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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.
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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However, consumers have shown a tendency to prefer low deductibles and to prefer to insure relatively high-probability, small losses over low-probability, perhaps due to not understanding or ignoring the low-probability risk.
But perhaps more startling, and disturbing, was the tendency for aggression and violence within chimpanzee troops.
Due to a tendency in 1980s-1990s academic criticism to locate Bonheur as a proto-Feminist and as a pivotal figure for Queer theory, she is perhaps most famous today because she was known for wearing men's clothing and living together with Anna Klumpke.
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 '.
Anthropological linguistics studies these distinctions, and relates them to types of societies and to actual bodily adaptation to the senses, much as it studies distinctions made in languages regarding the colours of the rainbow: seeing the tendency to increase the diversity of terms, as evidence that there are distinctions that bodies in this environment must make, leading to situated knowledge and perhaps a situated ethics, whose final evidence is the differentiated set of terms used to denote " we ".
While ' Ankoku Butoh ' can be said to have possessed a very precise method and philosophy ( perhaps it could be called ' inherited butoh '), I regard present day butoh as a ' tendency ' that depends not only on Hijikata's philosophical legacy but also on the development of new and diverse modes of expression.
From Finney, Reynolds learned of " the primacy of ' gesture ,' which took to be a composite of rhythm, contour, and physical energy: the empathic resonances that musical ideas could arouse-at root, perhaps, an American tendency to value sensation over analysis.
This vampiric tendency is essential to Omega Red's survival ; the carbonadium implants, while great offensive weapons, slowly poisoned him and he was required to regularly drain the life energy of a person, or perhaps take small amounts from larger numbers of individuals, in order to temporarily sustain his immune system.
However, the writer of the Cotton Nero A. x poems never refers to contemporary scholarship as Chaucer, for example, does ; the poems show much more of a tendency to refer to materials from the past ( the Arthurian legends, stories from the Bible ) than any new learning, so it is perhaps less possible to associate him or her with the universities, monasteries, or the court in London.
In any event, logical empiricism, with its emphasis on scientific models of knowledge and on the logical analysis of meaning, soon emerged as a, and perhaps the, dominant tendency in American philosophy.
There seems to be a tendency for larger-bodied animals to conform more closely than smaller-bodied animals, at least up to certain latitudes, perhaps reflecting a reduced ability to avoid stressful environments by burrowing or other means.
In Britain and Canada, on the other hand, voters have a tendency to switch parties on a whim, perhaps only for one election, as there is far less loyalty towards a particular party.
Historically, however, opening credits have been the only source of crew credits and, largely, the cast, although over time the tendency to repeat the cast, and perhaps add a few players, with their roles identified ( as was not always the case in the opening credits ), evolved.
Ronald Blythe's biographical chapter in The Age of Illusion is perhaps the apogee of this tendency.
Not surprisingly, perhaps, competition in product-focused areas tends to be more intense with a tendency to drive the production end of the supply chain to become a commodity business.
:“… the great fact remains that Oxford is still here, a little dazed and unsteady perhaps, but Oxford all the same, and it is to sing of Oxford that The Isis appears once more, to reflect its every tendency, to echo its laughter and – well, to do the other thing .” ( Beverley Nichols in his opening editorial, 1919 )
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Initial studies in the early eighties suggested that laboratory mice seemed to have a tendency to float, perhaps leading to their perceived uncooperativeness in the water maze.
Here there is an implied rebuke of the tendency of many Jewish authorities of the period simply to gloss over the inconveniences of the thoughts of the ‘ modern critics ’ – a rebuke which perhaps rankled with some.
Social disintegration is the tendency for society to decline or disintegrate over time, perhaps due to the lapse or breakdown of traditional social support systems.
It is perhaps because of the tendency of economic policy in market-driven economies not to interfere with consumers ’ preferences that the producer-centric representation is the dominant form of viewing the environmental impacts of industrial production: in statistics on energy, emissions, water, etc., impacts are almost always presented as attributes of industries (‘ on-site ’ or ‘ direct ’ allocation ) rather than as attributes of the supply chains of products for consumers.
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.
