Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.
The lady. . . is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.
It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.
When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.
But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
Writing should. . . be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent. . . and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger
The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.
So I was beginning my new life as a anomaly, which figured about as much as it sucked.
The inner climate stamps each individual with its character. Every life-form has its own individual anomaly point of health, which makes the orderly reproduction of the species possible. This also explains why the world of parasites increases with fever.
The key is to let computers do what they are good at, which is trawling these massive data sets for something that is mathematically odd. And that makes it easier for humans to do what they are good at - explaining those anomalies.
If the theory accurately predicts what they [scientists] see, it confirms that it's a good theory. If they see something that the theory didn't lead them to believe, that's what Thomas Kuhn calls an anomaly. The anomaly requires a revised theory - and you just keep going through the cycle, making a better theory.
Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!
As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.
Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.
Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map.
The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.
