"My dear fellow, I know you well. I know themilitary neatness which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a result."
At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with tersemilitary accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff andmilitary. The neatness of his attire was almost incredible.
In modern usage, the adjectivemilitary is usuallyhypernymous to the adjectivenaval, but in properly understanding older texts—for example, when dealing withmilitary history, the sociology ofarmed forces (includinginterservice rivalries), and so on—it is useful to know that the adjectivesmilitary andnaval have often been used ascoordinate terms, especially in the past, withmilitary corresponding to anarmy (land forces) as distinguished from a navy (naval/maritime forces). By corollary, mentions ofmilitary science have sometimes been intended as coordinate with, rather than hypernymous to, mentions ofnaval science, although that coordinate sense isdated. An example of itsfossilization is that it remains reflected in classes U and V of the taxonomy of the U.S.Library of Congress Classification for library science.
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The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by amilitary trained by westerners.
