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Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.
The scene order is more coherent, without the problems of Q2 and F1 of Hamlet seeming to resolve something in one scene and enter the next drowning in indecision.
The play is full of seeming discontinuities and irregularities of action, except in the " bad " quarto.
According to Captain Carbajal, who descended the Pongo de Manseriche in the little steamer " Napo ," in 1868, it is a vast rent in the Andes about 600 m ( 2000 ft ) deep, narrowing in places to a width of only 30 m ( 100 ft ), the precipices " seeming to close in at the top.
He is described as tall, black and bristly, and as seeming cruel and fierce.
The two are not the same and once this is understood, all seeming claims of paradox are resolved.
According to Captain Carbajal, who descended the Pongo in the little steamer Napo, in 1868, it is a vast rent in the Andes about 2000 ft ( 600 m ) deep, narrowing in places to a width of only 100 ft ( 30 m ), the precipices " seeming to close in at the top.
There are two versions of the first message sent by Gauss and Weber: the more official one is based on a note in Gauss's own handwriting stating that " Wissen vor meinen – Sein vor scheinen " (" knowing before opining, being before seeming ") was the first message sent over the electromagnetic telegraph.
A response to this criticism is to point out that whilst seeming to resolve some problems it introduces others.
While seeming absurd at first glance, considering that grass is neither white nor black, it is supposed to be effective against the zebra's main predator, the lion, which is color blind.
At the trial, Meursault's quietness and passivity is seen as demonstrative of his seeming lack of remorse or guilt by the prosecuting attorney, and so the attorney concentrates more upon Meursault's inability or unwillingness to cry at his mother's funeral than on the actual murder.
In short, the act of seeming to find omnipotence to be a contradiction-of-terms is founded on the act of conceiving something against which to construct the contradiction: prior to any ‘ act ’, omnipotence is conceived as coherent both with itself and with the possibility of knowledge ( which begs the question of what is the knowledge that constitutes the identifiability of omnipotence-as-a-paradox?
Hard determinism ( a belief in determinism, and not free will ) is particularly criticized for seeming to make traditional moral judgments impossible.
: crowd is gathered around a series of photographs which though initially seeming to depict garbage instead reveal dead human bodies.
But the seeming sonic chaos is an illusion — to construct the songs, the Magic Band rehearsed twelve hours a day for months on end in a house with the windows blacked out.
In a private audience with the emperor on the penultimate eve of the tournament, when confronted with the seeming absurdity of the possibility that a novice with a mere two years of experience at the game could systematically defeat players ' whose whole lives were devoted to its mastery, the protagonist comes to understand that his proficiency is merely a reflection of his experience with strategic games of all sorts.
It was here that Saddles was to deliver the drug, but before Peacock can investigate anything, he is drafted into an inter-precinct gladiatorial contest due to a seeming bureaucratic oversight.
It's such a fine, pure picture of a small section of American life that I can't imagine its ever seeming irrelevant, either as a social document or as one of the best examples of what's called cinema vérité or direct cinema ... It is fact, photographed and recorded with extraordinarily mobile camera and sound equipment, and then edited and carefully shaped into a kind of cinematic mural of faces, words, motel rooms, parlors, kitchens, streets, television images, radio music — even weather.
Whether or not the word " satire " is the best choice, there is more general agreement that despite seeming to be written for someone wanting to be a monarch, and not the leader of a republic, the Prince can be read as deliberately emphasizing the benefits of free republics as opposed to monarchies.
The four men exhibit a slightly condescending attitude toward the locals ; Bobby, in particular, is very patronizing and even derides the locals to his companions for seeming to display genetic defects.

seeming and contrast
Yorty was certainly irascible, but he held his temper throughout the campaign, seeming almost cool in contrast to Roosevelt.
In stark contrast, the far-future City denizens are depicted as completely jaded, hardened, and Machiavellian in character, their main purpose seeming to be to sate their own desires, often at the expense of each other, including the titillation that comes from voyeuristic death and mutilation.

