Experience is not seen, as it is in classical rationalism, as presenting us initially with clear and distinct objects simply located in space and registering their character, movements, and changes on the tabula rasa of an uninvolved intellect.

A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.

after all, the large ( and probably unreliable ) Reader's Digest literature on the `` most unforgettable character I ever met '' deals with village grocers, country doctors, favorite if illiterate aunts, and so forth.

I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man, and when a very small man is up on a saddle, he'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there.

This, of course, depends on the character of the site itself, the previous experience of the investigator, and the number of factors needed to arrive at a good decision.

An imaginative storyteller, Pimen takes on the character he describes, as if he were experiencing the old shepherd's blindness and miraculous cure.

Is it not the obligation of us older citizens to lend our weight to being creative on the character side and to hasten our own maturing process??

Those who lived in that desolation of rocky deformity took on some of the moraine's stony character.

More than a beautiful visualization of the illustrious adventures and escapades of the tragi-comic knight-errant and his squire, Sancho Panza, in seventeenth-century Spain, this inevitably abbreviated rendering of the classic satire on chivalry is an affectingly warm and human exposition of character.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

His own children had suffered from the weakening of those values which he and Theresa had always taken for granted, and as for his grandchildren ( he had one so far, still in diapers ), he shuddered to think that the true meaning of character might never dawn on them at all.

A study on the relationship happiness to various character strengths showed that “ a conscious focus on gratitude led to reductions in negative affect and increases in optimistic appraisals, positive affect, offering emotional support, sleep quality, and well-being .”

the most commonly used character encoding on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when it was surpassed by UTF-8.

) depend on the character used to denote its argument.

The defense counsel will then make a " plea in mitigation " ( also called " submissions on penalty ") wherein he or she will attempt to mitigate the relative seriousness of the offense and heavily refer to and rely upon the defendant's previous good character and good works ( if any ).

Christie has also been parodied on screen, such as in the film Murder by Indecision, which featured the character " Agatha Crispy ".

For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".

The character of Miss Marple is based on Christie's grandmother and her cronies, but there is no definitive source for the derivation of the name ' Marple '.

The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries.

All else being equal, a character with a higher rank in an attribute will always win a contest based on that attribute.

Galaxy Quest ( 1999 ), a comedy about actors from a defunct science-fiction television series serving on a real starship, included an actor who is terrified that he's going to die on an away mission because his only appearance in the show was as an unnamed character who was killed early in the episode.

Slartibartfast is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a comedy / science fiction series created by Douglas Adams.

* Walter " Doc " Hartford, a fictional character from The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers

A television version featuring the character was announced during Hitchcon, the first Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy convention by Ed Victor, a literary agent who represents Adams ' estate, announced that a television adaptation of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was in production.

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the character Arthur Dent says " This must be Thursday.

* Number two, character from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Ford Prefect ( also called Ix ) is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the British author Douglas Adams.

IGN rated the character an 8 out of 10 in the worth saving index on their article “ Mario ’ s Ladies: The Princesses of Mario Galaxy ”.

* Forte Stollen, a fictional character from the Galaxy Angel anime

* Douglas Adams lived in Islington and used it as a setting in his novels, and named a character in his famous Hitchhikers ' Guide to the Galaxy series after a well known local estate agents-Hotblack Desiato.

Marvin, the Paranoid Android, is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams.

Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character and the hapless protagonist of the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Tricia Marie McMillan, also known as Trillian Astra, is a fictional character from Douglas Adams ' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council tortures Ford Prefect ( character ) | Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent with his poetry in the 2005 film The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( film ) | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Jeltz reading poetry to Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect ( character ) | Ford Prefect in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( TV series ) | television series.

* Magna Defender, a fictional character from the Power Rangers Lost Galaxy TV series

He appeared in the original radio production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, playing the character Vroomfondel.

The animated series Partridge Family 2200 A. D., which debuted in 1974, features Keith and Laurie Partridge going to a futuristic space high school called " Galaxy High ," and Laurie's friend Marion Moonglow ( a Martian ) bears a striking resemblance to the Wendy Garbo character from this series.

It explores the past of the cyborg character Ziggy when he was a human named Jan Sauer and working for the Galaxy Federation's counter-terrorism task force.

* Ford Prefect ( character ), a character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, named after the car

* Birdman and the Galaxy Trio-1967 TV cartoon series with a ' similar ' character

Butler also trained Hal Rayle, who ultimately determined that his best-known character of Doyle Cleverlobe from Galaxy High School should sound like Elroy Jetson after he finished puberty.