When consciousness is unawares transferred from great things to small," the "liberated nerve force" will expend itself along channels of least resistance the bodily movements of laughter.
"So for evolutionary reasons, for a hive to expend the energy to defend itself, there has to be a clear or present danger," Mr. Emmons said.
What propelled them to the streets was the long, slow burn of accumulated grievance, and there is little reason to believe that their fury has so swiftly expended itself.
As the distance between flowers increases, the bee has to expend considerably more energy in both reheating itself and fuelling the longer flights.
Dickens used to act it out at his public readings, with frightening relish, but the screen of 1948, unlike that of today, could not show brains or cudgel blows; instead, we get a shot of Sikes's dog scrabbling at the doorway, crazy to leave the room, as his master's rage expends itself, heard but unseen, on the defenseless woman.
While the markets obsess about our debt, this is the true obstacle hampering Spain's recovery (and the main cause of the debt itself, as the state has to expend in benefits for the jobless).
"But I think the first public dollars we ought to expend is to take a look at the technology itself to see if adaptation can be made".
Technically, what I wrote was published on newyorker.com, not in the great magazine itself, where space is too valuable to expend on close analyses of radiocon conneries.
"These are considered to be expendable, but you don't want to expend this many".
It may be that the thermodynamic law of entropy has... caught up with the Soviet system, which now seems to expend more energy on simply maintaining its equilibrium than on improving itself.
