单词 | lacuna |
例句 | My minimal coverage of Japan in previous editions of Guns, Germs, and Steel constituted the most important geographic lacuna of my book. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The corollary is that widespread and open trade in ideas is the best way to make up for the lacunae. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A single palm-size vertebra, its central lacuna heart-shaped, had us wondering about its origin story. A Lighthouse to Call Your Own 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z With a lacuna to fill about Vermeer’s life, authors, filmmakers and other artists have fed the growing fascination through creative speculation. The Fullest View of Vermeer Still Leaves Plenty to the Imagination 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z In one of the most satisfying shifts in the book, Asa’s husband’s family reveals its recessed and hidden branches, the lacunas of the natural world mirroring the gaps in stories we tell about ourselves. She Tumbled Into a Hole, and Her World Broke Open 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Yet the Italian lacuna nourishes a misunderstanding, too common in today’s cultural conversation, that good artists must be good people. The Artists Who Redesigned a War-Shattered Europe 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z His books are filled with reductions and lacunae, as any book purporting to summarize human thought must be. The Beautiful Meaninglessness of David Bowie 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z What is strange is that many Angelenos I talked to echoed this view of interstate gridlock as a kind of contemplative lacuna. Finding Yourself in Los Angeles 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Rather than sing the biographer’s lament, Brown embraces history’s lacunae. Review | In ‘150 Glimpses of the Beatles,’ bits and pieces make up a poignant portrait 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z The movie’s first half is better shaped than its second, and there are narrative lacunae here and there that suggest some late-breaking editing busywork. ‘Morbius’ Review: The Other Bat, Man 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Which is another way of saying that, no matter how expansive the breadth or depth of any given season’s repertory, there will always be some sort of lacuna for someone to complain about. Summing Up the Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-31T12:30:54Z “Islamic material has been something of a lacuna for them.” Asia Society Names New Leader 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Its second half is likewise missing, so we have only 18 stories, s ome with significant lacunae, instead of a promised 42. In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Like the work of a traditional Chinese ink painter, her words sketch around spots of blankness, leaving suggestive lacunae. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The lacunae in the film leave viewers spare time to wonder who might more persuasively play Hoover. Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar: Yanking the FBI Chief Out of the Closet 2011-11-08T16:35:25Z The Dead's journey across the decades from a little hippie dance band to an incredibly huge hippie dance band is sketched broadly, with large lacunae. TV Picks: 'The Salinas Project,' 'Notary Publix,' 'The Other One' 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z What the novel demands is a willingness to enter the lacunae of the familiar Bible stories and wrestle with the angel of Rakow’s poetic vision. Mary Rakow’s ‘This is Why I Came’ asks us to reimagine biblical tales 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z In the lacunae created by this associative web, the reader is invited to make meaning. Letters to the Editor 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z After Smith’s retirement this season, both will remain with the orchestra while trumpeters audition to fill the major lacuna he leaves. Philip Smith, Master Trumpeter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Sivan has three siblings and said he had a happy and supportive childhood, albeit with a familiar lacuna. Troye Sivan Is a New Kind of Pop Star: Here, Queer and Used to It 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Could those lacunas be the mind’s defenses against a violation so traumatizing it must be wiped from the memory bank? Theater Review: ‘The Great God Pan,’ by Amy Herzog, at Playwrights Horizons 2012-12-19T03:00:00Z It doesn’t seriously examine the role of scholarship at the Met, and that is a telling lacuna. Review | New documentary about the Metropolitan Museum of Art asks good questions, but not enough tough ones 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z And far from feeling constrained by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Tóibín ventures into the lacunae of the old legends and pumps blood even into the silent figures of Greek tragedy. Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z In his stories these lacunae are pregnant absences where raw emotion lies encoded. A brief survey of the short story part 34: Ernest Hemingway 2011-07-15T10:54:43Z For I have another glaring taste bud lacuna to confess: It was shortly after my “Poseidon” adventure subsided that I acquired a new and equally fervent obsession: the song stylings of Helen Reddy. A Ship Sinks, and a Boy Is Enthralled 2013-08-21T16:31:12Z But at its most persuasive, “First Person” is an aria on the necessity of self-invention, on the loops and lacunas of memory and the bullish inadequacy of all language. Review | If a rich liar asked you to ghostwrite his memoir, would you do it? