Marshall Eriksen's family in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother display niceness exceeding even natural Minnesota nice, to the amusement or occasional frustration of Marshall's friends.

In the first place, a good many writers who are said to use folklore, do not, unless one counts an occasional superstition or tale.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

There are in the Chronicles also many quotations from the Book of Psalms and occasional references from the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel.

Persecution, forcible conversion, and forcible displacement of Jews ( i. e. hate crimes ) occurred for many centuries, with occasional gestures to reconciliation from time to time.

The occasional nature of many provisions suggests that the Code may be better read as a codification of supplementary judicial decisions of the king.

The pages of the Italian manuscript are framed in an Islamic style, and contain chapter rubrics and margin notes in ungrammatical Arabic ; with an occasional Turkish word, and many Turkish syntactical features.

Reloading may not be cost effective for occasional shooters, as it takes time to recoup the cost of the required equipment, but those who shoot on a regular basis will see benefit as the brass case ( the most expensive component ) can be reused many times ( with proper maintenance ).

Not all MUDs are games ; some are designed for educational purposes, while others are purely chat environments, and the flexible nature of many MUD servers leads to their occasional use in areas ranging from computer science research to geoinformatics to medical informatics to analytical chemistry.

While it is certainly true that a game with too many wild cards can become so random that all skill is lost, the occasional use of wild cards is a good way to add variation to a game and add opportunities for skillful play.

But she drifted back to songwriting and occasional recording sessions for the fledgling Capitol Records in 1947, for whom she produced a long string of hits, many of them with lyrics and music by Lee and Barbour, including " I Don't Know Enough About You " and " It's a Good Day " ( 1948 ).

Each player's objective is generally to have as many disks one's own color at the end as possible and for one's opponent to have as few — or, technically in consideration of the occasional game in which not all disks are placed, that the difference between the two should be as large as possible if the winner and as small as possible if the loser.

The mixture of bright colours, unusual designs, repetitive non-verbal dialogue, ritualistic format, and the occasional forays into physical comedy appealed to many who perceived the programme as having psychedelic qualities.

The campus is home to deer, owls, squirrels, the occasional cougar and many other wild animals native to the area.

Other notable artists from Whitehorse are the actors Tahmoh Penikett of Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse ; Amy Sloan who has done many television shows ,( Molly Lang ) Dancer, Singer, Northern Icon, the storyteller Ivan Coyote, punk rock bassist Jonas Smith of JJS3, and the creator of Scrooge McDuck occasional resident Carl Barks.

In War Before Civilization, Lawrence H. Keeley, a professor at the University of Illinois, says that approximately 90 – 95 % of known societies throughout history engaged in at least occasional warfare, and many fought constantly.

The occasional return to classicism — figurative work either exclusively or alongside Cubist work — experienced by many artists during this period ( called Neoclassicism ) has been linked to the tendency to evade the realities of the war and also to the cultural dominance of a classical or Latin image of France during and immediately following the war.

Suspension of disbelief may be seen in enjoyment of many B-grade science fiction films and television series such as the early series of Doctor Who, where the audience willingly ignores low-budget props and occasional plot holes, in order to engage fully with the story — which may be the more so for those additions to its inherent outrageousness.

More significantly, many beaches are a discharge zone for untreated sewage in most underdeveloped countries ; even in developed countries beach closure is an occasional circumstance due to sanitary sewer overflow.

To prevent humans crossing, many prisons and other high-security installations construct fences with razor wire, a variant which instead of occasional barbs features near-continuous cutting surfaces sufficient to injure unprotected persons who climb on it.

Because of the Platte's brackish water, the preferred camping spots were along one of the many fresh water streams draining into the Platte or the occasional fresh water spring found along the way.

Despite these incidences of occasional violence between African and European forces however, many African states were able to ensure that any trade went on in their own terms, imposing custom duties on foreign ships, and in one case that occurred in 1525, the Kongolese king, Afonso I, seized a French vessel and its crew for illegally trading on his coast.

