, Holmes has nothing but contempt for the intelligence and mentality of the police.

The emphasis is on social history, and very long-term trends, often using quantification and paying special attention to geography and to the intellectual world view of common people, or " mentality " ( mentalité ).

Japanese postwar mentality may be one reason aggression is displayed in taiko drum performances.

Yet it is perhaps the most violent attack, in the apparent quietness of the action, against the rules of the new economy, the new mentality, the new values, and it embodies both a conservative and a progressive view.

Nietzsche's argument that " God is dead " coincided with his attack on the " herd mentality " of Christianity, democracy and modern collectivism ; his concept of the übermensch ; and his advocacy of the will to power as a primordial instinct, were major influences upon many of the fin-de-siècle generation.

His work with Body Count, whose 1992 debut album Marrow described as a " rock album with a rap mentality ", is described as paving the way for the success of rap rock fusions by bands like Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit ; however, Marrow states that the band's style does not fuse the two genres, and is solely a rock band.

For example, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl claimed that " the primitive mentality is a condition of the human mind, and not a stage in its historical development.

and that, therefore, his work is a rich historical source for Bavarian local and social history, mentality, biography etc.

" ... Conrad argues that " nothing is more foreign than what in the literary world is called Slavonism to his individual sensibility and the whole Polish mentality "

A psychogenic mode in Psychohistory is a type of mentality ( or psychoclass ) that results from, and is associated with, a particular childrearing style.

The resultant siege mentality is due to Singapore ’ s geographical weaknesses, mistrust of Malaysia and Indonesia due to historical baggage, and from how it stands out as a " little red dot in a sea of green ", as then-President Habibie of Indonesia put it.

The thought behind the question is that no matter how sophisticated someone's behavior is, behavior on its own is not sufficient to guarantee the presence of mentality.

Thus, the behaviorist closes the conceptual gap between behavior and mentality which is responsible for the epistemological problem.

Washington Duke at Duke University, Ezra Cornell at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins at Johns Hopkins University, Leland Stanford at Stanford University, and Cornelius Vanderbilt at Vanderbilt University are several notable examples of Andrew Carnegie's gospel of wealth mentality and Carnegie Mellon University is one such result.

Hari Seldon's plan is often treated as an inevitable mechanism of society, a vast mindless mob mentality of quadrillions of humans across the galaxy.

Like organised religion in general, Nazism is regarded as authoritarian, collectivist, and a " herd mentality ".

Attending the screening with Nimoy, Bennett was amazed the film proved as entertaining to the Russians as it did with American audiences ; he said " the single most rewarding moment of my Star Trek life " was when the Moscow audience applauded at McCoy's line, " The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe.

Mob mentality violence by those same troops results in the axing death and corpse mutilation of local official Benjamin F. Hill, who is at the time incarcerated for an alleged self-defense killing of a discharged Union soldier.

The garrison mentality is the attitude of a member of a community that feels isolated from cultural centres and besieged by a hostile landscape.

They also tend to put a very confident dive in front of a very difficult dive to ensure that they will have a good mentality for the difficult dive.

Neorealism exploded soon after the war, with unforgettable works such as Rossellini's trilogy Rome, Open City ( 1945 ), Paisà ( 1946 ), and Germany, Year Zero ( 1948 ), and with extraordinary actors such as Anna Magnani, as an attempt to describe the difficult economic and moral conditions of Italy and the changes in public mentality in everyday life.

But the caudillo mentality was difficult to erase from Uruguay and political feuding continued culminating in the Revolution of the Lances ( Revolución de las Lanzas ) ( 1870 – 1872 ), and later with the uprising of Aparicio Saravia, who was fatally injured at the Battle of Masoller ( 1904 ).

More impressive, it captures the decade's distinct, decadent glamour ... also succeeds at something very difficult: re-creating the ethos and mentality of an era ... Paul Thomas Anderson ... has pulled off a wonderful, sprawling, sophisticated film ... With Boogie Nights, we know we're not just watching episodes from disparate lives but a panorama of recent social history, rendered in bold, exuberant colors.

The American philosopher E. F. Schumacher refers to the New Revelation ( NR ) in his book “ A guide for the perplexed ” as follows: " They ( the books of the NR ) contain many strange things which are unacceptable to modern mentality, but at the same time contain such plethora of high wisdom and insight that it would be difficult to find anything more impressive in the whole of world literature.

