The meaning of this highly intricate composition seems to be that, from prehistory onward, the discovery of art has been the creative response of humankind to the shocking discovery of mortality.

The discovery of irrational numbers is said to have been shocking to the Pythagoreans, and Hippasus is supposed to have drowned at sea ( apparently as a punishment from the gods ).

* Cluster spacecraft makes a shocking discovery ( Planetary Bow Shock )

In despair, Tom makes another shocking discovery: the " ghosts " who have been sighted around the city are actually thieves, operating out of a parasite submarine attached to the bottom of the city.

The police department compiled statistics showing that 50 % of the violent crime in Fort Worth occurred in the Acre, a shocking confirmation of long-held suspicions.

Along with shock comedians Tom Green ( who, despite being Canadian in real life, is not animated Terrence and Philip-style ) and Johnny Knoxville of MTV's Jackass, Kenny appears on The Howard Stern Show, where Stern attempts to prove that performing shocking and disgusting antics does not make them prostitutes by offering them money to perform oral sex on him.

Currently, a part of Algerian writers tends to be defined in a literature of shocking expression, due to the terrorism that occurred during the 1990s, the other party is defined in a different style of literature who staged an individualistic conception of the human adventure.

He was told, " This Lusitania business is shocking.

Penrose ’ s shocking conclusion, though, was that obtaining a flat universe without inflation is much more likely than with inflation – by a factor of 10 to the googol ( 10 to the 100 ) power !”

Whilst the stories were shocking in their time, this affectionate portrayal of a forthright and self-assured French girl who blossoms into a charismatic adult is nowadays more likely to be regarded as chastely sensual.

Unlike Jane Eyre, which is written from the first-person perspective of the main character, Shirley is written in the third-person and lacks the emotional immediacy of Jane Eyre, and reviewers found it less shocking.

" " As we reach the second half of the sixth century, we find that images are attracting direct veneration and some of them are credited with the performance of miracles " Cyril Mango writes, " In the post-Justinianic period the icon assumes an ever increasing role in popular devotion, and there is a proliferation of miracle stories connected with icons, some of them rather shocking to our eyes ".

Nevertheless, the tactic of intimidating the batsman is still used to an extent that would have been shocking in 1933, although it is less dangerous now because today's players wear helmets and generally far more protective gear.

The title is a reference to the line uttered by Hamlet to Horatio after being visited by his father's ghost and learning that his uncle Claudius murdered his father ; in short, a shocking supernatural event that fundamentally alters the way Hamlet perceives the state and the universe (" The time is out of joint ; O cursed spite !/ That ever I was born to set it right!

It says that Karzai is " nwilling or unable to take a consistent line against conservative forces within the country ," and that the lack of improvement in the plight of women in Afghanistan after ten years is " shocking.

The decision to give the National Book Foundation's annual award for " distinguished contribution " to Stephen King is extraordinary, another low in the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life.

Resentment of David's presence by the locals slowly builds to a shocking climax when the mild-mannered academic is forced to defend his home.

" Living with corruption ", his latest documentary shown on CNN, describes the shocking reality of how corruption is spread across society both in Sierra Leone and Kenya, affecting mostly the poor.

" The Oneida Whig did not approve of the convention, writing of the Declaration: " This bolt is the most shocking and unnatural incident ever recorded in the history of womanity.

* The myth of mental illness: " Mental illness " is an expression, a metaphor that describes an offending, disturbing, shocking, or vexing conduct, action, or pattern of behavior, such as schizophrenia, as an " illness " or " disease ".

What is also most shocking about the novel is the fact that the reader actually starts to sympathise with and even like Frank despite his monstrous, psychopathic actions.

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction.

The two main ways for cliffhangers to keep readers / viewers coming back is to either involve characters in a suspenseful, possibly life-threatening situation, or to feature a sudden shocking revelation.

2 ), a shocking revelation is made in a short story " The Flower Girl ".

Theodore Sturgeon praised Cat's Cradle, describing its storyline as " appalling, hilarious, shocking, and infuriating ," and concluded that " this is an annoying book and you must read it.

