Sentences with phrase «modern use of substances»

As such, the trick is arguably closer to «disappearances» staged in Victorian music hall using arrangements of slanted mirrors than to the modern use of substances called metamaterials to achieve invisibility by guiding light rays in unnatural ways.

Not exact matches

This paper will attempt an assessment of Leclerc's radical position, using as a foil the thought of the baroque scholastic, Francis Suarez.5 The latter was picked to fulfill such a function both because he represents the most complete summation of the older Aristotelian theory of substance Leclerc attempts to appropriate and reinterpret, and because he was the most important scholastic figure for the age that Leclerc sees as both the turning point in the history of the philosophy of nature, and as the golden age of such a philosophy, namely, the modern age (PN 194 - 95).

But because modern efforts at Christian unity are often heavy on symbolism rather than substance (the harder thing to achieve), a meeting between the Patriarch of Moscow and the Pope of Rome was held out as a tantalizing prize for Catholic ecumenists, one that could be used to extract concessions at some necessary moment.

A modern recurve may be easier to use for some, but we couldn't resist the style and substance of this one!

19th - century wood stool by a Bamileke artist from Bafut, Cameroon — The Museum of Modern Art featured this stool, likely used as a repository for healing substances, in its seminal 1935 exhibition of African Art.

Relationships between smoking and drinking and the Consumer Involvement subscale «dissatisfaction» support suggestions by other authors that substance use might be an attempt to satisfy the unmet needs of more materialistic individuals.15, 17 However, we also found that smoking and drinking were most strongly associated with «brand awareness» (comprising items emphasising the importance of brand names, popular labels and being cool), and also with possession of modern consumer goods.