The heat of the 2016 campaign derived from its civilizational intensity, from the conviction among conservatives that America was on a precipice and from liberals that America risked handing a nuclear arsenal, of almost infinite destructive capacity, to a rage-prone reality-television star with no ability to control his own impulses.
Spock represents the supernatural ideal of a completely logical and infallible person, while Kirk represents the impassioned and human reality, prone to error and at odds with himself.
One such limitation involves short interior branches (i.e., fast evolutionary radiations), which may be even more prone to error in reality than predicted by theoretical studies [36].
And Ohio's problems would certainly be easier to solve if, as Luis Proenza, president of the University of Akron put it, the candidates were "more true to reality and less prone to invective".
The dream of the modular smartphone yielding completely customizable consumer handsets always seems far more enticing than the reality of demanding, prone to falling apart prototypes.
Models that ignore this time-dependency cannot reflect reality and are prone to the so-called time-dependent bias, see e.g.[ 4].
She'd thought herself prone to wilt under the smelly reality of human corporality.
All of them dealt with the Spanish Infante, heir to Philip II, who was in reality unstable, violent and prone to harming himself as well as others.
Whether in a story told in a courtroom or at a dinner table, the mind is sometimes prone to blur the distinction between reality and fantasy.
In reality Googlers are as prone to turf wars and office politics as anyone else.None of that makes it into Mr Stross's account, which at times reads like a diligent summary of news articles.
The director, William Wyler, was a hard taskmaster, and Olivier learned to remove what Billington described as "the carapace of theatricality" to which he was prone, replacing it with "a palpable reality".
