While S.K. did not like Dylan Thomas, I liked his poems very much, but I made the mistake of telling Dylan Thomas so, whereupon he said to me, `` I suppose you think you know all about me ''.

While The Space Merchants indicates, as Kingsley Amis has correctly observed, some of the `` impending consequences of the growth of industrial and commercial power '' and satirizes `` existing habits in the advertising profession '', its warning and analysis penetrate much deeper.

While many companies have done fine work in developing sales personnel, much of it has been product rather than sales training.

While strong forms of the various dialects are not normally fully comprehensible to Northern Germans, communication is much easier in Bavaria, especially rural areas, where Bavarian dialect still predominates as the mother tongue.

While much of the construction in these sites conforms to common Pueblo architectural forms, including Kivas, towers, and pit-houses, the space constrictions of these alcoves necessitated what seems to have been a far denser concentration of their populations.

While the use of iron started to become more widespread around 1200 BC, mainly because of interruptions in the trade routes for tin, the metal is much softer than bronze.

" ( Acts 28: 14-15 ) While Walton agrees that Luke ’ s main concern is apolitical, he believes that “ there is too much politically sensitive material for this view to be tenable when Luke-Acts is read in its first-century settings, both Jewish and Greco-Roman .”

While it contains much in the way of Native American tradition, it should not be confused with the tribal beliefs of any community of native people.

While acrylic retarders can slow drying time to several hours, it remains a relatively fast-drying medium, and the addition of too much acrylic retarder can prevent the paint from ever drying properly.

While not considered orthodox Christian, the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica uses roles and titles derived from Christianity for its clerical hierarchy, including bishops who have much the same authority and responsibilities as in Roman Catholicism.

" While Frank Miller has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a " homophobic nightmare ," he views the character as sublimating his sexual urges into crimefighting, concluding, " He'd be much healthier if he were gay.

While the complexity, size, construction, and general form of CPUs have changed enormously since 1950, it is notable that the basic design and function has not changed much at all.

While maintaining much diversity in class, race, and age, it became harder and harder for those who grew up in the city to be able to afford to stay.

While not a national holiday, it does appear on all printed calendars, much as Father's Day does in the West.

While all Catholics must therefore hold that " the infliction of capital punishment is not contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church, and the power of the State to visit upon culprits the penalty of death derives much authority from revelation and from the writings of theologians ", the matter of " the advisability of exercising that power is, of course, an affair to be determined upon other and various considerations.

While an unlicensed satellite dish can often be identified easily, satellite radio receivers are much more compact and can rarely be easily identified, at least not without flagrantly violating provisions against unreasonable search and seizure in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

While Clausewitz was intensely aware of the value of intelligence at all levels, he was also very skeptical of the accuracy of much military intelligence: " Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory ; even more are false, and most are uncertain ....

While rocks melted by the impact resemble volcanic rocks, they incorporate unmelted fragments of bedrock, form unusually large and unbroken fields, and have a much more mixed chemical composition than volcanic materials spewed up from within the Earth.

While integrating garbage collection into the language's compiler and runtime system enables a much wider choice of methods, post hoc GC systems exist, including some that do not require recompilation.

While substantial water was detected spectroscopically, it was not as much as predicted beforehand, meaning that either the water layer thought to exist below the clouds was thinner than predicted, or that the cometary fragments did not penetrate deeply enough.

While much of the urban areas were now under the control of the KMT, much of the countryside remained under the influence of weakened yet undefeated warlords and Communists.

While the Chicago River historically handled much of the region's waterborne cargo, today's huge lake freighters use the city's Lake Calumet Harbor on the South Side.

While there were still a number of loud / fast songs, much of the music featured an eclectic mix of instruments including trumpets and synthesizers.

While Kronecker would die soon after, his constructivist philosophy would continue with the young Brouwer and his developing intuitionist " school ", much to Hilbert's torment in his later years.

While many cases an alien language is but an element of fictional reality, in a number of science fiction works the core of the plot are linguistic and psychological problems of communication between various alien races.

While Lovecraft never considered his pantheon of alien gods more than a mere plot device, Derleth created an entire cosmology, complete with a war between the good Elder Gods and the evil Outer Gods, such as Cthulhu and his ilk ).

While presenting several specific differences in their respective translations of the original computer game, all of them constitute essentially the same game with no major changes to level design, plot, or overall delivery.

While supplying the source of the plot, the book offered nothing of the sense of place of Venice or Cyprus.

While the first of these novels, The Saint in Miami, has Templar stumbling upon a Nazi plot, beginning with the " Arizona " novella Templar is fighting his own war against Germany.

While briefly acknowledging the events of the preceding two sequels, its plot makes it a virtual remake of the 1974 original.

While the word vodka could be found in manuscripts and in lubok ( лубок, pictures with text explaining the plot, a Russian predecessor of the comic ), it began to appear in Russian dictionaries in the mid-19th century.

While none of the stories has a plot or character connection with the next, a recurring theme is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people.

While critics have frequently dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot — musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a " shabby little shocker "— the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged.

While the invaders are horrifying enough, the focus of the plot is very much the practical business of, on the one hand, the aliens mounting the invasion, and on the other, the efforts of free humans to defeat it.

While opera seria deals with gods and ancient heroes and only occasionally contained comic scenes, opera buffa involves the predominant use of comic scenes, characters, and plot lines in a contemporary setting.

While The Diamond Age can be viewed primarily as a coming-of-age or Bildungsroman central plot centered on a female character, deeper analysis reveals several interconnected themes.

While PC Zone gave the game 91 % and a " Classic " award, praising its inventive level design and engaging plot, most other publications did not have such a glowing view towards it.

While questioning Sinon, the Trojan priest Laocoön guesses the plot and warns the Trojans, in Virgil's famous line " Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes " ( I fear Greeks even those bearing gifts ), which became known as ' beware of Greeks bearing gifts ," Danaos being the ones who built the Trojan Horse.

While holding this office, he discovered a plot of the king's chamberlain's, eunuchs Bigthan and Teresh, to assassinate the king.

While in exile, Justinian began to plot and gather supporters for an attempt to retake the throne.

While most of the twists are easy to spot once you discover the main plot — basically ' Are you or aren ’ t you a machine ' deal — they still have an impact, and Dick makes his point quite clearly.

While still Duke, he was involved in the plot for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre ( but did not participate ), in which thousands of Huguenots were killed ; his reign as king, like the ones of his elder brothers Francis II and Charles IX, would see France in constant turmoil over religion.

" While this is not essential to the plot of the play, the line figuratively serves to suggest Death has become physically present in Thebes.

While these sketches would eventually be incorporated into Finnegans Wake in one form or another, they did not contain any of the main characters or plot points which would later come to constitute the backbone of the book.

While no two summaries interpret the plot in the same way, there are a number of central " plot points " upon which they find general agreement.

While many stories have unanswered questions, unlikely events or chance occurrences, a plot hole is one that is essential to the story's outcome.

While the term was originally restricted to stories in which male media characters were involved in an explicit sexual relationship as a primary plot element ( also known as " slash ", " m / m slash ", " menslash ", " altfic "), it is now often used to refer to any fan story containing a pairing between same-sex characters, although many fans distinguish the female-focused variety as a separate genre commonly referred to as femslash ( also known as " f / f slash ", " femmeslash ", " altfic " and " saffic ").

While the basic plot of the live-action adaptation of The Cat in the Hat rotates around that of the book, the film filled out its 82 minutes by adding new subplots and characters quite different from those of the original story, similar to How the Grinch Stole Christmas.