Last year in these pages, David Quammen said, "Flannery synthesizes a vast range of scientific studies and a decent selection of historical and cultural writings, leavening those with his own forceful ideas".
In "The Eternal Frontier" Flannery synthesizes a vast range of scientific studies and a decent selection of historical and cultural writings, leavening those with his own forceful ideas and a modest acquaintance with the landscape, in order to explain America, in the largest sense, to Americans -- and to everyone else.
Reid's point is that Hume's account of memory entails that the person who is able to both bring about an impression and then, sometime later, a somewhat less forceful impression or idea (say, by literally hitting his head against a wall, once hard enough to really hurt, once not so hard), thereby remembers the first.
They may, for example, go along with a forceful boss's ideas rather than proposing another way that might be challenged by others.
Stories were particularly forceful in conveying ideas.
(Mars told me it is currently in talks). And Hollenberg has been forceful in pushing the idea of selling cocoa as a functional food.
Mr Bush has been a forceful proponent of the idea, but talks have repeatedly stalled, with opponents fearful it would allow corporations to dominate the poor.
My Lib Dem colleagues have been very forceful in promoting the idea that we should be giving more priority to mental health as an issue.
I could only scratch the surface of the archives, but every folder I opened had something alive in it — a blast of criticism, a burst of humor, an odd phrase, a gripe, an idea, a forceful opinion.
I could only scratch the surface of the archives, but every folder I opened had something alive in it a blast of criticism, a burst of humor, an odd phrase, a gripe, an idea, a forceful opinion.
