Sentence examples for chimaera from inspiring English sources

Slowly, themes of possession and identity begin to coalesce as both Olive and Odelle pursue the chimaera of "pure" creativity, a space in which to express their gift free from the toils of obligation and self-consciousness.

The difference between these two types of being is illustrated by the distinction between two types of inference: from 'A man is an animal', in which the composition involved is a being in the absolute sense, it follows 'Therefore a man is', but from 'A chimaera is a non-being', in which the composition is a being in a certain sense only, it does not follow 'Therefore a chimaera is'.

Chimaera, also spelled chimera, also called ghost shark, any of numerous cartilaginous fishes distantly related to sharks and rays in the class Chondrichthyes but separated from them as the subclass (or sometimes class) Holocephali.

Check out the bizarre Chimaera, natural flames that burst from the earth in the hills behind town.

Hike the 5km to Chimaera (Yanartas, or "burning flame" in Turkish) where methane emissions from the earth cause natural fires.

With Mount Tahtali at one end and the ruined city of Olympos at the other, Ciralı is most famous for the Chimaera, a continuous flame that billows out of rocks above.

Three techniques, actual or possible, preoccupy him: selective screening of newly fertilised eggs for birth defects, germ-line engineering (which passes genetic corrections into the next generation) and the making of animal-human chimaeras.

Ichthyologists commonly although not unanimously emphasize these similarities by grouping the modern and ancient sharks, rays, and chimaeras in the class Chondrichthyes, the cartilaginous fishes.

Some authorities classify the elasmobranchs into one class (Selachii) and classify the chimaeras into another (Holocephali); however, assigning the two groups class rank implies a degree of distinctness equal to that of the amphibians (Amphibia), reptiles (Reptilia), birds (Aves), and mammals (Mammalia).

An authoritative opinion as to how sharks, rays, and chimaeras should be grouped can be reached only from a comprehensive critical review of all available pertinent living and fossil material.

The chimaeras (Holocephali) bear many similarities to sharks and rays in skeletal structure, internal organs, and physiology.