I'm continually disappointed in new releases that lack edge, originality, and a definitive point of view.
Every so often comes an inquiry or an account that shapes what a whole society knows about an entire subject: examples range from Edwin Chadwick's research on Victorian factory conditions to Alfred Kinsey's work on human sexuality and the BBC's fly-on-the-wall documentary series on the Royal Opera - each a definitive reference point in its way and time.
For the now-disgraced former president Park, who entered office in 2013 claiming to govern for all Koreans and who in the 1970s had to adjust to the trauma of seeing both her parents assassinated, the court ruling is surely the definitive end point in a political life marked by tragedy and acute personal disappointment.
He told Congress this past week that "there are significant elements of movement forward in many areas, but I do not yet see a definitive turning point in either direction". Last month was the deadliest of the war for international forces: 103 coalition troops were killed, despite the infusion of tens of thousands of new U.S. troops.
"All the definitive points they were making in the ads got slightly watered down," the ad-team member says.
Even in our digital age, architects generally prefer drawings, which direct your attention to edges and intersections, to seemingly decisive lines and seemingly definitive points.
While Mr. Kapadia avoids definitive finger-pointing in "Amy," there is enough blame — and guilt — to go around, with Ms. Winehouse's ex-husband, management team and the gossip-mongering public all indicted to varying degrees.
Although a fluorescing vial likely reveals the presence of cancer, it's not a definitive diagnosis at this point in the development of the technique, Gambhir said.
It is difficult to make any definitive predictions at this point in time regarding the depth of a renewed Japanese recession, or the ultimate cost of rebuilding, but Barclay's Capital estimates that damage from the disaster could equal up to 3% of Japan's GDP (US$125-200125-200n), since the areas hardest hit by the disaster accounted for 6-76-7% Japanese GDP.
Although controversy remains over the potential use of proteinuria as a surrogate end point in definitive Phase III clinical trials, proteinuria is an ideal marker for use as an intermediate outcome in earlier phase trials.
