In everyday English, sublime might mean ‘really wonderful’ butin literature it refers to work which provokes terror and painin the audience. Terror and pain are the two emotions considered most powerful. Unlike the terror and pain of the real world, however,when experienced via story the au...
I gazed in awe as Muhammad Ali shuffled through the lobby with a sly smile on his face, parting a sea of people like he was Moses. I listened as casino mogul Steve Wynn led reporters on a personal tour of the Bellagio’s now-famed dancing fountains, effusively praising his resort as ...
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Wynn may have created a new phrase to describe that thing where you know what you’re saying sounds (is) morally reprehensible, so you say something morally better in an attempt to balance the scales.Interior with Lamp 1953, Roy De Maistre. A still life with lamp, fan, reading material ...
The mean psychological impact of tumour genetic testing among ovarian cancer patients in this study was measured as 26.8 via the MICRA questionnaire. Though there is no cut-off to define a "high" MICRA score, this score is higher than recently published Norwegian (mean score = 17.7) [33, ...
The average desirability was rated asMD = −0.04 (SD = 1.45) on average. This result indicates that the scenarios were mostly rated as rather neutral (a mean value of 0 would indicate a neutral evaluation of the scenarios). Nonetheless, the standard deviation reveals a notable varia...
In this chapter, we define the sole form of text with which Bringing War to Book is concerned, the contemporary military memoir. We start by introducing the genre, and its twin goals of telling stories rooted in factual information about military partici
Size variables in audit fee studies Full size image The mean of the adj. R2was 0.75. Even if the number of attached control variables increased over time, that value remained quite constant, as shown in Fig.6. The highest adj. R2was provided by a study of the Australian audit market for...
Size variables in audit fee studies Full size image The mean of the adj. R2was 0.75. Even if the number of attached control variables increased over time, that value remained quite constant, as shown in Fig.6. The highest adj. R2was provided by a study of the Australian audit market for...
While the mean muscle strength for men with achondroplasia was reduced compared with reference values, women with achondroplasia had results similar to the reference values, both for absolute values and ranges [47,82]. This population also presents a reduction in muscle volume and a high prevalence...