For the troubadour Jaufré Rudel we needed the ideal romantic lover, a figure of enormous, almost Wagnerian introspection and reflective power, whose internal crises are deep and powerful enough to motivate the harrowing orchestral climaxes.
The recent breakthrough by the team, working at the G.E. lab in Niskayuna, N.Y., north of Albany, was a 200-fold increase in the reflective power of their holograms, putting them at the bottom range of light reflections readable by current Blu-ray machines.
More importantly, to use art like this totally undermines its transformative and reflective power.
Harvey Whitehouse, an anthropologist who studies painful rituals, calls it the reflective power of dysphoric experience.
These explorations were buttressed by a remarkable reflective power and intellectual rigour, a metaphysical capacity par excellence.
Even if Merkel's Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats manage to shore up power domestically, the new dynamics of power on the continent are likely to test what the foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has called Germany's "reflective power".
With a loss of sea ice and ice shelves, reduced albedo, or reflective power, causes a change in the absorption of heat and carbon dioxide, which means more warming.
The breakthrough involved a 200-fold increase in the reflective power of the holograms, which puts the optical media nearly in the readable range of Blu-ray drives and one step closer to holding a crapton of data.
North's first four-try haul of his senior career was more than they needed in a contest between league leaders that reflected their reflective purchasing power more than standings.
