These hearings have gone from predictably tedious to abjectly awful.
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Portraying the abjectly unattached Leona Samish in the insightful Encores!
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I'm not abjectly against The Times dipping into product recommendation.
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It began to autoplay, and what I saw was abjectly horrifying.
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It removes an obstacle that stops abjectly poor people bettering themselves.
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The Muslim Assamese are abjectly poor; they are relegated to subsistence
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Mayors have abjectly begged Amazon to locate jobs in their jurisdictions.
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True, on other occasions it failed abjectly in the group stages.
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"Pull on your shawl," she says witheringly, and Edwina abjectly complies.
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"Why would I lie?" the fiancé's best friend cries abjectly some more.
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" "No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant.
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The stridently theatricalized violence is horrific only because it's so abjectly manipulative.
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No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant.
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He abjectly denied that there were any organized English hooligan groups present in Marseille.
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"No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant," McCain lamented.
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I want to explain — mom to mom — why that is abjectly wrong and unethical.
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"No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant," GOP Sen.
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Last week in Miami, Trump went hardline, abjectly pandering to a Cuban-American audience.
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"Alien death cult—wants to take over the earth!" the fiancé's best friend cries abjectly.
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In other words, Jimmy will have to abjectly humiliate the brother he venerates so much.
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" McCain added that, "No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant.
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"No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant," Mr. McCain said.
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Despite this, on almost every measurable level, this war on our own citizens has abjectly failed.
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"No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant," wrote Senator John McCain.
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The film borrows its title from D.W. Griffith's abjectly racist 1915 film of the same name.
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Everything that comes out of that kid's mouth toes the line between abjectly horrifying and wildly inappropriate.
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I immediately thought of Nora in " A Doll's House ," abjectly cajoling her husband to give her money.
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"Timberlake is such an abjectly poor lyricist that scraps like these feel like manna from heaven," Cox wrote.
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Now commences six months of Trump supporters abjectly begging conservatives to take the blame for their bad decisions.
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Abjectly thirsty Instagram fans slavered over the mysterious squares, wondering what the popular kids knew that they didn't.
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Because Final Fantasy XV's photo mode is an algorithm, it's not perfect, which means most photos are abjectly awful.
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She or he would apologize abjectly to their family, to their supporters, and most of all, to the nation.
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The ratings agencies failed abjectly to assess the credit risk in these securities, which were brimming with poisonous loans.
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"Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.," by Danielle Allen, is a compassionate retelling of an abjectly tragic story.
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In nearly every robot-adjacent story, artificial lifeforms succeed in achieving sentience only to realize that they are abjectly, unendingly oppressed.
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Plus, even where Facebook claims to be transparently raising the curtain on paid political influence it's abjectly failing to do so.
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Rather than fleeing abjectly from the will, as in Schopenhauer, one should seek to harness it, master it, ride it out.
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The lawsuit alleges that the Trump Foundation board "existed in name only," abjectly failing to fulfill it responsibilities to oversee the charity.
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"No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant," Mr. McCain said in the wake of the summit meeting.
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"No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant," Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, said in a statement.
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Write back to me, though, when you are prepared to respect your friend and grovel abjectly for mansplaining her vacation to her.
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Paul Manafort, the President's former campaign chairman on his way to prison, entered his sentencing hearing Thursday, abjectly and in a wheelchair.
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"We are fighting in our own house," he scolded two warring politicians he had summoned to sit abjectly at his feet in 21988.
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Lulu is herself abjectly in love with her pimp, Dédé, a petulant, pomaded twerp played by Georges Flamant, thus completing a sadomasochistic triangle.
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This seems like kind of a Democrat-leaning tool because Republican elected officials have been so abjectly terrified of facing their own constituents.
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But from a company that abjectly failed to prevent its platform from being misappropriated to accelerate genocide in Myanmar that's the opposite of reassuring.
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On the policy side, there's a general sense that in a tax reform this major, "you can't have people just abjectly left out," Hammond said.
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So for those who desire income but abjectly refuse to decide on how that income ought to be generated, this might be an attractive choice.
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Milosh moans abjectly, belaboring the pulsating whimper at the back of the throat, as if convinced a man overwhelmed with voluptuous sensory delight swallows morphemes.
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"All of those steps are starters because these ride-hailing companies have been abjectly failing in their duty to protect against predators or criminals," Sen.
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He bypassed the kind of careful study that those same cautious presidents devoted to policy and confirmed that he is an abjectly poor student of economics.