Gigi has a difficult time fitting in with the boys ' club mentality of the writers ' room and puts on a considerable amount of weight as a result.

Expected to make use of devices with which listeners could press a button to indicate whether they liked or disliked a particular piece of music, Adorno bristled with distaste and astonishment: “ I reflected that culture was simply the condition that precluded a mentality that tried to measure it .” Thus Adorno suggested using individual interviews to determine listener reactions and, only three months after meeting Lasarzfeld, completed a 160-page memorandum on the Project ’ s topic, “ Music in Radio .” Adorno was primarily interested in how the musical material was affected by its distribution through the medium of radio and thought it imperative to understand how music was affected by its becoming part of daily life.

To understand the meaning of this objective sign, Father Hugues Delautre refers to the 12th-century texts ( Suger, Peter the Venerable, Honorius of Autun ) that inhabit the monument with the symbolic mentality of that time, for which sense reveals itself from sensitive signs through the anagogical method ( literally ascent towards the uncreated ), and where one's gaze is invited to go beyond the reality of the sign to reach the invisible, i. e. God and his mystery.

His most important goal, he said, was to get the people " to understand how to turn the armed struggle into a revolution " and to realize how essential it was " to create a new mentality to build a new society ".

Songs such as Merle Haggard's " The Fightin ' Side of Me ", and " Okie from Muskogee " have been perceived as patriotic songs which contain an " us versus them " mentality directed at the counterculture " hippies " and the anti-war crowd, though these were actually misconceptions by listeners who failed to understand their satirical nature.

Davenport does not intend to justify her actions, but he seeks to let Antwone understand where her mentality of beatings and verbal abuse to keep the foster children subservient came from.

The film ends with the police watching a tape George made of himself talking on his video camera about his dream of becoming a filmmaker so he can document his life in hopes that somebody can understand his mentality.

And, according to Messori, its reputation was besmirched deliberately by some groups of the Falange for they wrongly viewed it as a political rival, since these Spaniards tended to have a Catholic one-party mentality in politics, and did not understand Escriva's new doctrine on the freedom and responsibility of each Catholic in temporal matters.

Perhaps he was a shade too successful for the liking of the more rabidly parochial Kiwi fans ... You could never understand the mentality behind the crank phone calls Greg received in New Zealand, the egg-throwing and the incident in Wellington where a toilet seat was thrown on the field.

Nehru observed that these attitudes and religious taboos were preventing India from going forward and adapting to modern conditions: “ No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded .” Therefore, he concurred, that religions and all that went with them must be severely limited before they ruined the country and its people.

In his last speech to the Cabinet on 18 January he said: " We must show the world the extent of our victory, and we must take up the mentality and habits of a victorious people, which once more takes its place at the head of Europe.

Ron Grossman of the Chicago Tribune, for instance, wrote that “ by taking readers along on Magellan ` s voyage, Manchester provides them with easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born .” Professional historians, however, have dismissed or ignored the book because of its numerous factual errors and its dependence on interpretations that have not been accepted by experts since the 1930s at the latest.

The main concept of McLuhan's argument ( later elaborated upon in The Medium is the Massage ) is that new technologies ( like alphabets, printing presses, and even speech itself ) exert a gravitational effect on cognition, which in turn affects social organization: print technology changes our perceptual habits (" visual homogenizing of experience "), which in turn affects social interactions (" fosters a mentality that gradually resists all but a ... specialist outlook ").

Steinbeck mentioned that Americans have put " cleanliness first at the expense of taste " ( 141 ) ( as he travels through Fargo, North Dakota ), and that the mentality of our nation has grown bland.

General Holmes elaborated, " We're not in the Cold War anymore ; we have to alter our mentality and our practices for today's reality.

This perfectionism is anathema to the Remodernist mentality and for many healthy reasons, this giant ( or whatever giant towers over your work ) must fall in our minds.

Although short, they are often interesting because they allow the modern reader to see the mentality of the students and the discussions and issues of the time.

Evola's main argument against modern " demagogic " politics is its inverted materialistic focus and mentality, stemming from an inverted order of castes.

In the eleventh chapter, " Brave New World ", Wilber describes the liberating advantages as well as the spiritually crippling disadvantages of the modern, scientific mentality.

Schuon went even further in the critique of modern mentality, and added to Guénon's rigorously theoretical approach, a " practical " alternative to modern scepticism, teaching how to think and to live spiritually in the cold and dry hopelessness of modern secularist societies.