Spearman is a fictitious character, the hero of a series of murder mysteries written by Marshall Jevons. |
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And the trouble is that there does not seem to be any impartial source that can explain these mysteries to me, without having a personal agenda! |
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Contrary to public perceptions, science can help understand and explain the mysteries of emotion. |
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They rag each other endlessly about race and all its permutations, yet two men couldn't be more bonded together than they are in these mysteries. |
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Still, a great lead performance and some dazzling visuals will please fans of old-fashioned murder mysteries. |
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Thrillers, mysteries and crime novels are perennial favorites for summertime reading. |
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If you enjoy police dramas or murder mysteries, chances are you will enjoy this. |
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Meanwhile, Emerson says he's amused by the number of people who tell him they think writing mysteries and thrillers must be a very exciting job. |
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Someone who has knowledge of religious or spiritual mysteries is sometimes called a hierophant. |
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With folded hands, Ashoka begged enlightenment and initiation into the mysteries of the Dharma of Samudra. |
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Egyptian mystery religion is basically Greco-Roman mysteries, a series of initiation rites. |
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Because scholars knew Greek, they were able to use the Rosetta Stone to unlock the mysteries of the ancient Egyptian language. |
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For him language is musical, felicitous, comical, flippant, suggestive, buoyant weaponry and adumbrative of mysteries beyond us. |
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When they leave school many go to the factory or workshop and become initiated into the mysteries of betting and other evils. |
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If they had not used such words, how then could we have learnt of these ineffable mysteries? |
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This book is recommended to almost anyone, but mostly to those who like murder mysteries. |
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Those initiated into the satanic mysteries were all given some sort of physical mark, such as a claw mark under the left eye. |
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This was the institution of mysteries, with hierophants and torch-bearers complete. |
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Massaquoit's special knowledge of Indian culture and local woodcraft are crucial to solving the three mysteries. |
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There we all were, craning our white-hatted heads in close to watch while our teacher explained the mysteries of making sausages. |
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Newton devoted long years of research to the ancient mysteries of alchemy and how base metals could be turned into gold. |
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I was hoping today to write about quantum gravity, after once and for all explaining the mysteries of quantum mechanics in the previous post. |
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David Newble attempts to unravel the mysteries behind local government finance. |
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Later on, great reflecting telescopes were used to probe the mysteries of the Universe. |
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It is, I think, true to say that many practising accountants no longer try to unravel the mysteries of the legislation by reading its provisions. |
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Without the use of Einstein's theories the mysteries of atomic power may still be evading man today. |
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It's up to us preachers, ministers, stewards of the mysteries of Christ, to make that transaction. |
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Leaks from the Vatican, in anticipation of the document's release, suggest that the Pope will introduce five new mysteries to the Rosary. |
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Walking through the Stations of the Cross or praying the rosary is another way to contemplate the mysteries of Jesus. |
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At the same time he was a believer in all sorts of myths and mysteries, and a devout worshipper of divinities both Greek and Oriental. |
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The red herrings don't seem as cheap as they often do in murder mysteries, and Jerry is far from the infallible, all-knowing investigator. |
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Among the many mysteries in the universe is the dark matter in galaxies and clusters. |
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She looked smooth and precious, a thing of unplumbable mysteries, and perilous as quicksand. |
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Weighing upward of 60 tons and reaching lengths up to 50 feet, the bowhead whale is one of the Arctic's great mysteries. |
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Where they came, where they went, the questions surrounding them were unsolvable mysteries. |
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But when it comes to London's transport system a number of mysteries remain unsolved. |
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By studying that language, by learning its grammar and syntax, one can unlock its subtle mysteries and gain a better understanding of the world. |
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Their victim status in murder mysteries does not mean that women enjoy unspotted reputations in railway crime fiction. |
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We do not have powers which will necessarily allow us to peer into the ultimate mysteries. |
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Numerous articles have attributed the puzzle, which has a Japanese name, to the mysteries of the Land of the Rising Sun. |
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She wrote about her adventures and what she learned about Buddhism and the mysteries of Tibet. |
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Among the Westphalian hams and braunschweigers are tongue-twisting Teutonic mysteries like kasseler rippchen, nuss-schinken and touristenwurst. |
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One of the greatest mysteries in the music business is how songwriters get their songs recorded. |
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On that Puranas are called the Vedas of the Common folk, for they present the mysteries through myth and legend. |
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This is the new Lynch, with his fetiches in place, who has evolved the mysteries he dreams up in a storytelling gambit that pays off. |