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"All of those steps are starters because these ride-hailing companies have been abjectly failing in their duty to protect against predators or criminals," he said.
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Despite a general trend among some schools to forgo abjectly political speakers, there is still a demand for the country's current leaders to dispense of their wisdom.
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How dare McCain say I am a naïve egotist with a sympathy for autocrats who abjectly abased myself before a tyrant and failed to defend American values?
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That her advice can contradict itself from book to book doesn't appear to distress her (she fluctuates between regarding women as all-powerful sorceresses and abjectly dependent).
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Against all odds, Vanderpump Rules — which often makes no sense at all and is, at times, abjectly unpleasant — is one of the best reality shows on television today.
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As international leaders squabble over whether to punish Myanmar for the military's methodical killing and uprooting of Rohingya civilians, the recent arrivals are living in abjectly desperate conditions.
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She's one of a trio of assistants bunched together in a small office, there to answer their boss's every beck and call and abjectly apologize when they don't.
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But completing the task also requires a place to take the accumulated spent fuel and radioactive debris, and so far, the nation has abjectly failed to plan for this.
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Dubiously justified and poorly planned, the Iraq invasion abjectly failed the Powell Doctrine, though Vice President Cheney (yet again with Rumsfeld) knew for certain how it would turn out.
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One of the most hilarious things about the Suicide Squad press blitz is that it's landing around the same time as the abjectly horrible reviews that the movie is getting.
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Of all the animals on Earth, none comes into the world as abjectly helpless as a newborn child, and none goes out of it with such defiance of its end.
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It is a cartoon version of the past, when it was considered unseemly for a lady to entertain the notion of marrying until an abjectly pleading gentleman overcame her maidenly reluctance.
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That period of dominance ended abjectly at the start of the 21st century, as a number of poorly-run sides declared bankruptcy and several more were found guilty of match-fixing.
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Hence, the systems failed so abjectly to agree on the same protests, since their parameters on what is or isn't a political demonstration were set differently from each other by their operators.
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Working at a summer camp and facing the throw-the-fully-clothed-counselor-into-the-lake custom the final week, I had to beg abjectly to be heaved into the shallow part.
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"I really don't understand how someone as brilliant and accomplished and focused and respected as you could be so incredibly, abjectly foolish to make some of the decisions you made," Garaufis said.
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More than half a million Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar for Bangladesh in September, topping the worst month of the Syrian refugee outflow, and the recent arrivals are living in abjectly desperate conditions.
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And the slur apparently either slipped Garrett's mind at the time or he was too abjectly contrite to offer it as a justification in the aftermath of the melee a week earlier.
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Birth, which snatches its title from D.W. Griffith's abjectly racist 1915 film, recounts the 1831 slave uprising of Nat Turner, an African-American preacher who convinced his fellow slaves to turn against their masters.
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The abjectly terrible Astros teams of the early 2010s were bad by design, but any team that loses two out of every three games for three straight seasons tends to stick in the mind.
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"My grandfather was gone, and my grandmother had to take three buses every day to go to work and my mother had to raise her two younger siblings, and they were abjectly poor," Christie said.
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In his 2007 memoir, "My Grandfather's Son," Thomas recalled the humiliations Anderson suffered, which ranged from abjectly terrifying to grotesquely petty; he once got a ticket for the phony violation of driving with too many clothes on.
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Yet consecutive efforts at cleaning up the prison drug market, with huge investment in the 1990s, the expansion of mandatory drug testing, drug-free wings, and heightened security such as CCTV and body scanners, have all abjectly failed.
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But while a Barack Obama or a Marco Rubio might draw from such material an uplifting only-in-America parable, the narrative Sanders quickly shifts to is how America has abjectly failed those of his working-class pedigree.
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But the most significant values that India and the United States share today are those of Mr. Trump and Mr. Modi — charlatans who succeed, initially, but then, failing abjectly at everything, retreat into resentful lies and bellicose bluster.
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Also, Canada was largely an abjectly poor and agricultural country without a standing army (until 1899), so we thought it would be an easy fight (or march) against a bunch of backwoodsmen (many of whom liked their whiskey).
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Birth of a Nation, which has the same title as the D.W. Griffith abjectly racist 1915 film, follows the 1831 slave uprising of Nat Turner, an African-American preacher who convinced his fellow slaves to turn against their masters.
