It seemed ludicrous to these men that art could exist without meaning, for then it had no right to exist.

And that seemed just ludicrous – I mean we had Kerry at full strength and Ray writing great.

To the Greeks, giving proskynesis to a mortal seemed to be a barbarian and ludicrous practice.

Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.

She whirled and faced him, roaring terribly, and Ulyate, watching through the leaves, could not understand why she did not charge and obliterate him, because he wouldn't have much of a chance of getting away, in that thick growth, but she seemed just a trace uncertain ; ;

According to Tacitus ( Annals 3. 14. 1 ), the prosecution could not prove the poisoning charge, but other charges of treason seemed likely to stick and Piso committed suicide.

The department of Earth was to be in charge of Agriculture and the agricultural sciences, Fire was to be in charge of the Military, Water was the department of the Canals and waterways while Air seemed to have responsibility for everything else.

At the end of the war, the most likely successor seemed to be Andrei Zhdanov, party leader in Leningrad during the war, who was in charge of all cultural matters by 1946.

These practices caused confusion and dissension in Cabinet meetings, especially during the dysfunctional ministries of the Earl of Chatham from 1766 – 1768 and of the Duke of Grafton from 1768 – 1770 when no one, not even the King, seemed to be in charge.

Despite the charge against him, he seemed to have remained in good standing amongst his peers.

He seemed to carry an electrical charge, as he could illuminate a light bulb by sticking it in his mouth.

It seemed at first that the charge would do some serious damage, especially when the Frenchmen managed to break and sabre the Grenz Georger battalion, thus creating a breach between the two Austrian Corps.

" Dad " Norton in charge — but bad luck seemed to follow it.

Since a great deal of free software already was ( and still is ) free of charge, such free software became associated with zero cost, which seemed anti-commercial.

With Martin Lilley now being in charge of TVR Engineering ( him and his father had rescued TVR from bankruptcy ) Gerry's racing plans for 1967 seemed to naturally revolve around TVR, the TVR Griffith seemingly ideal, especially with the planned 400 bhp 5. 3 litre Ford V8, the possibility of the 1-litre TVR Tina ( named after Gerry's eldest daughter and one of the two prototypes is owned by the Marshall family ), the TVR 18010S a Lotus Elan and there was also a plan to go into partnership with Ken Ayres in a hot Mini 850.

He was acquitted of complicity in the death of Charles I, and his escape from the whole charge seemed imminent, but the arrival of a packet of letters written by Argyll to Monck showed conclusively his collaboration with Cromwell's government, particularly in the suppression of Glencairn's royalist rising in 1652.

In Knill's second full season in charge ( 2009 – 10 ), promotion seemed like a real possibility with Bury near the top of the article in February, but a poor run of form late on in the season meant they would have to settle for 9th position.

Although his exceptional method of address seems to have gained him the qualified approval of certain dignitaries of the church, the prospect of his obtaining a settled charge seemed as remote as ever.

Lacking a coach the senior players took charge, the moral problem seemed to have passed, but results remained sketchy and the Saracens ended up in a lowly 10th place.

Caesar opened the battle with a charge against the Germanic left, which seemed the weakest part of the line.

In September 2012, this perspective was contradicted by former inmate, Martin Lyttleton, who said violence was rife in prison, especially in the Auckland Central Remand Prison where gang members seemed to be in charge.

Although McCarthy was only attending because of Baldwin ’ s courtesy, McCarthy seemed to have successfully taken complete charge of the subcommittee ’ s investigations and tried to press his views.

The Battle of Raphia between the Seleucids and Ptolemy IV may represent the pinnacle of sarissa tactics, when only an elephant charge seemed able to disrupt the opposing phalanx.

Affairs seemed so bad in the west ( Maurice, with a whole army was still vainly besieging the single line of low breastworks that constituted the fortress of Lyme Regis ) that the King dispatched Hopton to take charge of Bristol.

The charge of witchcraft was supported by the contents of her purse, which included a variety of " objects, strongly suggestive of having been used by her to cast evil spells ": two umbilical cords of infants ; linens soaked with blood, which seemed to be menstrual, in a sack of leather, with a seed of cole-wort ; and seeds of incense slightly burned ; a mirror and a small knife wrapped in a piece of linen ; the seed of a certain plant, wrapped in muslin ( which she testified was called " ive ", and had been given to her by a pilgrim as a remedy for epilepsy ); a dry piece of bread that is called " tinhol " ( possibly millet bread ); written formulas ; and numerous morsels of linen.

