I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.
I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.
I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.
Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.
Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.
I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
I'm the kind of guy who'll go to a courthouse and get married, but for women, it's different. It means a lot to them.
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.
I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.
War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades.
