The resulting picture might appear a maze of restless confusions and contradictions, but it is more true to life than a portrait of an artificially contrived order.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

The picture is the more treacherous when it misrepresents the facts of American life.

It is not my intention in this narrative to picture myself as a helpless victim moored to the rock of experience and left to the buffetings of chance.

His delightful picture of society and institutions is filled with warm detail that brings the period vividly to life.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.

That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.

All I want is a picture -- with a few lines.

`` The reason you are in the ring today is to show your ability to present to any judge the most attractive picture of your dog that the skillful use of your aids can produce.

`` Speed in painting a picture is valid only when it imparts spontaneity and crispness, but unless the artist has lots of experience so that he can control rapid execution, he would do well to take these first sketches and soberly reorder their design to achieve a unified composition.

The result is a color picture of the specimen where the primary colors correspond to the three different ultraviolet wavelengths.

The total picture is only seen by the camera which integrates the many sector scans over the entire 90-degree rotation period.

Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.

On the other hand, looking at the larger picture, is it true that pupil assignment has effectively cut off, blocked, or reduced school desegregation to a `` trickle ''??

Literal flatness now tends to assert itself as the main event of the picture, and the device boomerangs: the illusion of depth is rendered even more precarious than before.

In the upper center of Braque's first collage, Fruit Dish ( in Douglas Cooper's collection ), a bunch of grapes is rendered with such conventionally vivid sculptural effect as to lift it practically off the picture plane.

and it is as if the only stable relation left among the different parts of the picture is the ambivalent and ambiguous one that each has with the surface.

In the first picture ( 9a ) the knife is just beginning to advance into the inclined surface which was left from the previous chip formation.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

The time of the motion picture is fixed absolutely.

Time is built into the motion picture, which cannot exist without time.

The `` moving '' picture of the train or the wave coming at the audience is, to be sure, more intense than a still picture of the same subject, but the difference is really one of degree ; ;

The term is derived from the purely classical picture of ( a large number of ) point-like projectiles directed to an area that includes a solid target.

This method can be derived from the field picture through perturbation theory.

Robert Jaffe of MIT argues that the Casimir force should not be considered evidence for vacuum energy, since it can be derived in QED without reference to vacuum energy by considering charge-current interactions ( the radiation-reaction picture ).

The Chinese character for " fan " ( 扇 ) is etymologically derived from a picture of feathers under a roof.

The genus name Hypericum is derived from the Greek words hyper ( above ) and eikon ( picture ), in reference to the traditional use of the plant to ward off evil, by hanging plants over a religious icon in the house during St John's day.

Recently also the mixture of this culture with Barbed Wire Beaker culture elements from the west that reached until Sweden in the Late Neolithic, probably ultimately derived from the same Corded Ware stock, has come into the picture.

In March 1889, a second caveat was filed, in which the proposed motion picture device was given a name, Kinetoscope, derived from the Greek roots kineto-(" movement ") and scopos (" to view ").

An alternative explanation given the high frequency of hybridisation in ducks would be that the mtDNA of the present-day GWT is originally derived from Spotted Teal females by introgression and thus the molecular data gives a misleading picture of the species ' true relationships.

Regardless, the name and logo were roundly criticized by advocates for the rights of the mentally ill, believing that they were derived from a derisive term for a person suffering from mental illness, " maniac ", and / or a depiction of a deranged axe-wielding murderer, despite that there was no picture of an axe in the logo.

In mathematics, the term local analysis has at least two meanings-both derived from the idea of looking at a problem relative to each prime number p first, and then later trying to integrate the information gained at each prime into a ' global ' picture.

According to another version, Pulcinella derived from the name of Puccio d ' Aniello, a peasant of Acerra, who was portrayed in a famous picture attributed to Annibale Carracci, and indeed characterized by a long nose.

A partial picture of what this meant in practice may be derived from a confirmatio of 1468 which granted provision to build a " suitable " house for the habitation of a " priest " ( as master of grammar ) and " scholars " in Dunfermline, including " poor scholars being taught free of charge ".

Each combination consisted of a woodcut or engraving accompanied by one or more short texts, intended to inspire their readers to reflect on a general moral lesson derived from the reading of both picture and text together.

His picture of God is clearly derived from the Old Testament.

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Bosley Crowther, the film critic for The New York Times, also liked the film, yet with a few caveats, writing, " This film, derived by Ben Maddow and John Huston from Mr. Burnett's book and directed by Mr. Huston in brilliantly naturalistic style, gives such an electrifying picture of the whole vicious circle of a crime ... that one finds it hard to tag the item of repulsive exhibition in itself.

The word miniature, derived from the Latin minium, red lead, is a picture in an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript ; the simple decoration of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment.

Lumi masking ( derived from luminance ) is a technique used by video compression software, which reduces quality in very bright or very dark areas of the picture, as quality loss in these areas is less likely to be visible.

Picturesque meaning literally " in the manner of a picture ; fit to be made into a picture " was a word used as early as 1703 ( Oxford English Dictionary ), and derived from an Italian term pittoresco, meaning, " in the manner of a painter ," William Gilpin's Essay on Prints ( 1768 ) defined picturesque as " ... a term expressive of that peculiar kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture " ( xii ).

Intelligence, much of it derived from space and airborne sensors, gave an unusually clear picture of enemy locations, and the open desert terrain similarly facilitated air interdiction operations.

The term is derived from the fact that, from the beginning of modern filmmaking toward the end of the 19th century, and in many places still up to the present, the single images have been recorded on a strip of photographic film that quickly increased in length, historically ; each image on such a strip looks rather like a framed picture when examined individually.