Sentence examples for recurrence the idea from inspiring English sources

Nietzsche ended up by going mad.... Nietzsche's larger philosophical ideas are barely worthy of the name -- whether he's talking about supermen, eternal recurrence (the idea that we live our lives again and again throughout eternity), or the sole purpose of civilization (to produce "great men" such as Goethe, Napoleon and himself).

It is as if Mitchell were suggesting the transmigration of souls across space-time and storyline, and stressing one of his favourite themes, the Nietzschean notion of eternal recurrence – or, better, the idea that our souls are bound on a karmic wheel.

After a brief outline of the theory of recurrences, the basic idea of the recurrence plot with its variations is presented.

The relatively low number of in field recurrences (six patients) supports the idea that concurrent TRT, with a reduced overall treatment time, has advantages over sequential TRT for loco-regional tumour control and is safe.

Interestingly, the idea of using recurrence times dates back to Poincaré (1890).

This study adds weight to the idea that recurrence following treatment of DCIS represents re-growth of residual disease.

Central to Mitchell's novel, Hemon writes, is the idea of eternal recurrence.

The intellectual engines of Priest's banjaxing story are the many-worlds hypothesis and the idea of eternal recurrence.

In effect they took what is a relatively minor motif in the novel — the idea of eternal recurrence — and turned it into a major one.

It was on the day before they left Costa Rica that they had a breakthrough: they could convey the idea of eternal recurrence, which was so central to the novel, by having the same actors appear in multiple story lines — "playing souls, not characters," in Tykwer's words.

In antiquity the idea of cyclic recurrence predominated, and even 18th-century Christians believed that the world had been created in 4004 bce and would end in the Second Coming of Christ.