As the New South snowballs toward further urbanization, it becomes more and more homogeneous with the North -- a tendency which Willard Thorp terms `` Yankeefication '', as evidenced in such cities as Charlotte, Birmingham, and Houston.

Euripides and other playwrights accordingly composed more and more arias for accomplished actors to sing and this tendency becomes more marked in his later plays: tragedy was a " living and ever-changing genre " ( other changes in his work are touched on in the previous section and in Chronology ; a list of his plays is given in Extant plays below ).

When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.

The tendency toward authorial self-reference begun in Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love becomes even more evident in novels such as The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, whose first-person protagonist is a disabled military veteran who becomes a writer, and finds love with a female character who, like many of Heinlein's strong female characters, appears to be based closely on his wife Ginny.

* Christian humanism becomes a self-conscious philosophical tendency in Europe.

The measurement and track maintainability are intended to help reduce or reverse a system's tendency toward " code entropy " or degraded integrity, and to indicate when it becomes cheaper and / or less risky to rewrite the code than it is to change it.

Because air no longer flows smoothly over the wings during a stall, aileron control of roll becomes less effective, whilst simultaneously the tendency for the ailerons to generate adverse yaw increases.

In the further reaches of chick lit, ' the male organ ... becomes a tower of strength, a tree trunk in girth, the pillar that sustains the universe ... a Pillar of Hercules, sustaining heaven ' - evidence perhaps that ' the phallic religious tendency is alive in the modern and the civilized ... a compulsive fascination ' with what Jung termed ' the phallus as the quintessence of life and fruitfulness '.

Finally, Tick possesses something referred to as " drama power ," or basically a tendency for The Tick's powers to increase as the situation becomes more dramatic.

The nous becomes earthly, but it retains a tendency toward something higher.

As well as these strange one-off occurrences, Truman also becomes aware of more subtle abnormalities within his regular day-to-day life, such as the way in which the same people appear in the same places at certain times each day and Meryl's tendency to blatantly advertise the various products she buys.

This tendency is emphasised by the opening of the first movement — a loud sound which immediately becomes quiet ; and the closing of the last — a rapid crescendo.

The addition of Nergal represents the harmonizing tendency to unite with Ereshkigal as the queen of the netherworld to the god who, in his character as god of war and of pestilence, conveys the living to Irkalla and thus becomes the one who presides over the dead.

There is also a tendency for exisitng journals to divide into specialized sections as the field itself becomes more specialized.

As studied by sociologists, one of the major themes of secularization is that of " differentiation ": the tendency for areas of life to become more distinct and specialized as a society becomes modernized.

This satiric tendency continued in Die Klatshe ( The nag, 1873 ) about a prince, a stand-in for the Jewish people, who is bewitched and becomes a much put-upon beast of burden, but maintains his moral superiority throughout his sufferings ( a theme evidently influenced by the Apuleius ' classical picaresque novel The Golden Ass ).

This tendency, though very strong at the beginning of their existence, becomes weaker in older trees.

A common way anecdotal evidence becomes unscientific is through fallacious reasoning such as the Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, the human tendency to assume that if one event happens after another, then the first must be the cause of the second.

When an oversteer vehicle is taken to frictional limits, it becomes dynamically unstable with a tendency to spin out.

He becomes Dorothy's servant and protector, and, despite his tendency to run down at crucial moments, helps to subdue the Nome King.

The lower the score the test taker achieves, the more marked this tendency becomes.

If we can assume that the spacetime inside the Cauchy horizon violates AWEC, then the horizon becomes stable and frequency boosting effects would be canceled out by the tendency of the spacetime to act as a divergent lens.

If are independent and identically distributed random variables, each with a standard Cauchy distribution, then the sample mean has the same standard Cauchy distribution ( the sample median, which is not affected by extreme values, can be used as a measure of central tendency ).

