Besides being technologically complex, it frightened many people with its inherent idea: ringing the planet with thousands of space-borne projectiles, each of which could drop down into the atmosphere to collide with an enemy's missile.
For some, even those momentary events that make up the flow of the world are understood to be empty of inherent existence (the idea of inherent existence is understood differently in different traditions) to the point that what one sees in the enlightenment experience is the ultimate emptiness (sunyata) of all things.
One-upmanship is inherent in the idea of luxury, of course.
Pressing to its logical end the offense of Jesus' great rupture, Miles conveys the paradox inherent in the idea of Messianism itself.
But her death provides a good opportunity to reflect on the possibilities and limitations inherent in the idea of a religious popular music.
Health policy experts said these problems resulted from specific features of the House Republican plan and were not necessarily inherent in the idea of "premium support".
Spagna's book, which interlaces the story of the Timbisha with that of the Mountain Maidu tribe, in northern California, meditates on the contradictions inherent in the idea of "reclamation".
There's something inherent in the idea of a panorama the sweeping, comprehensive view that impels the photographer to seek higher ground: even Eadweard Muybridge's iconic 1878 panorama of San Francisco was taken from the top of Nob Hill.
He says: "These feelings of insubstantiality and inauthenticity that plagued me as an adolescent have been transformed from existential fears into something to be revelled in: a great, bounding game of role playing, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes grave, but never earnest, always with a knowing sense of the absurdity and the fiction inherent in the idea of identity.
For one thing, the determinism inherent in the idea of progress is difficult to maintain.
