(1) The low population densities and impermanent settlements of Amazonian Indians are often interpreted as adaptations to a fauna that offers limited protein resources and is rapidly depleted by hunting.
(2) For the most part, my comfort with impermanence has outweighed the discomfort of sleeping on someone’s used couch.
(3) A devoted Buddhist, he chatted away about impermanence and reaching higher states of being.
(4) Along the way if there are points of pain, you observe them impersonally as your scan reaches those points, knowing they are impermanent.
(5) A performing art, it has always been uniquely difficult to preserve and reproduce (the tragedy of its impermanence was brought home this summer by the deaths of Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham).
(6) In 1989, when Gehry was awarded the prestigious Pritzker prize, the citation read: "His sometimes controversial, but always arresting body of work, has been variously described as iconoclastic, rambunctious and impermanent, but the jury, in making this award, commends this restless spirit that has made his buildings a unique expression of contemporary society and its ambivalent values."
(7) The alignment of this tooth with the toothcomb is a strictly impermanent situation and cannot be taken into consideration when determining homologies of the teeth of the toothcomb.
(8) Calling these children "detainees" is a way of suggesting to all who read that they are little more than impermanent prisoners, strangers in a strange land who we'll soon send on their way.
(9) Franzen, who avoids the internet while he writes, has previously laid out his reasons for disliking ebooks : reading a book on a screen feels too impermanent, he believes, and he worries "that it's going to be very hard to make the world work if there's no permanence like that.
(10) In particular, there is the stoicism that teaches us to take mortality and the impermanence of all things as cues to detach ourselves from the ups and downs of life and embrace an accepting tranquility.
(11) If you take that permanence and then point out all the impermanence within it, that becomes a really fascinating topic, I think."
(12) Zeldin said: "It's very dehumanising that people are being made to work and live in complete impermanence.
(13) Intensive study of 5 of the most seriously affected villages over a period of 3 years has shown that there is a delicate balance between the parasite and its human host in this area, largely as a result of the impermanent nature of the principal transmission sites, i.e., ponds and the smaller riverine pools.
(14) Further, he notes that unless adolescents' problems are understood in the context of improperly functioning families, any help provided will be impermanent at best.
(15) It demands an individual preoccupation of the therapist with the basic questions regarding his own life and its impermanence.
(16) We describe a congenital deformity of the foot which is characterised by calcaneus at the ankle and valgus at the subtalar joint; spontaneous improvement does not occur and serial casting results in incomplete or impermanent correction of the deformities.
(17) We learnt about the impermanence of health and the vicissitudes of life.
(18) The problems of controlling and ultimately eradicating pertussis are addressed in the face of the apparent impermanence of vaccine immunity, and the limited protection offered while it lasts.
(19) Today's youth lives in a "throw away society" characterized by an impermanence of both objects and human relations--which works counter to traditional health values and practices.
(20) Franzen, whose stories about dysfunctional middle-class families hold up a mirror to contemporary America, has hit out at new media culture before, denigrating ebooks for their impermanence and branding Twitter the "ultimate irresponsible medium" .
Momentary
Definition:
(a.) Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang.
Example Sentences:
(1) Agüero tried to retreive the situation – proof that City had more than enough finishers on hand to take advantage of momentary Burnley disarray – though, forced away from goal, he shot from a narrow angle and missed the target.
(2) The horizontal changes of the other points analyzed as well as all vertical changes are not predicted satisfactorily in the momentary version 4.22 A (febr.
(3) These analyses unmasked unique attributes of spontaneous LH secretory events, which were represented as delimited momentary augmentations in endogenous LH secretory rates interspersed among intervals of relative secretory quiescence.
(4) Results indicate that momentary DRO maintained response suppression comparable to that obtained by whole-interval DRO.
(5) In the epicortical recordings, the development of a new focus is indicated by a functional uncoupling between the superficial layers of the cortical area to be involved and the momentary active focus.
(6) All this reached its apogee in 1987, with the sleeve art for Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason .
(7) Responses which identified the momentary state of the display were food-reinforced, while those which did not (errors) produced time out.
(8) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
(9) Reducing MDx production or the repair period, or accelerating the creation of new modeling units would have the opposite effects on the momentary MDx burden but would also go through a transient phase before developing the new steady state conditions.
(10) Previous studies have shown that momentary contact between a methylmethacrylate intraocular lens and the corneal endothelial cells results in extensive cell damage.
(11) The momentary entry of urine into the proximal urethra during coughing can be demonstrated by a new test which can be conducted using apparatus now commonly available for urodynamic investigations.
(12) In that momentary pause my nerves bubbled up in my chest.
(13) How about: 'Fuck off you fucking…'" Cue momentary alarm before, thankfully, his face relaxes and he laughs out loud.
(14) It is argued that in schizophrenia a core deficit in momentary processing capacity underlies the above performance pattern.
(15) Palatabilities and also satieties are assumption-loaded abstractions from the observable momentary causal relationships between eating or drinking and the situations in which it occurs.
(16) After successful colposuspension, the proximal urethra is exposed to compression against the symphysis pubis by the momentary descent of the pelvic viscera during physical effort.
(17) Most television, to which talented, energetic people devoted months or years of their lives, has left momentary imprints on our retinas and slightly less momentary imprints on our brains before vanishing into the ether.
(18) The further computation of the EEG time series after DHT results in the time series of the momentary power and the momentary frequency.
(19) The approach through a left thoracotomy gave good exposure and momentary cessation of cardiopulmonary bypass made ligation of the calcified ductus possible.
(20) A system for measuring oxygen consumption from momentary respiratory values of free moving person is described.