She leaps from an architectural monument to a phallocentric world.
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In this way one goes up the scale gradually instead of in leaps as in the centesimal scale.
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Options are appraised, rejected or developed, employing simultaneously retrospective and predictive leaps of the imagination.
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As we correlate the drawings with the model, the scale continually leaps in our imaginations, and we feel teased by the artists.
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There are indeed relatively giant leaps between the observations made and the conclusion that is deduced.
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Meanwhile, rates of resource exploitation and consumption leaped ahead even faster than population growth as the industrial model of development was adopted around the world.
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He argues that it was the evolution of cerebral connectivity that allowed for the huge leaps forward.
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The basic dimension, then, would be temporal, and experience would be an orderly ensemble of phenomenal leaps and bounds, a time line.
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The sand leaps in little spurts and whirls.
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By numbering the sequence we can follow the reader wandering through the picture and see changes of direction, leaps cross space, and so on.
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A chronological examination of familiar and more neglected scores demonstrates that this evolution proceeded in a series of related progressive stages instead of sudden leaps.
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Both this and the cabaletta have a jagged melodic contour, alternating stepwise motion with leaps from chest to head register.
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At times the lack of synchrony in such leaps and bounds is very apparent.
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Attention should also be drawn to combinations of leaps.
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He proposed energy shells where electrons didn't radiate, particular values of angular momentum and quantum leaps.
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Collocationswithleap
leap
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big leap
A rule assigning extrametricality only in clash is therefore abigleapin expressive power, and this ought to encourage scepticism.
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dramatic leap
It is not something in which we can make a dramatic leap forward.
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enormous leap
We are not faced with food shortages that require us to take thatenormousleapof faith.
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