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Observer, a good theoriser makes a good.

Now that Kittler is dead, Virilio is the chief theoriser of the techno-naysayers.

After this strong expression of opinion, it may appear somewhat strange that such a bold theoriser should at once have set himself to construct the largest gas balloon on record.

It seemed to me I had aspired too high and thought too far, had mocked my own littleness by presumption, had given the uttermost dear reality of life for a theoriser's dream.

One theoriser, Seville Chapman, put forward the idea that a fielder used trigonometry without realising what he was doing, making unconscious calculations from the rate at which the tangent of the angle of the elevation of the ball changes.

But he was also a daring theorizer who preferred the big, brazen formulation to the modest one.

A main theorizer of these ideas was Bonanno and his publication Anarchismo.

Finally, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux became the theorizer of poetic classicism.

He's a disher, not a theorizer, a juggler of random, prurient, rehashed and possibly apocryphal anecdotes.

Orton himself, not known as a theorizer, said his comedy "Loot" "takes a farcical view of things normally treated as tragic."

Of the original circle of founders of Gestalt therapy, Mr. From was a main theorizer.

He was a fiery virtuoso and serene recluse, intuitive Italian and learned German, upholder of long tradition and theorizer of radical departure.

Being a casual observer, postulater and theorizer trying to talk shop with staunch scientists is like being an inquisitive schoolyard kid questioning a nun with a ruler.

Many of the Gettysburg authors perform massive amounts of labor in primary sources (putting many an academic theorizer to shame) but combine their hard labor with an inability to see the larger picture and the larger meanings.

Tim Parker, a planetary geologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who was an early Mars ocean theorizer, said the new evidence, already widely discussed among scientists, was proving to be widely persuasive.

H. Bentley Glass, a biologist who in the 1950's and 60's led a ubiquitous career as writer, scientific policy maker and theorizer, with provocative and often prescient predictions about still-burning issues like genetics and nuclear war, died on Sunday in Boulder, Colo.

It is all too easy to read right past the reference to "Darwinian truths" without recognizing that the reference is not to Darwin, the theorizer of evolutionary processes, but rather to Herbert Spencer's thoroughly discredited and bastardized adaptation, "Social Darwinism."

Her most important scholarly and theoretical work is generally considered to be the recent The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft, which synthesized her previous writing about movies, film, and television, and her long experience as a theorizer of forms of visual experience.

Called by Vollenhoven the Consequent Problem-Historical Method (CPHM), the approach proved fascinating to Tol, who became one of its prime users in his own philosophical research and a theorizer of the development of the philosophical movement which had given it birth.

Paraguayans of Latin and Guarani Indian stock long ago intermarried with most of the descendants of the German colonists who settled this place in 1887, led by Bernhard Forster, a racist theorizer, and his wife, Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche, sister of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.