Word: method
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Couldn't some method be used for converting those millions of tons of feces per day to usable energy? We could supply the world with our own breed of PETroleum...
...developed their own creeds to reinforce its teachings, their insistence that each individual read the Bible for himself set the stage for the rise of radical new ideas that they would have abhorred. In the 17th century the Dutch Philosopher Baruch ("Benedict") Spinoza, an excommunicated Jew, used a method that would be widely emulated by rationalist critics during the Enlightenment: he treated the Bible as a human rather than divine work and thus subject to investigation of its books according to date, authorship, composition and setting...
Brown combines a progressive approach to method and analysis of the Gospels with a careful attention to conserving some essence of fact. One telling example, in his widely used Anchor Bible commentary on John, is his treatment of the account of Jesus' raising of Lazarus. The miracle is a vivid incident, placed at the very end of Christ's ministry by the evangelist and cited as the reason for Jesus' arrest and execution...
...best known for his interpretations-some would say distortions-of Stanislavsky's precepts, practiced most intensely at the Actors Studio in New York City and called casually the Method. Those for whom the Studio and the Method are synonyms of indulgence will be surprised by Strasberg's thorough, precise approach to his role. "A lot of actors, every time you shoot another take of a scene, they do the same action differently," says Francis Coppola. "Not Lee. He always did the same thing. He told me, 'You break your leg, you always break it the same...
...merger followed public hearings held to determine the best method of providing health care for the Boston area. King said this is one of the first times that the needs of the community have been considered before a pending merger was approved...