The history of the Mongolian language, both spoken and written, consists of three periods.
"The genius of 'Hamlet,' " Mr. Kott wrote, "consists in the fact that the play can serve as a mirror.
Every TV column I ever wrote consists of me trying and failing to write anything as explosively funny as that, for 650 words.
Most of the orchestral music Handel wrote consists of overtures, often in the style of Lully, and totaling about 80 in number.
"Style," Stendhal wrote, "consists in adding to a given thought all the circumstances calculated to produce the whole effect that the thought ought to produce".
"The real act of discovery," French novelist Marcel Proust wrote, "consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes". Today the most successful companies don't just outcompete their rivals.
The fallacy, he has written, consists in turning "a blind eye on the morally or politically dubious aspects of serious music," as if "the only legitimate object of praise or censure in art" is whether it's good or not.
"The strategy of seduction", Baudrillard writes, "consists of drawing the other within your area of weakness, which is also his or hers".
" 'Streamers'... came out in three periods of writing consisting of four or five hours at each sitting, but these sittings were spread out over seven years".
These markings are thought to constitute a logographic form of writing consisting of some 1,200 different characters representing numerals, names, and such material objects as cloth and cow.
