Jazz, like sex, is a mystique.

The mystique of sex, combined with marijuana and jazz, is intended to provide a design for living.

such is the mystique of planning that people expect that fulfillment of the plan will follow automatically upon its announcement.

However, the mystique of the cavalry is such that the name has been introduced for what was always a mechanised force.

The Emperor of Japan is defined as a symbol, not head, of state by the post-war constitution ( contrasting with the former divine status ) but is treated as an imperial head of state under diplomatic protocol ( even ranking above kings ) and retains Shinto mystique.

In 1981, Kathleen Wheeler contrasts the Crewe Manuscript note with the Preface: " Contrasting this relatively factual, literal, and dry account of the circumstances surrounding the birth of the poem with the actual published preface, one illustrates what the latter is not: it is not a literal, dry, factual account of this sort, but a highly literary piece of composition, providing the verse with a certain mystique.

Increasing his mystique, not a single word was ever published from Thrawn's point of view, despite Zahn's wide variety of narrators ( Luke, Han, Leia, Lando, Karrde, Mara Jade, and even minor characters like General Covell and Niles Ferrier ); instead, he is only observed by other characters, occasionally New Republic personnel but mostly his loyal second-in-command Captain Gilad Pellaeon.

Although it refers to a means of production ( not to mention an era and mystique ) as much as to an actual sound, the Nashville sound is generally dated from 1957 or 1958.

Anonymity is directly related to the concept of obscurantism or pseudonymity, where an artist or group attempts to remain anonymous, for various reasons, not limited to: adding an element of mystique to themselves and / or their work, attempting to avoid what is known as the " cult of personality " or hero worship, where the charisma, good looks, wealth and / or other unrelated or mildly related aspects of the person ( s ) is the main reason for interest in their work, rather than the work itself ; also the ability to break into a field or area of interest normally dominated by males, such as James Tiptree, Jr, the famous science fiction author who was actually a woman named Alice Bradley Sheldon, as seems to also be the case with JT LeRoy.

Rohrer writes, " Many of these readers are disappointed that the novel fails to meet the expectations generated by the mystique it is shrouded in.

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " D " rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " What's most grating about Hackers, however, is the way the movie buys in to the computer-kid-as-elite-rebel mystique currently being peddled by magazines like Wired ".

As a significant part of her " mystique " consists of her refusal to answer questions ( or giving contradictory information ), much of Angelyne's actual biographical information is unknown or doubtful.

The legend and mystique of his life is so great that he has been mentioned in countless books, and portrayed by various actors in numerous movies and television series.

Jean Baudrillard applied commodity fetishism to explain the subjective feelings of men and women towards consumer goods in the " realm of circulation "; that is, the cultural mystique ( mystification ) that advertising ascribed to the commodities ( goods and services ) in order to encourage the buyer to purchase the goods and services as aids to the construction of his and her cultural identity.

In the 1980s total quality management became widely popular, and in the 1990s " re-engineering " went from a simple word to a mystique ( a kind of evolution that, unfortunately, draws bad managers to jump on the bandwagon without understanding what the bandwagon is ).

But it is true that, unlike his brothers and his ally Doc Holliday, who participated in several gun battles with him, Wyatt was never wounded during his entire lifetime, which only contributed to his mystique.

Tolkien's Red Book, pastiche of scholarship though it is, functions as such a medieval ' spurious source ', but the ' authority ' it imparts is by an appeal not to the tried-and-true but to the modern mystique of ' scholarly research '.

The concept of organizing a codified system is obviously not a Japanese or outwardly Asian one, though many international or foreign styles may adopt the nomenclature and systemization of koryū bujutsu ryūha in order to add an air of mystique or legitimacy to their system, or simply as a way to show respect to their roots and background.

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

It is their tultul, the ' jumping platform ' of death.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

It is their job to think about the unthinkable.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

Everyone is ready to grant the Persians their history, but almost no one is willing to acknowledge their present.

But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.

And it is expressed, at least to their taste, in a perfect form.

It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

Unconcerned with the practical function of his actions, the dancer is engrossed exclusively in their `` motional content ''.

Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

It is from this unpromising background that the fictional private detective was recruited.

By virtue of his self-reliance, his individualism and his freedom from external restraint, the private eye is a perfect embodiment of the middle class conception of liberty, which amounts to doing what you please and let the devil take the hindmost.

In short, the fictional private eye is a specialized version of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur, the man whose private ambitions must always and everywhere promote the public welfare.

The private eye is therefore a moral man ; ;

As capitalism in the 20th century has become increasingly dependent upon force and violence for its survival, the private detective is placed in a serious dilemma.

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

By upholding his own personal code of behavior, the private detective has placed himself in opposition to a society whose fabric is permeated with crime and corruption.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.

The liberal-conservative division, we might observe in passing, is not of itself directly involved in a private interest conflict nor even in struggle between ruling groups.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

And the anxiety it generates is misinterpreted as anxiety over private interest and threatened social status.

Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.

The goal is to enlist all available economic resources in the industrialized Free World, especially private investment capital.

His point is simply that the Tories have showered him with personal satire, despite the fact that as a private subject he has a right to speak on political matters without affronting the prerogative of the Sovereign.

the atmosphere is that of an attractive private beach club at home.

The private detective ( at least in the minds of listeners and readers all over the country ) is an individual hero fighting injustice.

The private detective is militant against injustice, a humorous and ironic explorer of the underworld ; ;