Sentences with phrase «rather than a novel»

They say that in war time people read short stories rather than novels.

Indeed this was the appeal, for Burns, of writing a play, rather than a novel, say.

It seems formal rating systems encourage «safe» judgements, leading to an emphasis on work that is seen as sound rather than novel.

Scholastic will publish script books of both «Cursed Child» and «Fantastic Beasts» in the US, but unlike previous entries these two stories are original to stage and screen, respectively, rather than novels.

I tend to read short stories rather than novels when I'm doing a lot of writing because stories that can be consumed in a single sitting are easier on my attention span after a long writing day.

I think of it as a novelty rather than a novel.

rather than novel / story based.

In line with my previous post, one could also say that this process is an algorithm — even a very long algorithm — for assessing tree rings, and is thus more in line with a «fact» rather than a novel idea.

It seems to raise garden - variety rather than novel issues, though, and is not filed against Wikipedia itself.

The 3D Touch feature only provides app shortcuts to users, rather than novel new features.

Not exact matches

In 2017, Walmart has also introduced a membership - free, two - day shipping program, a discount for customers who pick up an online order at a order rather than have it shopped, curbside grocery pickup at hundreds of stores and other novel services such as having a Walmart store worker drop off an online order on the way home after their shift.

Based on the best - selling novel by Ayn Rand, «The Fountainhead» tells the story of Howard Roark, an architect who prefers to struggle rather than compromise his artistic vision.

Rather than dreaming up some novel configuration of services, successful entrepreneurs look at a given problem in a target market and develop a solution for it.

I think most economists are tied into a framework larger than they truly understand, and so they have difficulty envisioning novel ways to fix it because they have fixed their ideas to dogma rather than insight.

Chad has repeatedly betrayed: his non-comprehension of what a species - level change is (i.e. the focus of PE) and that this most minor of changes does not require a wholesale reordering of a genome; his inability to grasp that gradualism, although the clear minority in the fossil record, is present in various lineages (See Gould's various references to Foraminfera); his non-comprehension of the role of historic genetic contingency (i.e. that silent mutations can coalesce into rather dramatic novel functionality, e.g. Lenskis» E. coli); that the nodes of PE are more than sufficient for the requisite species - level evolutionary changes (See Pod Mrcaru lizards); etc, etc..

In the Williams novel, it is a stone of great power, rather than a ring, but it has the same effect on those who bear it: They become its possession, not its possessor.

This was an asceticism of a novel sort, worldly and systematic, looking forward to the time - and - profit calculus of industrial life rather than backward to the flesh - denying torments of the desert hermits.

rather than viewing each individual character or incident as only an instance of some collectivity or trend, is able to see the specific, the novel... the way even the «typical» diverges from type... [and can] recognize the peculiar dialectic between continuity and discontinuity in tradition.

Where, at the beginning of the novel, marriage has already occurred, love may well be sought outside marriage; the rendering of a love that both issues in marriage and develops and matures within it is much less usual... The more recent convention that «love» is the precondition not of marriage but of» sex» is a natural development of tradition rather than a reaction against it.»

Would there were a poet who might resolve to prefer such situations, rather than the stuff and nonsense with which comedies and novels are filled!

I had rather discern a cry of human need voiced in a novel, or discover the grace of God profanely proclaimed in a drama on the stage or on the street, than retell what some other has discerned there.

Hoping, on the other hand, means being open to surprise rather than living with a calculated certitude that would prevent a truly novel future from ever really happening.

Indeed, whether in the name of Islam or against Islam, the novel's main characters commit a series of ugly, wreckful acts against each other, their personal hurts and vices intensified rather than relieved through their differing contacts with the faith.

A solution had to be found, but it would have to come from sources other than the old English order [that is, the «ancient realm or the Anglican tradition»] The deep - seated tensions of early seventeenth - century English society had to be solved by some rather novel rearrangements of political and legal institutions.

But rather than end the novel on this ambiguous note, Greene uses a somewhat awkward device to resolve the ambiguity.

In these endeavors, they have sought something novel rather than a romantic or nostalgic return to previous tribal and pastoral life styles.

He is a thirteenth - century pilgrim in a novel using the «oldest tradition of Western letters: the pilgrim's search outside himself rather than the guru's search within.»