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Finding those lacunas is part of the fun of this show. Review | A somewhat nearsighted look back at American modernism 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The faux spouse is a pretty ho-hum cultural specimen for such a gaping verbal lacuna. Unmarried Spouses Have a Way With Words 2013-01-04T21:50:17Z But what she, through her narrative, does not excuse is Victor's emotional lacuna, his failure to nurture and protect the life he engenders. Frankenstein at the National Theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:26Z High detail in the audience fades to a lacuna where the frenzy of death is taking place. The 10 best watercolours 2011-04-09T23:05:56Z Ever since I turned to art professionally, the most shameful lacuna in my American museumgoing career has lied here in the Motor City. Finding a Globe’s Worth of Art Treasures Close to Home 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z It's a tough call – a vast lacuna separates dubstep from what's happening on the Radio 1 playlist – but Jones's approach to bridging it is subtle and beguiling. Skream: Outside the Box 2010-08-05T14:30:00Z So it didn’t happen, leaving a tantalising lacuna for students of Kardashian thematic progression. Marina Hyde's Lost in showbiz: high fives all round as Val Kilmer whoops about his new Top Gun mission 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z That is, employing emphatic verbiage to hide a lacuna in the argument. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z Buildings, streets or, on occasion, entire cities disappeared; coastlines and mountain ranges warped; highways kinked and buckled; giant lacunae sprung up, sinkholes yawning from innocuous fields and deserts. The Mapmaker's Conundrum 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z “Confluence of imagoes” and “lacuna in my learning” are some representative turns of phrase; it’s the most convincing argument against reading an author’s book, or really any book, I’ve ever seen. Petty, obsessive, egotistical, self-loathing: Margo Howard, William Giraldi and why authors need to stay off the Internet 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The result, in Ferguson’s case, is a book containing some genuine wisdom, but also some perplexing lacunae. Niall Ferguson Examines Disasters of the Past and Disasters Still to Come 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z In the lacuna of language that surrounds women’s illness, and psychogenic ailments in particular, the question of how to fight for one’s health becomes especially confounding. How Patriarchy Imprinted Itself on the Family Who Created Jell-O 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Even as Handler stacks elision upon lacuna to paper over his plot holes and sudden narrative swerves, the whole house of cards grows more absurd, irrelevant, cloying and rickety. A Series of Unfortunate Events 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Such explanations may throw some light on the origins of the Holocaust, but they leave huge lacunae. Reformed character 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Ultimately, despite the mountains of evidence they submitted to the court, there was an extraordinary lacuna at the heart of the tobacco companies’ case. How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z One odd lacunae in “Hold Still” is that there is almost no information about her children, now grown. Review: ‘Hold Still,’ Sally Mann’s Memoir, Reveals a Rich Life 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Her garbled sentences capture the lacunae of intoxication. Review: ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing,’ by Eimear McBride Which is not to say that the show didn’t have its lacunae. Dwight Garner Reviews the 'Serial' Season Finale 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z “And inexhaustible because the more one hears and learns, the more conscious one becomes of one’s ignorance, of the vast lacunae in one’s knowledge.” The Sheltering Sound: Paul Bowles’s Attempt to Save Moroccan Music 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z And it includes the cavities - called lacuna - that fill with the mother's blood to transfer nutrients to the baby. Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Microchannels called canaliculi radiate through the rings out from the central Haversian canal, connecting the lacunae together. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, we all have these lacunas in our reading histories. Building a New Canon of Black Literature 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Enriquez toggles between decades, between South America and Europe, filling in lacunae amid her characters’ biographies — Rosario narrates a lavish sequence from beyond the grave — while blurring lines that divide our world from adjacent realms. Review | ‘Our Share of Night’ is a masterpiece of supernatural horror 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Posing as a mere translator and summarizer, he treads lightly, interrupting only rarely to note some strange lacuna in the original text or to offer a bit of editorial guidance. Review | Salman Rushdie’s first novel since he was attacked is a tale of magic 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z He said this was because the "legal lacuna" created by the absence of the decree "opens up opportunities for legal mayhem". Russian regional deputies urge Putin to issue decree ending mobilisation 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Along the lamellae are small openings called lacunae. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A blood vessel and a nerve are found in the center of the structure within the Haversian canal, with radiating circles of lacunae around it known as lamellae. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Bones are made of a rigid, mineralized matrix containing calcium salts, crystals, and osteocytes lodged in lacunae. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z The biggest etiquette consequence of texting derives from its immediacy: Conversations can have lacunae when, unbeknown to the other party, the train arrives at the station or the doorbell rings. Perspective | Miss Manners: How do I know when a text conversation is over? 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z But, Mr. Roth said, “the Middle East is a lacuna in this declared willingness to be guided by human rights.” Kenneth Roth, ‘Godfather’ of Human Rights Work, to Step Down 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Radiating out in all directions from lacunae are small canals called canaliculi. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The wavy lines seen between the lacunae are microchannels called canaliculi; they connect the lacunae to aid diffusion between the cells. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Each osteocyte is located in a space called a lacuna and is surrounded by bone tissue. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z Even the most erudite among us have lacunae in our vocabularies; given the chance to fill them, we should welcome the opportunity. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: There’s no need to belittle Biden 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z True, Theranos managed to survive for far too long by exploiting an odd lacuna in the Food and Drug Administration’s regulatory authority over lab tests. Opinion | What the Elizabeth Holmes jury got right 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z The cell is ovular and surrounded by a light colored lacuna. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The lacunae are randomly scattered throughout the tissue and the matrix takes on a milky or scrubbed appearance with routine histological stains. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z As described earlier, canaliculi connect with the canaliculi of other lacunae and eventually with the central canal. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z "You now have empty shelves. The return of those objects will be like filling those shelves. There's a lacuna in our history because those objects were taken away." Benin Bronzes: 'My great-grandfather sculpted the looted treasures' 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z In the field of religious studies, there was a conspicuous lacuna that Dr. Raboteau — and the later scholars he inspired — began to fill. Albert J. Raboteau, scholar of African American faith from slavery on, dies at 78 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Blakemore’s novel adheres to these events but fills in the lacunae in the documents. Review: How weird women became ‘witches’ in a fierce debut historical novel 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Osteoclasts bore tunnels into the bone and osteocytes are found in the lacunae. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The discovery of that lacuna yielded the discoveries of more gaps, as Mrs. Holladay gradually realized the near-total absence of women from art museums and art history books. Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, champion of women in the arts, dies at 98 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z But the survey had a gaping lacuna: it was conducted by phone only in English or Spanish. It's a Myth That Asian-Americans Are Doing Well in the Pandemic 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z “The demonstrations of generosity were beautiful,” said Boeri, adding that Italy’s vibrant volunteer sector “at times substituted the lacunae of the state.” Italy turns to ‘flower power’ to help spread vaccine message 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z “The demonstrations of generosity were beautiful,” said Mr. Boeri, adding that Italy’s vibrant volunteer sector “at times substituted the lacunae of the state.” Italy Turns to Flower Power to Help Spread Vaccine Message 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z But his memoir does have one gap, a lacuna in his vision, both as president and as a writer. Opinion | What Barack Obama’s memoir leaves out 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z He hopes that the drop in Argentine exports will be just a dip in the cycle, a natural lacuna before the players start emerging once again. A Deep Pool of Soccer Talent Is Drying Up. Why? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z “Although he was personable, even charming, this disguised an essential lacuna in him — an inability to fully understand the emotions of others, or indeed himself.” Review | Killing millions from behind their desks 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z "It ate away my soul from inside and left a lacuna in my heart." Covid-19 doctors: Notes on hope, fear and longing 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z She suspected that this lacuna might be a sampling artefact. Jennifer Clack (1947–2020) 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z But what’s missing — foreshadowing a wider lacuna in the book — is any sense that intermediate levels of that organization, particularly the cell, are equally fundamental. From Big Bang to cosmic bounce: an astronomical journey through space and time 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z In his ambitious intellectual and educational synthesis there are some obvious, and rather predictable, lacunae. Inside the mind of Dominic Cummings 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z “It is a societal weakness, a societal disease. It is sort of a lacuna in our systems, both legal as well as police systems.” India shaken by rape and killing of veterinarian on her way home 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z But I was also struck by earlier lacunae. Review: The history of music — all of it — in 400-plus pages 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z There has always been a lacuna among the books, maps and newspaper clippings that comprise the neighborhood history collection and that’s a piece of one of Georgetown’s most famous houses: the Key Mansion. Perspective | This McLean used book sale turns 50 this year. It features very D.C. titles. 