Human nature was not a piece of meat you could tell was bad by its smell.

It took a piece of bad luck to show Michelangelo that the boy was devoted to him.

Turning this piece of bad luck on its head, was able to add more operational details to the message when finally sent and increase his standing with the Germans.

The novel features scenes and events including the discovery of a near-dead alien in the desert, who clearly says in English, " I'm sorry, but there is bad news ," and this alien's subsequent interrogation and autopsy ; the discovery of an artificial geological formation and its subsequent nuclear destruction by a desperate military ; and the Earth's eventual destruction by the mutual annihilation of a piece of neutronium and a piece of antineutronium dropped into Earth's core.

The piece was profitable, and the reviews were not all bad.

Although a situational pin is not an absolute pin and the pinned piece can still be moved according to the rules, moving out of line of attack can result in a bad situation or even immediate loss of the game.

(" One little thing can revive a guy, and that is a piece of rhubarb pie / Serve it up, nice and hot / Maybe things aren't as bad as you thought.

He referred to dwarves as " a piece of private bad grammar ".

He was in a bad mood at the time and commented in a letter that the piece was unusually harsh even for him.

Tertullian cited Luke 6: 43-45 ( a good tree does not produce bad fruit ) and Luke 5: 36-38 ( nobody tears a piece from a new garment to patch an old garment or puts new wine in old wineskins ), in theorizing that Marcion set about to recover the authentic teachings of Jesus.

As with international investors, local business people are less likely to overreact to a piece of bad news if they understand the economic context.

The character of the Wizard was in the book a good man though a bad wizard but in the play, the villain of the piece ; this is reflected by the evil part he is described as having played in the back story of this work.

Just several months later Riga-based chess grandmaster Mikhail Tal was heard praising the author of " Bolshoy Karetny " and Anna Akhmatova ( in a conversation with Joseph Brodsky ) was quoting Vysotsky's number " I was the soul of a bad company ..." taking it apparently for some brilliant piece of anonymous street folklore.

After several more attacks, Elliot, with the help of Amy, finds a way to translate the language of the new gorillas ( she refers to them as " bad gorillas ") and piece together three messages (" go away ", " don't come ", " here bad "); they stop fighting the humans and become confused, leaving the camp.

With the roles of Elmo McElroy ( Samuel L. Jackson ) and Felix DeSouza ( Robert Carlyle ) both secured, producer Andras Hamori suggested Meat Loaf to play the bad guy which was approved by director Yu who called the idea a " truly inspired piece of casting ".

When a limited-overs match is affected by rain or bad light, and the Duckworth Lewis method is used to adjust the target for a team batting second, because of the complexity of the situation, the fielding side's captain may decide to give a piece of paper with the Duckworth Lewis calculations to the vice captain or another player, so that he is not overburdened with duties.

" I was sent to a school for bad boys called Oakley Training School in 1949 ", he wrote in a brief piece of autobiography.

Whether a piece of music is perceived as good or bad can depend on whether the music heard before it was unpleasant or pleasant.

But they won't be getting an easy in from Dad — Percy's favorite piece of fatherly advice is that " If you want something bad enough, you'll figure out how to get it on your own.

Camile Paglia likewise cites " the New Historicism coming out of Berkeley " as an " issue where the PC academy thinks it's going to reform the old bad path, I have been there before they have been, and I'm there to punish and expose and to say what they are doing ... a piece of crap.

Atlanta Nights is a collaborative novel created in 2004 by a group of science fiction and fantasy authors, with the express purpose of producing a bad piece of work of unpublishable quality to test whether publishing firm PublishAmerica would still accept it.

But when they take an Excel gum piece, food creatures run away showing that gum makes bad breath disappear.

The pulpit and reading-desk, richly sculptured in oak, is another well-executed piece of ecclesiastical workmanship from St. Omers.

This period saw the widespread introduction of mass production and piece work, which created problems as workmen could now earn more money by the production of extra products, which in turn occasionally led to poor quality workmanship being passed on to the assembly lines.

In FidoNet terminology, the term " kludge " refers to a piece of control data embedded inside a message.

While Swift ’ s proposal is obviously not a serious economic proposal, George Wittkowsky, author of " Swift ’ s Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet ", argues that to understand the piece fully, it is important to understand the economics of Swift ’ s time.

His piece " A Dot in Time " ( for English Horn ) is an anagram of " Meditation ", what is actually what it is.

Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

A cappella ( Italian for " in the manner of the church " or " in the manner of the chapel ", also see gospel music and choir ) music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

* Hysterium: ( Latin for " Hysterical ", or " Anxious ", the suffix "- um " makes the name neuter, and the character's gender is often mistaken throughout the piece ) The chief slave in the house of Senex.

His 1939 memorial article for Sapir, " The Relation of Habitual Thought And Behavior to Language ", in particular has been taken to be Whorf's definitive statement of the issue, and is his most frequently quoted piece.

This style of drive had the popular nickname " Toaster Drive ", because it required the use of a knife or other thin object to pry out the stuck media just like a piece of toast stuck in a real toaster ( though this is inadvisable with real toasters ).

His long-time musical partner, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, wrote the Dave Brubeck Quartet's best remembered piece, " Take Five ", which is in 5 / 4 time and has endured as a jazz classic on one of the top-selling jazz albums, Time Out.

Shime-daiko can either have stitched heads placed on bodies carved from single piece of wood, such as the " tsukeshime-daiko ", " tsuzumi ", or stitched heads placed on a stave-construction body such as the okedo-daiko.

The final piece in what Bowie called his " triptych ", Lodger ( 1979 ), eschewed the minimalist, ambient nature of the other two, making a partial return to the drum-and guitar-based rock and pop of his pre-Berlin era.

Some tracks were composed using Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards: " Boys Keep Swinging " entailed band members swapping instruments, " Move On " used the chords from Bowie's early composition " All the Young Dudes " played backwards, and " Red Money " took backing tracks from " Sister Midnight ", a piece previously composed with Iggy Pop.

In April 2006, Jones recorded the single " Your Personal Penguin ", written by children's author Sandra Boynton, as a companion piece to her new board book of the same title.

Marketed as a " Visionary Roleplaying Game ", it has often been characterized as an innovative piece with a limited commercial success.

The relative sophistication of this piece was not followed up for some time, with subsequent works in animation being limited to short, two or three frame effects, such as appeared in Edwin Porter's 1902 short " Fun in a Bakery Shop ", where a lump of dough was made to smile over the course of a three-frame sequence.

The piece has enjoyed a number of major revivals, and several of its songs have become standards, including " Broadway Baby ", " I'm Still Here ", " Too Many Mornings ", " Could I Leave You?

The original dry-compounded powder used in fifteenth century Europe was known as " Serpentine ", either a reference to Satan or to a common artillery piece that used it.

He wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times titled " China Won't Ever Be the Same ", in which he said that the killings " tore the heart out of a generation that carries the hope for the future of the country ".

This is then placed into a hand-held mould and a piece of type, or " sort ", is cast by filling the mould with molten type-metal ; this cools almost at once, and the resulting piece of type can be removed from the mould.

The piece in the main lobby of Meany Hall, entitled " Theatre ", was commissioned by the University for the hall in 1985.