Certainly infants sleeping separated from their caregivers at night (solitary room sleeping), infants sleeping on their stomachs (prone) to promote uninterrupted, early consolidation of adult - like sleep, and bottle - feeding with formula or cows milk rather than breast milk were all novel, culturally - sanctioned but scientifically - untested (as safe or best) infant care innovations.1 It is now known that each of these practices has contributed to or led to thousands of SIDS deaths.3 - 5 Many of these infant lives, we can infer, could have been saved had we more carefully examined and come to understand the biological validity of mother - infant safe co-sleeping, breastfeeding and infants sleeping on their backs (supine).

«Because one of the things we're keen to do in this election is something novel: we're trying to under - promise and over-deliver, rather than the other way around.

In finding novel ways to commingle church and state, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, has carved himself a niche as a more inclusive kind of liberal, one who is willing to embrace religious groups rather than treat them as adversaries.

Cahill also offered a novel take on an old economic development standby — using tax breaks to reward and encourage long - established Kingston businesses, rather than to attract new ones which may fail or fail to deliver on promises.

The relevant patents involve the positioning of differentiated retinal cells in the eye and not the creation of these cells and would potentially be exempt from the ruling; his team wrote its patent this way to distinguish it from other stem - cell - based applications — they felt that describing the placement of cells rather than the creation of the cells was likely to be more novel.

Rather than rely on V2V communications, Google's novel technology uses light radar and mapping software to guide the vehicle as a completely independent unit.

Similarly, from the anomalous brightness of distant supernovas, astronomers prefer to deduce a novel entity in space, dark energy, rather than modify Einstein's general theory of relativity to adjust the formulas for the universe's expansion.

The study, led by scientists from the University of Chicago, uses a novel method to measure genetic predisposition for telomere length, rather than physiological measures which are confounded by factors such as age and lifestyle.

The researchers discovered 214 novel RNA viruses (where the genomic material is RNA rather than DNA) in apparently healthy reptiles, amphibians, lungfish, ray - finned fish, cartilaginous fish and jawless fish.

When Janssen Pharmaceuticals, the R&D arm of pharma giant J&J, decided they were going to focus on novel therapeutics of big impact, rather than follow the competition's focus on branded generics or biosimilars, they completely redesigned how they could tackle that goal by opening five so - called innovation centers.

The findings highlight a novel way to generate antibodies that recognize and target proteins shared by most influenza A strains rather than those unique to each strain.

What's novel about this study is we looked at microRNAs instead of proteins, and we decided to look in saliva rather than blood.»

We've all had the experience of repeating a dramatic story so many times that the events seem dead, as if they came from a novel rather than real life.

The study is investigator led and has therefore focused on clinical need, targeting patients with progressive multiple sclerosis in whom most disability is incurred... The study also reports a predominant effect on neurodegenerative rather than inflammatory outcomes, suggesting a novel mechanism of action that might be suitable as combination treatment with immunomodulatory treatments... Further phase 3 studies to measure the effect of simvastatin on sustained disability, particularly in patients with non-relapsing secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, are clearly needed, but this trial represents a promising point from which to develop trials of progressive disease.»

Rather than simply identifying a cancer by location or tissue type, researchers now use advanced molecular profiling tests to characterize tumors, the proteins they express and the novel mutations they develop — known as neoantigens.

For artificial lighting throughout the museum, conservators chose novel bulbs that use ultraviolet LEDs rather than the standard blue ones, and different blends of light - emitting phosphors that better approximate natural light when operated at the low intensity needed to avoid damaging fragile pigments.

«We demonstrated that quality can be accomplished across the sites, but consider a different approach to the design,» she said, explaining that rather than treating negative symptom patients as one homogenous target, priority should be given to exploring the usefulness of novel mechanisms in separate negative symptom domains to better define the target population and maximize the chance of success before launching large phase III trials.

One of the problems of previous studies was to exclude the possibility that animals chose a novel stimuli simply out of curiosity rather than by the exclusion of known negative stimuli.

This novel behavior of topological magnon insulators could lead to new applications in such fields as spintronics, where spin currents (rather than charge current in electronics) could be exploited for energy - efficient technologies and information storage.

These surrogate atoms could one day be used to build novel materials such as semiconductors that carry light rather than electricity.

Given his training in developmental biology, Raman focused the team to seek a novel drug target on genes important to the development of model organisms — fruit flies (Drosophila) and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)-- rather than on oncogenes that transform a normal cell into a cancer cell.

The test works in a novel way, by isolating fetal DNA from the mother's bloodstream rather than by the older and riskier method of taking tissue from the womb (as in amniocentesis, for example).

«With this novel animal model, we showed how it enhances fear rather than reducing it and where the molecular changes are occurring in our central nervous system.»