Stu, as the man who most completely embodies ordinary male confusion, is the center of the two films, and Helms is at his frenzied best when he tries to exert logic in the most chaotic situations, and then, giving up, stiffens his back, whirls his arms, and shrieks in frustration.
Drawing a parallel between the constraints that logic exerts upon thought and those that the sense of ought exerts upon ethical action, these thinkers argued that, while human action must answer to an absolute value (the Good), human thought must answer to a regulative value (the True), which imposes the duty of conforming to it.
It was a quintessential Grunwald moment: mining the numbers, working in the shadows, exerting influence with more logic than flair.
At Boundary Park in the rematch footballing logic finally exerted itself and Chasetown were beaten 4-0, but a club with an average crowd of a little over 100 took almost 2,500 fans north for the replay.
As for logic, al-Farabi even exerted a stronger influence over Medieval Jewish philosophy, which was apparently almost like that exerted by the most highly reputed, "official" commentator of Aristotelian logic: Averroes.
Yet such is the hold London has exerted that Alistair, one cold winter's night at the end of 2012, put logic to one side and decided to lay some of those ghosts to rest.
A tumor's encroachment is always terrifying, but teratomas, literally "monster tumors," exert a macabre hold on the imagination because they contain human elements remixed with Frankensteinian logic.
"I think the logic is that incrementally it will make other countries accustomed to China exerting an enhanced degree of authority in that space," said Rory Medcalf of Australia's Lowy Institute.
Say what you like about the feuds of old, they exerted a dynastic thrust that made sense, whereas Leterrier's magic tricks are the foe of logic; for some reason, the scorpions wind up as friendly transport for our heroes, so why battle them in the first place?
The research shows that beavers not only exert their agency on the ecological network in the wetland, but also that their perceptual worlds (umwelt) form part of the logic of governance that guides management decisions.
Chromosomes and genes exert.
