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  • FIRST ITERATION [picture] "At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structre will be seen."†   (source)
  • There was something so defeated, so bitter, underlying the captain's words that Dorian, for a heartbeat, felt badly.†   (source)
  • The stern-looking father who occupies the aisle seat has his attention interrupted by fits of vacancy—an expression so perfectly empty accompanies his sternness and his concentration that I think I glimpse an underlying truth to the man's churchgoing: that he is doing it only for the children, in the manner that some men with much vacancy of expression are committed to a marriage.†   (source)
  • Much like the rest of us on the surface, he had an underlying obliging and considerate strain which barred him from being a really important member of the class.†   (source)
  • Put the other way round, our attention would have been held even more effectively had there been an underlying pull of simple narrative.†   (source)
  • They learned about the extended family clans that underlay the town's social structure.†   (source)
  • And maybe it's because of that underlying goodness that he can move a crowd--no, a country--to his side with the turn of a simple sentence.†   (source)
  • Ford leaped to his rescue, hazarding "… counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the … er …"†   (source)
  • And though she said nothing, and even denied it when confronted, I knew the underlying issue was the fact that I was supposed to be home for good and wasn't It was the first and only time that Savannah ever lied to me.†   (source)
  • I could hear the underlying terror.†   (source)
  • Underlying the speech was a strange hiss that made his scalp prickle.†   (source)
  • John Root was so self-indulgent that there was a risk he might never draw upon his underlying power; Adler was essentially a technician, an engineer, a conscientious administrator….†   (source)
  • She's flying in a way we don't need to know the underlying myth of the flying Africans to comprehend.†   (source)
  • This distinction between something and nothing-this pivotal separation between being and nonbeing-is quite fundamental and underlies many Creation myths.†   (source)
  • Two years later, the workings of the conspiracy, and its underlying intentions, were exposed during a trial in Chicago.†   (source)
  • She was looking at him with that disconcerting expression of matemal love and tenderness , disconcerting because of the total solid blackness underlying it.†   (source)
  • Hookstratten confirms this, your own doctor. there must be something else, an underlying problem.†   (source)
  • There was a watchful stillness to the photograph that lent an underlying chill to the warm room in which it hung.†   (source)
  • In the course of my investigations as to their source, I discovered a large and exceedingly noxious cesspool underlying every part of the cellars, in some places the consistency of a strong infusion of black tea, and in others like viscid soft soap, which was undrained due to the failure of the builders to connect the drains to the main sewer; in addition to which, the water supply for both drinking and washing was drawn through an intake pipe from the lake, in a stagnant bay, close by…†   (source)
  • It was Nan, sounding unusually cheery, even though he felt he could hear the underlying sadness that lurked just beneath the surface of every conversation.†   (source)
  • Do you think you can point to an underlying cause?†   (source)
  • In fact, I began to sense a greater underlying pattern to the way the wind moved through the courtyard.†   (source)
  • As a youngster it was very untogether to be labeled mentally ill because of a underlying cigarette habit.†   (source)
  • The smell of ashes and smoke hung heavy on the air, familiar to her from the last time she was here—but there was something else underlying those smells, a heavier, thicker stench, like rotting fruit.†   (source)
  • With his deeper truthsense, Paul caught the underlying motive, had to use every ounce of his training to mask his excitement.†   (source)
  • In every phase of the surgery, this was the underlying question.†   (source)
  • I was going at it in terms of underlying form.†   (source)
  • They were looking for the underlying laws of nature.†   (source)
  • Any tb program that wanted low prices would have to prove to the committee that they had a good plan and a good underlying dots program, one that wouldn't breed further resistance.†   (source)
  • Thinking as a private detective might, Vanger thought that the underlying motive for Harriet's murder might be found in the structure of the company—the fact that early on he had made it known that Harriet was special to him; the motive might have been to harm Vanger himself, or perhaps Harriet had discovered some sensitive information concerning the company and thereby became a threat to someone.†   (source)
  • Disoriented and confused though she may be, she is exerting all her strength to comprehend the logic underlying this place-the basis of its existence.†   (source)
  • No underlying agendas.†   (source)
  • Shultz had a score of charges, but underlying them all was the implication that because of community pressure, Fleming and Smith had deliberately neglected their duties.†   (source)
  • The learning environment of the missionary schools, while often morally rigid, was far more open than the racist principles underlying government schools.†   (source)
  • The connective tissue in his face is dissolving, and his face appears to hang from the underlying bone, as if the face is detaching itself from the skull.†   (source)
  • There was a lot of underlying racism and a lot of baggage they brought with them.†   (source)
