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  • "Sir, you are asking questions that are more in the nature of analytical geometry and calculus," he said, mining away from the blackboard to eye me over his half-glasses.†   (source)
  • He asked more questions, through which Pari saw that he had a working knowledge of analytic number theory and was, at least in passing, familiar with Carl Gauss and Bernhard Riemann.†   (source)
  • Another trait I see in Dylan: He's analytical, like his old man.†   (source)
  • Simmon gave me a similar, analytical stare.†   (source)
  • Analytic reason, dialectic reason.†   (source)
  • Descartes was a mathematician; he is considered the father of analytical geometry, and he made important contributions to the science of algebra.†   (source)
  • But it seemed to them that the high councils in international health often used this analytic tool to rationalize an irrational status quo: mdr treatment was cost-effective in a place like New York, but not in a place like Peru.†   (source)
  • It took no great analytical skill to conclude that the corporate CEO was a man with problems.†   (source)
  • Unconcerned about the time and effort involved, he can handle all difficulties logically, analytically.†   (source)
  • Or, to put it another way, the ability to reason analytically.†   (source)
  • For the next twenty-odd years, he did further analytic work in Washington.†   (source)
  • No scientific or analytical bent was evident in my thinking—what I valued was artistry and effort and emotion.†   (source)
  • His catechism days were well behind him now, Matty's were, his days of blind belief, and he liked to gibe at his brother's self-conscious correctness, his attempts at analytical insight.†   (source)
  • She is detached and analytical, but still quietly furious when she explains what happened next: The gang of men opposed to her efforts raped her.†   (source)
  • Despite the brevity, for Julie it was an almost analytical undertaking when their lips met.†   (source)
  • To his analytical mind, there was no possibility that his team—a bunch of ESL students—could have produced a better written report than kids from one of the country's top engineering schools.†   (source)
  • Corinthians listened analytically, expectantly—wondering how her mother would develop this anecdote into a situation in which Macon would either lash out at her verbally or hit her.†   (source)
  • It seemed surreal to be discussing the previous night in such analytical terms, as if it had happened to someone else and we were just off to the side, doing the play-by-play.†   (source)
  • We're both obsessively analytical.†   (source)
  • He knows he's not developing the analytical skills that come from complex class discussions and thoughtful reasoning.†   (source)
  • As my career progressed, so did the analytics.†   (source)
  • So under the spell of the reefer I discovered a new analytical way of listening to music.†   (source)
  • One room for experimental animals. c) microbiology, with all facilities for growth, nutrient, analytic, immunologic studies.†   (source)
  • Reed, who seemed older and wiser than his years, had tried always to take a large, philosophical view of life's travails, and this, in combination with a natural cheerfulness and a strong, analytical mind, had put him at the head of the legal profession in Philadelphia while still in his early thirties.†   (source)
  • "You can't argue with an analytical mind when it's right, can you?" asked David.†   (source)
  • Tiberius, with his analytical mind, tended to win most games.†   (source)
  • I know a woman who has one of the sharpest, most analytical minds I've ever come across.†   (source)
  • Yossi was a top officer in Research, which is how the Office referred to its analytical division.†   (source)
  • Consequently he took his meat for granted, and it had never occurred to him to turn an analytical eye upon his daily bread.†   (source)
  • Theresa came home to find Helen lost in a panoply of analytical tools, all laid out on the kitchen table.†   (source)
  • I can discuss politics coldly and analytically with strangers.†   (source)
  • The same progress took place in mathematics, and though she tried to help as she had always helped, her powers failed when we reached quadratic equations, and she left me to swim alone into trigonometry and analytic geometry.†   (source)
  • If he had possessed an analytical mind, he might have formulated the first adequate definition of value …. and this planet might have been saved endless grief.†   (source)
  • Rest also presented particular opportunities for strengthening cognitive and analytical skills.†   (source)
  • It's not like I understand: Ah, yes, Commander, an analytic!†   (source)
  • The analytical mind of Vittoria Vetra, once calmed, was a powerful force.†   (source)
  • I'm just as happy to be thinking about the rational, analytical, classical world of Phaedrus.†   (source)
  • It had been caught in an analytic meat grinder.†   (source)
  • I remember reading this for the first time and remarking about the analytic craftsmanship displayed.†   (source)
  • By refusing to define Quality he had placed it entirely outside the analytic process.†   (source)
