With Instapaper, on the other hand, you have a complete, self-aggregated personalized publication.
If Terry was a character out of Dickens, he was from a Thomas Hardy novel — a complete self-invention.
However, there is a complete, self-contained mystery within " 'Who Could That Be at This Hour?' " By the end, you will know the identity of the statue thief.
But neither star has time to get a groove going that would define the perimeters of a complete, self-contained fantasy world.
I'm well aware that everyone who isn't a complete self-deluding fool finds themselves preposterous at times, but I didn't want this to happen because of a culture that I have such respect for.
Modern embryology has corrected an earlier view of the fetus as a part of the mother; from the moment of conception, he holds, it is a "complete, self-integrating organism," with unique self-directing DNA.
I've little doubt Jack will be back in further adventures, no doubt with chameleon-like Beth Sharkwell and Kit Morely the spy/intelligencer at his side, but I'm pleased to report that Black Arts is a complete, self-contained and wholly satisfying novel in its own right.
There are now perhaps two dozen companies turning out about 1,200 replicas a year; prices range from about $12,000 for a very basic kit, to $45,000 for a complete, self-assembled fiberglass car like ours, to $110,000 for a ready-to-drive car with an aluminum body.
Or that in 1966, Honeywell engineers accurately predicted that by 2001 "a complete, self-contained computing system would become so portable that it would fit in a briefcase?" Computers change size and shape so quickly that Atkinson's book reads as a kind of trip down memory lane.
Implicit in the relational point of view is the intuition that a complete self-measurement is impossible.