  • It frightened her, the anger underlying his words.†   (source)
  • But there had been something else underlying their words—something else that had them at odds.†   (source)
  • I want you to find what you feel to be the principles that underlie true friendship, and I want you to be able to report to Mr. Hamilton an example of true friendship that demonstrates your principles.†   (source)
  • It would be good to know if he has any allergies or underlying medical conditions.†   (source)
  • But action on these three measures would raise the underlying issues higher on the international affairs agenda, and would illustrate solutions to the problems.†   (source)
  • The problem with nitro was that it only treated symptoms, not the underlying coronary disease.†   (source)
  • This hinted at an underlying humanity.†   (source)
  • Whichever way we decide there's a terrible feeling of underlying treachery.†   (source)
  • They all make fun of themselves-and each other-though their underlying confidence never seems jilted.†   (source)
  • But as Thomas led the group of eight out of the forest along the lip of the same canyon where they'd once trapped and slaughtered forty thou-sand of the Horde, he felt the same underlying dread he d once felt leaving the trees.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he's becoming white," joked another, but the humor masked an underlying question of why Jose Fax had moved his family from Salinas Avenue on the west side, where most Hispanics lived, to a tract home in a predominantly white neighborhood.†   (source)
  • Can you name a belief that underlies your actions?†   (source)
  • All the data I had received from Lieutenant Issaaia that morning had had an underlying taste of resentment, which grew momentarily stronger.†   (source)
  • An attraction to them, yes, but an underlying disdain.†   (source)
  • They were of like mind on most matters, including the underlying motives of the Comte de Vergennes.†   (source)
  • Therefore, as the sergeant had stressed in his underlying message: I had to do something to change my present course.†   (source)
  • Maybe in the end the facts are not as important as the underlying truth she wants to convey.†   (source)
  • Underlying it all, a faint shimmer of silver that would reflect the light, magnify it.†   (source)
  • But although we felt less anxiety than we had at any time for nearly a year, an underlying effect remained, a sense of warning, with a sharpened awareness that we were set apart, with the safety of all of us lying in the hands of each.†   (source)
  • Nightingales chirped from within gilded cages and flowers abounded: purple orchids, stargazer lilies, brilliant red tulips, and others so exotic and lush that they suggested an underlying magic or technology at work.†   (source)
  • The underlying sense of what's presented these days is that this country has difference that ails rather than strengthens and enriches.†   (source)
  • But there is one underlying doubt that if proved justified cannot be tolerated.†   (source)
  • The cut spi-raled gently from just beyond the elbow to just above the wrist, and underlying the pain was a chill lack of feeling, as if the flesh were dead or dying.†   (source)
  • This feeling underlay the well-advertised resolve of Sher-man's soldiers to take South Carolina apart.†   (source)
  • Dragon killing was approved of by all, except possibly the trolls, who may have gotten Olaf's underlying message of "Look, I killed a dragon, so don't mess with me."†   (source)
  • He and his people had come to pillage Tin-Towns, yet Bruenor's underlying attitude seemed more the concern of a stern father than the callous perspective of a slave's master.†   (source)
  • I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes.†   (source)
  • A brief thaw the previous day had allowed the plane's skis to sink into an inch or two of slush, where they had frozen solid to the underlying ice.†   (source)
  • A few showed January, as if the months on the underlying pages had no longer been turned or torn away.†   (source)
  • You never get to any of the underlying truth.†   (source)
  • There comes a point in a narrative like this one when a certain injection of irony seems inappropriate, perhaps even "counterindicated"—despite the underlying impulse toward it—because of the manner in which irony tends so easily toward leadenness, thus taxing the reader's patience along with his or her credulity.†   (source)
  • It took me a long time but I soon became aware of an underlying, pervasive fixation for violence among the people of the island.†   (source)
  • They were as aggressive, but without Ferdinand's underlying graciousness.†   (source)
  • That was the sliver of justification underlying the attempted coup d'etat just before the Treaty of New Delhi, the so-called 'Revolt of the Scientists': let the intelligent elite run things and you'll have utopia.†   (source)
  • These 10 days confirmed my belief in the decency and the strength and the wisdom of the American people, but it also bore out some of my longstanding concerns about our Nation's underlying problems.†   (source)
  • The idea that underlies this is that communion between mortals is immortal, and that the whole of life is symbolic because it is meaningful.†   (source)
  • You could grasp the mechanics of the Society you lived in, but not its underlying motives.   (source)
    underlying = causing
  • This is the underlying discovery of Noetic Science.†   (source)
  • I've been thinking about concepts that underlie it for twenty years," I say.†   (source)
  • "The real underlying flaw in your life, Mackenzie, is that you don't think that I am good.†   (source)
  • The underlying source of conflict was straightforward.†   (source)
