While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

While " distortion " can include arbitrary deformation of an image, the most pronounced modes of distortion produced by conventional imaging optics is " barrel distortion ", in which the center of the image is magnified more than the perimeter ( figure 7a ).

While he has been rated as one of the top-50 eminent psychologists of the 20th century, Jensen remains a controversial figure, largely for his conclusions regarding the causes of race-based differences in intelligence.

While he did well in Las Vegas and other areas, and made records for the Kapp Records label, he was largely a forgotten figure — even though inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1968.

While creating a more feminine figure, male cross-dressers will often utilize different types and styles of breast forms, which are silicone prostheses traditionally used by women who have undergone mastectomies to recreate the visual appearance of a breast.

While gun safety in different forms has existed since the creation of firearms, Jeff Cooper ( 1920 – 2006 ), an influential figure in modern firearms training, formalized and popularized the above-listed " Four Rules " of safe firearm handling.

While in Hawaii he became a controversial figure for his vehement opposition to the activities of Christian missionaries seeking to convert the native population.

While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, due to his successful economic and diplomatic policies, Tito was " seen by most as a benevolent dictator ," and was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad.

While Tom maintained his small stature and remained a figure of comic relief, his story now included more elements from the medieval Arthurian romances, and Arthur is treated more seriously and historically in these new versions.

While the general narrative of the Exodus and the conquest of the Promised Land may be remotely rooted in historical events, the figure of Moses as a leader of the Israelites in these events cannot be substantiated.

While it grew out of the medieval isorhythmic motet, the Renaissance composers of the motet generally abandoned the use of a repeated figure as a cantus firmus.

While George Romero denies he hired Duane Jones simply because he was black, reviewer Mark Deming notes that " the grim fate of Duane Jones, the sole heroic figure and only African-American, had added resonance with the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X fresh in the minds of most Americans ".

While a popular legend persists about a reward of US $ 40, 000 for Tubman's capture, this is a manufactured figure.

While he accomplished much as an important public literary and political figure with a worldwide reputation, his very creative work did decline.

While Zoroaster was fetching water from dawn for a sacred ritual, he saw the shining figure of the yazata, Vohu Manah, who led Zoroaster to the presence of Ahura Mazda, where he was taught the cardinal principles of the Good Religion.

While the Post-Boost Vehicle backs away, the RVs, decoys, and chaff are deployed ( although the figure shows this happening during descent, this may occur during ascent instead ).

While Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 To Be or Not To Be dealt with similar themes ( even including another mistaken-identity Hitler figure ), after the scope of Nazi atrocities became apparent it took nearly twenty years before any other films dared to satirize the era.

While the pace of conversion was relatively swift in Britain — with over 60 percent of theaters equipped for sound by the end of 1930, similar to the U. S. figure — in France, by contrast, more than half of theaters nationwide were still projecting in silence by late 1932.

While the medieval and later Roman custom of a Lord of Misrule as a master of revels, a figure of fun and no more than that, is most familiar, there does seem to be some indication of an earlier and more unpleasant aspect to this figure.

While the Politburo was a collective decision-making organ, which decided on issues through the support of a majority, Lê, through his post as General Secretary, was the most powerful figure within the Politburo, and able to amass power thanks to his alliances with Thọ, Trần Quốc Hoàn and Võ Nguyên Giáp.

While Chen was the chief secretary of the newspaper, its circulation increased from only a thousand copies to more than three times that figure in less than half a year, becoming one of the most popular vernacular Chinese newspapers in print at that time.

While there has to be some elements of real life history to the setting under most definitions, the " detective " may be a real-life historical figure, e. g. Socrates, Jane Austen, Mozart, or a wholly imaginary character.

While Mary, the Mother of Jesus, may be referred to as " the Madonna " in other contexts, in art the term is applied specifically to an artwork in which Mary, with or without the infant Jesus, is the focus, and central figure of the picture.

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

While Jonah metaphorically declared, “ Out of the belly of Sheol I cried ,” Jesus will literally be in the belly of Sheol.

While the Gospels of Mark and Matthew begin by calling Jesus both Christ and the Son of God, these are two distinct attributions.

While there have been many theological disputes over the nature of Jesus over the earliest centuries of Christian history, Christians generally believe that Jesus is God incarnate and " true God and true man " ( or both fully divine and fully human ).

While members of the Christian Science church claim their religion is based in, reconcilable with, and part of Christianity ( being based on the teachings of Jesus ), there are orthodox Christian theologians and others who disagree.

While the term Mari expressed the relationship between Jesus and his disciples during his life, the Greek Kyrios came to represent his lordship over the world.

While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.

While a large number of 20th century biblical critics argue that the teaching found in John does not go back to the historical Jesus, they usually agree that gospel is not entirely without historical value.

While he maintains his practice of the Jesus Prayer, which becomes automatic and continues twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the Hesychast cultivates watchful attention ( Gr. nepsis ).

While the Jewish Messiah is considered to be one of the things that precede creation, he is not considered to be divine nor is he considered to be Jesus, in sharp contrast to Christian belief.

While with Section V, Philby met James Jesus Angleton, a young American counter-intelligence officer working in liaison with SIS in London.

While attending Jesus ' Sermon on the Mount, Brian becomes infatuated with an attractive young rebel, Judith.

While he does exclude himself from those who were eyewitnesses to Jesus ' ministry, he repeatedly uses the word " we " in describing the Pauline missions in Acts of the Apostles, indicating that he was personally there at those times.

While most Christians believe Jesus ' resurrection was in a material body ; which was seen by over 500 people, a very small minority believe it was spiritual.

While some of the differences are as widespread as Christianity itself, the overwhelming majority agrees that salvation is made possible by the work of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, dying on the cross.

While Matthew groups Jesus ' teachings into sets of similar material, the same material is scattered when found in Luke.

While Ship in The Jesus Incident has achieved a higher level of omniscient consciousness, Durandal's rampancy parallels the " rogue consciousness " from Herbert's earlier Destination: Void.

While this effort has not been completed, increased attention has brought larger numbers of people distributing Bibles, Jesus videos, and establishing evangelical churches in more remote areas.

While the dialogue of Jesus has some of the same talking points as the modern left, the right considers these subjects equally important but have different opinions as to the propriety of government involvement in such things as caring for the poor.

While Reformed theologians acknowledge that true believers at times will fall into sin, they maintain that a real believer in Jesus Christ cannot abandon one's own personal faith to the dominion of sin.

While most scholars have recognised finding Jesus within the context of first century Palestinian Judaism, Mack and other proponents go against the majority arguing that Jesus be understood in a Hellenistic context.