Finally, by virtue of our intimate knowledge of its surface and interior, the Earth is a crucial yardstick by which we measure and interpret the processes, internal structure, and overall histories of other planets in this solar system and of other planets around other stars.
Just as Graham Greene created a distinctive mood of place that critics called "Greeneland", Hopper painted the feeling familiar to most humans - the triste embedded in existence, in our intimate knowledge of the solitude of the self.
However, we estimate based on our intimate knowledge of the clinical activities of three centers that patient accrual to GELCAPS is ~70% of those invited to participate.
In deciding whether to tell a friend about a straying spouse, your actions will be variably influenced by your intimate knowledge of the friend, the friend's desires, the circumstances of that particular marriage.
Even the grandest of his architectural commissions are characterized by the intimate knowledge of materials, techniques and artisanal traditions, as well as by the conceptual ingenuity and improvisational flair fostered by his nocturnal experiments at the glassworks.
Joan is skeptical, but, won over by his intimate knowledge of her family and his claim that he doesn't care whether she's conventionally religious but just wants her to fulfill "her true nature," she eventually follows through on a suggestion — a suggestion bordering on a command — that he makes.
Whereas Ms. Tyler's most powerful work has been animated by an intimate knowledge of her characters' inner lives — sympathy that lofted us up over whatever was clichéd or cloying about their stories — the people in "The Beginner's Goodbye" are irritating stick figures, insipid and emotionally uptight.
Arguments are provided suggesting that, although the ability to characterise and manipulate the yeast genome is necessary, this must be backed up by an intimate knowledge of processes at the cellular level and the ways in which these are regulated from the genome through transcription to the metabolome.
Bewick was helped by his intimate knowledge of the habits of animals acquired during his frequent excursions into the country.
It is the difference between crude attacks driven at some level by luck and surgically precise attacks driven by intimate knowledge of how an organization works and exploiting that knowledge.
