Written 1,250 years after Augustine's death, Bossuet's Discours sur l'histoire universelle (1681; Discourse on Universal History) is imbued throughout with a naïve confidence that the entire course of history owes its pervasive character to the contrivance of a "higher wisdom".
According to Weyl, there exists in the absence of matter a homogeneous metric field, a structural field (Strukturfeld), which has the character of a rest field, and which constitutes an all pervasive background that cannot be eliminated.
For our discussion, the regulatory character of informal labour markets within institutional conditions is especially important because labour market characteristics such as labour market inequality and poverty are pervasive within and between LMICs.
Anyone who has wilted during the dog days of summer will recognize its mood and identify with the characters' pervasive sense of exasperation.
Affected individuals exhibit persistent antisocial behavior and pervasive antisocial character traits, such as irritability, manipulativeness, and lack of remorse [ 2].
"I can't help but feel the whole thing plays into the pervasive idea of trans characters as victims and freaks, destined to be oppressed by a world that doesn't understand them," Tom Hawking wrote on Flavorwire.
At bottom, this issue concerns the apparent inconsistency between the autonomy (or alleged autonomy) of individual human agents, on the one hand, and the ubiquity and pervasive influence of social forms on individual character and behaviour, on the other.
It was a pervasive, invasive type of sales pitch.
No one is completely innocent here (not even an elderly nun), and the pervasive air of moral ambivalence gives the characters depth.
It was a measure of the author's artistic achievement that her pervasive use of irony in respect to characters and events only served to increase the tension and suspense of the fiction.
