Cultural practices were to be treated as modes of adaptation to specific environmental challenges.
There are minor flaws in plotting, and occasional excesses - gorilla suits as modes of escape, or soft toys sentimentalised as road kill to make a point.
But Lamborghini flew the flag with a decidedly unreconstructed exhibition stand featuring twig-thin models smiling seductively alongside rich boys' toys masquerading as modes of transport.
Vehicle types, often referred to as modes of transportation, can be broadly characterized as road, rail, air, and maritime (i.e., water-based).
I suggest that "non-believers" like Simon Critchley, who express serious interest in and appreciation of religions, are thinking of them as modes of living and of understanding.
"People hear a character like Bill's in 'Stripes,' and they're emboldened to think, I can say these things, I can use them as modes of operating in the world.
There are a few other moments when a detail will suggest that the universal love-poem embraces a personal love-affair, but there are no details that can't be read as modes of the universal.
Mauss argued that apparently irrational forms of economic consumption made sense when they were properly understood, as modes of social competition regulated by strict and universal rules of reciprocity.
He suggested a schema in which the earlier stages of kinship organization were linked to low levels of technology and to hunting, gathering, or fishing as modes of subsistence.
Many of them are central European Jewish émigrés, as in Shards of Memory (1995) and In Search of Love and Beauty (1983), which Updike compared to Proust in its "interest in Jewishness and homosexuality as modes of estrangement; and its insistent moral that human love will always find an unworthy object".
IF painting and writing can be seen as modes of thinking, and they can, then "Brush and Ink: The Chinese Art of Writing," at the Metropolitan Museum, is as much a brainstorming session as an art exhibition, crackling with ideas and arguments every step of the way.
