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Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.
India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.
Communication needs to be between anybody at any time, which means it needs to happen out of the structure and out of order.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
With 'Pretty Deadly,' I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a three-act structure in it. I don't know - someone probably can.
The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure.
I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.
The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.
I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.
I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
The conditions for harassment are built into the very structure of the trucking business, beginning with the training process.
I like to work in a team. And for that you must have a structure that covers everything and that there is fluid communication.
Capital structure isn't an eyeshade economic thing: It's about your ability to protect your workforce and your service levels.
Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.
I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.
I'm a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams, and in the absolute necessity of a support structure.
We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.
In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.
We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.
A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me.
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.
I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
Underwear is such a great gift, but try to go for brands that flatter your girlfriend's shape - a little structure can be great.
A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.
There needs to be a certain structure to a situation, a certain predictability that allows you to have a basis for the intuition.
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.
With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.
If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
When I did the first 'Oxygene' in the vinyl days, I had a structure in mind divided in 2 parts fitting the A&B sides of an album.
Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects.
Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?
Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.
There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.
I'm a Jesuit when it comes to structure, but I really think that structure is defined by character. Everything serves that master.
The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.
Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity.
It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces
The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.
To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK.
Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.