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Sure, a Victorian balloon survival thriller or whatever may not be as abjectly horrifying as another certain movie clawing its way towards an Oscar this December, but it's hard to deny that Aeronauts feels more like movie Mad Libs than an actual film.
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When Trump and I discussed his family, he seemed surprised to hear from me that his mother had grown up in an abjectly impoverished place in Scotland and that grandfather Friedrich had run a saloon/bordello and actually tried to abandon America for Bavaria.
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Abjectly objection We'll just echo NY Post columnist John Podhoretz and say we too want a daily talk show with CNN's Brianna Keilar and Trump lawyer Michael Cohen called "Says Who," in which he repeatedly says "Says who?" and she just incredulously looks into the camera.
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A federal judge on Thursday imposed a full gag order on Roger Stone — barring him from making any public statements at all about his criminal case — after the political dirty trickster abjectly apologized for "stupidity" in posting an Instagram photo of the judge next to a rifle scope's crosshair.
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Chris Crocker's "Leave Britney Alone" video in 2007 was among the first viral clips of the YouTube age, amusing because he was so abjectly upset over somebody who did not know of his existence, but again relatable because her fans also suspected that only they were really on her side.
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Anyway, it's pretty clear that whoever was throwing their Cowboys helmet—despite them being at San Francisco's Levi's Stadium—was a Dallas fan likely trying to get an autograph, but it's a distinct possibility that a 9ers fan might have bought the helmet just to smack the abjectly evil curmudgeon.
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It seems implausible to me that a shy literary boy would put himself so abjectly at the service of a hot jock out of no more than a confused gratitude for being implicated vicariously in the scrum of human society, but Ives's novel is full of signs that she doesn't think much of traditional literary shibboleths like three-dimensionality of character.
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Back when things didn't seem quite so abjectly awful, a group of discomaniacs from New York called Midnight Magic dropped a record called "Beam Me Up." It was a riotously stomping affair, a new-disco record that could have come straight from the glory days of the late-70s when the whole world wore stacked heels, and children recited the words to "Dance Dance Dance (Yoswah Yowsah Yowasah)" in assemblies rather than the Lord's Prayer.
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I hope you are less abjectly under the control of the skyey influences than I am.
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Herodian, Ab Excessu Divi Marci i.2.4, tr. Echols. Iain King concludes that Marcus' legacy is tragic, because the emperor's "Stoic philosophy – which is about self-restraint, duty, and respect for others – was so abjectly abandoned by the imperial line he anointed on his death."Thinkers at War.
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After the battle, when Stryker discovers about Thomas's dereliction, he gets into a fistfight with him. A passing officer spots this serious offense, but Thomas claims that Stryker was merely teaching him judo. Later, a guilt-ridden Thomas abjectly apologizes to Stryker for his dereliction of duty. Stryker reveals a softer side while on leave in Honolulu.
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Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 269. As junior regent, Xu Zhixun grew arrogant, alienating the Wu officials and officers. He was even disrespectful to Yang Longyan, who was formally his sovereign. For example, once he put on a play with himself playing the character of an army officer and with Yang Longyan playing the character of a servant, following him around abjectly.
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The Caliph abjectly submitted to the Amir, whose name, in addition to al-Mustakfi's, was now by his command stamped upon the coinage and recited in the public prayers; but it was all in vain. Mu'izz al-Dawla feared the Caliph was a creature of the Turks. Eventually al-Mustakfi was blinded and deposed, having been Caliph for about eighteen months. The city fell into chaos, and the Caliph's palace was looted.
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In her bedroom Maria Clara is worried for Ibarra's fate. Padre Damaso tries to console her. Maria Clara said if she was not able to marry Ibarra, she would either choose death or become a nun. Padre Damaso discourages her from becoming a nun, but as the firm determination of Maria Clara became apparent to him, Padre Damaso leaves her, feeling abjectly defeated and wounded to the core as he resigns his will to the inescapable ways of God.
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Kushner draws from a unique range of influences, including Islamic and European textiles, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Pierre Bonnard, Tawaraya Sotatsu, Ito Jakuchu, Qi Baishi, and Wu Changshuo. Kushner's work combines organic representational elements with abstracted geometric forms in a way that is both decorative and modernist. He has said, “I never get tired of pursuing new ideas in the realm of ornamentation. Decoration, an abjectly pejorative dismissal for many, is a very big, somewhat defiant declaration for me.
