Sentences with phrase «perhaps age and experience»

Perhaps age and experience may colour your view but, for all the excitement engendered by a clutch of seemingly nerveless young Irish stars this...

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After all, John Wesley was perhaps the major figure in what came to be known as the «Evangelical Revival,» and the heyday of the evangelical experience in American life is often described by American church historians as the «Age of Methodism in America.»

Perhaps best known for his text on the sociology of religion, The Sacred Canopy, Berger has also shown a keen interest in issues of development and public policy and in the nature of religious belief in the modern world, as evident in A Far Glory: The Question of Faith in an Age of Credulity (1992) and in his most recent book, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience.

Speaking to Princeton students, the late Adlai E. Stevenson once declared: «What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty boils down to something like this: the knowledge that he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas... but of people, places, actions — a knowledge not gained... by words, but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love — the human experiences and emotions of this earth; and perhaps, too, a little faith and a little reverence for the things you can not see.»

This could boil down to the fact that our senses become less acute with age, or perhaps it is simply that older people have had more life experience and take a more rational view of potential threats.

One likely place to look for an answer was histones, to see if changes in the patterns of the chemical marks on them might reveal any secrets, at the cellular level, of the aging process we all experience — and, perhaps, whether there might be anything we can do about it.

And perhaps therein lies the root of cultural flaw that leaves aging women feeling obsolete and of diminishing worth, instead of wearing the wisdom (and the fab shoe collection) we accumulate from experience with the pride and the awe it deservAnd perhaps therein lies the root of cultural flaw that leaves aging women feeling obsolete and of diminishing worth, instead of wearing the wisdom (and the fab shoe collection) we accumulate from experience with the pride and the awe it deservand of diminishing worth, instead of wearing the wisdom (and the fab shoe collection) we accumulate from experience with the pride and the awe it deservand the fab shoe collection) we accumulate from experience with the pride and the awe it deservand the awe it deserves.

To the extent that individuals become more certain of and perhaps more fixed in their tastes as they age or learn from experience (i.e., failed relationships) what they want or need in a romantic partner, older adults may be attracted to Internet dating sites and online personals ads to a greater extent than younger adults precisely because such sites offer opportunities to restrict their search to prospective partners who meet particular criteria and to filter out those who possess traits or qualities they deem undesirable.2

However, perhaps the most common reason that dogs and cats may experience muscle wasting include aging, thyroid disease and disseminated aspergillosis.

Ever since the age of twelve, I have drawn and painted London... the strange ever - changing light, the endless streets and the shuddering feel of the sprawling city linger in my mind like a faintly glimmering memory of a long - forgotten, perhaps never experienced childhood, which, if rediscovered and illuminated, would ameliorate the pain of the present.

Of more concern to us and perhaps Andy will write about this is that we may be about to experience a mini (or more) ice age:

Given Australia has just experienced its hottest 12 month period on record, after recording its hottest year on record, after the world experienced its hottest decade on record, and as a report says Australia is more exposed to climate change impacts than any other advanced economy, perhaps it's time Tony Abbott cast aside the ageing anti-science advisors in his ranks.