  • That's the question our analytical group is working very hard to answer."†   (source)
  • "Good God, no!" shouted Marie, something obviously very much on her analytical mind.†   (source)
  • 'I was counting on your analytical mind that it wasn't.†   (source)
  • When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad.†   (source)
  • He was given to first-level panic, but the second level was colder, far more analytical.†   (source)
  • Over a decade ago, I purposefully made the investment in an MBA to develop my analytical skills.†   (source)
  • She was analytical and her mind never stopped working all the angles.†   (source)
  • My analytics instructor says that all logic is mere tautology.†   (source)
  • Despite the overwhelming urge to flee, Katherine's analytical mind told her instead to make the only logical move—no move at all.†   (source)
  • She may diplomatically tell them some of the things that made me exasperating; my overly analytical approach to life, my insistence (too often) that I know best.†   (source)
  • We want to be able to identify features in stories and see how they are being used; in other words, we want to be analytical.†   (source)
  • Another is the so-called analytical philosophy or logical empiricism, with roots reaching back to Hume and British empiricism, and even to the logic of Aristotle.†   (source)
  • As I was deep into the Heart of Stone, all I felt was a slight analytical curiosity about what it would be like to be publicly whipped.†   (source)
  • They felt that using analytical physics to support religious principles was a treason against science.†   (source)
  • And what the test is measuring isn't analytical intelligence but something profoundly different, something much closer to creativity.†   (source)
  • It may seem at times as if the professor is either inventing interpretations out of thin air or else performing parlor tricks, a sort of analytical sleight of hand.†   (source)
  • And, critically, it is a kind of intelligence separate from the sort of analytical ability measured by IQ.†   (source)
  • You can have lots of analytical intelligence and very little practical intelligence, or lots of practical intelligence and not much analytical intelligence, or, as in the lucky case of someone like Robert Oppenheimer, you can have lots of both.†   (source)
  • One sees quite clearly in this dialogue how the analytic knife of Socrates hacks Gorgias' art into pieces.†   (source)
  • The process of philosophic explanation is an analytic process, a process of breaking something down into subjects and predicates.†   (source)
  • It wasn't until the very end of his stay in Bozeman that he thought he saw, in his own analytic and methodical way, what that perspective was.†   (source)
  • His way of looking at things produces a kind of description that can be called an "analytic" description.†   (source)
  • When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.†   (source)
  • And to give a fuller description of what this is I want now to turn his analytic approach back upon itself…to analyze analysis itself.†   (source)
  • But if this were all there were to him, analytic skill, I would be more than willing to shut up about him.†   (source)
  • For example, the feedback mechanism which includes the camshaft and cam chain and tappets and distributor exists only because of an unusual cut of this analytic knife.†   (source)
  • He was so swift at this his StanfordBinet IQ, which is essentially a record of skill at analytic manipulation, was recorded at 170, a figure that occurs in only one person in fifty thousand.†   (source)
  • About the Buddha that exists independently of any analytic thought much has been said…some would say too much, and would question any attempt to add to it.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus' mad pursuit of the rational, analytic and therefore technological meaning of the word "Quality" was really a pursuit of the answer to the whole problem of technological hopelessness.†   (source)
  • But about the Buddha that exists within analytic thought, and gives that analytic thought its direction, virtually nothing has been said, and there are historic reasons for this.†   (source)
  • Mark Twain's experience comes to mind, in which, after he had mastered the analytic knowledge needed to pilot the Mississippi River, he discovered the river had lost its beauty.†   (source)
  • You take your analytic knife, put the point directly on the term Quality and just tap, not hard, gently, and the whole world splits, cleaves, right in two…hip and square, classic and romantic, technological and humanistic…and the split is clean.†   (source)
  • Some things can be said about Phaedrus as an individual: He was a knower of logic, the classical system-of-the-system which describes the rules and procedures of systematic thought by which analytic knowledge may be structured and interrelated.†   (source)
  • With a single stroke of analytic thought he split the whole world into parts of his own choosing, split the parts and split the fragments of the parts, finer and finer and finer until he had reduced it to what he wanted it to be.†   (source)
