After a while there come initials and names, and he is interested to hear some rather unusual family nicknames.

Jarry moved into a flat which the landlord had created through the unusual expedient of subdividing a larger flat by means of a horizontal rather than a vertical partition.

It was, however, an unusual regime in presidentialist Latin America, for Congress really did overshadow the rather ceremonial office of the president and exerted authority over the chief executive's cabinet appointees.

It was an important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's approach was unusual in that, rather than analysing her subject's achievements, she concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life, emphasising aspects which countered accusations of ' coarseness ' which had been levelled at her writing.

The American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ) was unusual for at least two reasons: it was fought around regional identities, rather than political ideologies, and it was ended through a war of attrition, rather than over a decisive battle over control of the capital, as was the norm.

For a writer he was unusual in that he preferred to only be paid after he finished his work rather than in advance.

An unusual clause in the colonial land grant outlined the territory that the proprietors of New Jersey would receive as being " westward of Long Island, and Manhitas Island and bounded on the east part by the main sea, and part by Hudson's river ", rather than at the river's midpoint, as was common in other colonial charters.

It is unusual amongst bird observatories in providing catered, rather than hostel-style, accommodation.

Biographer Allan Nevins wrote: " in Grover Cleveland the greatness lies in typical rather than unusual qualities.

However, reference to the latter as lochs or loughs ( lower case initial ), rather than as lakes, inlets and so on, is unusual.

Snowfall is normally light and blows away quickly during the winter, so to see this much snow on the ground at once is rather unusual.

relation to her Witch-Cult theory, She behaved in fact rather like someone who was a fully convinced member of some unusual religious sect, or perhaps, of the Freemasons, but never on any account got into arguments about it in public.

The English Civil War left a rather unusual military legacy.

The pair get along well, despite her rather unusual appearance.

Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands are unusual among Commonwealth realms in that Governors-General are selected by the legislature rather than by the executive branch.

It is not unusual for paper cards to become bent quickly, as players often read their " hole " cards by peeking at the corner rather than lifting the card.

Pembroke is unusual in having its recreational rooms named as " parlours " rather than the more standard " combination room ".

Katakis featured a rather unusual two-player mode, where the second player controlled the Force, creating a dual-role challenge-one of assault and one of protecting the vulnerable main ship.

The special condition is known as a population inversion, a rather unusual condition that must be effected in the gain medium of a laser.

Although an A-Z index could be used to index multiple sites, rather than the multiple pages of a single site, this is unusual.

For these reasons, in computer science it is not unusual to number from zero rather than one.

The image of the Lord as the Cosmic Dancer is shown at the Chidambaram temple, an unusual fact as Shiva is depicted in an anthropomorphic form rather than in the usual non-anthropomorphic form of the linga.

He was also a mathematics genius of the 15th century — albeit his mental aptitude was perseverance rather than any unusual endowment of intellect.

The Michif language is unusual ( and possibly even unique ) among mixed languages, in that rather than forming a simplified grammar, it developed by incorporating complex elements of the chief languages from which it was born.

The later Neapolitan operas ( L ' amor volubile e tiranno 1709 ; La principessa fedele 1710 ; Tigrane, 1714, & c .) are showy and effective rather than profoundly emotional ; the instrumentation marks a great advance on previous work, since the main duty of accompanying the voice is thrown upon the string quartet, the harpsichord being reserved exclusively for the noisy instrumental ritornelli.

( Question Mark )", containing a dozen tracks with similar lyrical and instrumental themes, which Morse believes " should be considered one long epic track rather than twelve separate tracks ".

The instructor's acceptance of being a mentor who guides rather than the expert who tells is instrumental to student-centered, nonthreatening, and unforced learning.

Some estampies, such as the famous Tre fontane (" Three Fountains ") estampie, contain florid and virtuosic instrumental writing, signifying that they may have been intended as abstract performance music rather than actual dance music.

