All examples are drawn from actual recent estate-agent "literature".
With few exceptions, the modern examples are drawn from the world of high fashion.
Other examples are drawn from official reports that list patients anonymously: "A – aged 9. Day after marriage.
A weakness of Democracy for Realists is that most of its examples are drawn from the US, and most of those are old.
It is no accident that most of his examples are drawn from Molière, in whose work the farcical element is strong, and from the farces of Bergson's own contemporary Eugène-Marin Labiche.
Longinus's analysis is attentive both to the impact of the sublime on the reader and to the role of thought, emotion and details of language in producing the sublime; his examples are drawn from a striking range of genres and texts, including Homeric epic, Plato's dialogues, Sappho's lyric poetry and the book of Genesis.
Bruce Hoffman, director of RAND's Washington office and a terrorism analyst, said that although Sir John analyzed the role of intelligence in countering Al Qaeda, most of his examples were drawn from 18th- to 20th-century wars rather than 21st-century conflicts.
His examples are drawn from a wide array of sources: Albanian, ancient Hebrew, film dubbing and graphic novels, legal documents (huge amounts of translation required) and the Septuagint, the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.All of this is conducted in an appealingly jaunty style.
Indeed, he believes that natural selection might even actively maintain some species that look vaguely like a lot of different nasty things, rather than exactly like a specific one.His examples are drawn from hoverflies, which mimic bees and wasps, and salticid spiders, which mimic ants.
