This seems an indolent method of writing, though Gray does get off some good aphorisms of his own: "To suppose that the myth of progress could be shaken off would be to ascribe to modern humanity a capacity for improvement even greater than that which it ascribes to itself".
The variety of characterizations stems in part from the variety of different tasks he seems to ascribe to reflecting judgment itself.
The graphics overlay is not exactly seamless, but if the objective is to monopolise a customer's attention for as long as possible, few methods seem as effective; cycling through addresses and watching the Hyundai park at its destination can be addicting – a word one would hesitate to ascribe to the car itself.
In cross-sectional studies, each individual is only measured once, so all differences in telomere length with age are ascribed to aging itself, even if generational changes have occurred.
Since HRQOL has been reported to be impaired in patients with primary RaP, one could postulate that the impairment in HRQOL in SSc and UCTD patients might be ascribed to RaP itself.
Indeed, an ADR may be much more easily ascribed to "frailty" itself, an already existing diagnosis or the onset of a new clinical problem rather than to a pharmacological adverse effect.
In part, the change can be traced to experiments such as Compton scattering, where it was much more difficult not to ascribe quantization to light itself to explain the observed results.
There's nothing disturbing about nudity itself, just the meaning that people ascribe to it.
Normally we do not ascribe to the moody artist stereotype but sometimes it just presents itself in the inbox, and there's nothing you can do but laugh.
Robert K. Merton's Thomas Theorem says my perception of a situation coupled with the meaning I ascribe to that perception will determine my behavior, not the actual situation itself.