  • The underlying import of his words began to take over in her mind, pushing all else aside.†   (source)
  • She could tell from the nervous tension underlying his jokes.†   (source)
  • What could be more underlying than death?†   (source)
  • Underlying the speech was a strange hiss that made his scalp prickle.†   (source)
  • Mariam detected a shadow on his face, a darkness underlying the coppery light of dusk.†   (source)
  • "Hmmm," he said, "counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor …"†   (source)
  • First, that complex systems like weather have an underlying order.†   (source)
  • To assume that what we perceive has its own underlying 'substance' is jumping to conclusions.†   (source)
  • MANTENE: underlying wisdom, supporting argument, first principle.†   (source)
  • The point is, we are not aware of the underlying connection.†   (source)
  • I want to talk about the underlying form of the world of underlying form itself.†   (source)
  • Inevitably, underlying instabilities begin to appear.†   (source)
  • Now I think it's right to talk about that world of underlying form from its own point of view.†   (source)
  • It's designed to change the underlying form of the machine.†   (source)
  • But there are so many whirling motives and underlying possibilities and so whats and why nots.†   (source)
  • The tension underlying his voice was a live wire.†   (source)
  • She met my eyes, and I could suddenly see the symmetry underlying her deformity.†   (source)
  • There was an underlying strength to her embrace, the kind of muscle tone that came from hard work.†   (source)
  • Since coming to the United States, Deo had read some of the history that underlay what he'd endured.†   (source)
  • But I also encountered an underlying respect and affection for America.†   (source)
  • The Theorem of underlying Katherine Predictability, he thought.†   (source)
  • Still, it maintained that underlying mystique that drew crowds of dreamers.†   (source)
  • It should be grudging, with underlying urgency.†   (source)
  • Yet underlying the uniqueness of each crisis is a disturbing sameness.†   (source)
  • She understood the underlying meaning of his statement, tried to accept that he was done with her.†   (source)
  • But he thinks he can count on this fellow to see the underlying subject, the turn of mind.†   (source)
  • Yet a hint of mischief underlay his expression, making him seem younger.†   (source)
  • Wulfgar peeled away the hide of the animal and began scraping away the underlying layer of fat.†   (source)
  • There was no hint of any underlying tension.†   (source)
  • In some places, the skin almost separated from the underlying tissue.†   (source)
  • They have a lot of contacts I would have to say the underlying motive is financial or economic.†   (source)
  • There was an underlying note of violation and menace.†   (source)
  • The briefings were strong and the analysis underlying them was spot-on.†   (source)
  • There is a simple network of wide tunnels that directly corresponds to the main street plan above, underlying the major avenues and cross streets.†   (source)
  • As the glacier inched over humps and dips in the Cum's underlying strata, it fractured into countless vertical fissures-crevasses.†   (source)
  • He began reading books about law and politics and attending meetings of the Single-Tax Club, which embraced Henry George's belief that private landowners should pay a tax, essentially rent, to reflect the underlying truth that land belonged to everyone.†   (source)
  • Because of his researches for Misery, he had rather more than a layman's understanding of neurosis and psychosis, and he knew that although a borderline psychotic might have alternating periods of deep depression and almost aggressive cheerfulness and hilarity, the puffed and infected ego underlay all, positive that all eyes were upon him or her, positive that he or she was staffing in a great drama; the outcome was a thing for which untold millions waited with held breath.†   (source)
  • Their underlying motives were no less varied than the motives of Western climbers, but at least part of the incentive was job security: as Lopsang explained, 'After Sherpa climbs Everest, easy to find work.†   (source)
  • On one occasion the underlying conflict came into the open when I asked, "Why do we have to draw blood from this patient?†   (source)
  • The underlying problem was that Boukreev's notion of his responsibilities differed substantially from Fischer' S. As a Russian, Boukreev came from a tough, proud, hardscrabble climbing culture that did not believe in coddling the weak.†   (source)
  • They walk in a fragmented trance, stop and go, clusters of well-dressed figures frozen in the aisles, trying to figure out the pattern, discern the underlying logic, trying to remember where they'd seen the Cream of Wheat.†   (source)
  • Despite America's long-standing "special relationship" with Great Britain, the underlying cultural ties between the United States and Germany, though less obvious, are equally strong.†   (source)
  • Hume pointed out that we have no underlying 'personal identity' beneath or behind these perceptions and feelings which come and go.†   (source)
  • GRABEN: a long geological ditch formed when the ground sinks because of movements in the underlying crustal layers.†   (source)
  • But what is this underlying order?†   (source)
  • Each of their stories was different, yet somehow familiar, linked by common elements — the same struggle to receive proper medical care, the same fear of speaking out, the same underlying corporate indifference.†   (source)