Kekulé's idea of assigning certain atoms to certain positions within the molecule, and schematically connecting them using what he called their " Verwandtschaftseinheiten " (" affinity units ", now called " valences " or " bonds "), was based largely on evidence from chemical reactions, rather than on instrumental methods that could peer directly into the molecule, such as X-ray crystallography.

This speculation was fueled in October 2004 when the official website startrek. com posted an opening credits sequence in which Scott Bakula recites a modified version of the famous speech, ending instead of with the gender-specific ' man ' or the gender-and species-neutral ' one ' but rather the species-specific ' human ', accompanied by " Archer's Theme ", the instrumental used as the closing credits music for the series.

When New York cabarets featured jazz, they tended to focus on famous vocalists like Nina Simone, Bette Midler, Eartha Kitt, Peggy Lee, and Hildegarde rather than instrumental musicians.

The music is usually instrumental and the calls are typically not sung, but rather rhythmically spoken.

The 13-piece group still performs mostly instrumental jazz versions of Khan's qawwalis, using the instruments conventionally associated with jazz rather than those associated with qawwali.

In 1999, the threat of a Target store being sited in Dundas — rather than Northfield — was instrumental in forcing changes to Northfield's zoning to allow such uses.

The kazoo is not often found in European classical music, a rare exception being David Bedford's With 100 Kazoos, a piece which emphasizes the simplicity of the instrument — rather than being played by trained musicians, kazoos are handed out to members of the audience, who accompany a professional instrumental ensemble.

Released just as The Byrds ' cover of " Mr. Tambourine Man " topped the charts in the United States, the song was instrumental in defining the burgeoning folk rock scene and in establishing Dylan as a bona fide rock star, rather than a folksinger.

Leading thinkers of this category, including Stanley J. Tambiah, believe that magic is meant to be expressive, rather than instrumental.

In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment ; they may be extracts from a ballet ( Nutcracker Suite ), incidental music to a play ( L ' Arlésienne Suites ), opera, film ( Lieutenant Kije Suite ) or video game ( Symphonic Suite the Another Story of Shining Force ), or they may be entirely original movements ( Holberg Suite, The Planets ).

The work is even more harmonically adventurous and contrapuntally complex than Bartók's previous two string quartets and explores a number of extended instrumental techniques, including sul ponticello ( playing with the bow as close as possible to the bridge ), col legno ( playing with the wood rather than the hair of the bow ), glissandi ( sliding from one note to another ) and the so-called Bartók pizzicato ( plucking the string so that it rebounds against the instrument's fingerboard ).

In the early 1960s, he was instrumental in constructing a large set of housing, financial, educational, electoral and other benefits to be granted to a large category of people called " Active Fighters against Capitalism and Fascism " who had ostensibly been members of the rather modest Bulgarian Wartime resistance and which was expanded to absurd proportions.

Shanties were sung without instrumental accompaniment and, historically speaking, they were only sung in work-based rather than entertainment-oriented contexts.

Since this view values philosophy as a means to an end rather than as an end in itself, we might call it " instrumental optimism " about philosophy, as opposed to the " intrinsic optimism " already discussed.

" Gordon described the instrumental parts of the album as " powerful and purposeful: an integral part of each composition rather than an excuse to merely ' jam.

He was instrumental in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria for which he earned fame taking the nickname ' Lawrence of Manchuria ', a reference to the Lawrence of Arabia., although according to Jamie Bisher this flattering sobriquet was rather misapplied given that T. E.

On occasions when songs have been completely re-worked or the instrumental arrangements have been changed slightly, the radio edit can be labeled in print with the remixer's name ( e. g. Celine Dion's 2002 single of " I'm Alive ", the radio version was referred to as the ' Humberto Gatica Radio Mix ') rather than just " Radio Edit ".

In the 1908 Prix de Rome competition, Boulanger caused a stir by composing an instrumental fugue rather than the required vocal fugue.

Gaikings instrumental version of its theme song was actually re-used to be the ending song for the series, rather than using an original song.