Word: imparted
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...they had invisible springs between them. Getting them to join requires that they approach each other with enough energy to overcome their natural repulsion and smash together. Thus causing large numbers of nuclei to fuse and provide substantial energy requires three conditions: 1) very high temperatures (which impart great velocity to the nuclei), 2) high density (the nuclei crowded together to increase the probability of head-on collisions), and 3) confinement of the high-speed, densely packed nuclei for a long enough time to enable the fusion reaction to occur and to sustain itself...
...next year, she entered the world of golfing polemics, refuting the iconoclastic thesis of two savants of the golf swing, Alister Cochran and John Stobbs. Leslie showed that the surface of the clubface does, in fact, impart more backspin on the ball depending on its roughness...
...when trying to impart lessons, what a poseur Ensor was! Every Christ he painted is trivialized by his narcissistic equation of the suffering God and the rejected artist. It is customary, at least in Belgium, to see Ensor as a man of the people. But Ensor's waterfront lumpenproletariat look just as subhuman as his judges and police officers. As a political artist, he was both strident and unfocused. The Good Judges, 1891, is a curdled parody of Daumier, without the master's swift economy of feeling. It is impossible to tell what Ensor thought about politics, except...
Rowing in one is much like rowing on the Charles but without the upstream sunsets or the rowing-in-wake-of-a-leaking-supertanker effect the Charles sometimes provides. Rusty pipes in the new tanks do however impart a realitic brown tinge to the water on the portside...
Seaver can be forgiven these slight excesses, however, since his purpose is to impart an enthusiasm of discovery like his own to the unfamiliar reader, not to confront him with the airy abstractions like "The Cartesian Centaur," "The Metaphysics of Choiceless Awareness," and of course, "Waiting for Beckett," so favored by critics. Seaver shunts critics aside: "The point to remember is that, with or without exegesis, Beckett is great fun." As usual, Beckett says it better: "If people have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin...