Qi is a complex concept referring to air or vapour, breath, and the primordial matter-energy constituting everything in the universe; in the practice of yangsheng it retains these connotations while also indicating the energy that animates and sustains living things.
Turns out there were well over two thousand pages of comics available, which did not constitute everything that Manara had ever drawn.
This comes as a clear programme of intent: a mystery will follow, in two discrete halves distributed over two different tapes whose footage will constitute everything we subsesquently see in the film.
According to Sarangi and Roberts [ 43], professional discourse would be constituted by everything professionals do in the day-to-day accomplishment of their responsibilities and tasks.
But "women in clothes are everything" constitutes a whole other message: that the humdrum matter of what fabric we put on our bodies and how we choose to present ourselves every day matters deeply.
You know, it's the whole two step process -- 1. insisting that the White House to do stuff and 2. insisting that the White House proposing everything constitutes something being "rammed down their throats" -- that has led to this Congress' weird state of dysfunction.
It would be unbearably obvious that death is inscribed in everything that constitutes life, that any moment of your existence may be only a breath away from being the last.
"Anatomy," wrote Andreas Vesalius in 1543, "is an important part of natural philosophy; since it embraces the study of man and must properly be regarded as the prime foundation of the whole art of medicine and the source of everything that constitutes it".
And thats what constitutes American authenticity: tasting everything, good and bad, domestic and foreign; learning how it works; trying it out; keeping some of it and letting some go; figuring out how to tell the good from the mediocre, the great from the good.
While there's surely waste in domestic discretionary programs, from agriculture subsidies to the occasional National Science Foundation grant that sounds silly, it also includes education, energy research, transportation and basically everything that constitutes the investment in economic growth that we need far more than we need budget austerity.
