Sentences with phrase «a fragmentary»

Amazon says it isn't, but as the Times article itself states, «It is difficult to comprehensively track the movement of prices on Amazon, so the evidence is anecdotal and fragmentary.»

They did have fragmentary anecdotal information on Q4 and monthly data on spending and employment.

But what is most striking about this image is again its similarity to Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, where a religious order like the Benedictines is what keeps at least a fragmentary knowledge of science alive after a nuclear catastrophe.

The evidence of Milosz's Christianity is spread throughout his poems and essays in fragmentary clues.

At best, these other truths can only be regarded as fragmentary versions of it in some way or another.

But unlike so many modernists who thought the confused, fragmentary, dislocated qualities of modern experience are liberating (otherness!

The others are fragmentary, inclusive of the multiplicity only in some degree (and, in the case of most of the multiplicity, only in a trivial degree).

While it stands accused of introversion and complacency by the Service Club approach, it represents the conviction that service is doomed to be fragmentary and inconsistent unless it is grounded in a firm motivating and sustaining base.

This composition can be greater or less only insofar as what it includes is greater or less, so that the value for the whole depends upon the unity - in - diversity realized in the fragmentary occasions of the world.

Neither the self, because it has importance for others, nor any of the others, because they are fragmentary, can provide this measure.

That is, they must call for wholehearted devotion to quite fragmentary truths and goals.

But these churches are not able to present a sufficiently convincing vision of what faith is, or of purposes worth living for, to evoke more than fragmentary commitment.

Although the 1948 Declaration of Independence called for the enactment of a constitution within months of the state's inception, nothing has been achieved beyond a fragmentary «Basic....

Because it had for ever withdrawn his heart from all that is merely local or individual, all that is fragmentary, henceforth for him it alone in its totality would be his father and mother, his family, his race, his unique, consuming passion.

Now all the acts referred to are fragmentary and disconnected acts which have no significance alone.

The conventional literary - critical judgment that the following verses (17 - 19) were not part of the original unit is doubtless correct, but the standard critical conclusions on vs. 16 — fragmentary, a corrupt text, distorted in transmission, et cetera — result from the failure to recognize the difference in form and the functional relationship between Scheltrede and Drohwort, the deliberated and composed invective called forth by the received Word, the divine threat or judgment.

He is establishing a Christological structure of longing and fulfillment that undergirds, and thus unifies, a project most see as fragmentary and incomplete.

The German has it better: our knowledge is piecework, patchy, fragmentary.

The achievement of intimacy is always only partial — the closeness and mutuality only fragmentary.

The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain.

Divine relativity can not solve the problem of how an infinite being could fully sympathize with a finite and fragmentary part of reality; an issue I will call the problem of radical particularity.5

In this essay, I will argue that a major problem with the idea of divine relativity is that it assumes both God's exact knowledge of the whole, which is thus the One as it is a unified act of knowledge, and also precise knowledge of the fragmentary, concrete Many of experience.

What I have tried to show up to this point is, of course, a fragmentary, partial and limited description of our present world.

It is a melancholy with which I suspect we are all familiar at some level, as individuals and as a race, something that haunts us and of which my sadness is only a fragmentary reminder» the feeling of having lost paradise.

Thomas suggested that whatever philosophers learned about God from a study of the world was always fragmentary and mixed with errors.

Christian experience in depth and fullness can never be fragmentary.

Now Whitehead's recognition of the fragmentary or imprecise character of speech parallels an insight shared by Heidegger, Merleau - Ponty, and their theological disciples — i.e., the practitioners of the new hermeneutic.

But this is all they are: words... different fragmentary descriptors of the one thing.

Our knowledge of the early church prior to the Council of Nicaea in 325 is fragmentary, but the fragments reveal many of the concerns African churches have today, from distinguishing between true and false prophets to deciding what should happen to church members who behave badly.

Language organizes and makes intelligible the fragmentary flux of experience.

When people say, «I have a theory about why that happened,» they are often drawing a conclusion based on fragmentary or inconclusive evidence.

You've said that interpreting the scriptures is more like performing the script of a play than constructing history from fragmentary evidence.

I want to say that the human organism is like the agency in that there is both the unified togetherness of experience enjoyed by the director and fragmentary bits and pieces of structure which may be at odds with, out of tune with, the agency as a whole.

Under such circumstances the structure of religious thought might develop in connection with another or different fragmentary manifestation of theonomy or of the Religion of the Concrete Spirit.

The title suggests the film's fragmentary character, and that in turn suggests one of the film's main themes: the failure of technique to redeem lives from chaos.

Again... he may have the «original» language, but: The oldest surviving Hebrew Bible manuscripts date to about the 2nd century BCE (fragmentary), the oldest record of the complete text survives in a Greek translation called the Septuagint, dating to the 4th century CE (Codex Sinaiticus) and the oldest extant manuscripts of the vocalized Masoretic text upon which modern editions are based date to the 9th century CE.

The record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain... but there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature.

Hartshorne's fundamental position, writes the author, is that birth and death are the necessary boundaries to an existence that is fragmentary, and only God is capable of sustaining the infinite novelty that would be required for everlasting life.

It must be remembered that what we possess of the Aramean Christian literature is very fragmentary.

Contrary to what has been said by western historians, there is evidence to show, though very scanty and fragmentary, that Christianity found its way into South East and East Asian countries even before the coming of western missionaries, through the efforts of Nestorian merchants and missionaries from Persia or India or China or from all the three places.

Whitehead remarked that «the record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain»; and every contemporary New Testament scholar would agree with this judgment.

It is an interpretation, certainly, in that it goes beyond the sheer given of the facts as recorded for us in the partial and fragmentary Gospel narratives.

But there are anticipations and fragmentary realizations of the truth.

His purpose — as even, the somewhat fragmentary Asian Journal makes clear — was to enhance the contemplative life of his own tradition.

It is a truth that all of us find repeatedly confirmed in our own existence, and in which, yet, we have only the most fragmentary participation.

Man's love is fragmentary and corrupted and needs God's sacrificial love to perfect it.

Our information is fragmentary, and not easy to combine into an intelligible whole.

The evidence for the presence of Christianity in South East and East Asia is scanty and fragmentary.

Marcus could read and write — though he could not write well, and had no inclinations to authorship, even in that publishing center of the western Mediterranean in the days of Nero — and so, as one of the few in the local congregation of Christians who could both read and write, he was commissioned to put together in his free time — probably late evenings, after the assembly of the Christians had broken up — the fragmentary translations of narratives from the story of Jesus and his teaching which were in circulation in the Roman church.

Other than the defendant's statement, the incriminating evidence submitted by the prosecution was fragmentary and circumstantial.