In the ringing studies birds ringed as chicks are recapatured close to their original nests, a tendency which can be extreme at times ; in Laysan Albatross the average distance between hatching site and the site where a bird established its own territory was, and a study of Cory's Shearwaters nesting near Corsica found that of nine out of 61 male chicks that returned to breed at their natal colony actually bred in the burrow they were raised in.

Among the most extreme examples known of this tendency was the fidelity of a ringed Northern Fulmar that returned to the same nest site for 25 years.

Against this tendency Nahmanides strove, and went to the other extreme, not even allowing the utterances of the immediate disciples of the Geonim to be questioned.

The tendency toward extreme, unhealthy competition has been termed hypercompetitiveness.

While sharing the same core values of Captains Jean-Luc Picard and Kathryn Janeway, Sisko shows a tendency to compromise those values in extreme situations.

Strauss taught that liberalism in its modern form contained within it an intrinsic tendency towards extreme relativism, which in turn led to two types of nihilism:

This tendency to freeze most likely evolved because of the extreme effectiveness of their camouflage.

Byzantine coins followed, and took to the furthest extreme, the tendency of precious metal coinage to get thinner and wider as time goes on.

Although their revolutionary ideology was extreme, the highest ranks of the Khmer Rouge leadership had a tendency to nepotism similar of the Sihanouk-era elite.

Juan Cole, Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Michigan, argues MEMRI has a tendency to " cleverly cherry-pick the vast Arabic press, which serves 300 million people, for the most extreme and objectionable articles and editorials ... On more than one occasion I have seen, say, a bigoted Arabic article translated by MEMRI and when I went to the source on the web, found that it was on the same op-ed page with other, moderate articles arguing for tolerance.

Silkies lay a fair number of cream-colored eggs, but production is often interrupted due to their extreme tendency to go broody ; a hen will produce 100 eggs in an ideal year.

Respondents may avoid using extreme response categories ( central tendency bias ); agree with statements as presented ( acquiescence bias ); or try to portray themselves or their organization in a more favorable light ( social desirability bias ).

In social psychology, group polarization refers to the tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclination of its members.

Sparta thus exhibited the military efficiency, the thorough organization and the patriotic sacrifice of the individual to the state characteristic of Nordics everywhere and exemplified in modern Prussia, while Athens exhibited the intellectual brilliancy, the instability, the extreme individualism, the tendency to treason and conspiracy so characteristic of populations having a large Mediterranean element.

According to Lau and Rovner social psychologists feel that negative information has a tendency “ to be more influential than equally extreme or equally likely positive information .” Citizens may want to hear the good qualities of the candidates but they tend to remember more about the less desirable ones when presented with them.

Sister Princess is remarkable for its intensely cute and saccharine atmosphere, taking to an extreme a tendency in Japanese culture.

However, his various attitudes and faux-pas — cringeworthy and insulting though they may appear — are rarely maliciously-intended ; they are frequently the result of extreme ignorance and self-delusion, combined with a tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time.

In Italy individualist anarchism had a strong tendency towards illegalism and violent propaganda by the deed similar to French individualist anarchism but perhaps more extreme.

Small, isolated populations such as those of remote islands represent extreme examples of pedigree collapse, but the common historical tendency to marry those within walking distance, due to the relative immobility of the population before modern transport, meant that most marriage partners were at least distantly related.

This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, one-sided tendency dominates conscious life ; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.

The aphorism, with its tendency to paradox and extreme compression, seems to be particularly suited to Green ’ s confrontational mode of thought.

Lord Grey wrote to Lord Holland on 24 October that he could easily separate with the " violent reformers " in the party " but I do not know how I could bear ... a break with some of those who have a tendency at least to the opposite extreme, and particularly after his conduct on this occasion, with Fitzwilliam.

The breed also is an easy keeper, that is, it has a tendency to accumulate fat quickly, which helps when the horses are exposed to extreme conditions on a regular basis, but can be a hardship for owners when the horses are kept stabled.