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All now seems lost for our lovers. But wait! A chance encounter with a doctor at a local hospital reveals Bijli's true story: she has nobly sacrificed her reputation to raise money for the surgery and medicines needed to save the life of her sole surviving relative, a little sister, after the rest of their entire family were killed outright during the Bhopal Disaster. [1984 – cyanide gas cloud] Abjectly chastened, Bhagwaan and Swaroop comb the city for the missing Bijli, and almost abandon all hope.
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Afeef was officially declared a traitor to the Maldives, and a puppet of the British. Still, most Southern Maldivians have a lot of respect for Afeef and claim that he was a gentleman, a man of integrity who did what he had to do in the circumstances. Despite having studied in Cairo, Egypt, Afeef had a secular and progressive outlook. Owing to his secularism and his admiration for the British, he was abjectly ridiculed and mocked as a "Kafir" or infidel by the press in Malé.
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The court decided Mrs Rosset had no beneficial interest in the property. There were no discussions to that effect, and the work Mrs Rosset did was not enough for a constructive trust. The court also held, obiter, the date to determine whether Mrs Rosset was in occupation under LRA 1925 section 70 was the date the charge was created, i.e. 17 December just as Scarlett J had interpreted the law at trial; however, it abjectly refused to be drawn into whether Rosset was "in actual occupation" (clarifying this would need to be before completion).
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The "New Poor" are the most likely source of converts for mass movements, for they recall their former wealth with resentment and blame others for their current misfortune. Examples include the mass evictions of relatively prosperous tenants during the English Civil War of the 1600s or the middle- and working-classes in Germany who passionately supported Hitler in the 1930s after suffering years of economic hardship. In contrast, the "abjectly poor" on the verge of starvation make unlikely true believers as their daily struggle for existence takes pre-eminence over any other concern.Hoffer, 1951, pp.
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Bringing her with him to the villa of the Salinas, he watches as both the Prince and Tancredi fall abjectly in love with her. Realising his chance, he effectively pimps his daughter to the aristocracy, and Tancredi offers his hand. The Prince sees the wisdom of the match because he knows his nephew's vaulting ambition and need for ready cash, which Angelica's father, greedy for familial prestige, will happily make available. With the mutual blessing of the Prince of Salina and Don Calogero, Tancredi and Angelica become engaged.
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A further small collapse followed, including Chapman retiring injured, and Jardine, top scorer with 83, but the tail took the total to 351. In the second innings, West Indies lost two wickets quickly, but Martin and St Hill put on 55 and at the end of the second day, West Indies were 71 for four. The innings ended rather abjectly on the third morning, only 44 further runs being made in 50 minutes. Freeman again took five wickets, this time for 39 runs, to finish with match figures of 10 for 93.
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Trott rendered a damning summation of the evidence, and the jury delivered a guilty verdict. Two days later, after treating the convicted man to a stern lecture on his violation of Christian duties, Trott sentenced Bonnet to death. While awaiting his execution, Bonnet wrote to Governor Johnson, begging abjectly for clemency and promising to have his own arms and legs cut off as assurance that he would never again commit piracy. Charles Johnson wrote that Bonnet's visibly disintegrating mind moved many Carolinians to pity, particularly the female population, and London papers later reported that the governor delayed his execution seven times.
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He was even disrespectful to Yang Longyan, who was formally his sovereign. For example, once he put on a play with himself playing the character of an army officer and with Yang Longyan playing the character of a servant, following him around abjectly. He also once fired slingshots at Yang Longyan when they both went on a river cruise. On yet another occasion, when they were both watching flowers at Chanzhi Temple (禪智寺), Xu Zhixun was drunk and became very insulting toward Yang Longyan, such that the prince became fearful and began to cry.
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Ammianus Marcellinus, in his account of The Battle of Strasbourg, alludes to the “vast personal strength” of Chnodomar, “on which he confided much”, and calls him “brave as a warrior and general, eminent for skill above his fellows”. At the same time, his height and brute physical strength, conspicuous even among barbarians, are commented upon. However, not all aspects of his personality will appear so favourably. It is admitted that, when brought before Julian's council at the conclusion of the battle of Strasbourg, he was trembling and struck dumb with terror, and then cast himself abjectly at Julian's feet, imploring his mercy in frenzied convulsions of remorse and fear.