But perhaps more startling, and disturbing, was the tendency for aggression and violence within chimpanzee troops.
Urraca or Hurraca ( also medieval Latin Urracha and Hurracka ) is a feminine given name, the same as the Spanish word for magpie, derived perhaps from Latin furax, meaning " thievish ", in reference to the magpie's tendency to collect shiny items.

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It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.
First, and most obvious, was the growing nationalism and the tendency to regard the state, and the individual's identification with the state, as transcending other ties of social solidarity.
29 .</ ref > This tendency to identify one specific underlying reality made up of a material thing constitutes the bulk of the contributions for which Anaximenes is most famed.
These are most often temporary effects: hair usually starts to regrow a few weeks after the last treatment, sometimes with a tendency to curl, resulting in " chemo curls.
Two of the most outspoken critics of the guild system were Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith, and all over Europe a tendency to oppose government control over trades in favour of laissez-faire free market systems was growing rapidly and making its way into the political and legal system.
" However within this line of thought " The tension between anti-vanguardism and vanguardism has frequently resolved itself in two diametrically opposed ways: the first involved a drift towards the party ; the second saw a move towards the idea of complete proletarian spontaneity ... The first course is exemplified most clearly in Gramsci and Lukacs ... The second course is illustrated in the tendency, developing from the Dutch and German far-lefts, which inclined towards the complete eradication of the party form.
Although she lived before left communism became a distinct tendency, Rosa Luxemburg has heavily influenced most left communists, both politically and theoretically.
Though there is a tendency for the most important carnivorous animal of the area to take the first place in stories and beliefs as to transformation, the less important beasts of prey and even harmless animals like the deer or rabbit also figure prominently among the were-animals.
At the same time there has been a tendency to bring the origins of the Pentateuch further forward in time, and the most recent proposals place it in 5th century Judah under the Persian empire.
But, for the most part, the consideration of what would happen if everyone did the same, is the only means we have of discovering the tendency of the act in the particular case .”
In his inaugural speech he declared, " Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much from the government and at the same time do too little for it.
Contrary to Malthus ' predictions and in line with his thoughts on moral restraint, natural population growth in most developed countries has diminished to close to zero, without being held in check by famine or lack of resources, as people in developed nations have shown a tendency to have fewer children.
Vesuvius has erupted many times since and is today regarded as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world because of the population of 3, 000, 000 people living nearby and its tendency towards explosive ( Plinian ) eruptions.
The general tendency of its policy throughout the war of investitures was Imperial and not Roman ; and its bishops were, for the most part, Germans.
This is due to a very approximate tendency of atoms of most elements to be about the same size, despite much wider variations in density and atomic weight.
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.
The most common statistic is the arithmetic mean, but depending on the nature of the data other types of central tendency may be more appropriate.
After Jack Warner criticized her tendency to cajole crowds into buying, she reminded him that her audiences responded most strongly to her " bitch " performances.
There is some evidence for vowel harmony according to vowel height or ATR in the prefix i < sub > 3 </ sub >/ e-in inscriptions from pre-Sargonic Lagash ( the specifics of the pattern have led a handful of scholars to postulate not only an / o / phoneme, but even an and, most recently, an ) Many cases of partial or complete assimilation of the vowel of certain prefixes and suffixes to one in the adjacent syllable are reflected in writing in some of the later periods, and there is a noticeable though not absolute tendency for disyllabic stems to have the same vowel in both syllables.
Presumably, food was scarce during most of human prehistory, and a tendency toward low mood during the winter months would have been adaptive by reducing the need for calorie intake.
In decision making, satisficing explains the tendency to select the first option that meets a given need or select the option that seems to address most needs rather than the “ optimal ” solution.
Those claiming " American " ancestry are of predominantly English ancestry but most people in Baker County who are of English stock have a tendency to identify simply as Americans.
Like most of the Florida Panhandle, Franklin County votes Republican in presidential, Congressional, and statewide elections, although there is a tendency to support Conservative Democrats in local elections.
It is most often used for blending with the related Malvasia Puntinata and Malvasia di Lazio being more highly prized due to their higher acidity and tendency to produce less flabby wines.

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