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His colours became more resonant, his drawing more grandly simplified, and his expression of the mysteries of life more profound. |
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One of the mysteries of the age is why people are so ready to reveal the most intimate secrets of their lives to television cameras. |
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His maddened eyes, as if by a miracle, was cleared of frost and he was able to see the glittering moon shining on the mysteries of the forest. |
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Napoleon has with him scholars, including antiquarians and linguists, whose job it is to unravel the mysteries of ancient Egypt. |
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The two sixtysomething fellow travelers board a plane for mysteries that only another country can provide. |
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Mothers and pushchairs crowd the OK Laundrette, beside the dark mysteries of the Wizard Tattoo Shop. |
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It provides a perceptive insight into one of the great maritime mysteries of modern times. |
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Cleanse my hidden mind with the hyssop of your grace, for I draw near to the Holy of Holies of your mysteries. |
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All three protagonists try to piece the clues together in order to unveil the dark mysteries at work. |
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The loss of this three-masted clipper, and her 27 crew, has remained one of Australia's greatest sea mysteries. |
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His conclusion solves one of the greatest mysteries in the study of palaeontology or fossils. |
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She makes a creditable effort at interpreting the manifest and manifold mysteries of her subject's motivations. |
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Of all the unsolved mysteries of the Arctic, the fall and rise of musk-oxen on Banks Island is one of the most beguiling. |
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Outside again, under the heat and intense light, the shade and coolness of the modern cave of mysteries becomes a memory. |
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Credulous undergraduates fall prey to priestly performers who claim to be initiating them into the subterranean mysteries. |
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Indeed, to the uninitiated, the mysteries surrounding it are not dissimilar to the weird invocations of some ancient cult. |
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There are many mysteries to explore during a hike through the damp, lush rainforest. |
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To subjugate all paths to the proofs of Science is to neglect the irrational and inexplicable mysteries of Creation. |
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How firm on one's feet, on the solid ground of truth, one feels among life's mysteries, in these supple, tenacious, tensile sentences. |
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She was into all things mysterious, be it ancient scrolls, foreign scriptures, alien mysteries or cryptic rhymes. |
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Maude Gonne and Yeats worked together to promote the Celtic mysteries within the order. |
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Deep down, they are serious thinkers and are students of life and all of its mysteries. |
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Journeying to Malta with other women provides an opportunity to encounter these sacred mysteries and reconnect with our matrifocal roots. |
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The nineteenth-century prospector had been a rugged individual who explored wild mountains to plumb the mysteries hidden beneath. |
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This house is history personified with all its grandeur, mysteries and unravelled secrets. |
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There are no mysteries and secrets that cannot be learned by persons of average intelligence. |
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Like JFK and the O.J. Simpson case, the world needs its share of secrets and mysteries. |
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Join the team for a gardening adventure and discover different mysteries and secrets about all things botanical. |
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Each of the three mysteries interfuses equally with the others to pervade all the corners of the world. |
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We may find that those mysteries thrill us with all of their elegant beauty, and fill us with gratitude for the chance to experience them. |
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That may not seem important to you but without her I think we'd all only read mysteries. |
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It's probably one of those insoluble mysteries, like what happened to the crew of the Marie Celeste, or where I put down my mug of tea. |
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I read village mysteries and hard-boiled American private eye novels, spy thrillers and police procedurals. |
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Despite tremendous technological advances in earthquake seismology, many fundamental mysteries remain. |
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She was extremely interested in ancient Egypt and the mysteries that she knew still remained hidden in undiscovered passages, collecting dust. |
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As children first introduced to the mysteries of the kitchen, we learn how to blend the batter of a cake or flatten the dough of a pie. |
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But among the mysteries still attached to whales is why pods of them are routinely discovered beached on our shores. |
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To try to solve both mysteries, he enlists the help of Claire's best friend. |
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Sojourns in tirthas, which are meritorious and which constitute one of the high mysteries of the rishis, are even superior to sacrifices. |
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A tall gangly fellow with a toothy smile and awkward social skills, he wrote murder mysteries for a hobby. |
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Researchers hope that its experimental data will solve some of the mysteries surrounding this enigmatic body. |
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The mysteries of cholesterol unfold like various stages of undress in the metabolic striptease. |
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So he heads to foreign lands, to study the mysteries of the criminal mind, and ends up in a Bhutanese prison. |
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Will you continue as faithful stewards of the mysteries of God, preaching the Gospel of Christ, and ministering his holy sacraments? |
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This is the story of the enigmatic Catherine Weekes and the mysteries surrounding her. |
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The pimply-faced pubescent gazed in wonderment as his elder sibling orated perceptively on the great mysteries of teenage life. |
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So the world of Dali is undoubtedly one of duplicity, tricks, mysteries and illusions. |
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Here, a script of the Eleusinian mysteries is alluded to, as people re-enacted Demeter's actions after her daughter was stolen from her. |
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It is in the insolubility of these mysteries that the continued fascination with Hitler resides. |
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Earlier views of Jesus had portrayed him as a heavenly figure who had come to reveal heavenly mysteries and to institute a new religion. |
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All families are untidy, with their unsolved mysteries, unspoken secrets, black sheep and messy relationships. |
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They will silence me, continuing onwards to their sterile and humorless future, wiping the world's mysteries into oblivion. |
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Another aim is to shed light on one of nature's genuine mysteries, the homochirality, or single-handedness, of living organisms. |
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The inner mysteries consist of more complex or obtuse symbolism which exists within these same stories. |
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And so it is that I leave Frank Cole to ponder the karmic mysteries of life, unaided by my good self. |
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It was then that he became aware of the mysteries underlying the subject of non-linear partial differential equations. |
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If you get stumped, the manual does give you a URL to a website with hints, and complete walk-throughs on the mysteries. |
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His dark eyes seemed to be contemplating unearthly mysteries, which is an unusual sight in one so young. |
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Punters can also run a sweepstake with their own special online kit, learn the jargon of racecards or unravel the mysteries of the tic-tac man. |
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For all the miraculous technology of spectroscopic analysis, there are mysteries here which will defy resolution for some time to come. |
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Solving mysteries and diagnosing patients both require sleuthing, she says. |
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The struggles of the American writer to explain the deep mysteries of the British character are pure joy. |
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The solutions to the few mysteries in it are not big shockers. |
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It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old. |
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Still, this should prove to be a performer for CBS, particularly if the mysteries can be amped up into real puzzles. |
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His 1985 novel Masters of Atlantis concerns the plight of the Gnomons, a group dedicated to sharing the mysteries of Atlantis. |
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She was more of a spiritualist, a New Age believer in the power of good and the mysteries of the universe. |
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A buccaneer lives for the excitement of deciphering the mysteries of human experience. |
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We do better to adore the mysteries of Deity than to investigate them. |
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Eventually, Blavatsky brought the spiritual wisdoms of the East and of ancient Western mysteries to the modern West, where they were virtually unknown. |
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As he goes about trying to solve mysteries, his former N.Y.P.D. mates like dino Bacchetti regard him with a lot of suspicion. |
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The mysteries raised in this reflection lack the sexiness to seduce news anchors or political campaigners. |
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It may also have left them somewhat untethered, drifting in between their own lives and the eternal mysteries. |
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He could fabricate myths that did not seem manufactured but felt real enough to explain the mysteries of your own existence. |
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At school, like my peers, I was indoctrinated in the mysteries of original and venal sin, virgin birth, the respective criteria for entry to limbo, purgatory, and heaven. |
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The Arawaks explained the mysteries of everyday life in their myths. |
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Led by a Connecticut dentist, a research team says it has unraveled some of the mysteries surrounding the spiral horn grown by the small Arctic whale known as the narwhal. |
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Always interested in the animal mysteries of China, Texier has created bronzes similar to ancient Chinese sculptures, where hippos or oxen carry incense burners on their back. |
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A team of astronomers might have solved one of the mysteries of astrophysics with the discovery of a clutch of quasars, hiding behind clouds of dust. |
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Anyone who studies mathematics should not be afraid of the difficulty of multiplication and division, but should be afraid of the mysteries of manipulating fractions. |
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Tour the grounds and uncover the mysteries and secrets of its plant life. |
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Maybe this strange talisman contained his secret to the mysteries of life. |
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Explore the mysteries of a Maya ruin and a local indigenous village. |
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By contrast, the interior of big planets like Jupiter still hold some mysteries, such as whether they have rocky cores. |
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And then one day the sea gives up her mysteries and one can watch with delight the beaked whale or five different species of dolphin which swim here. |
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Yet the distinction between good, bad, and likeable remains one of the most difficult mysteries to unravel. |
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Where that money went and why it was misappropriated remain mysteries. |
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You can learn the mysteries of illusion, puzzles and tricks at Tommy's Magic Workshop and take home your very own Magic Pack to amaze your friends. |
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There are some mysteries in the trilogy that you don't fully explain. |
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How Wilson can provide a trigger like this on a semiauto rifle when many bolt-action rifles are afflicted with heavy, creepy triggers is one of life's mysteries. |
