Instead, all directions are given in terms of where the speaker is standing in relation to the points of the compass.
By bringing scents of a Latin American culture more fitful, pop-savvy and suspicious of earthy machismo than that which it succeeds, Bolaño has been taken as a kind of reset button on our deplorably sporadic appetite for international writing, standing in relation to the generation of García Márquez, Vargas Llosa and Fuentes as, say, David Foster Wallace does to Mailer, Updike and Roth.
What if the graph itself is unmoored, if you no longer know where you're standing in relation to it?' " William's slippage begins when, after a few drinks, he sleeps with a married woman he meets at a trade show dedicated to decks and porches — and accelerates after she moves to his neighborhood, and he punches his boss.
Among the people inside the ropes during Rock's first two rounds — a group that included his caddie, his two playing partners and their caddies, the volunteer scorer, the two honorary observers and the young man carrying the sign with the players' standing in relation to par — Rock was the only one not wearing any head covering.
Something's deeply wrong about the way you're cupping the boy's mouth in relation to the way he (the boy) is standing, in relation to the way you are looming behind him, in relation to the sheen of his terrified face, in relation to that cry I heard out in the hallway, which was so loud and shrill it penetrated the door and reached my ears.
In addition to these properties that they share with the atoms that compose them, they have other properties such as colors, smells, tastes that they get by standing in relation to perceivers.
States consist simply of objects having properties or standing in relations to other objects.
In McTaggart's early paper, "The Further Determination of the Absolute", McTaggart argues that if the absolute has features, then it must have parts standing in relations to one another.
This is so because of his sense-datum theory, according to which what is immediately present to us, i.e., what we are acquainted with when we are acquainted with particulars, are just sense-data and not objects in the sense of individual things with qualities standing in relations to each other.
One example discussed by Hawthorne 2001 is the property of standing in relation R to something, where R is a perfectly natural relation a thing can stand in to itself and to things wholly distinct from it.
The large amount of diffusion and diffraction would have also lead to good sound quality regardless of where the listener was standing in relation the source of sound within the structure.