seeming and later
Ignoring Homer, later writers envisaged the labyrinth as an edifice rather than a single dancing path to the center and out again, and gave it numberless winding passages and turns that opened into one another, seeming to have neither beginning nor end.
The United States Postal Service, after at first seeming supportive of the program, later resisted its personnel being included in this program, reasoning that if mail carriers became perceived as law enforcement personnel that they would be placed in danger at a level for which they could not reasonably be expected to be prepared, and that the downside of the program hence vastly outweighed any good that it could accomplish.
About 24 hours later the shadow will again point north / south, the sun seeming to have covered a 360-degree arc around the earth's axis.
He is later lynched by the townspeople despite seeming to lack all memory of the murders.
The passage was removed from the published Silmarillion by Christopher Tolkien to escape the seeming discrepancy with The Lord of the Rings, although later he admitted that he was unable to interpret his father's intentions and regretted the suppression.
The third seeming contradiction emerges in the third season, with the episode " Five Faces of Darkness, Part Four ", in which Rodimus Prime witnesses Megatron's creation in a flashback, and the animation shows the Constructicons surrounding him, however later fiction reveals that there were many Constructicons on Cybertron, and the ones who made Megatron need not have been the ones who formed Devastator.
A short time later, Abel Horn uses a StellarCom station giving it a seeming invalid code, only for the screen to change to one shown at the mysterious group's headquarters.
This served as an explanation for the seeming revolving door justice in the DC Universe where a villain would be defeated and captured by a hero only to turn up free again a short time later.
Later audiences would comment on all three characters seeming to come out of rough, lower class backgrounds that little resemble their later versions.
If it did not form the framework of later National Socialist ideology, at the very least it provided its adherents with a seeming intellectual justification.
Thomson's own description of his legal problems is given in flat, understated New England dryness and couched in seeming venal paranoia .... After finishing the later material, offering 3rd party perspective, you realize that Thomson's movement had affected a million or more Americans, started a medical reformation that would not peak for another 50 years, and the brightest medical minds of the time were split vehemently both against and for Thomson's right to practice ... bitterly divided between Federalists and Republican politics ... Populists and Elitists ... rural and urban.
Thus, the flowers appear on stems with no apparent leaves, and the later appearing leaves then wither and die during the season without seeming to set flowers.
This is the use when the frame tells a story that lacks a strong narrative hook in its opening ; the narrator can engage the reader's interest by telling the story to answer the curiosity of his listeners, or by warning them that the story began in an ordinary seeming way, but they must follow it to understand later actions, thereby identifying the reader's wondering whether the story is worth reading to the listeners '.
A similar event occurred two weeks later, on 30 November, when Lewis appeared onscreen and began to read the autocue, saying " Good evening " before seeming distressed.
He later claimed to have perfected the art of " running away from a ball while seeming to run towards it.
Foster later investigates the seeming deaths of Henry Pym and Janet Van Dyne.

seeming and similar
The sixth congress also criticised the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, its Sri Lankan section, for seeming to support the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, which they saw as bourgeois nationalists ; the U. S. SWP made similar criticisms.
* In an episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, the employees of Harvey's law firm are so overjoyed at the seeming resurrection of their boss Phil ( who had been killed off in the previous episode ) that they break into a song which parodies Godspell, complete with costumes similar to those of the play.
Such instances include: several of the Wolves carrying weapons that resemble lightsabers and a " messenger robot " similar in demeanor to the android C-3PO from the Star Wars movies, with the look of an Isaac Asimov robot ; the Wolves themselves seeming to bear a physical resemblance to Doctor Doom from the Marvel Comics comic books, and flying grenades named " sneetches " that are stated as being from the " Harry Potter " product line ( a direct reference to the Golden Snitch from the J. K. Rowling books, and to the Dr. Seuss characters ).
A newly found sense of harmonics, similar to Immortal's Pure Holocaust, aided in the creation of the band's sound as well as connecting it to the contemplative moments and consequently allowing them to reflect on the chaos, rather than seeming like disjointed and irrelevant sentimental moments in otherwise raging pieces.
The setting was criticized by ANN for not having much effort put into it, being too similar to Trigun, and seeming to be chosen just for the sake of coolness, while IGN liked the mixture of the old west, arcane, and technological.
The play, despite seeming very frivolous ( bar the final scene ) on first reading, is in fact reflecting on the human capability for brutality, especially in children, and is in a similar vein to William Golding's The Lord of The Flies.
The only way to stop the hand was to find the legendary Seven Soldiers of Victory, who defeated a similar menace in the form of the Nebula Man many years previously, though at the seeming cost of their existences, since no one could remember who they were.
The three movements begin in D major, E minor, and G minor respectively, and the work closes in a manner similar to that of the opening movement, seeming to climb peacefully.
Researcher Hilary Evans published two well-researched studies, Gods, Spirits, Cosmic Guardians: Encounters with Non-Human Beings and Visions, Apparitions, Alien Visitors: A Complete Study of the Entity Enigma trying to examine phenomena ranging from " ghosts " to " aliens " using similar principles, seeming to conclude that entities may have originated in the minds of the experiencers, with paranormal components.
Despite its seeming organicism, blob architecture is unthinkable without this and other similar computer-aided design programs.
Some seeming forms of marine debris, such as driftwood, occur naturally, and human activities have been discharging similar material into the oceans for thousands of years.
The plot is markedly similar to that of Robert Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy, including its essentially identical setup of a young slave boy — who is really the lost heir of a powerful family — being bought for a pittance by a seeming beggar, who is himself really a spy, and who suspects the boy's true identity.

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