His voice came in a swallowed whisper and his finger waggled as it pointed toward his younger self, his self preserved on videotape: twenty-two years old, getting warm in his corner, his gloved hands dangling at his hips.
But a book like "Migration," over 500 pages in length, suggests instead an exquisite self preserved at mounting cost, an "open" style shuttered against the punishing weather of being a modern person.
Residence chamber experiments show that with sufficient time the quenched soot sample evolves from the lognormal shape found in the flame to the expected self preserving distribution.
Electrical mobility measurements of the soot particles generated in rich premixed ethylene/air flat flames reveal a characteristic lognormal size distribution that is distinct from the self preserving distribution expected from coagulation dominated aerosol dynamics.
The size distributions begin as a single mode of precursor nanoparticles, evolve through a bimodal phase marking the onset of aggregate formation, and end in a self preserving mode of fractal-like particles.
Because of its many failures, the administration has made me suspect that it manipulates the terrorist threat to further its own self-preserving ends.
But Rogers found that these "untamed and unsocial feelings are neither the deepest nor the strongest, and that the inner core of man's personality is the organism itself, which is essentially both self-preserving and social".
As humans, it is in our nature to want to play it safe and to self-preserve.
In the situation where you are not able to escape a drunken date, self-preserve.
The author argued that foreign policy helps a people preserve itself; self-preservation requires war.
I voted to honor my neighbor, my family and self to preserve our integrity as human beings.