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It remained just one of many such unexplainable mysteries of God. |
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Indeed, his Japanese publisher has been so inundated by bemused readers that they have set up a website to explain some of the mysteries of the book. |
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It's just another in a long line of rather simple murder mysteries. |
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This does not necessarily mean that Euripides was an initiate of Dionysian mysteries, or that his portrayal of the god's worshippers is an honest one. |
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I think the exact make-up of the triune goddess depended on what city you came from and what mysteries you were initiated in, as well as period as Anna points out. |
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Whether or not the bull, tauros, is Dionysius in one of his forms, there is no doubt that the performers link the ritual to the old pagan mysteries. |
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Well your interest in the mysteries, rather than in the codified beliefs of religion would put you very nicely in the world of the transcendentalists. |
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To prove its existence in ancient religion he cites the famous passage from Plotinus's Enneads, that initiates of the mysteries must enter them naked. |
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To judge of the perfection of debtors by the numerosity of their creditors is the readiest way for entering into the mysteries of practical arithmetic. |
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For women, discussions of technique might unlock some mysteries. |
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It also explains how the buildings were built and rebuilt, and unravels the mysteries of how political, design and engineering obstacles were overcome. |
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In that letter, he added five new mysteries to the rosary, and declared that his twenty-fifth anniversary year would be known as the Year of the Rosary. |
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The UN's authority is instead one of those ineffable mystical mysteries. |
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There are some unsolved mysteries and unusual happenings in this case. |
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As the writer-detective walks, he uncovers, creates, and participates in the mysteries of his life. |
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Her mysteries are irredeemably small town and South Dakotan. |
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Techies know they hold all the cards to the obscure and procrastinate on the grounds of engineering mysteries. |
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The abyss is not an empty void, but full of nature's wonderful mysteries. |
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As he feels the noose tightening, Whitlock finds himself in a race against the clock to uncover the mysteries surrounding the deaths and maintain his innocence. |
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It is a mystery beyond all mysteries, unless, I do not think this could be possible, could one of my daughters have fallen in love with this oaf and told him everything? |
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The teachers served to initiate the catechumens through different stages, until the hearer was adept enough to be entrusted with the mysteries of the faith. |
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The Gospel of Thomas represents a partial record of his activities as teacher, although indications of his hierophantic mysteries are present also. |
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I think the 99 percent of us who have not read that work should defer to Mouw's summation that this is one of the mysteries that ultimately lies beyond human comprehension. |
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Archaeologists continue to search the undersea area, hoping to uncover more mysteries from a once prosperous city that existed more than 300 years before Christ. |
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The characters appear out of nowhere and act as little more than clumsy devices to move the plot along and reveal the truth behind mysteries set up elsewhere. |
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Those of us who have tried to penetrate the often baffling complexities of modern music have often had cause to be grateful to him for unravelling its mysteries. |
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There are many unsolved mysteries in the decorative arts, and, as in some detective stories, the clue to their solution has been in plain sight all the time. |
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The maiden is initiated into the mysteries of the matron-life she will someday lead, as well as into the less profound rites of food consecration and hospitality. |
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It is not a matter of belonging to a religion or professing one's faith, it is a matter of orientation in life and participation in its mysteries. |
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Demeter, goddess of the Eleusinian mysteries, progenerated wheat from her womb and delegated it to her son, Triptolemus, to distribute around the world's cultures. |
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Hadrian himself had worshipped at the ancient shrine of the Eleusinian mysteries in Greece and a variety of mystery religions became respectable and accepted. |
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How a record-buying public so enamoured of female singer-songwriters has managed to overlook her is one of the enduring mysteries of recent rock history. |
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His encyclopedic knowledge and expertise were coupled with an informal writing style that introduced many new readers into the mysteries of concert dance. |
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One of the great mysteries of Australian political life is why a man who is about to dump a dog of a tax system on an unsuspecting public should appear so smug? |
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His desire to explore the mysteries of life eventually led him to leave home and take missionary journeys. |
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Despite these problems, solving the mysteries of the Pilgrimage remains a siren's song beckoning to the best Tudor historians. |
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Redmann has four mysteries to her credit, all dealing with private detective Micky Knight, a New Orleans private eye. |
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The mysteries of Judaism did not initially refer to phylacteries, fringes, or the Shekhinah. |
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The Athenians believed that he who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries would obtain celestial honour after death. |
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However, they call them Artotyrites because they set bread and cheese on the altar in their mysteries and celebrate their mysteries with them. |
