"Here we have to knock along as best we may without the faintest element of corruption – not a hint of decay, not a breath of Leon Bakst; on the contrary, Christmas cards, Morris dances, children's prattle, woolwork, goodwill and so forth – all that was ever joyous and clear and fresh".
For H II regions that are bright enough for the faint heavy-element recombination lines to be measured, the carbon, nitrogen, neon, and oxygen abundances from recombination lines are uniformly about 1.8 times those from the collisionally excited lines.
As in the case of H II regions, planetary nebulae show discrepancies between the determinations of abundances of heavy elements from faint recombination lines as opposed to those determined from collisionally excited lines, but in a much more severe form.
The delicate pencil markings have become faint, but, in their faintness, Webb's exacting geometry and manipulation of formal representational elements radiate.
His triumphant procession did have elements of farce: people fainted, women rushed out of beauty parlors with towels over their wet hair, and doctors, their stethoscopes swinging from their necks, left their patients just to catch a glimpse of him.
The "erotic" element is especially not for the faint of heart; few shows on television are so sexually explicit, but the matter-of-factness of the sex fits perfectly within the world of brazen political corruption.
Ordinary matter accounts for less than 5% of the cosmic ingredients, according to studies of elements formed in the big bang and faint fluctuations in the big bang's radiation.
The team claimed to detect a faint X-ray signal at a wavelength produced by element 43.
In contrast, amplification of sequences spanning the putative upstream initiator element or intronic regions gave rise to faint bands.
The New Republic's Noam Scheiber writes about the Romney-campaign adviStuart Stevensvens: The story has all the elements of a classic Stevens tale: exotic scenery, surly natives, a faint whiff of violence, and, of course, a slightly preposterous hero.
