Sentences with phrase «about coherence»

Exposing the declines leads to further questions about coherence of proxies and reconstructions.

I guess you were wrong the other day about the coherence of my presence here... A shame, really.

Mounting Frustration also examines some of the probing debates undertaken by black artists in the 1960s and»70s about the coherence (both political and aesthetic) of the rubric of «black art» given that artists worked across so many different styles and had divergent relationships to their own identifications around blackness.

But after spending a year with colleagues researching high - performing MATs, I now believe that great leadership is about coherence.

Influential figures including UPenn dean Andy Porter, UVA professor Daniel Willingham, and Texas Commissioner of Education Robert Scott have raised questions about the coherence, rigor, and value of the standards.

Want to know what I knew about Coherence going into it?

Then again, what does it say about the coherence of those intentions when, by Hamburger's own account, at least three of our first seven presidents, including an influential drafter of the Constitution and the author of the Declaration of Independence, seem to have held separationist views outside the mainstream of their time?

He helped me to think about the coherence of the claims of the Catholic faith.

The difficulty of fitting Buddhism into broad generalizations about «authentic and lasting religious experiences» raises a broader question about the coherence of positing a mutual normativity of different religious traditions.

Such preaching is also to offer reassurances about the coherence of reality, but a reassurance that is not a legitimation of present arrangements, but an act of hope about another life - world available in the gospel.

I'm always somewhat dispirited by the tendency to answer criticisms about the coherence of religious belief with a sort of watertight defense of its rationality.

The decision to invoke national security trade protections over the objection of the defense secretary raises questions about the coherence of policy processes.

Not exact matches

But despite MacIntyre's eloquent exploration of what makes a human life coherent, theologians tended to find more compelling what he says about the narrative coherence (or incoherence) of whole traditions.

The prolific Jesuit scholar, Fr James Schall, now in his eighties, has given us this book about the pleasure of knowing the truth of things, in particular the delight of discovering coherence from reflecting upon diverse aspects of existence, of realising that all sorts of «scraps of evidence» point to the fact that only Christianity provides an adequate account of our existence.

These questions about the genesis and the relationship to the rest of nature of the human person mark where, for the present, coherence seems hardest to come by.

Nobody says anything analytical about church music in terms of its administrative coherence within the church.

Correspondence, in the sense specified, is the nature of truth, the meaning of truth; yet the test of truth that we most frequently employ in connection with the past is the test of coherence: historians and archeologists have nothing available to them that is not given in the present — this book, the reliability of which must be evaluated; this artifact, the significance of which must be construed — and coherence is the final test of their theories about the past built up from the givens of the present.

While systematics attends primarily to the Christian story, and recognizes its centrality, it also asks about the truth of its own propositions, and answers to the demand for logic, clarity, and inner coherence.

It is the human endeavor to apply the tests of coherence and comprehensiveness in drawing conclusions about the veracity of certain phenomena — that, for example, axheads do not float on water and the sun does not stand still, that conceptions are not immaculate, that corpses do not rise from graves.

It has sometimes been argued that in the City of God, his apology contra paganos, Augustine made place for a neutral secular space that could accommodate paganism and promote a «coherence of wills» about things relevant to this mortal life.

If the statement is about someone else, and especially if I was not even present at the time, then coherence and consistency hold sway in my decision as to whether to believe the statement or not.

My general beliefs about how anger expresses itself in me and my degree of confidence in the veracity of these observers will introduce complex questions of consistency and coherence that will interact with such direct memories as I can elicit.

But his deep concern for retaining ethical coherence in a postmodern world was also evident, as was his traditional allegiance to Jesus: «In his baptism, his teaching, his healings, his passion, death and resurrection — in all of it, there is a demand laid on us, or an offer tendered, and it is the task of the Christian to embody that offer in his world, being as candid as he can about the difference between Jesus» beliefs and his.»

This raises questions about the internal coherence of the Reformed catholic program, and it also raises questions concerning ecumenical fruitfulness.

Too often the answer to this question is left implicit in proposals about the nature and purpose of theological education, and the answer's coherence with the view of theology that the proposals adopt is left unexamined.

The cultural - linguistic model tended to make everything turn on the coherence of a community's way of signifying reality, while deferring questions about the reality signified.

Furthermore, what the theologian will learn from the philosopher about the Trinity is its dogmatic import, its religious meaning, its soteriological value; he will not learn about its critical structuration, its formal coherence, or its judicative modality (CR, p. 110).

If I needed to understand and teach disputes about «the analogy of being,» treating being as a mere concept, or grammar, just wasn't going to help me understand the coherence of the claims.

One wonders whether, in the future, when we shall know so much more about what literature says and how it hangs together than we now do, we shall come to see literary myth as a similarly constructive principle in the social or qualitative sciences, giving shape and coherence to psychology, anthropology, theology, history and political theory without losing in any one of them its own autonomy of hypothesis.»

Vivek Srinivasan, PhD: So I'm looking forward to combining my expertise in optical coherence tomography technology with my recent experience in brain imaging and thinking about neurodegenerative diseases to help solve the problem of biomarkers in glaucoma.

