Even back then, before the growth of the Internet, tabloid stories of a certain magnitude were capable of taking on a life of their own.
And a tour of the neighbourhood teaches you that when cuts reach a certain magnitude, it's not just services you lose; it's an entire democratic institution.
Nevertheless, for the first time it became possible, in the framework of an equation, to multiply or divide both sides by a certain magnitude.
Writing an autobiography (or, more precisely, co-writing one) is a rite of passage for tennis players who achieve a certain magnitude of celebrity.
One of the problems in applying probabilistic risk assessment to natural disasters is that it is hard to estimate the probability of the "initiating event," like an earthquake of a certain magnitude or a flood of a certain depth.
Mr. Jaczko tried to explain to the House committee that his agency did not require reactors to be designed to meet an earthquake of a certain magnitude, but rather the likely ground-shaking motion at their locations.
Whenever we pick up the work of any of these people, we know without looking that the subject will be important, that something "of certain magnitude" (Aristotle) is at stake.
McWhorter also puts his finger on a core problem: "A difference in thought must be of a certain magnitude before it qualifies realistically as a distinct 'worldview.' " Even if it were true that the participle in English made us a mite more likely to think "actively," differences in ideology and belief overwhelm and obliterate those lexical tints.
And while acting, for stars of a certain magnitude, is often a matter of aura, of simply being themselves, Mr. Pitt has shown a sly understanding of the uses of charisma: some of his most intriguing films ("Fight Club," "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford") are self-reflexive comments on his obvious magnetism.
Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions.