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When Billy finally catches the animal, he harnesses her and, instead of killing her, determines to return her to the mountains of Mexico where he believes her original home is located. He develops a deep affection for and bond with the wolf, risking his life to save her on more than one occasion. Critics disagree about the greater significance of Billy's encounters with the wolf. Wallis Sanborn argues that “[a]lthough noble, Parham’s mission to return the captured she-wolf to Mexico is abjectly flawed . . . [it is] nothing more than a man violently controlling a wild animal through the guise of pseudo- nobility” (143).
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Also, once completed, the resorts would be almost entirely owned and managed by non-Comorans. Although tourism, mainly by South Africans who were unwelcome in other African resorts, was widely considered the only promising new industry in the Comoros, Abdallah guided its development so that resorts benefited few Comorans other than himself and his associates. Under Abdallah's tutelage, the Comoran economy finished the 1980s much as it had started the decade—poor, underdeveloped, and dependent on export earnings from cash crops of unpredictable and generally declining value. The critical difference, with enormous implications for the republic's capacity to have some say in its own destiny, was its new status as a nation abjectly in debt.
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Slate columnist Rebecca Schuman described the website as "abjectly terrifying" and said that she feared for the safety of the listed professors. Some have criticized the website as a threat to academic freedom; Hans-Joerg Tiede, the associate secretary for the American Association of University Professors' department of academic freedom, tenure and governance, told The New York Times: "There is a continuing cycle of these sorts of things. They serve the same purpose: to intimidate individuals from speaking plainly in their classrooms or in their publications." One professor included in the site, George Yancy, wrote that it is "essentially a new species of McCarthyism, especially in terms of its overtones of 'disloyalty' to the American republic".
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The force was destroyed by yellow fever and the fierce resistance led by Haitian generals. Veteran Christian radio broadcaster Michael Ireland stated that this Haitian Vodou ceremony has long been erroneously referenced by various self-assoiling Christian sources as the "pact with the devil" or "pact to the devil" that began the Haitian revolution. This Vodou ceremony was a ceremonial impulsion to the liberation of thousands of abjectly enslaved peoples under French, mostly Christian, tyranny: and as such has been perverted over the following decades to besmear a righteous liberty-struggle as formed of wicked means. These Christians were influenced by spiritual warfare theology and concerned that the Aristide government had made efforts to incorporate the Vodou sector more fully into the political process.
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Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant who served under Kublai Khan as an official, described his rule as benevolent: relieving the populace of taxes in times of hardship; building hospitals and orphanages; distributing food among the abjectly poor. He also promoted science and religion, and strongly supported the Silk Road trade network, allowing the contacts between Chinese technologies and the western ones. It is worth mentioning that prior to meeting Marco Polo, Kublai Khan had met Niccolò Polo, Marco Polo's father and Matteo Polo. Through conversation with the two merchants, Kublai Khan developed a keen interest in the Latin world especially Christianity and sought to invite a hundred of missionaries through a letter written in Latin to the Pope so that they may convince the masses of idolators the errors of their belief.
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The state (that is, the > citizens) sponsored religious festivals and actively participated in the > propitiation and worship of the gods. This fact well illustrates the way the > various aspects of Athenian society — religious, political, economic, and > social — overlapped with and affected one another, and the way every > Athenian found himself set firmly within a matrix of duties to the gods, to > his family, and to his fellow citizens. The principle of necessary duties > (especially to protect the family, to serve the polis, and to propitiate the > gods) formed the basic structure of Athenian society, and gave meaning to > each religious, economic, military, and political act. In such an > environment, it was impossible for the Athenians abjectly to worship a form > of government, demokratia, even after they had made it a goddess.
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Sloth is referred to in Latin as accidie or acedia, which vice tempts a self-aware soul to be too easily satisfied, thwarting charity's purpose as insufficiently perceptible within the soul itself or abjectly indifferent in relationship with the needs of others and their satisfaction, an escalation in evil, more odious than the passion of hate #Avarice (covetousness, greed): a desire to possess more than one has need or use for (or according to Dante, "excessive love of money and power"). In the Latin lists of the Seven Deadly Sins, avarice is referred to as avaritia. #Gluttony: overindulgence in food, drink or intoxicants, or misplaced desire of food as a pleasure for its sensuality ("excessive love of pleasure" was Dante's rendering). In the Latin lists of the Seven Deadly Sins, gluttony is referred to as gula.
