It provides a sort of bathos: the grandest expression of Englishness is used to describe the goings on of a group of drifters.
But the grandest expression of it was Project Xanadu, launched in 1960 by the American philosopher Ted Nelson, who imagined – and started to build – a vast repository for every piece of writing in existence, with everything connected to everything else according to a principle he called "transclusion".
The grandest expression of ethical virtue requires great political power, because it is the political leader who is in a position to do the greatest amount of good for the community.
I often spend a seeming eternity racked by indecision, striding back and forth between the potato and sweet potato display (a slightly grand expression for a pile of root veg, maybe, but in itself presenting its own problem of choice); and the chilled cabinet where the ungenerous tubs of pre-grated cheddar and (presumably tinned) tuna are kept.
But many years and many revisions later, his little travel pieces had alchemized into a grand expression of his art: three suites for solo piano that he called "Années de Pèlerinage" ("Years of Pilgrimage"), the first based on Switzerland, the second on Italian art and poetry, and the third on introspective, spiritual concerns.
Instead, we are sensing the grand expression of our soul.
A year and a half later, we got hitched, and in the process learned that few events in one's life require as much curatorial thought, judgment, negotiation, potential for embarrassment and opportunity for grand expression as a wedding.
You may be aware that many US rail stations are grand expressions of generous respect to their users, full of stately perpendiculars, handy benches and lots of gold leaf – high-ceilinged temples to mass transit and the communal hopes of a bygone age.
Especially in its grandest, most monumental expression — the eerie, somnolent statues of the gods and of the pharaohs who were their earthly junior-god emissaries — Egypt offers us the sleekest, longest-running style in the history of art.
Thus, the standardised matrix is S = D r -1/2 (1/n X – rc T) D c -1/2, where n is the grand total of expression data, D r and D c are the diagonal matrices of r and c, respectively.
For each run performed with a different sample size, the change in grand mean of expression (i.e., mean expression of all IMAGE clones) as well as the number of differentially expressed IMAGE clones were plotted with respect to the increasing number of iterations.
