"My God," he thinks, "what stories ordinary life devised; not masterpieces to be sure, they were doubtless closer to Venezuelan, Brazilian, Colombian, and Mexican soap operas than to Cervantes and Tolstoy.
The Arthritis Impact Measurement Scale was developed to reflect the WHO definition of health [ 50], and the WHOQOL from the definition of quality of life devised by the WHOQOL group [ 30].
Grandin possessed an awareness that intense fear, born of a hypersensitivity to sound and touch, is common both to autistic people and to animals, and she devoted her life to devising systems to alleviate the anxiety of both groups.
Identifying the effects of oral clefts on long-term healthcare use is particularly important for assessing the healthcare needs of affected individuals throughout life and devising healthcare practices and policies that address these needs.
Care providers and decision makers should consider the heretofore undescribed physical and psychological toll of waiting (and the ramifications with respect to quality and quantity of life) when devising strategies to optimally manage wait lists within publicly funded bariatric programs.
As their teenage kings get on in life, they devise increasingly elaborate backstories, bizarre by-laws and resplendent uniforms.
Each time she is forced back to life, she devises a more hilarious (and calamitous) way to die.
But when Scott plunges into the existential void, choosing to shrink to the subatomic level — a maneuver that may cost him his life — Reed devises a phantasmagorical visual correlate for that heroic leap, a repertory of images that suggest inner realms of infinitesimal adventure far more thrilling than the extravagantly large-scale ones that usually drub viewers into submission.
Ms. Jaarsma, who recently has begun exploring the military and its dominance in life here, devised a piece that places a human model wearing a canvas military-style uniform beside a canvas tent kitted out with toothpaste, soap and other needs of a refugee.
In this most political period of her life, Elizabeth devised ploys to gain financial, moral, and military support for the Palatine cause, frequently in direct opposition to her brother Charles I's wishes and demands.