  • The crushing teaching load was bad enough, but what for him was far worse was that he understood in his precise analytic way that the subject he was teaching was undoubtedly the most unprecise, unanalytic, amorphous area in the entire Church of Reason.†   (source)
  • And yet they were so coldly analytical that they rarely came up with a problem they were curious enough to solve for themselves.†   (source)
  • Yes, this approach employs the best analytical tools that economics can offer, but it also allows us to follow whatever freakish curiosities may occur to us.†   (source)
  • Usually he was cool and analytical, but he knew that at some time in the future he would have to pay her back and erase the shame.†   (source)
  • It was not part of the reasonable, ordered world of Marie St. Jacques, and because it was not, her orderly, analytical mind was provoked.†   (source)
  • He managed to match the hues of his own journey with those of a wider American canvas, bloodlessly and analytically connecting his own experiences with broader trends.†   (source)
  • "Crack Stress of Airplane Bodies by Computer Analysis" — he was looking for a numerical solution to analytically insoluble equations.†   (source)
  • McAllister's one of the best analytical minds in the State Department, a brilliant bureaucrat who will never rise to the level of his own worth.'†   (source)
  • The new biologists were concentrating on statistical and analytical research, whereby the raw material of life became no more than fodder for the nourishment of calculating machines.†   (source)
  • In the 1980s, Van Riper would often take part in training exercises, and, according to military doctrine, he would be required to perform versions of the kind of analytical, systematic decision making that JFCOM was testing in Millennium Challenge.†   (source)
  • But for an analytical mind that found music in figures, his wife might have been an actress, mused David.†   (source)
  • Even though they had both become reasonably tolerant of the idiosyncrasies involved in my professional duties, I did not want to try them too far and so I continued to postpone the analytical work, until one October morning when they went away together on a caribou hunting trip, leaving me in sole possession of the camp.†   (source)
  • The problem, of course, was that the Constitutional Protection Unit had only an analytical and investigative function, and no operations arm.†   (source)
  • It didn't matter to me then because I'd made up my mind, my very precise analytical mind, a mind I'd match against yours any day of the week, my sweet scholar.†   (source)
  • The wonders of analytical psychology and plastic surgery are, I am afraid, to this generation but a closed book.†   (source)
  • Advances in psycho-analytic experience have brought to our notice patients who have shown a direct understanding of dream-symbolism of this kind to a surprising extent….†   (source)
  • So still was her face as she stared at Stuart that he, never analytic, took it for granted that she was merely surprised and very interested.†   (source)
  • Being the least analytic of people, she did not realize that this was because she possessed in some degree these same qualities, despite sixteen years of effort on the part of Ellen and Mammy to obliterate them.†   (source)
  • But this did not long trouble him, for he was not in an analytic mood.†   (source)
  • The analytical pit he had seen open up before him that day had closed again.†   (source)
  • Here was praise which was keen and analytical.†   (source)
  • Now, mine is an analytical mind, Mr. Rainsford.†   (source)
  • Evidently he had gone deeply into the matter, analytically and with profound scrutiny.†   (source)
  • If we had government ownership we'd have the best analytical business minds in the government working for something besides themselves.†   (source)
  • Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.†   (source)
  • Humphrey Van Weyden, "the cold-blooded fish," the "emotionless monster," the "analytical demon," of Charley Furuseth's christening, in love!†   (source)
  • I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.†   (source)
  • By the end of his first nine months at McGurk, Martin had reviewed trigonometry and analytic geometry and he was finding differential calculus romantic.†   (source)
  • He heard that Dr. Krokowski was holding sessions with Ellen Brand in his analytical basement, to which selected residents were invited.†   (source)
  • Some, too, have baffled his analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to him.†   (source)
  • Idealist and romanticist that I was and always had been in spite of my analytical nature, yet I had failed till now in grasping much of the physical characteristics of love.†   (source)
  • As he had noticed previously when the Swede had gone in, Hans Castorp saw that semidarkness, a kind of artificial twilight, reigned in the X-ray room—just as it did in Dr. Krokowski's analytical chamber.†   (source)
  • And then Joachim heard the word "Enter!" in the resounding baritone of the occupant, with that exotic, tapped r sound and a diphthongized distortion of the vowel—and saw his cousin vanish into the twilight of Dr. Krokowski's analytical pit.†   (source)
