Debut novelist Francesca Segal took inspiration from Wharton to recreate The Age of Innocence for today's audience in her novel The Innocents, a story of a young man, newly engaged, who finds himself questioning everything he believed defined him.
In his 1998 book "How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci," Mr. Gelb outlines seven principles that he believes define da Vinci's work: Curiosità, or curiosity, marking his insatiable quest for knowledge and continuous improvement.
Our real security will always reside in consistency with the values we believe define us, that Wells and F.D.R. judged were worth fighting for, and that people "everywhere in the world" are trying through nonviolent means to realize for themselves.
We attach ourselves to ideas and things that we believe define who we are.
It is a different thing than asking of ourselves which people we believe are human in the same way we are and capable of the emotional and intellectual qualities we believe define our humanity.
Mr. Richard Like Mr. Boies, I return to my opening statement and the threshold question that I believe defines the task that this court faces in this proceeding.
James, in "The Will to Believe," defined a live hypothesis as an idea that an individual finds at least somewhat credible or potentially acceptable and a "living option" as a choice between two live hypotheses.
The practice is antithetical to every value that Americans believe defines our society, and serves no purpose.
This is asserted with cold dispassion, dismissing any argument of "disease" (a word she rejects "like ebola"), putting her in a camp that believes defining addiction as such somehow removes the involvement of any free will.
Given my confidence in the court itself, it is not the "G" word (genocide) but really the "I" word which I believe defines the ICC's central challenge today: "I" for Impunity.