After a week, Al-Asraf Khalil negotiated with Peter de Severy, who was in charge of the Templars, and it was agreed that the Templars and everyone inside the fortress would have free passage to Cyprus, but the Sultan's men who were sent to the fortress to supervise the evacuation seemed not disciplined enough to handle the matter and were massacred by the Templars.

Rodriguez and Ricardo Zamora were deer hunting at about 10: 30 p. m. when they came across a large cat which seemed ready to charge.

the days seemed short, perhaps because his routine was, each day, almost the same.

Benington recalled that he once told Hartweger that he doubted Gordon would ever play much for him because he seemed to be lacking in all of the accepted basketball skills.

He'd mentioned it, himself, at church and everybody seemed to have the idea that Tolley had left because Jenny had jilted him for Roy Robards.

He seemed to have picked up a virus that day, because the next morning he had a small cough and felt a bit hot.

They chose C because it seemed to be the biggest upcoming language.

Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.

Valiente was unhappy with this version, saying that " people seemed to have some difficulty with this, because of the various goddess-names which they found hard to pronounce ", and so she rewrote it as a prose version, much of which differs from her initial version, and is more akin to Gardner's version.

Throughout the years, the Cowboys ' blue jersey has been popularly viewed to be " jinxed " because the team often seemed to lose when they wore them.

Hayek ( 1935, 1937, 1940, 1945 ) stressed the knowledge problem of central planning, partly because decentralized socialism seemed indefensible.

This limitation seemed reasonable when GIF was developed because few people could afford the hardware to display more colors simultaneously.

As Joachim Fest notes, Goebbels seemed to take a grim pleasure in the destruction of Germany ’ s cities by the Allied bombing offensive: " It was, as one of his colleagues confirmed, almost a happy day for him when famous buildings were destroyed, because at such time he put into his speeches that ecstatic hatred which aroused the fanaticism of the tiring workers and spurred them to fresh efforts.

" At the start of his regime many staunch Sunnis were hopeful, because he seemed less tolerant to other faiths than his father had been.

Ribbentrop, though he shared Hitler's assessment of the Italians, nonetheless welcomed Italy coming into war partially because it seemed to affirm the importance of the Pact of Steel, which Ribbentrop had negotiated and partly because with Italy now an ally, the Foreign Office had more to do.

Philby found that the award proved helpful in obtaining access to fascist circles: " Before then ," he later wrote, " there had been a lot of criticism of British journalists from Franco officers who seemed to think that the British in general must be a lot of Communists because so many were fighting with the International Brigades.

Bashir II, who had come to power through local politics and nearly fallen from power because of his increasing detachment from them, reached out for allies, allies who looked on the entire area as “ the Orient ” and who could provide trade, weapons and money, without requiring fealty and without, it seemed, being drawn into endless internal squabbles.

To them, their society must have seemed radically different from the USA because it rejected the ubiquitous Western belief in immutable racial hierarchy, which had led the colonists to despair of life in the USA.

Popper thought that falsifiability was a better criterion because it did not invite the philosophical problems inherent in verifying an inductive inference, and it allowed statements from the physical sciences which seemed scientific but which did not satisfy the verification criterion.

A critical role for the ER in calcium signaling was acknowledged before such a role for the mitochondria was widely accepted, in part because the low affinity of Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup > channels localized to the outer mitochondrial membrane seemed to fly in the face of this organelle ’ s purported responsiveness to changes in intracellular Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup > flux.

Outside Paraguay, the February revolt seemed to be a paradox because it overthrew the politicians who had won the war.

The authorship of the Dionysian Corpus was initially disputed ; Severus and his party affirmed its apostolic dating, largely because it seemed to agree with their Christology.

Like Einstein, Schrödinger was dissatisfied with the concept of entanglement, because it seemed to violate the speed limit on the transmission of information implicit in the theory of relativity.

However, they were certain they did not want the show to be set aboard a starship because Star Trek: The Next Generation was still in production at the time and, in Berman ’ s words, it " just seemed ridiculous to have two shows — two casts of characters — that were off going where no man has gone before.

He said some such features could have been by-products of adaptive changes to other features, and that often features seemed non-adaptive because their function was unknown, as shown by his book on Fertilisation of Orchids that explained how their elaborate structures facilitated pollination by insects.