The Sagittarius Dwarf is believed to already have orbited the Milky Way about 10 times in the last billion years or so, and it still appears to have coherence as an elongated ellipse despite being torn apart by enormous tidal forces as a result of the interaction.

1 — Five Micron Pre-Filter 2 — Internal Coconut Shell Carbon Filter (like Berkey) 3 — Reverse Osmosis Membrane (Purifier # 1)(like regular RO but more efficient) 4 — Mixed Bed De-Ionization Purifier (Purifier # 2) 5 — Mixed Bed De-Ionization Purifier (Purifier # 3) 6 & 7 — Homeopathic Restructuring — Erasing Memory, Molecule Coherence 8 — Holding Tank — standard tank holds about 3 gallons of pure water.

When you hold the device, which is about the size of a deck of cards, lights show your heart rate, breathing patterns and your level of «coherence» — or how well your physiological and emotional systems are working together.

The nice thing about the Quick Coherence technique is that you can do it anytime, anywhere and no one will know you're doing it.

Conveniently, you can create a coherent state in about one minute flat by using a strategy called «Quick Coherence».

The follow - up ditches any pretense of narrative or dramatic or satirical coherence about midway through and instead doubles down on the sort of quasi-surrealist gags that ultimately put its predecessor over the top.

What we get is a collection of moderately violent action set - pieces untroubled by humour or broader coherence... Forster, who directed the Bond film Quantum of Solace, has done his best to piece together a story from these incompatible parts, but the final product has an elaborate uselessness about it, like a broken teapot glued back together with the missing pieces replaced by parts of a vacuum cleaner.

There is a coherence with the sincere Almodovar's obsession about women and feminity.

Where Gore Verbinski («The Ring») at least knew how to set a disconcerting, sickly mood, Gutiérrez can't unnerve you with a location or a situation; he overdoses on close - ups of his actors without indicating he cares about them as characters, to the detriment of any spatial coherence or framing tension.

Cameron Crowe's calamitous new film about a cynical defense contractor (Bradley Cooper) who returns to Hawaii on a secret mission has all the elements of Crowe's previous efforts, but none of the coherence.

K - 19: The Widowmaker (hereafter K - 19) has a tedious narrative married to vein - swelling performances presented in that frank gracelessness indicative of director Kathryn Bigelow's sledgehammer - chic since long about Point Break, brought together under the steady hand of a legendary editor (Walter Murch) that only just guides this behemoth of conflicting ideas and wet (and drunken) Russian submariners into the dry dock of coherence.

0:00 - 2:10 — Intro and stuff 2:10 - 10:25 — «Don Jon» review 10:25 - 15:00 — «Rush» 15:00 - 18:10 — «Enough Said» review 18:10 - 29:45 — QOTW (taboo subjects that could be addressed in a mainstream movie) 29:45 - 32:15 — Diversion about being on the road, etc. 32:15 - 52:08 — Fantastic Fest wrap - up, including reviews of «Coherence,» «Cheap Thrills» (don't miss Jeff's interview with Pat Healy!)

Extras include a sleepy McTiernan commentary track that's best when it pertains to the post-production process; McTiernan is the rare director with favourable things to say about the practice of test - screening, which he used fervently in the case of Basic to gauge the integrity (read: coherence) of its myriad convolutions.

It's a Texas Gothic crime thriller sutured to a potboiler melodrama about the existential despair of L.A. socialites in a David Lynchian fashion — though with less surrealism and more coherence.

The greatest film by the greatest post-1950s filmmaker, Jean - Luc Godard's 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her presents the critic, humbled by the beauty of its surfaces, the density of its ideas, and the uncanny coherence of its fragmented structure, wi...

So the probability arises that Mamet wishes his films to be seen as a kind of populist avant - garde cinema, full of ideas about the role of language in visual text and in the interim disdaining the menial task of telling a story that has some semblance of respect for internal coherence.

As if aware that all that stuff about Bolivian peasants pining for water might be connected, and queasily, to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (a daring cargo - jet escape is similarly cribbed from that film), Quantum of Solace does its level best to strip entire set - pieces from the Bourne series (a knife fight, the close - quarters disarming of government agents, the roof - top flight), forgetting in the process to port over the coherence of Doug Liman or Paul Greengrass choreography.

What the film lacks in narrative coherence and momentum, rookie director Jerome Reybaud compensates with a layered character study about sexuality and fulfillment, an incisive glimpse into its bucolic setting, and a sometimes playful examination of technology's influence on relationships.

The Commission argued that the report used «a small number of cases to arrive at a generalized conclusion» and secondly, that report was «contradictory» by making «sweeping general assertions about AMISOM culpability» before «exhaustively interrogating the scale and prevalence» and thirdly, that «report lacks coherence in its account of AU's efforts to prevent and respond» to the allegations (AU, 2014, September, 8, pp.1 - 2).

First identify what type of essay the student is to write and then focus on the structure and coherence of the work: talk about transitions, grammar, spelling, cohesion etc..