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Joseph is thrown in prison, where Christ visits him and explains the mysteries of the blessed cup. |
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Potter is also featured in Susan Wittig Albert's series of light mysteries called The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter. |
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We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries. |
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Prions retain deep mysteries, the foremost of which is what on earth they exist for. |
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Skeptical researchers, such as Ernest Taves and Barry Singer, have noted how mysteries and the paranormal are very popular and profitable. |
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As exploration ignited both popular and scientific interest in the polar regions and Africa, so too did the mysteries of the unexplored oceans. |
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Ruben was an odd bod. What else could he have been? It's one of life's mysteries how odd bods always find each other. |
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Mona is a pintsize ghostbuster with a flair for unearthing strange and supernatural mysteries. |
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A suspenseful read from cover to cover, Death Goes Postal is a treat for fans of tangled mysteries. |
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Claudius was concerned with the spread of eastern mysteries within the city and searched for more Roman replacements. |
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Paranormal twists and fast action in movie-like scenes set these mysteries apart from the typical whodunits and serial-killer thrillers. |
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From the Orthodox perspective, marriage is one of the holy mysteries or sacraments. |
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These mysteries are surrounded by prayer and symbolism so that their true meaning will not be forgotten. |
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For centuries, a physical pillar was righted in rituals designed to assert Osiris's resurrection to life as part of the Osirian mysteries. |
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Such seclusion and sublimity were indeed well suited to the dark and wild mysteries of the Druids. |
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Being qualified in building rockets and unpicking the mysteries of ancient poems is fine. |
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The deciphering of Linear B solved a slew of mysteries in a single stroke. |
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He emphasized the Eleusinian mysteries which had been practiced by so many during the Republic. |
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In 1853, Charles Woolnough, an English marbler, published a book exposing the mysteries of marbling. |
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Seductive pulp fiction that artfully apes the dark mysteries of 40s Hollywood with a plot full of body swerves. |
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The body of Eve 8, the fembot, represents both steely industrial strength and the mysteries of microelectronic circuitry. |
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Seductive pulp fiction artfully aping the dark mysteries of 40s Hollywood with a plot full of body swerves. |
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After many other similar disappearances in the same area, the Bermuda Triangle became one of the world's biggest mysteries. |
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Based on the popular detective series, the Agatha Christie Marple boxset, from ITV DVD, features four new murder mysteries from the second television series. |
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Jim, formerly a Moho chaser like myself, found it so fascinating that he has converted himself into a carbonate sedimentologist to explore the mysteries of that fossil island. |
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Class period after class period, binomial theorems, quadratic equations, logarithmic functions and exponentials were among the mysteries I was ordered to understand. |
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Such Berber ambivalence, the ability to entertain multiple mysteries concurrently, apparently characterized their religion during the Punic era also. |
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For those who have yet to master the mysteries of the online world, the following beginners' guide reveals how to navigate the Web like an experienced cybercitizen. |
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In over two decades of work, Egoyan's has sculpted an idiosyncratic and engaging filmography out of the often opaque mysteries of knowing or, more precisely, of not knowing. |
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Empty your bladder into the stinking mysteries of the dunnycan. |
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This may put a damper on the wish to be titillated by unsolved mysteries. |
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This soulful Baritone singer also mixes in poppy scat singing, inventive beatboxing and Zen-inspired lyrics that earnestly trace the mysteries of life and love. |
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Nearly all had one or more favourites among Christie's mysteries, and find her books good to read now, nearly 100 years after her first novel was published. |
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They provide answers to the mysteries of being and becoming, mysteries which, as mysteries, are hidden, yet mysteries which are revealed through story and ritual. |
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Yet surely a pile of stewed tea leaves, a haunted look, plus a smouldering joss stick, couldn't and wouldn't unravel the mysteries of the universe. |
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Any youngster who want to bowl out of the back of the hand should not miss a word explaining the mysteries of the leg-break, overspinner or topspinner, or the wrong'un. |
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The film's leads include Vincent Maeder, who also directs, and Navah Raphael, who also produces, as two documentarians seeking answers to the mysteries of love. |
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A hide-and-seek format blends with gatefolds that invite kids to survey nature's wonders, and to guess for themselves ten mysteries of nature's appearances. |
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The Loch Ness Monster is one of the mysteries of cryptozoology. |
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There are seven mysteries, or sacraments, in the Greek church, viz. baptism, the chrism, the eucharist, confession, ordination, marriage, and the holy oil. |
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The EFA is committed to supporting research that will help unravel the mysteries behind this most devious and debilitating disease and, ultimately, enable us to find a cure. |
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