The types of political behavior which are discussed with apparent approval by Machiavelli in The Prince were perceived as shocking by contemporaries, and its immorality is still a subject of serious discussion.

The idea of dignifying commonplace objects in this way was originally a shocking challenge to the accepted distinction between what was considered art as opposed to not art.

He marshalled a body of statistics to show what he considered the shocking extent of post-operative side-effects and drug-induced illness in advanced industrial society.

It's far more shocking than what happened in 1948 to a small part of the Arab nation that was then in Palestine.

This shocking move led to many to speculate what the Wrangler's intentions were for the future.

What causes the passage to be so shocking, indeed, is the power of sustaining over such a long phrase what we expect as a brief explosion.

What most offended Ibsen's contemporaries was what they regarded as its shocking indecency, its more than frank treatment of a forbidden topic.

' He concludes that the first volume is ' a shocking book, shocking in its allegation of fabrication and also in its refusal of the interpretive framework that earlier historians employed, ’ and that its author ' fails to register the tragedy of what was a fatal encounter '.

Cox was initially dubious when she saw his conservative reading choices, and she spent long hours " trying to reconcile his shocking views with what she saw as his deep decency.

The story goes that when he arrived at the camp he found shocking disorganisation and waste of resources ( both human and material ): he promptly wrote a precise description of what exactly was wrong with every one of the camp's industries ( including forestry, farming and brick-making ).

" Meslier admits that the statement may seem crude and shocking, but comments that this is what the priests and nobility deserve, not for reasons of revenge or hatred, but for love of justice and truth.

I regret very much to be compelled to say that the Court today makes a drastic and dangerous departure from a Constitution written to control and limit the government and the judges and moves toward a constitution designed to be no more and no less than what the judges of a particular social and economic philosophy declare on the one hand to be fair or on the other hand to be shocking and unconscionable.

In 2009, several Exodus International executives, traveling in their capacity as Exodus International spokesmen, attended a conference in Uganda that promoted what critics describe as promoting " shocking abuses of basic human rights ".

Berenson was named team captain in 1970 ; however, already 31 years old, the Blues felt his skills could only decline, and traded him in what was considered a shocking deal to the Detroit Red Wings, a multi-player trade receiving centre Garry Unger in return.

Darla eventually after buying some pizza takes her back to the house and explains to Jenny right before dinner the shocking truth of why the family do what they do.

It is only the physical intervention of his wife Emily which brings him back from this latter, shocking transformation in which he seems poised on the brink of becoming a non-physical form of proto-consciousness and possibly disappearing from our version of reality altogether.

After the officially-commissioned 1941 Butt Report revealed shocking inaccuracies in targeting ( Churchill recognised " this is a very serious paper and seems to require urgent attention "), The Area Bombing Directive of 14 February 1942 ordered Bomber Command to target German industrial areas and the " morale of ... the industrial workers ".

Instead of a Russian tragedy, Russell seems more concerned with haunting the viewers ' memory with shocking scenes and images.

François Mauriac said that Le Diable au corps is " unretouched and seems shocking, but nothing so resembles cynicism as clairvoyance.

He said the decision was "... shocking and incomprehensible ... If this had been a project in London, it would be getting backing ... You can understand the annoyance of people in Wales that we can't get the kind of vitally important projects that London seems to be allowed.

De Coligny has meanwhile been moved to his house, and a surgeon called, and as Steven and Nicholas tend to him they too receive some shocking news: it seems the Abbot of Amboise has died!

Writing for Slant Magazine, Nick Schager said, " Jules Dassin's 1950 masterpiece was his first movie after being exiled from America for alleged communist politics, and the unpleasant ordeal seems to have infused his work with a newfound resentment and pessimism, as the film — about foolhardy scam-artist Harry Fabian ( Richard Widmark ) and his ill-advised attempts to become a big shot — brims with anger, anxiousness, and a shocking dose of unadulterated hatred.

The advertising resulted in a large number of complaints to the Advertising Standards Agency, and opposition to the film from the press and elsewhere ; however, it seems that very few of the complainants ever actually saw the film but rather based their opinion on the poster and the shocking title of the film.