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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 42% of 12 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.8/10. [7] Elisabeth Vincentelli in The New York Times criticised the pacing of the film, describing a long flashback sequence that may be designed to provide "emotional weight, but it only creates belly fat". [8]
From the expression "closed captions", the word "caption" has in recent years come to mean a subtitle intended for the deaf or hard-of-hearing, be it "open" or "closed". In British English, "subtitles" usually refers to subtitles for the deaf or hard-of-hearing (SDH); however, the term "SDH" is sometimes used when there is a need to make a ...
Also used in philosophical contexts to mean "repeating in all cases". ad interim (ad int.) for the meantime: As in the term "chargé d'affaires ad interim", denoting a diplomatic officer who acts in place of an ambassador. [5] ad kalendas graecas: at the Greek Calends: i.e., "when pigs fly". Attributed by Suetonius in The Twelve Caesars to ...
The phrase "vade retro" ("go back") is also in Terence's Formio, I, 4, 203. vale: farewell: see also: ave atque vale: valenter volenter: strongly and willingly: Motto of HMS Valorous (L00) vae, puto deus fio: ah, I think I am becoming a god: Last words of Vespasian according to Suetonius in his Twelve Caesars: vae victis: woe to the conquered
The novel is presented as a series of vignettes over a period of about 1500 years, from Ab Urbe Condita 1282 (AD 529) to AUC 2723 (AD 1970). Most of the story-chapters involve Roman politics, either the competition between the Western and Eastern Empires to dominate the other or the violent creation of the Second Roman Republic in about AUC 2603 (AD 1850).
Objective comparison of MPEG-4 codecs 2005 Mar. DivX 5.2.1, DivX 4.12, DivX 3.22, MS MPEG-4 3688 v3, XviD 1.0.3, 3ivx D4 4.5.1, OpenDivX 0.3 Different versions of DivX were also compared. The Xvid results may be erroneous, as deblocking was disabled for it while used for DivX. Subjective Comparison of Modern Video Codecs
The phrase "unto the ages of ages" expresses either the idea of eternity, or an indeterminate number of aeons.The phrase is a translation of the original Koine Greek phrase εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων (eis toùs aionas ton aiṓnōn), which occurs in the original Greek texts of the Christian New Testament (e.g. in Philippians 4:20).
Saint Albert the Great. In scholastic philosophy, the aevum (also called aeviternity) is the temporal mode of existence experienced by angels and by the saints in heaven.In some ways, it is a state that logically lies between the eternity (timelessness) of God and the temporal experience of material beings.