As others have noted, the flourishes of these theories Satanic rituals performed on child victims by depraved cabals, cryptic symbols signaling dark intent or links to the occult, and secret tunnels under ordinary businesses used to abet villainy actually connect them to a discrete, centuries-old lineage of satanic, or occultic, panics.
This strategy allows for explicit comparisons between assemblage changes during the 20th century and discrete earlier intervals.
The proof, presented last month at the Turán Workshop in Mathematics, Convex and Discrete Geometry in Budapest, ends centuries of speculation--and confirms the intuition of human engineers, who use honeycombed materials to produce light but strong panels for cars, planes, and spacecraft.
Behind the throne moves his discrete adviser Al Haymon, a 21st-century Iago or Thomas Cromwell, according to taste.
They are accustomed to thinking of modernism as a discrete historical chapter, a 20th-century period style to be revisited from time to time as a form of retro taste.
The past twenty years or so have seen a revolution in the perception of mitochondria, from the discrete bioenergetic organelles of 20th-century textbooks to a network undergoing constant fission and fusion regulated by cellular needs and physiological state, engaging with other membrane systems, and signalling to the machinery of the cytoplasm the metabolic status of the cell.
Sephardic Jewry suddenly encountered a discrete, mature, Jewish culture that for centuries had been developing independently and along quite different lines.
Analysis and interpretation is complicated by the fact that the idea of both "Scots" and of "Scotland" as a discrete entity did not emerge until centuries later.
The low lighting, lush green walls and discrete, silent rooms with pictures of 17th-century Dutch cityscapes transport you to another time and place, though when and where exactly is sometimes difficult to say.
In medieval times in Europe and as late as the end of the 17th century, the finding of such discrete areas of anesthesia on the body of a person was considered proof that the person was a witch.
Afghanistan became a discrete political entity only in the mid-eighteenth century, and there is a history of military incursion and adventurism.
