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If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.
It appears that the dominant tendency of Mann's early tales, however pictorial or even picturesque the surface, is already toward the symbolic, the emblematic, the expressionistic.
Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.
What is wrong with advertising is not only that it is an `` outrage, an assault on people's mental privacy '' or that it is a major cause for a wasteful economy of abundance or that it contains a coercive tendency ( which is closer to the point ).
The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.
I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.
In the electronics industry, this tendency is well illustrated by inventories of TV sets.
In soft woods with pronounced grain, there is sometimes a tendency for the hole to wander, due to the varying hardness of the wood.
With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.
Obviously, if colloidal particles bear charges of opposite sign or, if one kind is charged and the other kind is not, the attraction will be intensified and the tendency to agglomerate will be greatly reinforced.
There is a marked tendency for religions, once firmly established, to resist change, not only in their own doctrines and policies and practices, but also in secular affairs having religious relevance.
The tendency is toward putting dominant stress at the end.
There is a parallel to this tendency in the assignment of time in long-known hymn tunes.
The tendency for general business activity to soften somewhat is becoming more evident.
This tendency is, perhaps, most clearly revealed in the literature on religious conversions and experiences of adolescents.
He was critical of what he feels is President Kennedy's tendency to be too conciliatory.
A frequent pitfall in this sort of arrangement, experts warn, is a tendency to pay the wife more than her job is worth and to set aside an excessive amount for her as retirement income.

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This caution has been particularly noticeable in a tendency of retailers and distributors to shift the inventory burden back on the supplier, and the fact stocks at retail are low in many lines has escaped attention because of the presence of higher stocks at the manufacturing level.
Poirot regards Hastings as a poor private detective, not particularly intelligent, yet helpful in his way of being fooled by the criminal or seeing things the way the average man would see them, and for his tendency to unknowingly " stumble " onto the truth.
A yarn's usefulness is judged by several factors, such as its loft ( its ability to trap air ), its resilience ( elasticity under tension ), its washability and colorfastness, its hand ( its feel, particularly softness vs. scratchiness ), its durability against abrasion, its resistance to pilling, its hairiness ( fuzziness ), its tendency to twist or untwist, its overall weight and drape, its blocking and felting qualities, its comfort ( breathability, moisture absorption, wicking properties ) and its appearance, which includes its color, sheen, smoothness and ornamental features.
Guy Claxton has questioned the extent that learning styles such as VAK are helpful, particularly as they can have a tendency to label children and therefore restrict learning.
This process is thought to be subject to selection, with a tendency towards intron gain in larger species due to their smaller population sizes, and the converse in smaller ( particularly unicellular ) species.
A yarn's usefulness for a knitting project is judged by several factors, such as its loft ( its ability to trap air ), its resilience ( elasticity under tension ), its washability and colorfastness, its hand ( its feel, particularly softness vs. scratchiness ), its durability against abrasion, its resistance to pilling, its hairiness ( fuzziness ), its tendency to twist or untwist, its overall weight and drape, its blocking and felting qualities, its comfort ( breathability, moisture absorption, wicking properties ) and of course its look, which includes its color, sheen, smoothness and ornamental features.
Theorists such as Ralf Dahrendorf have noted the tendency toward an enlarged middle class in modern Western societies, particularly in relation to the necessity of an educated work force in technological economies.
Of the two, technetium more closely resembles rhenium, particularly in its chemical inertness and tendency to form covalent bonds.
Warren Nord, in Does God Make a Difference ?, characterized the general tendency of the dissents as a weaker reading of the First Amendment ; the dissents tend to be " less concerned about the dangers of establishment and less concerned to protect free exercise rights, particularly of religious minorities.
Bradley Belt, former executive director of the PBGC ( the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the federal agency that insures private-sector defined-benefit pension plans in the event of bankrupment ), testified before a congressional hearing in October 2004, “ I am particularly concerned with the temptation, and indeed, growing tendency, to use the pension insurance fund as a means to obtain an interest-free and risk-free loan to enable companies to restructure.
The local critic said he " was particularly outstanding, his one fault being a tendency to speak too fast on one or two occasions ".
Recently, the larger passenger versions have appeared in news stories for having a tendency to roll over, particularly in the case of inexperienced operators.
Males often have larger claws, a tendency which is particularly pronounced in the fiddler crabs of the genus Uca ( Ocypodidae ).
According to Philip Hitti, there was during the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates a marked tendency among several quite unrelated heterodox groups to affiliate themselves with the Shiites, and particularly the Ismailis, in a general feeling of heterodox solidarity in a Sunni-controlled empire.
Canned goods and canning supplies sell particularly well in times of recession due to the tendency of financially stressed individuals to engage in cocooning, a term used by retail analysts to describe the phenomenon in which people actively avoid straying from their houses.
Further complicating the transition process is the tendency for youth with spina bifida to be delayed in the development of autonomy, with boys particularly at risk for slower development of independence.
This tendency towards abstraction was already evident in some of Home's work of the 1990s, particularly sound pieces such as the cut up radio play " Divvy ", but in the 2000s it became increasingly central to his output.
Rivalry of royal succession and particularly the tendency of autonomy led to longlasting feuds between the Dukes of Schleswig and the Kings of Denmark 1253 – 1325.
In linguistics, the tendency is to use haček ( with no long mark ), largely due to the influence of the Prague School ( particularly on Structuralist linguists who subsequently developed alphabets for previously unwritten languages of the Americas ).
She has a tendency to take charge of the family, particularly after her mother dies.
Collisions with animals with antlers ( e. g., deer ) are particularly dangerous, as the head has a tendency to separate and come through the windshield, but any large, long-legged animal ( e. g. horses, larger cattle, camels ) can pose a similar cabin incursion hazard.
Its principal differences are an emphasis on operant conditioning, use of idiosyncratic terminology ( jargon ), a tendency to apply notions of reinforcement to philosophy and daily life and, particularly, an emphasis on private experience.
While the veracity of these court records should reasonably be questioned ( given the particularly nasty nature of Puttenham's divorce and the tendency of early modern court cases to present the most fantastical accounts of their participants ), surprisingly little was said in defense of Puttenham's character.
As with socialist ideologies across the world, there has historically been a strong internationalist tendency in the Arab socialism ; however, it was based primarily on anti-imperialism, and non-alignment, particularly during the Cold War.

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