Ed Miliband was a somewhat evangelical secretary of state for energy and climate change, whose first speech as Labour leader examined the notion of "life beyond the bottom line".
After a brief period of anarchy, the notion of a line director emerged.
Kevin is an entrepreneurial weirdo who comes up with the notion of a line of products whose colors are identified in commercials by the slang words for bodily fluids and excretions.
Furthermore, Shīʾite teaching openly embraces an eschatology that is "this-worldly" (i.e., millennial and messianic), and, although Sunnite theology tends to downplay millennialism, it does promote the notion of a line of messianic emperors.
This suggests that Xenocrates might have thought he could do with the notion of a line what Aristotle was prepared to do with notions such as man.
Xenocrates may have thought the notion of a line could be made to work in the same way: beyond a certain point, divisions will no longer yield lines.
Iain Sinclair's early poetry, especially the 1975 book Lud Heat, explicitly centres on the notion of ley lines under the urban landscape of London, complete with maps.
I was aware that it was an Arnoldian trick he was playing, for I had – only the previous week – offered him an essay attacking Arnold's notion of "touchstones" – lines of poetry that, according to Arnold, were in themselves enough "to keep clear and sound our judgments about poetry".
This notion of design lines up with the most recent scholarship on creativity, which Scott Klemmer, cofounder and director of the Design Lab at UC San Diego, summed up as, "You need to know the things that you need to know to solve the problem.
They developed a powerful and intuitive generalization of the notion of a "straight line" for non-Euclidean geometries: a line that is precisely as straight as the space it traverses will accommodate.
