That has the dual effect of blunting your message and blurring your image while emboldening the objects of your favors to demand even more.
While Ms. Ziska, who lives in Lake City, Wash., and works at a center for the elderly, said she was impressed with the system, it took a while for the object of all the attention to come around.
Reid claims that while, necessarily, the object of memory is in the past at the time it is remembered, nevertheless "the remembrance of it is a particular act of the mind which now exists, and of which we are conscious".
The words of the new version went: "See him in the House of Commons / Making laws to put the blame / While the object of his passion / Walks the streets to hide her shame".
Mr. VanDeMark writes, for example, of a meeting at Princeton University between the scientists Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller at which "Oppenheimer and Teller eyed each other warily, while the object of their unstated but unmistakable competition sat silently between them".
In "The Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller," published in the fall of 2002 by Holt, the historian Gregg Herken described how "Teller and Oppenheimer eyed each other like rival suitors, while the object of their attention sat silent between them".
Hughes Jones is an ardent, tremendously plausible suitor – played as an older man than usual, which makes Sachs's unrequited passion for Eva the more touching – while the object of their affections, Rachel Nicholls, gains in assurance as the evening goes on, and launches the third-act quintet with exactly the quiet intensity it needs.
And, second, the act of knowledge depends on its object while the object of knowledge does not depend on the subject's knowledge of it.
These experts also presumed that while the object of a cancer-education campaign was to dispel fear, education itself, if incorrectly undertaken, might spread fear instead.