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z A.O.C., despite some stumbles and lacunae in political knowledge, is more adept at using the force, especially on social media. Opinion | Boogie Down, Bronx Girl 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z But again, there’s one catch, one lacuna, in all this. The Donald and the “Fake News Media” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z England is popular again, for now; international breaks are no longer quite such an unwelcome lacuna in the unfolding drama of the Premier League. Past and Present Collide at Wembley, England’s Spiritual, and Spiritless, Home 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z While it’s always had a hole at the center, Donut County began its life as a different kind of lacuna: an absence of knowledge. Donut County is a game about swallowing Los Angeles and realizing you’re an asshole 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z It is the sort of lacuna, says Bryan Stevenson, that allows people to “achieve political victories by celebrating the greatness of America.” Opinion | The arc of white supremacy’s history in America 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z In fact, there are two such lacunae in "Census" — the son and the state. Jesse Ball's 'Census' is an understated tale of a father and son taking stock of America 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z This suggests, to put it mildly, some lacunae in how the place is run. India’s state-owned banks endure a string of bad news 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z “There are many lacunas, loopholes, and institutions that are not strong,” he said. Why Sherpas from a remote village walked for hours to vote in Nepal’s elections 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Specialised firms have cropped up in the regulatory lacunae between state and federal law, providing data analysis, human-resources management and compliance exclusively to cannabis companies, says Micah Tapman, managing director of CanopyBoulder, a business incubator. The price of cannabis is falling, suggesting a supply glut 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z “There’s going to be for all of this . . . a lacuna, and filling it is unlikely given how complicated the past is.” Her mother said they descended from ‘a president and a slave.’ What would their DNA say? 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z The hollow is rich and generative, a lacuna of a kind Ball has mastered. Jesse Ball's 'Census' is an understated tale of a father and son taking stock of America 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Each of us, regardless of education, smarts or experience, has gaps in what we know, deep lacunas into which we occasionally get to place amazing treasure. How Did I Not Know About Pork Gyros? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Further, the lacunae handicap the history not only of art, but also of jazz. Record Sleeves Tell South African Music's History 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z It robbed resources set aside to help other nations improve their disease surveillance and response systems, an important lacuna exposed by Ebola’s spread in West Africa. The wrong way to fight disease 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z To be sure, a Trump administration would “declare war” on the Islamic State, presumably with a vote of Congress; that, indeed, might fill the legal lacuna in which the United States now operates. Republicans keep trying to normalize Trump. He keeps proving it’s impossible. 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Waldrop’s feminism, expressed in lacunae and “gaps,” implicitly mocks the need for accuracy and literal expression, here imagined as essentially male. The Sexual Politics of Syntax 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The great lacuna in all these accounts is the bit where the men explain why, despite obviously desiring them, Diana never seals the deal. Now we know the secret of Trump’s success – sex appeal | Marina Hyde 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z From a distance, the lacunae recede, allowing the viewer to experience a pictorial unity; upon closer inspection, the addition declares a loss. The Art of Conservation 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Sport teams’ inherent communal and social nature also fills a lacuna in the lives of those who seek or necessitate it. Why Fans Stand by Perennial Losers 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z It’s unusual to get three words in a row without lacunae. The Quest to Unlock an Ancient Library 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Critically, Kentridge’s version of the act two film refuses to fill in all the narrative lacunae that sit between the first and second halves of the opera. William Kentridge on Lulu: 'You know there’s going to be a body on stage' 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z ‘The great lacuna in all these accounts is the bit where the men explain why Diana never seals the deal.’ Now we know the secret of Trump’s success – sex appeal | Marina Hyde 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z And the hand of time: what conservators call “losses”—lacunae, expanses of bare wood—overwhelmed the original images. The Art of Conservation 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z To be sure, one exception to this official lacuna in the landscape is the permanent memorial to the victims of the Omagh bombing. 17 Years After Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland's Past Is Unresolved 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z HTC hasn't made a tablet since 2011 or a Nexus device since 2010, but pretty soon both lacunas will be brought to an end by the launch of a new device: the Nexus 9. Google's Nexus 9 is made by HTC and coming very soon 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Which seems something of a lacuna, given that a huge and rising proportion of our public services are delivered by the private sector. Has government become too aggressive with outsourcers? 