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At this point of lost bearings in reading the text, Dimmesdale has his own uncanny experience which derives from the fearsomeness of femininity.
While there may be a certain fearsomeness in her scenes, she has no interest in spurring more anxiety about our global plight.
Their careful actions, in spite of the weaponry and fearsomeness, seem somehow oddly serene, stripped of sound and placed in an otherworldly shroud of frost and nature.
It is only by quieting the judgments and fears that emerge from trauma, those inner voices of evaluation of both the good and the bad in our clients and their life events and the inner incantations of the fearsomeness and vulnerability of life (theirs and ours), that counselors are free to move in and out of the client's world of suffering with compassion but without contagion.
It understands all the relevant properties in terms of the desert/merit relation, including moral properties like blameworthiness, but also less moral terms, like admirableness, (9) and nonmoral terms, like fearsomeness. This generality seems a mark in favor of DAF's account of blameworthiness over extant accounts.
In her Introduction, Wineapple asserts that "Hawthorne is at his stylistic best" in the short stories, "a master at timing, suspense, and the fearsomeness of the unsaid" (viii).
ingredient, the need to preserve the fearsomeness of the United States as a deterrent to defiance.
What stands out in our results is that it is the perceived likelihood of detection and enforcement--not the severity and fearsomeness of the sanctions--that makes a difference to compliance management behavior.
Taking my cue from these literary analyses, I contend that in Vienna 1900, the femme fragile operated as a construct of femininity that mediated the two opposing qualities of innocence (saintly angel) and fearsomeness (femme fatale).
Macduff, then, combines the fearsomeness of Macbeth in battle with the sensitivity of the gracious Duncan and an unwavering fidelity to the tribal code.
iv 12-13: i-su-ub-ti ni-is-si-i-ki (d) E-a pu-lu-uh-ta-am us-re-e, "in the dwelling place of Ea, the prince, keep fearsomeness safe!'" Groneberg (1997: 89) comments "der plotzliche Wechsel von der dritten Person in eine Anrede ist merkwurdig" (see a similiar comment in Groneberg 1981: 121).
Unlike prairie memoirs that stress the grandeur and fearsomeness of the landscape--devastating droughts and blizzards; magnificent, alarming thunderstorms--Small Beneath the Skybuilds an immense world from the minutiae of average, taciturn lives.
Perhaps the most problematic aspect of Chabon's golem is that his creature flees the enemy, whereas traditional assertions contend that the golem's fearsomeness causes the enemy to flee.
And though the Valar went to war against Melkor to protect the Quendi (casting him into the Halls of Mandos for three ages), their strength and fearsomeness in battle only increased the apprehensions of the Quendi, and when the call to enter Valinor came, not all answered.