Sentences with phrase «at eccentricities»

It's a penetrating look at eccentricities and obsession.

People would laugh when they heard, and the maid, who did the washing and chopped the vegetables, was always chuckling at my eccentricity — the man who liked to cook.

HD 20782 has the most eccentric orbit known, measured at an eccentricity of.96.

Now, you can have, also in consideration the Moon which «sucks» at perigee and emits at apogee: Moon (a) at eccentricity = 0,026 -2,24915291288904 Nm Moon (b) at eccentricity = 0,077 +9,40962149507112 Nm http://www.scribd.com/doc/39678117/Planets-Moon-Field

Please enlighten me as to why I should be reasonably concerned with an anthropogenic signal, sea - level wise, which is at best 10 % of the most recent end extreme interglacial climate «noise», and which, at worst, is 2.8 % of the possible +21.3 m MSL which may have been achieved the last time we were at an eccentricity minimum.......

Even MIS - 11, the Holsteinian interglacial, the last one, like the Holocene, to occur at an eccentricity minimum, netted perhaps 1.5 to 2 precession cycles.

But wait, if you call now, we will throw in the last time gaia was at an eccentricity minimum, that would be that 6th interglacial back, which lasted from just 1.5 to 2 whole precession cycles.

The angled ceiling hints at the eccentricity of a vintage farmhouse.

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The firm «caught up in understanding the eccentricities and weirdness of dealing with external hackers and, at same time, it has learned from the model and they are investing in it now, which I think is incredible.»

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and enti.tle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.»

Likewise, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) was important and influential in its day, but today's reader is more likely to notice such eccentricities as an astonishing chapter arguing that the postwar suburban home was «a comfortable concentration camp» that aimed at the «progressive dehumanization» of women.

This beer is an audacious blend of eccentricity, artistry and rebellion; changing the general perception of beer one stuffed animal at a time.»

A beefy former All - Ohio single - wing center at Baldwin - Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, he's clearly as enthralled with the eccentricity of using the single wing in this era as with the formation's effectiveness.

I'm happy to own that error because Simmons comes along at a point when the NBA could use some stylistic eccentricity.

At the beginning of the second half Rangers appeared almost resigned, and the jubilant Celtic support were giving voice with «We're off to Dublin in the green, in the green...» They were silenced abruptly by the first of Fallon's moments of eccentricity.

Boris Johnson has boosted his reputation for eccentricity with a demand for Russian president Vladimir Putin to perform half - naked at the Olympic Games.

We take a look at Jeremy Corbyn's support for homeopathy and suggest that it is more than a harmless eccentricity and actually speaks to a politician's commitment to objective truth and scrutiny.

Referred to as «extreme KBOs» (eKBOs) by the authors, all of these have extremely large orbital eccentricities, in other words, they get very close to the Sun at one point on their orbital journey, only to swing far out into space once they pass the Sun, on long elliptical orbits that take these strange mini worlds hundreds of AUs away from the Sun.

Hamers» calculations show, however, that high - eccentricity migration in planet systems with three to five planets can explain at most only 1 percent of the observed hot Jupiters.

«Step back and think about this: Small variations in the orbital parameters of the Earth — tilt and eccentricity and wobble — are recorded on the sea floor,» says Richard Katz, a geodynamicist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and a co-author of the Science paper.

That parts of Antarctica have become too warm for Adélie penguins would surely have astounded earlier explorers who suffered so greatly from the cold, and who marveled at the resilience, and eccentricities, of these seabirds.

«When you look at a plot like that [of eccentricity], there's eight planets,» Levison says.

«What we found at 23 million years ago is a rare congruence of a low point in Earth's eccentricity and a period of minimal variation in obliquity,» James Zachos, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and lead author of the paper, explains.

It orbits HD 189733 A at an average distance (semi-major axis) of 0.0313 + / - 0.0004 AUs, with a period of 2.2 days in a circular orbit with an eccentricity of 0.0 and an inclination of 85.76 (± 0.29) degrees to Earth's line of sight.

Test simulations of the orbits of the three planets around 61 Virginis suggest that the planetary system's orbital configuration is dynamically stable because of low orbital eccentricities for at least 365 million years.

There is evidence that Earth has gone through at least one globally frozen, «snowball» state in the last billion years, which i... ▽ More Although the Earth's orbit is never far from circular, terrestrial planets around other stars might experience substantial changes in eccentricity that could lead to climate changes, including possible «phase transitions» such as the snowball transition (or its opposite).

Planet «b» has 7.5 Earth - masses at an average orbital distance of 0.08 with a period of only 9.5 days and an orbital eccentricity near 0.40.

This star is located about 224 AUs away on average (a semi-major axis of 14.39» at a HIPPARCOS distance of 50.87 light - years) with an orbital period around 2,000 years and an extremely high orbital eccentricity of 0.91.