  • He placed a scientific embargo on the child, held sessions with her in his analytical dungeon, and hypnotized her, so it was said, in an attempt to develop and train the possibilities slumbering inside her and to probe her previous psychic life.†   (source)
  • Behind her, where the door had opened, it was much darker than in the white hallway—the clinical brightness of these lower rooms apparently did not penetrate that far; Hans Castorp noted that murky twilight, deep dusk, reigned in Dr. Krokowski's analytical chamber.†   (source)
  • The first statement that the presence of a Catholic theologian had elicited from him, even though a purely analytical comparison, had been a declaration of love for the Roman church, which he saw as an elegant and yet spiritual power—that is, anti-worldly, anti-material, and thus revolutionary.†   (source)
  • Yes, good, patient, honest Joachim, a man given totally to service and discipline, was subject to attacks of insubordination, rising up against the "Gaffky scale," an analytical method by which people down in the laboratory (or, as it was usually called, the "lab") ascertained and specified the degree to which a patient was infected.†   (source)
  • His brain, which worked calmly and slowly—particularly since Hans Castorp retained the habit of drinking porter with his morning snack— gradually filled up with analytical geometry, differential equations, mechanics, projective geometry, and graphical statics, He calculated displacements—with full cargo and empty—stabilities, shifts in trim, and metacenters, though it was drudgery at times.†   (source)
  • In our opinion, it is analytically correct, although—to use Hans Castorp's phrase—"terribly gauche" and downright life-denying, to make a "tidy" distinction between sanctity and passion in matters of love.†   (source)
  • In the enlightened child of civilization the abandonment characteristic of grief is checked and varied in the subtlest manner, so as to present an interesting problem to the analytic mind.†   (source)
  • It would be ridiculous to be prying and analytic in such cases, as if one were inquiring into the character of a confidential clerk.†   (source)
  • …over the land—this seed I regularly and faithfully procured from the village, till at length one morning I forgot the rules, and scalded my yeast; by which accident I discovered that even this was not indispensable—for my discoveries were not by the synthetic but analytic process—and I have gladly omitted it since, though most housewives earnestly assured me that safe and wholesome bread without yeast might not be, and elderly people prophesied a speedy decay of the vital forces.†   (source)
  • For all these reasons then, and others perhaps too analytic to be verbally developed here, Ahab plainly saw that he must still in a good degree continue true to the natural, nominal purpose of the Pequod's voyage; observe all customary usages; and not only that, but force himself to evince all his well known passionate interest in the general pursuit of his profession.†   (source)
  • The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.†   (source)
  • The analytical power should not be confounded with ample ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.†   (source)
  • It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.†   (source)
  • At such times I could not help remarking and admiring (although from his rich ideality I had been prepared to expect it) a peculiar analytic ability in Dupin.†   (source)
  • Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous.†   (source)
  • The nineteenth-century "analytical" tradition of carving The Iliad into originally separate "lays" that were awkwardly combined by "Homer" is now generally regarded as fruitless, but Book X is a reminder that ancient and modern standards of coherence are not always identical.†   (source)
  • Unanalytical, she struggled with the complex thought.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unanalytical means not and reverses the meaning of analytical. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Unanalytical she was trying to analyze now and with no success.†   (source)
  • In the first place, there is the effect of the confused and blundering effort, by an ignorant and unanalytical speaker, to give the perfect some grammatical differentiation when he finds himself getting into it—an excursion not infrequently made necessary by logical exigencies, despite his inclination to keep out.†   (source)
  • The latter-day grammars, at least those for the elementary schools, are far more analytical and logical.†   (source)
  • Here one of our few surviving inflections was displaced by an analytical devise, and yet the man's meaning was quite clear, and it would be absurd to say that his sentence violated the inner spirit of English.†   (source)
  • That evening and for the next few days I immersed myself in psychology texts: clinical, personality, psychometrics, learning, experimental psychology, animal psychology, physiological psychology, behaviorist, gestalt, analytical, functional, dynamic, organismic, and all the rest of the ancient and modern factions, schools, and systems of thought.   (source)
    analytical = logical and systematic
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