2013-11-12T10:58:24Z It is true that few things fascinated Shakespeare so much as the presence of absence, “the lacuna where there ought to be abundance — of will, or judgment or understanding,” Mr. Tammet writes. Books: Daniel Tammet’s ‘Thinking in Numbers’ Dwells on a Pure Love 2013-09-09T18:50:50Z The fiery lacuna the sun burns into my field of vision somehow feels like a valuable memento. The Philippines's Strange Paradise 2013-03-14T20:46:15Z If a single regulator gets hung up on an issue, the oversight council can override that regulator - to prevent the kind of impasses and lacunas that previously created vulnerabilities in the regulatory system. Today's Economist: Simon Johnson: Jacob Lew, Mary Jo White and Dunbar's Number 2013-01-31T10:00:35Z Not so much lately--a lacuna I'll lay on the President, who seems as antisocial when it comes to politicians postelection as he was before. Joe Klein: Obama's Second Chance 2013-01-10T13:35:33Z And given that he, and the modern greens, seem to want to influence what people do that’s a rather large lacunae in his knowledge base. Mark Lynas' Apostasy, Modern Greens And What We've Still Got To Teach Them 2013-01-05T16:06:13Z But Romney's lack of tax transparency isn't the real issue: the paperwork lacuna plays into a larger sense that Romney, and the wealthiest Americans in general, play by different rules than the rest of us. AMC's week in review: drilling down into homicide stats 2012-07-20T20:25:25Z The Munich MS., formerly at Bamberg, begins at line 85, and has many lacunae, but continues the history down to the last verse of St Luke’s Gospel, ending, however, in the middle of a sentence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Every newly observed fact completes its world-picture, and every divergence of a construct from observation points to some imperfection, to some lacuna in it. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Injuries to the head not infrequently produce lacunae in the memory. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The lacunae of the earlier story are here supplied. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z This—" their vocabulary à deux had many lacunae—"It's been so different from what I expected. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The absence of a chapter on the Pope of the Century has always seemed a lacuna in the previous editions of this book. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z These same branches unite in front of the median lacuna to form the body of the frog. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z In the history of these wars the lacunae are few; in the rest of the history they are alike frequent and serious. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The origin of J.’s story is not quite so clear, owing to the lacunae in the narrative. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z This slab was not drawn by Carrey, who indicates a lacuna at this point. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z The lacunae of one region must be supplied from another. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z There are several lacunae in the body of the work owing to lost leaves. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z Dotted here and there, the small, shiny memorials tell sparse stories whose lacunae invite only the worst imaginings, tracing cruel progressions from Germany’s capital to Theresienstadt, or Riga, or Minsk, or Auschwitz. Letter From Europe: Keeping Alive the Fading Memory of World War II 2011-06-24T11:50:06Z It is curious how persistent some patients are in making themselves believe they have serious lacunae in their memory when there are only certain conventional disturbances of it. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z These lacunae were so serious that his plastic vision, often of great beauty, could not compensate for them. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z The question is, is it a big lacuna as well as a deep one? A new domain of life: Plenty more bugs in the sea 2011-03-24T11:50:01Z What a large lacuna would be created in English literature by the removal from it of the work of such men as Dean Swift, Goldsmith, Burke, Sheridan, and Moore! Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z The lacunae in the text—e.g., at I., 4, 55; I., 5, 7; and I., 5, 74—are all caused by the mutilation of the lower edge of the MS. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z This stanza being incomplete, I think, the lacuna is to be put after l. Torrent of Portyngale 2011-02-11T03:00:28.940Z The arteries of the spleen in part end in capillaries from which the veins arise, but more frequently they open into lacunae or blood spaces, which give origin to the veins. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Either way, it suggests a profound lacuna in biologists’ understanding of the world. A new domain of life: Plenty more bugs in the sea 2011-03-24T11:50:01Z It contains the whole of the Pauline epistles with a few lacunae, and has a famous stichometric list of books prefixed in another hand to Hebrews. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z I discovered there was a lacuna—not the wrong instinct, but no instinct at the human, gut level. Tony Blair, New Tory, Defends His Reign 2010-09-02T02:48:00Z And on a more basic level, is tennis the only sport with this innate lacuna, a sport that could theoretically go on forever, a single match outlasting whole championships, an entire grasscourt season? Isner earns victory - and rest - at last 2010-06-24T19:04:00Z Academy of Sciences in 1764; and he filled up the lacunae in his theory of them in a memoir communicated to the Berlin Academy in 1780. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" They went even farther, and felt that since there had been none, there must be some special reason for this lacuna in human progress. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time Apellicon filled in the lacunae, and brought out a new, but faulty, edition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" There is a lacuna in the text of the ms. at this point. Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes In addition to the median lacuna there are two lateral lacunae, one upon each side. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" But even conventions which designedly are full of lacunae have their value. The Future of International Law In the Dibranchs the arterial system is very much more complete; it appears in some cases to end in irregular lacunae or sinuses, in other cases in true capillaries which lead on into veins. