Sentence examples for grander pattern from inspiring English sources

This theory was given something of a boost in 1975, when the Chinese claimed to have predicted a big earthquake in Haicheng on the basis of earth movements beforehand.In addition to the idea that earthquakes might give a few hours' notice of their arrival, there was also a feeling that, in some places at least, a grander pattern was detectable, and that earthquakes came in regular cycles.

Somehow, out of anecdotes about Andy Warhol, Friedrich von Hayek, Jascha Heifetz and Linus Pauling, out of free-floating riffs, vaudevillian jokes, recollections, citations, arguments and patient explanations, out of the excited explosions of example and counterexample, associations develop, mental terrain is reordered, and ever grander patterns emerge.

Mr. Kaula (rhymes with Paula) solved the problem of translating those subtle changes into a grand pattern of structure, revealing that over all, Earth is an oblate spheroid with irregular bulges and depressions that cover vast areas of its surface.

But as Woese and other phylogeneticists revived Darwin's grand pattern of a great tree, they treated it not only as a general representation of the total evolutionary history of life, but also as a tool with which to probe heuristically further molecular data.

Mr. Wright wanted Spore to communicate some of the grand patterns of evolution.

Brac's restrained humor and quiet empathy are woven from strong yet slender threads linking Sylvain to his neighbors, such as chatty café owners and bakers; mysteries of love and grand patterns of life seem to arise from deeply sedimented traditions, long-unquestioned customs, and the overwhelming influence of landscape and weather.

We could never have put together these grand patterns without lidar".

My most recent book is the colouring book Snowflake Seashell Star, which is out this week in the US with the grander title, Patterns of the Universe.

Former prosecutors said that the process of presenting possible charges to a grand jury followed a pattern in which grand jurors, without the prosecution team present, voted on whether to return an indictment.

Forming an efficient feature space for classification problems is a grand challenge in pattern recognition.

For the next quarter-century, beginning with "A Question of Upbringing" in 1951 and concluding with "Hearing Secret Harmonies" in 1975, Mr. Powell worked on this grand project, its underlying pattern ruled by what he called "the inexorable law of coincidence".