There is a peak at 32 days with an even higher false alarm probability value, the fit does converge to a sensible eccentricity but it is going to be difficult to make a case for its existence based on such a weak signal.

Subsequently, these lake phases still occur at the peak eccentricity forcing but only at ∼ 1.8 Ma and ∼ 1.0 Ma.

The planet complete an orbit around HD 85512 in 58.43 + / - 0.13 days at an average distance of 0.26 + / - 0.005 AU in an mildly elliptical orbit with an eccentricity e = 0.11 + / - 0.10 (Pepe et al, 2011; and Kaltenegger et al, 2011, Table 1).

On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers announced that analysis of new and older radial - velocity data from nearby red dwarf stars revealed two super-Earths «b» and «c» with minimum earth - masses of 4.4 (+3.7 / -2.4) and 8.7 (+5.8 / -4.7), respectively, at average orbital distances of 0.080 (+0.014 / -0.004) and 0.176 (+0.009 / -0.030) AU, respectively, from host star Gl 682, with orbital eccentricities of 0.08 (+0.19 / -.08) and 0.010 (+0.19 / -0.10) and periods around 17.5 and 57.3 days, respectively (UH news release; and Tuomi et al, 2014).

While they are certainly not part of whatever «in - crowd» there may be at their school, their individual eccentricities have them on the fringes in a realistic way.

Glastonbury (15) Running time: 135 min *** Julian Temple's loving documentary may at first appear to be aimed at the sort of music fan who prefers Glasto streamed live to their TV.But this collection of archive and commissioned footage from 36 years of England's greatest music festival is likely to appeal more to diehard fans than non-festival-goers, since it revels in precisely the eccentricities that makes the armchair people dive for cover.Most of this film is a structureless, rambling celebration of Glastonbury's boozy, hedonistic, liberated, political and frequently bonkers character rather than of the actual music: great if you were at the party, presumably less great if you weren't.

Which is to say that, though Paddington 2 is squarely aimed at young kids and their fascination with grown - up eccentricities and the diversity of the world that lies beyond their front door, it's a movie adults won't squirm through.

At a key moment, the characters recognize each other, not as protagonists in the midst of battle, but as human beings and the film becomes more about the complexities of the human condition than the eccentricities of its colorful characters.

Trying to understand the way this flywheel comedy tugs at the heartstrings, I reflected that eccentricity often masks deep loneliness.

Anime has always had a certain eccentricity about it (think of some of the stranger sequences in touchstone titles like Akira or Ghost in the Shell, or anything at the edges of the output of supposedly child - orientated Studio Ghibli), but the films which LEAFF selected to honour the medium's milestone take this eclectic, imaginative approach to storytelling to new levels, loosening the limits of the logic of reality, and travelling through the very fabric of space and time.

Whereas the early going boasts at least a bit of lighthearted drollness, the film and its copious eccentricities become less charming the further the material veers into serious betrayal - and - forgiveness crises, with verve flagging and Oliver's oddball earnestness and desperation coming across as wan affectations.

As much as it parallels heartwarming child - meets - creature movies, Okja is definitely not E.T.. It's a sweet and strange tale that has relevant ideas but is overstuffed with eccentricities and tonal cocktails that make it exhausting and at times, frustrating to watch.

It's always compelling to watch artistic eccentricity at this scale.

But it's sort of their shot at a foul - mouthed pot - sex - bodily - functions - Judd Apatow - style comedy and as such seems watered down, with just a hint of the British eccentricity that made them cult heroes.

Murray's eccentricities - no agent, turning up at strangers» house parties - must be put to the side because St Vincent is more than just another star vehicle for his hang - dog wit.

But for all the eccentricity, the film feels unexpectedly personal in addressing experiences everyone goes through at some point in their lives.

Deservedly lauded at Sundance for its frankness and non-judgemental approach to female and young - adult sexuality, the film impresses on its own terms as a solidly - constructed character study of a mercurial, still - forming artist, told with a straight face despite the period eccentricities.

This becomes clearer whenever the film arrives at an extended conversation between Beatty's Hughes and Lily Collins» or Alden Ehrenreich's starry - eyed dreamers, with the director favoring a more relaxed editing scheme that sees his less experienced employees waving off his eccentricities in a way others can't.

«The Lovers» is her biggest jump from the cool eccentricity to a Hollywood - distributed film, and her biggest sound at that, revealing a symphonic talent that will likely land her more creative affairs to come.

Regardless of genre or format, Herzog's ongoing cinematic obsession has almost always been an exploration of the intersection of madness (or, at the very least, eccentricity) and genius (or, at the very least, creative yearnings), whether it be the story of a man dragging a 300 - ton boat over a mountain in the Amazonian jungle (Fitzcarraldo) or of a wannabe animal rights activist being eaten alive by a bear (Grizzly Man).

Amid tepid comedies and timid thrillers, it sparkles with conviction and eccentricity — at least that's ho...