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" In this variant of the story, which we may use as our text, it is to be noticed that a lacuna exists. Custom and Myth New Edition There is obviously a lacuna or transference of some kind here. Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes The median lacuna no longer exists, but is represented by a dorsal and ventral sinus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" The work of Catullus has not come down to us intact, as is shown by lacunae and quotations in ancient writers which cannot now be found in his poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" There was a lacuna in the evidence against this prisoner. International Short Stories English At this part of the epic there is an obvious lacuna. Custom and Myth New Edition Paper of the same weight and tint as the torn page is secured, placed under the lacuna, and the outlines of the missing part traced off with a sharp pencil. Book Repair and Restoration The student of Sumero-Babylonian religion will not fail to comment upon one remarkable lacuna in the religious literature of every Sumerian city which has been excavated. Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms In the present day it is rivalled by the German civil code, which, having been drawn up at the end of the 19th century, naturally does not show the same lacunae or omissions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" That some such lacunae do exist is demonstrated daily by the phenomena of volcanoes. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science Others, better versed than myself in the literature of the subject, will be able later on to fill this regrettable lacuna. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study The letters and wood-cuts suffering from lacunae had been reformed with great skill on a new foundation. Book Repair and Restoration On the other hand, there were various lacunae and hypotheses in the case for the defense. The Big Bow Mystery One of the most curious literary absurdities I have ever seen—the absurd almost drowning the disgusting in it—was an American attempt in verse to fill up Flaubert's lacuna and "go one better." A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century The vascular system itself is quite peculiar, consisting of lacunae and channels destitute of endothelium, situated within the thickness of the basement-membrane of the body-wall, of the gut-wall and of the mesenteries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" The same lacuna leaves it doubtful whether any collective title was prefixed to the διθύραμβοι. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" As there is probably a lacuna after Διόθεν, it is impossible to arrive at any certain meaning. Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes Grein was extremely clever in filling the lacunae of the MS., and his conjectural emendations are frequently retained by later editors. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Sigilla is a variant of the word in the text, laculla, a diminutive of lacuna, signifying a dimple in the chin. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 Stock found the same lacunae in eight cases of myopia. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 Diagrammic cross section of a long bone.-- b.c., bone corpuscle in a lacuna. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata Why, it may be asked, can we not get rid of this "something" which fills that gap or lacuna in the identity of the soul which can only be thought of in material terms? The Complex Vision They have an unholy habit of leaving out a couple of verses some place in the middle, and you're just the one to tumble head-first into the lacuna. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Therefore the lacunae I've undertaken to fill out are the national wants. The Tragic Muse But the logical mind of the elderly barrister seemed to detect a lacuna in the reasoning; the speaker had skipped something and flown straight to his peroration. Quisanté This being so, the error is most easily explained by a lacuna. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Walter Scott's novels were filled with perpetual lacunae. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic This last prince was on the throne in 667, but his reign is followed by a lacuna of more than a century. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 This lacuna Herschel tried to fill up in 1799; such was the aim of the memoir entitled, On the space-penetrating Power of Telescopes. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men About them the formations are found interrupted, and the lacuna indicate that the sea invaded the area only to recede from it, and again at some later period to transgress upon it. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays I have endeavoured to supply this lacuna in his work; and the reader will judge for himself on which side the weight of argument lies. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" There were lacunae, too, when the shaking hand had achieved but a few weak zigzags before it desisted. Poison Island In the poems of Lord Brooke, we find a lacuna of the first twenty pages; it was a poem on Religion, cancelled by the order of Archbishop Laud. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 It is a lacuna to be regretted, for in those phenomena the intensity of light must be an important feature. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men The account which Tacitus gives us of this trial is obscure, involved, and fragmentary, for the story is broken off at its most important point by an unfortunate lacuna in the manuscript. The Women of the Caesars At dawn the next morning, therefore, the journey was continued, and once more an unfortunate lacuna interrupts the passage of the report. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology There are several lacunae here, in the MS. Genesis A Translated from the Old English Percy made no secret of the fact that he filled lacunae in his originals with stanzas, and, in some cases, with nearly entire poems of his own composition. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Nor is there any objection to refusing the title of religion to Buddhism and Confucianism, except that an inconvenient lacuna would remain in our vocabulary, for they are not adequately described as philosophies. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 There had been a lacuna in the correspondence of late, and it seemed to her that the letters she had received were always dated some days before the time stamped on the Heidelberg postmark. Doctor Claudius, A True Story After this there is a lacuna of four leaves, and the fragment, which recommences at p. The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela I cry you mercy for a lacuna at the outset. A Christmas Garland For these lacunae we offer our apologies to the historians of the next centennial. The Lutherans of New York Their Story and Their Problems Our instinctive disposition to infer deplorable lacunae in the region of morals from the possession of a talent for manners is in the case of the poor Mexican too thoroughly justified. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 In this rapid sketch of the industrial arts there are many lacunae. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt I turned to the context to see whether there was anything in the entries preceding or following the lacuna that would afford a clue to the missing passage. The Lost Stradivarius At this part of the epic there is an obvious lacuna. Custom and Myth Somehow I have a special genius for filling up lacunae in manuscripts. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People And our only tolerable attitude is that of learners constantly seeking to fill up the lacunae in our beliefs and practice. Our Lady Saint Mary This bore out Damaris' own childhood's recollections; though in these last she was aware of lacunae, of gaps, of spaces unbridged by any coherent sequence of remembered events. Deadham Hard Yet we cannot point with certainty to any of the other pictures in our list as standing midway in development, and here it is that a lacuna exists in the artist's career. Giorgione In this variant of the story, which we may use as our text, it is to be noticed that a lacuna exists. Custom and Myth You will note, monsieur," he continued, while the dun penumbra still more and more withdrew him from Leclair's sight, "that great lacunae exist in the scale of vibratory phenomena. The Flying Legion There still remained, however, a lacuna in Book III, which was not remedied till 1621, when a supplement was added from the pen of Sir William Alexander. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England B. Middle, extending from the point of the frog to the commencement of its median lacuna. Diseases of the Horse's Foot Passages enclosed in square brackets are suggestions of Koechly for supplying the general sense of lacunae. The Fall of Troy If he does this, then, a dreadful lacuna in the Edinburgh Edition will also be supplied. Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial Very many defects have been corrected by the various editions of the Hymns, but a considerable number still defy all efforts; and especially an abnormal number of undoubted lacuna disfigure the text. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica "Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunae by some measure of primitive common sense," remarked Challenger. The Lost World An incision is then made in each lateral lacuna of the frog, the two meeting at the frog's point. Diseases of the Horse's Foot The most of this material consists of prose schemes, but there are also several hundred verses, some of them complete, others with lacunae, great or small. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Either the words are interpolated, or there is a lacuna. The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 The text we possess—marred, however, by several considerable lacunae—is now generally allowed to be that of the piece as played at the later date, when it won the prize. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 My tendency, on the contrary, is to feel with increased force the lacunas, deformities, and imperfections of the group to which I belong. Amiel's Journal The triangular projection in front of the median lacuna is the body or cushion of the frog. Diseases of the Horse's Foot The Book, in fact, could be omitted, and only a minutely analytic reader would perceive the lacuna. Homer and His Age There are several lacunae in the demonstration, but enough of it remains to show the ingenuity of the general plan. Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics; a Treatise of Archimedes All lacunae in our present system are explained by Darwin as due to the extinction of the forms, which previously filled them. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation The tablet is unfortunately broken in the middle, causing a lacuna in the text. Babylonian and Assyrian Literature The directors of European galleries have become alive to their value, and are sparing no effort to fill the lacuna left by the more strictly virtuoso taste of a former generation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 It is not always remembered that, if things could drop into the interpolations, things could also drop out of the ILIAD, causing lacunae, during the dark backward of its early existence. Homer and His Age Certain lacunae have been filled by the interpolation of fresh matter. An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments Considerable care has been bestowed upon the indication of the lacunae in our knowledge of the subject and the methods by which they may be filled. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Of course, it was easy to fill the lacunae in the text. