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Do you, as an intelligent scientist, dare to dismiss as superstition the principles underlying Tibetan magic, voodooism, thought transference?
They're admired and hero-worshipped, but there is always present underlying wish to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.
But I think that in that sequence, although Williams has the dominant part and position, it's Laughton you watch because of his extraordinary sense of humility and shame, underlying which is his wonderful sense of humanity and humour.
Later on in the film, in a brilliantly conceived montage Longueur mercilessly exposes the violence underlying our society when Brian and Brianette again meet on yet another rubbish dump.
The peaceful atmosphere of this Georgian house gives little indication of the underlying tension of the occasion.
But the banality of chance sometimes hides more important underlying meanings.
But the underlying message was clear - the terrible days of shortage were over.
Simple as the case seems now there may be something deeper underlying it.
What about the underlying theme?
Well, the underlying theme of a man desperately trying to recover his stolen car.
Well, that I thought was the least successful of all the underlying themes.
Some underlying suggestion of a tragic or terrible.
The underlying chip on my shoulder I had as a youth was really big then.
Dr Marjorie. examining the causes beneath and behind and, to some extent, to one side of Britain's underlying and increasing madness, what exactly are they?
When you've lived as long in Africa as Captain Fry, Miss Parker you'll realize that there's a certain amount of truth underlying all native superstitions.
I assume there's an underlying reason for your desire to offer your services.
But you don't think there's any underlying psychological reason?
Well, if I were a strict Freudian I'd say your forays into oncoming traffic belie a deep underlying scarediness.
I don't recall any one underlying theme.
Well, maybe one underlying theme.
I'm in proximity, work in the Seattle lab, I'm familiar with the underlying case. - Ugh!
A fifth or possibly a quarter of the back of the head had been blasted out along with the underlying brain tissue.
The underlying order is chaos, man.
Science still lacked the slightest notion of physical laws underlying nature.
If such things were fated by the stars then perhaps there were hidden patterns underlying the unpredictable chaos of daily life.
Many of the Ionians believed that the underlying harmony and unity of the universe was accessible through observation and experiment the method which dominates science today.
Deep below the clouds of Jupiter, the weights of the underlying layers of atmosphere produce pressures which are much greater than any that are found anywhere on the Earth.
Then, not with 20 questions, but with billions we slowly distill from the complexity of the universe its underlying order.
I'm in proximity, work in the Seattle lab, I'm familiar with the underlying case.
Timothy went from human to machine. from being emotional to being emotionless but the underlying trauma is still there.
But, in the end you still have to solve the underlying problem.
Aye, aye, in popular music we find much images of mental illness indicating an underlying fear and fascination.
I remember when my mother taught me about the science underlying the vision quest.
I see a great underlying theme here.
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I trust that among the experts will be some who have pondered the underlying ethical question: how safe should we aim to be?
The central driver of all this is today's enormous acceleration in the underlying pace of technological and economic change.
But, beyond slogans, there is an underlying fault line between those who have the cultural capacity to embrace change and those who resist it by adhering to traditional ideas about how one's life and, by extension, society, should be organized.
Underlying it all was a willingness to evolve - a drive for perfection through experimentation.
Much of that increase has more to do with public perceptions about supposed crime waves and ham-handed public and political responses to occasional headline-capturing murders, than any actual underlying crime rate.
Yet the United States persists in responding to symptoms rather than to underlying conditions by trying to address every conflict by military means.
None of it helps to address the underlying problems of poverty, child mortality, water scarcity, and lack of livelihoods in places like Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, Sudan's Darfur region, or Somalia.
This deficit reflects an underlying research deficit.
And then those who bought these mortgages never bothered to investigate their underlying value - a spectacular abdication of managerial responsibility.
Such a course would not please those whose underlying desire is regime change, not disarmament or punishment.
Unfortunately, however, most international efforts have sought to ameliorate the symptoms rather than cure the underlying disease.
Pinker accepts that reason is an important factor underlying the trends that he describes.
Nevertheless, the crisis poses an almost existential challenge to the European Union - and has required such huge sums - because it directly implicates the key underlying principle of European governance: the nature of the state.
But this view assumes that all member states adhere to the Union's underlying economic values of fiscal prudence and market reform.
Their appetite for change - understandable, given the treatment of women in traditional Muslim societies - appears to be one of the main causes underlying the force of the revolutionary impulse in Tunisia and Egypt.
Foreign investment in sub-Saharan Africa, which reached record levels in recent years, is retreating, which is evidence of investor caution, not any underlying lack of optimism about the region.
As a result, there are now legitimate questions about the underlying functioning of the US economy and, therefore, its evolution in the months and years ahead.
Cycles of declinism tell us more about American psychology than about underlying shifts in power resources.
The result was a minority government that struggled for support and legitimacy, and in the end offered only policies that provided no real answer to the country's underlying problems.
It is the epicenter of underlying tensions stemming from China's rise and its impact on the United States, the region's established power since World War II's end.
Governments don't have the luxury of waiting forever, and they can no longer use the myth of popular quiescence to avoid initiating the necessary reforms that will address the public's underlying grievances.
Before we provide financial assistance, whether bilaterally or through the international financial institutions (IFIs), we must determine the underlying cause of economic vulnerability and ensure necessary corrective action.