Sentences with phrase «something of a myth about»

The court stated, «Something of a myth about the meaning of the client's «instructions» has developed.

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Going gluten - free has become something of a fad in recent years, with cookery books about «clean eating,» and myths being spread that wheat is bad for digestion.

I respect and admire almost all of the Mormons I've met, I just can't wrap my mind around the founding myths — something about magic stones named Throbbing and Vermin... but then again that isn't half as crazy as some of the Old Testament stuff.

Is there something about Christians that makes you particularly weak, despite being the overwhelming majority, or do you want so much to fit the myth of Christian persecution that you imagine it everywhere?

The only times I really start to think about your myth when a someone at work or I'm out doing something and one of YOU feels the need to inject your faith into my life or worse, when one of our nations policy makers feels the need to govern from the bible.

They remind me of the myth if Inana I read about once — something about being hung on a meat hook and humiliated, if I remember correctly, in order to grow.

You mention global myths of a great flood as supporting evidence, but even the article only states,» [a] lmost every culture has a legend about a great flood, and — with a little reading between the lines — many of them mention something like a comet on a collision course with Earth just before the disaster.»

A Platonic myth is a way of saying something that can not be said — that is, said literally, since we are dealing either with first or last (eschatological) things, and talking about that which is out of time as if it were in time.

Because Jung wrote about myth and considered all religions worthy of study and respect, many have wrongly assumed that he interpreted religion as myth in the sense that it is deluded belief, something childish and meant only for the unthinking masses.

Indeed, David Marquand says something v.interesting about this in writing about Powell's 1961 St George's Day lecture in his «Britain since 1918» (which ultimately argues that Powell's myth of England took Englishness out of play).

I'm having difficulty discussing any issue about cholesterol with several people because of their rigid belief that cholesterol is not linked to heart disease, based upon Dr. Sinatras book «the cholesteral myth debunked» http://youtu.be/dAq7Sxyp-JQ please help us advise advise them to the real science, or is there something to it?

I had to look up something about the «myth» of damaging your metabolism because a coworker just made me watch a video about the Biggest Loser contestants.

She is the author of numerous articles about education, including «Homework Myths» and «There's Something Wrong with Homework,» and two books, Academic Success Through Empowering Students (National Middle School Association, 1999) and Becoming a Middle Level Teacher: Student - Focused Teaching of Early Adolescents (McGraw - Hill, 2007).

The 2 % rule is essentially a myth that got perpetuated around the trading world because it seems to make sense and is easy to understand, but just because a bunch of people are talking about something, doesn't mean it is correct or useful for every situation, in fact, often the opposite is true.

The following was translated by Persona Central... - Etrian Odyssey series discussion with director Shigeo Komori - celebrating the 10th anniversary of the series this year - Komori feels that each of his titles are culminations of the experience and knowledge he has gained up to that point - in August 4, 2016 issue of Weekly Famitsu magazine (the same date as the Japanese release date of Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth), he stated that he had not yet decided what would lie in the future for the series - after seeing fan opinions, Komori realized that there are certain aspects of the series where he had been too obsessed with coming up with something new every time - 10th anniversary of the series brings about the recent launch of Etrian Mystery Dugneon 2, as well as the release of various merchandise - alongside that, Komori sees more and more opinions from series fans on social media - On currently developing a new Etrian Odyssey game: «In order to meet the expectations of these fans, I would like to deliver a «festival» - like game that can be said to be another culmination [of the series].

For them, this was a way of exploring something essential about art, about the way that certain forms and patterns recur across cultures, and about how in art — as in myth and dreams — there are archetypes that appeal to human consciousness.

«The surprise in a painting is not the surprise of discovering some kind of a story or myth, it's the surprise of finding a clear statement about something that you felt and then to see it, to see this feeling become materialized in paint, then it really exists.

Here is an example of what I'm getting at: * Climate change is a myth or conspiracy - The temperature record is phony - the consensus is just politics * Climate change is unproven - The models are wrong - One hundred years isn't enough evidence * It's not our fault - Volcano's emit way more CO2 - It could be natural variation * A warmer climate is nothing to worry about - It was warmer in the middle ages - A warmer climate is a good thing * Mitigation will destroy the economy - We don't know enough to act - Reducing fossil fuel will destroy us * It's too late or someone else's problem - Kyoto is too little too late - The US absorbs more CO2 than it emits This is very rough example, but if you think it is headed in the right direction, I'd be happy to go through your guide in more detail and come up with something concrete - just give me the word.

With many motorcyclists thinking they know about motorcycle safety, crashes as well as misconceptions and myths, it is easy to hear something that goes in the form of an assumption, misconception or an urban legend.

Myth Debunked: Even long gaps of being unemployed shouldn't hold you back from pursuing a career in something you are passionate about or choose a path that you had experience in when you were younger.