Rather, the spirit of Bhutanese Buddhism is captured by the ideal of lamas (spiritual leaders), who by the practice of meditative disciplines have attained siddha (perfection, miraculous powers) but otherwise remain inconspicuous in everyday life.
Anton Chekhov, the most prominent Russian dramatist of the period, wrote plays about the humdrum life of inconspicuous, sensitive people (Uncle Vanya, 1897; The Three Sisters, 1901; and The Cherry Orchard, 1904, are typical), whose lives fall prey to the hollowness and tedium of a disintegrating social order.
As I walked out in the summer heat, past the elegant young mothers and the happy children playing in the wading pools of a courtyard installation at P.S. 1, I felt as renewed as my dress, envisioning a more streamlined closet without ruthless pillage, a life of inconspicuous consumption and an end to the dreaded New York weekend decision: shopping or art.
He was trained, he said, in how to handle his personal life in an inconspicuous manner that would not raise suspicions.
Furthermore, the lack of basic information about their life histories of inconspicuous species makes planning for conservation yet more difficult [ 2].
Throughout his career, Mr. Redlich exerted an important but inconspicuous influence in many areas of public life, frequently serving as playmaker to other people's star.
Now a retired 68-year-old, the first four decades of his life seem to have been fairly inconspicuous.
Until they are able to establish their own territories, young eagle-owls spend their life as nomadic "floaters" and, while they also call, select inconspicuous perch sites unlike breeding birds.
Presence of these pieces of the conserved meiotic machinery indicates that meiosis is indeed part of the life cycle of O. marina, although probably in a very inconspicuous way.
But whose life do we mean — that of the entire race or that of the inconspicuous fragment of it each of us calls "myself"?