  • Although the McDonald brothers had never encountered the term "throughput" or studied "scientific management," they instinctively grasped the underlying principles and applied them in the Speedee Service System.†   (source)
  • So, like Thales, he thought that there must be an underlying substance that is the source of all natural change.†   (source)
  • PAN: on Arrakis, any low-lying region or depression created by the subsiding of the underlying basement complex.†   (source)
  • We can find an underlying order.†   (source)
  • The world of underlying form is an unusual object of discussion because it is actually a mode of discussion itself.†   (source)
  • Men correspond to animals, while women correspond to plants because their development is more placid and the principle that underlies it is the rather vague unity of feeling.†   (source)
  • A memo sought to explain the underlying psychology behind many visits to McDonald's: parents took their children to McDonald's because they "want the kids to love them …. it makes them feel like a good parent."†   (source)
  • Lateral truths point to the falseness of axioms and postulates underlying one's existing system of getting at truth.†   (source)
  • It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.†   (source)
  • That is another name of the classic platform from which one discusses things in terms of their underlying form.†   (source)
  • In doing so we will be entering Phaedrus' world, the only world he ever knew, in which all understanding is in terms of underlying form.†   (source)
  • The ghost he pursued was the ghost that underlies all of technology, all of modern science, all of Western thought.†   (source)
  • Previously I was discussing his world of underlying form, or at least the aspect of it called technology, from an external view.†   (source)
  • The classic mode, by contrast, proceeds by reason and by laws…which are themselves underlying forms of thought and behavior.†   (source)
  • I want to pursue further now that same ghost that Phaedrus pursued…rationality itself, that dull, complex, classical ghost of underlying form.†   (source)
  • The dirt, the grease, the mastery of underlying form required all give it such a negative romantic appeal that women never go near it.†   (source)
  • The underlying problems are the same.†   (source)
  • They are looking at underlying form.†   (source)
  • So I backed up and shifted to the classic-romantic split that I think underlies the whole humanist-technological problem.†   (source)
  • You have to work with the underlying form of the universe too, the laws of nature which, when understood, can make work easier, sickness rarer and famine almost absent.†   (source)
  • In terms of ultimate truth a dichotomy of this sort has little meaning but it is quite legitimate when one is operating within the classic mode used to discover or create a world of underlying form.†   (source)
  • I think the basic fault that underlies the problem of stuckness is traditional rationality's insistence upon "objectivity," a doctrine that there is a divided reality of subject and object.†   (source)
  • An underlying reason for this trouble was that they saw it from a kind of "groovy dimension" that was concerned with the immediate surface of things whereas I was concerned with the underlying form.†   (source)
  • Only the underlying form is left.†   (source)
  • He's on this dimensional difference which underlay much of the cultural changes of the sixties, I think, and is still in the process of reshaping our whole national outlook on things.†   (source)
  • Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right.†   (source)
  • The terms classic and romantic, as Phaedrus used them, mean the following: A classical understanding sees the world primarily as underlying form itself.†   (source)
  • Some may argue that the underlying form of the American government is stuck, is incapable of change in response to Quality, but that argument is not to the point.†   (source)
  • At present we are also snowed under with a lot of stylishness in the arts … thin art … because there's very little assimilation or extension into underlying form.†   (source)
  • In terms of our old dichotomy, what's being said is, "Don't base your decisions on romantic surface appeal without considering classical underlying form."†   (source)
  • But if you were to show the same blueprint or schematic or give the same description to a classical person he might look at it and then become fascinated by it because he sees that within the lines and shapes and symbols is a tremendous richness of underlying form.†   (source)
  • In each case there's a beautiful way of doing it and an ugly way of doing it, and in arriving at the high-quality, beautiful way of doing it, both an ability to see what "looks good" and an ability to understand the underlying methods to arrive at that "good" are needed.†   (source)
  • What you've got here, really, are two realities, one of immediate artistic appearance and one of underlying scientific explanation, and they don't match and they don't fit and they don't really have much of anything to do with one another.†   (source)
  • We are at the classic-romantic barrier now, where on one side we see a cycle as it appears immediately…and this is an important way of seeing it…and where on the other side we can begin to see it as a mechanic does in terms of underlying form…and this is an important way of seeing things too.†   (source)
  • It would tell you how to hold the blade when sharpening the knife, or how to use a sewing machine, or how to mix and apply glue with the presumption that once these underlying methods were applied, "good" would naturally follow.†   (source)
  • I could go on about which functions occur in their proper sequence during each of the four cycles, then go on to the operatorcontrolled functions and that would be a very summary description of the underlying form of a motorcycle.†   (source)