We know his tastes in food because many scenes take place in restaurants, and that he is an excellent driver because he participates in the occasional car chase.

: countless trios and divertimentos for various instruments ; 12 oratorios and a number of theatrical items, even pantomimes, and especially certain occasional pieces such as martial music … Turkish music, music with ' steel keyboard ' and lastly a musical sleigh ride ; not to speak of marches, so-called ' Nachtstücke ' and many hundreds of minuets, opera dances and similar items.

That the use of " Scots " is the modern preferred use in all levels of society in Scotland is not in doubt, but occasional use of " Scotch " in varieties of the Scots language continues with terms such as Scotch and English ( a game ), Scotch fiddle ( Itchiness ), Scotch mile and ell ( measures ) and many other examples ( see the Scots Dialect Dictionary compiled by Alexander Warrack M. A.

Frishberg's liner notes and occasional commentary to his audience help explain the background to many of these songs.

There have been no open splits within the older generation of Fatah politicians since the 1980s, though there is occasional friction between members of the top leadership.

Private Eye's Colemanballs column has now expanded to include occasional quotes from sportsmen themselves ( e. g. Frank Bruno's " That's cricket, Harry, you get these sort of things in boxing "), politicians ( John Major's " When your back's against the wall it's time to turn round and fight "), and malapropisms from other public figures.

She received occasional visitors, such as some prominent politicians who went to pay their respects every few years.

All politicians in a democracy must make occasional small sacrifices of truth, subtlety, long-term concerns, or other matters that don't have immediate popular impact or else they will lose the popular support which is the base of their political power.

He gained the sobriquet " Honest Tom " for his forthright and straightforward manner, although these same qualities would earn him the occasional disapproval of fellow politicians and the electorate, and caused his defeat at the polls in 1871.

Union leaders and Opposition politicians joined them thereafter and Police and crowd engaged in a standoff with occasional outbursts and usual elements of protesting until nightfall, when a few city residents came out and began burning tires on the bridge.

Within these networks, information and rumours spread within the gay community about the sexuality of local television, sports and entertainment celebrities, university professors, children and relatives of politicians, and even the occasional Cabinet minister himself.

His rise in influence among SDP politicians and on the Zagreb political scene created a backlash by the Croatian People's Party ( HNS ), the other left-of-center party led by Vesna Pusić, who did not trust his nationalist populism and his occasional run-ins with the courts.

The new hour format now featured John Hart reading the news from Washington and CBS News Moscow correspondent Hughes Rudd as an occasional contributor.

A former foreign correspondent based in Moscow and later Washington, Hitchens continues to work as an occasional foreign reporter, and appears frequently in the British broadcast media.

Facing the continued popularity of top-rated CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, NBC Nightly News returned to a co-anchor format from June 7, 1976 until October 9, 1979 with Brinkley resuming his old role at the NBC Washington desk ; internal disputes within NBC management prompted the network to remove Brinkley from Nightly News, assigning him to occasional documentaries until his departure for ABC in 1981.

He made a feature-length 35 mm film in Enumclaw, Washington, moved to Hollywood in 1978, with occasional film and theatre work in Portland, Oregon, New York, and Chicago.

Andrew Breitbart (; February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012 ) was an American publisher, commentator for The Washington Times, author, and occasional guest commentator on various news programs, who served as an editor for the Drudge Report website.

In their later years, the Keeneys are variously reported to have founded and run a cinema club in Washington, D. C. between 1952 and 1958, showing art films, and reportedly opened a beatnik theatre in Greenwich Village called Club Cinema to air mostly foreign-language films with subtitles, with occasional folksingers or poetry readings.

He is now a studio analyst and occasional game analyst for MASN's coverage of the Washington Nationals.

Perkins was an occasional in studio guest to the Don and Mike Show, and now to its successor the Mike O ' Meara Show in Washington DC.

In 2002 Arnaud de Borchgrave, Editor-in-Chief for The Washington Times, called Executive Intelligence Review " an anti-Semitic potpourri of disinformation, factoids, rumor, gossip, loony tunes and an occasional fact.