Sentences with phrase «quasi-daily ruminations»

Most of these ruminations are just a few pages long — the longest are six pages — and nearly all seem to be brimming with eye - opening factoids: «Between 2003 and 2012, natural disasters killed an average of 106,654 people per year.»

I jot down anything interesting for rumination vis - a-vis healthcare, [such as] Netflix's god mode, or Jaguar's brainwave tracker.

It's also detrimental to doing that rumination that's needed for ideas to percolate and gestate and allow a person to arrive at an «aha» moment.»

Each chapter comes with a lengthy rumination on the different ways humans prepare food, and how, in Pollan's view, those age - old methods have been corrupted by the modern, corporate food chain.

This classic carol (almost childlike in its rumination on the birth of Christ by barnyard animals) is given a fun twist by Sufjan and his guests (including My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden).

The Middle Eastern beats fit perfectly with your ruminations on worldwide politics, the fear of growing discord all over the world and the lurking pessimism that hides just behind your generally joyful beats.

There are strange songs about anthropomorphic animals («The Fox, the Crow and the Cookie» and «Fig with a Bellyache») and spiritual ruminations (most of the songs, but especially «Allah, Allah, Allah» and «The Angel of Death Came to David's Room»), but all of them are matched by whirling folk guitars, blaring horns, and interesting percussion.

We are informed at the beginning that the signal was never decoded, and so the novel is less a story of scientific triumph than a series of ruminations on hermeneutics, the hubris of scientists, and the sociology of academic cohorts.

The Middle Eastern beats fit perfectly with your ruminations on worldwide politics and the lurking pessimism that hides just behind your generally joyful beats.

Don, pulling an all - nighter on a pitch for Kodak, listened to Harry's ruminations on the Lascaux cave paintings, «seventeen thousand years old»: There were «all of these handprints, tiny by today's standards, with paint blown all around them.

Closer «Milk Thistle» is a melancholy rumination on death that reaches no conclusions The journey is more important than the destination, he seems to be saying.

Regarding Ryan's ruminations on S.M. Hutchens» review of E.O. Wilson's The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (warning: I've read neither the book nor the review, just Ryan's post about them), I think Ryan has it right in concluding that in Wilson's account of Christianity «nature has become only a vehicle for supernature.»

The exigency of prolonged rumination about what he was going to say in this part in the light of his growing metaphysics may have initiated the discovery.

It contains a sampling of twentieth - century Bible criticism, mostly attempts to rearrange the text or speculations about interpolations, but also includes post-Holocaust ruminations, with much space dedicated to Elie Wiesel.

But to return to my childish rumination: gifts are not simply the bearers of words.

While suppressing tears, ruminations and painful feelings may expedite the bereaved's effort to «function normally,» it hinders the process of working through the loss.

«Pope Benedict XVI thawed his previously chilly image yesterday» wrote Bates, «by producing as his first message to his world - wide flock a notably warm rumination on the nature of love.

The author writes with conviction, compassion, and intelligence, and if you discount her ruminations out of hand you are guilty of behaving in an unchristian manner.

A refrain in the essays is the importance of «attention» in teaching and learning (Simone Weil's rumination on the topic is regularly cited).

Megan, who's started a dialogue with Ellen Ruppel Shell (author of the new book Cheap), has some ruminations on the infamous maker of shelves with short shelf lives.

Yet like the slight things left by other major writers, these brief prayers and ruminations cast fresh light on O'Connor's literary vision as it was just beginning to develop.

How different God's plans are than the ruminations of man upon the riddle of the world!

I am writing about these ethical ruminations of mine because I suspect they are probably not very unusual.

At the same time, a persistent reflection on this central image may be able to explain, to some extent at least, why Christian theology has arrived at so many dead - ends in its ruminations about mystery, creation, suffering, and human freedom.

The scientific exactitude of Nadar's photographic processes above and below ground leads into a droll and unscientific rumination on the differing psychologies of male and female clients at the photo studio.

If you want to get technical about the difference between refecttion and rumination, and how that could possibly be translated into English from the ancient Hebrew — well then you are just splitting hares.

What «comes through» the body and voice of the preacher is neither an object called «a sermon» nor the singular, incongruous ruminations of an individual self.

Jacobs» brooding ruminations on modern consciousness and the halakhah appear in a Judaism magazine symposium (Winter 1980) devoted to a discussion of Robert Gordis» essay, «A Dynamic Halakhah: Principles and Procedures of Jewish Law.»

The popular discussions are a little too concerned with practical results to engage in the kind of leisurely rumination that moral reflection at a certain level requires.

Without some sense of the everlastingness of the value achieved in the emergence of nature we might easily concur with the dour ruminations of those ancient and modern writers who have voiced an anguished pessimism as a result of their sensitivity to impermanence.

Rumination disorder is actually an eating disorder, seen most often in infants 3 to 12 months.

It is especially the difficult moments — children's meltdowns, conflicts, ruminations, rigidities, anger, and negative feelings — that Siegel and Bryson encourage parents to gently lean into; it is in those moments, the authors believe, that parents can most effectively nurture positive growth in their kids.

and this can lead to rumination and distress about what is to come.

Ruminations, recipes, and recounts.

To help in the diagnosis of rumination disorder, a review of the child's eating habits may be conducted.

This can include rumination about the traumatic event and heightened fears about the health and safety of the baby.

Any form of negative rumination — for example, worrying about your financial future or health — will stimulate the release of destructive neurochemicals.

We started with a focus on the SOPA protests and Chris Dodd's new education on the power of internet politics, but we went much farther afield, including ruminations on the nature of a post-manufacturing America... yep, we did some good, old - fashioned nerding out (in which the eternal subject of a genocidal war of robots vs. humans did of course come up).

Crucial matters of national importance, like aviation or press freedom, are shipped out to supposedly independent figures for extended periods of rumination, while barely - there controversies, such as GCSE marking, are quickly dropped by MPs once an independent investigation has been ruled out.

Weiner instead attended a «closed press» event at a half - empty church in St. Albans, Queens, where he treated 35 spectators to a rumination on his flaws.

Miner's speech serves in this role, a rumination on her success — and challenges — along with a hopefulness for what the future brings.

Presenting sad clowns and moneyed malcontents, a troublesome estate and class - based torment, Ivan Turgenev's 1848 play Fortune's Fool serves up a vintage feast of Russian rumination, despite it being one of the playwright's lesser - known works.

«Cynthia Nixon's ruminations about running hasn't lit anybody's fire necessarily,» Ossorio added.

Most people try to calm down when facing high - stakes situations, but that approach backfires by increasing rumination about what could go wrong.

In writing books laced with philosophical ruminations and literary references, he has served as an emissary from the brain sciences to the cultural milieu.

Philip Ball who is one of my favorite science writers has a thoughtful rumination on the constant tussle between beauty and truth in science.

Moments such as a blind student's tactile impressions of a sea cucumber serve as springboards for ruminations on a natural world far bigger and more complicated than any one person's perception of it.

Paulos manages to get deep while keeping the tone light by mixing personal anecdotes and asides with key concepts: It's a rumination on numeration.

Such ruminations decades ago led to the novel's central idea.

In his public proclamations, his theorizing, and his religious ruminations, he cast a piercing gaze on existing formulations, rejected existing ideas, and freely redefined terms — space and time, pacifism, God — in search of deeper meanings.