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Ken Guidry of Indiewire rated it B and wrote, "With all this in mind, Synchronicity isn't just some love letter to Blade Runner, it's actually pretty damn good in its own right." Kurt Halfyard of Twitch Film wrote that the film "is not lacking in smarts or clockwork precision, but abjectly fails to convince in its core ideas of love and fate". Steve Prokopy of Ain't It Cool News wrote, "Synchronicity has heart and humor to counter its periods of despair and angst, and it all blends together with touch of grace and ambition that science fiction lovers are going to devour." Drew Tinnin of Dread Central rated it 3.5/5 stars and wrote that the film "turns a fairly familiar sci-fi premise into something more than just a moody homage to dystopian classics like Blade Runner".
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On 19 June 2005, The New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof reported that as Mai returned from the US embassy in Islamabad, after getting her passport stamped with a US visa, it was "confiscated" by Musharraf's government, they were claiming she was now free to travel to the U.S., and removing her name from the ECL, thus rendering her unable to travel outside the country. A column by Khalid Hasan in Pakistan's Daily Times called the government's actions "folly" and "ham- fisted", and said that it had "failed abjectly" to support the liberal "convictions it claims to have" with actions.Mukhtar Mai proves Manto right, Khalid Hasan, Daily Times, 19 June 2005 Mai has since refused to talk about what happened in Islamabad, when she withdrew her application for a visa to the United States or who had taken her passport. On 27 June 2005 Mukhtaran's passport was returned to her.
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Despite this astonishing piece of luck, Celtic failed abjectly to take advantage in the final qualifier against Maribor, losing 2–1 on aggregate to drop down to the Europa League. Red Bull Salzburg during the group stage of their UEFA Europa League campaign in 2014. Celtic were unconvincing in the early stages of the league as well, but improved as the season progressed and also qualified from their Europa League group. Deila won the Manager of the Month award for November 2014. By February 2015, Celtic had won 15 of their last 17 domestic games and comfortably defeated Rangers 2–0 in the semi-final of the League Cup. Celtic played Inter Milan in the round of 16 stage of the Europa League, rallying to draw 3–3 at Parkhead from an early 0–2 deficit in a pulsating encounter, then losing 1–0 in Milan to go out on aggregate despite a highly credible performance.
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The ever-recurrent phenomena of history do > not have reasonable causes. It is a mere commonplace to say that they are > caused by what common parlance so aptly terms "human nature." Unreasoning > and unreasonable human nature causes two nations to compete, though no > economic necessity compels them to do so; it induces two political parties > or religions with amazingly similar programs of salvation to fight each > other bitterly, and it impels an Alexander or a Napoleon to sacrifice > millions of lives in his attempt to unite the world under his scepter. We > have been taught to regard some of the persons who have committed these and > similar absurdities with respect, even as "great" men, we are wont to yield > to the political wisdom of those in charge, and we are all so accustomed to > these phenomena that most of us fail to realize how abjectly stupid and > undesirable the historical mass behavior of humanity actually is LORENZ, > Konrad.
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NUKEMAP is an interactive map using Mapbox API and declassified nuclear weapons effects data, created by Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology who studies the history of nuclear weapons. The initial version was created in February 2012, with major upgrades in July 2013, which enables users to model the explosion of nuclear weapons (contemporary, historical, or of any given arbitrary yield) on virtually any terrain and at virtually any altitude of their choice. A variation of the script, NUKEMAP3D, featured rough models of mushroom clouds in 3D, scaled to their appropriate sizes. NUKEMAP3D is no longer functional as Google deprecated the Google Earth plugin. The computer simulation of the effects of nuclear detonations has been described both as "stomach-churning" (by Wellerstein himself) and as "the most fun I’ve had with Google Maps since… well, possibly ever" despite the admittedly abjectly grim nature of the subject.
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Long after his death, the figure of Sylvester was embroidered upon in a fictional account of his relationship to Constantine, which seemed to successfully support the later Gelasian doctrine of papal supremacy, papal auctoritas (authority) guiding imperial potestas (power), the doctrine that is embodied in the forged Donation of Constantine of the eighth century. In the fiction, of which an early version is represented in the early sixth-century Symmachean forgeries emanating from the curia of Pope Symmachus (died 514), the Emperor Constantine was cured of leprosy by the virtue of the baptismal water administered by Sylvester. Pope Sylvester I and Constantine in a 1247 fresco The Emperor, abjectly grateful, not only confirmed the bishop of Rome as the primate above all other bishops, he resigned his imperial insignia and walked before Sylvester's horse holding the Pope's bridle as the papal groom. The Pope, in return, offered the crown of his own good will to Constantine, who abandoned Rome to the pope and took up residence in Constantinople.
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