  • You discuss things in terms of their immediate appearance or you discuss them in terms of their underlying form, and when you try to discuss these modes of discussion you get involved in what could be called a platform problem.†   (source)
  • But all this can be prevented by a few thousandths of an inch fit which precision measuring instruments give, and this is their classical beauty…not what you see, but what they mean…what they are capable of in terms of control of underlying form.†   (source)
  • Reason was to be subordinate, logically, to Quality, and he was sure he would find the cause of its not being so back among the ancient Greeks, whose mythos had endowed our culture with the tendency underlying all the evil of our technology, the tendency to do what is "reasonable" even when it isn't any good.†   (source)
  • If she didn't, she'd probably get caught up with another David-a handsome man who craved the good things in life with the underlying assumption that he didn't have to play by the rules.†   (source)
  • Eragon took a minute to collect himself and consider everything he knew about Arya: her likes and dislikes, her habits and mannerisms, the important events of her life, what she feared and what she hoped for, and most importantly, her underlying temperament—that which dictated her approach to life …. and to fighting.†   (source)
  • Quite the opposite: that all that extra information isn't actually an advantage at all; that, in fact, you need to know very little to find the underlying signature of a complex phenomenon.†   (source)
  • Because a person tends to run into the same people with regularity —while shopping, driving, attending church, going to parties—an underlying courtesy has taken root in this town, and it is often possible to do things that may seem impossible elsewhere.†   (source)
  • From "Telekinesis: Analysis and Aftermath" (Science Yearbook 1981), by Dean D. L. McGuffin: There are, of course, still these scientists today-regretfully, the Duke University people are in their forefront-who reject the terrific underlying implications of the Carrie White affair.†   (source)
  • Amanda could easily sense her daughter's underlying message: that writing was a task not to be discussed with nonwriters.†   (source)
  • Because underlying all those other things is this bottomless despair and it just…. hollows you out.†   (source)
  • The details of Saphira's remarks were complex, but the underlying structure of her presentation was straightforward.†   (source)
  • Underlying all this suspicion of reason on my part is the consummate belief that Sukeena possesses a wealth of knowledge that even Madame Lu may not match.†   (source)
  • But the underlying message, that the Ranta brothers had decided to take a breather in Tallinn for the foreseeable future, did not do much to calm Sandström's nerves.†   (source)
  • Although they may sound as if they don't have very much in common, they share a basic, underlying pattern.†   (source)
  • Although contemporary in design there was an underlying sense of function and an absence of eye-pleasing touches.†   (source)
  • And yet still I have always wondered if training or rearing tells more than the simple earth and ash and blood from which we come, or whether these social inurements eventually fall away, like the moldering garments of the dead, to reveal the underlying bones.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bonn was directing the malakhim to lay out a suit of light armor comprised of ornate red plates sewn to an underlying garment of black leather.†   (source)
  • It's the precise opposite of what has passed for normal his whole life, one spent around those whose underlying self-confidence was easily punctured.†   (source)
  • John Gottman took a complex problem and reduced it to its simplest elements: even the most complicated of relationships and problems, he showed, have an identifiable underlying pattern.†   (source)
  • The English historian and novelist Tobias Smollett had written of the inevitable distrust felt by every visitor to London, the underlying fear of being taken.†   (source)
  • And underlying their emotions, and those of everyone present, was an awareness of the importance of the moment, for they knew they were witnessing the end of one age and the beginning of another.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Awn would have been stiffly polite, with an underlying anger that I would have been able to see, but she would never have had that sinking dismay and hurt she felt when then—Lieutenant Skaaiat said, unthinkingly, something dismissive.†   (source)
  • It was true that he'd once sought unity, as if the underlying correspondences between tulips and lungs, veins and trees, flesh and earth, might reveal a pattern he could understand.†   (source)
  • "Just so we all understand," Cotton said, "Louisa would just be selling the underlying mineral rights."†   (source)
  • Colin knew nothing about poker except that it was a game of human behavior and probability, and therefore the kind of quasi-closed system in which a Theorem similar to the Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability ought to work.†   (source)
  • As for the sustainability of the underlying business model, Roshaneh says crisply: "Our return on equity is seven and a half percent.†   (source)
  • And yet, underlying all this, as the color of his blood lay under his dark sunburn, was both delicacy and reticence.†   (source)
  • He stood on the edge of the sandrock shelf that underlay Laguna and looked east across the river before dawn.†   (source)
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