His reasons, he said, have less to do with Mahler's superstitions about removing the third of the hammer blows representing fate, or the composer's other afterthoughts, than with musical sense.
Even his greatest acting triumphs were a blow, representing "the indignity and the boredom of having to learn the writings of another man".
Anonymous whistle blowing represents a possible solution; it opens the door, however, to disruptive whistles being blown for the wrong reasons or after careless investigation (cf. Elliston; Coulson).
They tell us, in their way, that Antoine was right not to make such heavy weather of life's irritations, and that his wary personality — the defense mechanism that in "The 400 Blows" is represented by a shot of him pulling his sweater up over his mouth and retreating like a turtle into its shell — has served him, somehow, has helped keep him on the move, where he needs to be.
Again, the idea that these hammer-blows actually represent real or imagined "blows of fate" – as well as being ludicrously superstitious – contradicts the coherent and convincing musical reasons Mahler had for deleting the third thump.
The critical lift-off height at blow-out, representing a characteristic length scale for mixing, had a linear relationship with the theoretically predicted stoichiometric location along the jet axis, which had a weak dependence on ambient pressure.
These victories, however, represented a blow to British hopes, as Emily Blunt, Carey Mulligan, Helen Mirren and the much-fancied Colin Firth went home empty-handed.
Nor, amidst all the sound and fury accompanying the reshuffle, should the severe blow to Mr Blair represented by the departure of Mr Milburn be underestimated.
The announcement represented another blow to the family behind Ameridose and its sister company, the New England Compounding Center, whose fungal-tainted steroid medication was responsible for the deaths of 29 people.
BUDAPEST (Reuters) — Thousands of Hungarians protested outside Parliament on Friday, hours after opposition lawmakers chained themselves to barriers in an unsuccessful effort to block legislation that they said represented a blow to democracy.