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch He had not the slightest notion what a lacuna, or its plural, signified. The Postmaster's Daughter That it has reached us without interpolations and lacunae and remaniements perhaps no person of ordinary sense will allege. Homer and His Age The discovery of this tablet, while supplying the lacunae in Prism B, has made this part useless. Assyrian Historiography On the other hand it will point out the deficiencies of available evidence, and indicate the ways by which the lacunae may gradually be filled. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation I said there WASN'T any cake—on the contrary, there is an entire absence of it, a shortage, a vacuum, not to say a lacuna. The Holiday Round "There are certain lacunae in your otherwise vigorous and thrilling story, constable," went on Hart. The Postmaster's Daughter It was only after the lapse of centuries that all the lacunae were filled up, and the Canaanite enclaves made tributary. Prolegomena It was literally bristling with—with—with lacunae, which had to be filled up by means of laborious references to contemporary chronicles. South Wind You got it there in its full logical development—every phase, step by step, in organic unity; while elsewhere you saw but stages and jumps and results, interrupted here and there by disturbing lacunae. The Woman Who Did Fortunately, however, the envelopes have in almost every case been preserved; so the postmark, when legible, has filled the lacuna. The Life of Sir Richard Burton The Origen text supplies part of the lacuna, but two entire Books, and part of a third are missing. From Ritual to Romance Scott did not interpolate a single stanza, even where, as Hogg wrote, he suspected a lacuna in the text. Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy In one point there is perhaps, almost unavoidably, a lacuna or gap in her information. The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia Returning to the lacunae which it so amazes Fabre to discover in our organization, even in the most perfect of us, are they fundamentally very real? Fabre, Poet of Science Those lacunae, however, are invested with a certain eloquence which it is well not to disregard. The Life of Cesare Borgia The following is the text as preserved to us; the slabs on which it is inscribed are broken, and there are consequent lacunae. From Ritual to Romance He was satisfied to throw light upon an obscurity, to fill up a lacuna, to justify an apparent imperfection, to explain a peculiarity of style, or to reconcile contradictions. Rashi Add to these original lacunae the hole made by the Prince himself in his net already woven: he had with his own hand torn away its meshes, and by thousands. The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Not one word is printed about Fisher's ghost; but the reader will observe that there is a lacuna in the evidence exactly where the ghost, if ghost there were, should have come in. The Valet's tragedy, and other studies Besides, any significance with which that lacuna might be invested is discounted by the fact that such gaps are of fairly common occurrence in the course of Burchard's record. The Life of Cesare Borgia Mr Mead concludes that there is here a lacuna of the original. From Ritual to Romance We can judge of the lacunae in them both from the commentaries that have been preserved and from the criticisms which Rashi frequently added as an accompaniment to his citations. Rashi Surtees left clever lacunae in these songs, 'collected from oral tradition,' and furnished notes so learned that they took in Sir Walter Scott. Books and Bookmen CLEINIAS: Assuredly: but may we not now, Stranger, prescribe these studies as necessary, and so fill up the lacunae of our laws? Laws Finally it remains to be shown that the lacuna in question exists in the original diaries, which have yet to be discovered. The Life of Cesare Borgia You are forced to realize where the gaps, the lacunae of your knowledge come, and are made to fill them in. The Foundations of Personality About a fourth, comprehending with lacunae the first portion of the dialogue, is preserved in several MSS. Timaeus This fragment was very cleverly inserted in a presumed lacuna. Books and Bookmen Nor did Copernicus announce a truth perfect and complete, not to be modified, but there were many contradictions and lacunae which the work of subsequent observers had to reconcile and fill up. The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 He seizes upon that lacuna, and goes so far as to set up the tentative explanation that Burchard "perhaps purposely interrupted his Diary that he might avoid mentioning the fratricide." The Life of Cesare Borgia In addition, the phenomena of sudden changes, recently observed, help us to understand more easily the conception which obtrudes itself under so many heads, by diminishing the importance of the apparent lacunae in genealogical continuity. A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson We must also not forget that there are lacunae in the child's comprehension of what it perceives. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Iodin is stored in the colloid lacunae of the thyroid and, in combination with certain proteins, is the active agent of the thyroid. Origin and Nature of Emotions The handwriting on the label, as I gazed, appeared less and less like script and more like disconnected, scratchy lines or hachures, owing to the formation of lacunae in the inky traces. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 If it hangs not overwell together in places, if there be contradictions, lacunae, or openings for doubt, fling the Verdict of History into the gap, and so strike any questioner into silence. The Life of Cesare Borgia The lacuna in the MS. was first noted, I believe, by Weiske. Agesilaus If the child is only half-interested, it will try to fill out these lacunae by reflection and synthesis, and may conceivably make serious blunders. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students The two last lines of verse seven were, confessedly, added by Hogg, to fill a lacuna. A Collection of Ballads Now thus to fill up sham lacunae in sham ballads of his own, with lines manifestly modern, was a favourite trick of Surtees of Mainsforth. A Collection of Ballads |
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