Sentences with phrase «absence of any felt»

A key feature of this view is the apparent absence of any felt need to articulate a «policy» on this new race problem.

Or is it enough to just keep the promises, stay faithful, and serve with ongoing love, support, and care, despite the absence of all feelings?

What I see as sad are two competing but similar responses in our post modern culture - the absence of feeling and the bathing in feeling.

However, the sheer absence of feeling somewhere is unobservable by any conceivable mind or any conceivable means.

And he thinks it is not cogent to argue that all truth must be partly positive and that the complete absence of feeling has no positive meaning but is a mere negation.

Concerning my reasoning that there can be no merely negative truths, and that the total absence of feeling from any part of concrete actuality is a mere negation with no positive implications, Ogden comments that perhaps this shows only that psychicalism is unfalsifiable, not that it is true.

This absence of a feeling of vital interrelationship with nature can not but enfeeble a truly ecological vision.

In Iron Man — the film that kick - started the MCU — Ramin Djawadi's compositions fall into the background of scenes, resulting in a notable absence of feeling.

Dr. Baker said that this absence of feeling is what probably kept Siggy alive and kicking.

Apathy is typically understood as meaning the absence of feeling, but it can often reflect a suppression of feeling that serves a useful psychological function.

They over-compensate for the absence of feeling in most of our communications.

Not exact matches

It's this group that blurs the line between actual illness and the kind of «not feeling well» that can be an excuse for poor performance or absences.

Amid mounting criticism, Caldbeck took a temporary leave of absence, issuing an apology «to those women who I've made feel uncomfortable in any way, at any time.»

I actually felt pangs of guilt over not liking some updates, as though the absence of my particular Like would translate as a disapproval or a withholding of affection.

Though I never felt an acute absence of that option myself, truth be told — young kids are usually more interested in snuggling with a loved one that looking at the world around them, frankly.

When you question every incident of tardiness or absence, you set your employees up to feel as though they have to come into work even when serious circumstances are pulling them away.

They'll feel spurned by their absence in the College Football Playoff despite the fact that they beat two of the teams that made the cut.

But the absence of fuel subsidies in most Asian nations is likely to mean the region feels the pain of the jump in crude prices far faster than was the case previously.

Make your absence felt much greater than your presence by developing the skill of listening more than speaking.

These are not bad identities, but the absence of older (and hopefully, wiser) folks and women feels unsettling.

Even if you're a stay - at - home parent without an income, your family would feel the financial impact of your absence because the contributions you made, such as child care, would have to be outsourced.

The absence of an anchor feels not so much radical as a little distancing (especially with off - screen voices that haven't yet learned the network - newsreader trick of putting the EMPHASIS on the right WORDS).

Garner specifically mentioned how he's going to feel the absence of coach Aaron Feis, who sacrificed his life to save students.

The absence of our friend Manmeet will be felt across the great province that he loved.

An empowered Navarro, and the absence of dissenting voices in the White House, could make Trump feel more self - assured than ever about ushering the US into a new era of protectionism.

When combined with Charlie Lee, the founder, having sold all his coins, and in the absence of any significant retail partnerships with incumbent known names, I feel LTC's value proposition is very limited.

It's a fitting place for the band to have begun, as the songs on Paper Route's latest album, Absence, feel like pure studio creations, built from a foundation of laptop - created soundscapes and programmed beats overlaid with punchy guitars and loping basslines.

I feel the need to point out that the absence of religion does not insure a free mind, nor does it's presence preclude a free mind

But when she went to bed at night, Sparks felt an absence of purpose: «My parents taught me to leave things better than I found them,» she remembers.

Atheism is not a believe, it is an absence of believe, and simplifying of life that enables a clean good way to live without feeling bad about lapses of judgement.

Like a wraith, like a dream, he leaves behind no children, no estate, no writings, no trace of himself except this feeling that his presence was real, that his absence is temporary.

I guess most priests feel that it is the desire to meet God in the sacrament, not the absence of sin, that makes the communicant «worthy» to receive.

The call to confession «invite people to get in touch with themselves and asks where they feel some empty spaces in their lives» (symbolized by a display of empty, clear plastic bags on the communion table), as if admitting emptiness were the same as confessing sin, and as if sin were merely the absence of good.

They continue to be a part of the church by making the presence of their absence felt.

In each and every case — where it would be so easy to feel the absence of God — they declare themselves closer to God.

So deeply do they feel the absence of a priest among them!»

When we turn, in the light of these preaching comments, to pastoral care, the critical question is whether the attempts to understand and accept, to get inside the other person's frame of reference, to apprehend and help to clarify the nature of his specific conflicting feelings, all together imply the absence of judgment.

A United Church of Christ minister confided that he uses grape juice in his cup while the congregation receives fermented wine — a deception he feels he can not share with his official board or parishioners, but a necessary one following hospital treatment for alcoholism (his absence was reported as a hunting trip in Canada).

For both this implies at the same time a certain distance and absence of emotional involvement — an experiencing of the feelings from the side of the client without an emotional identification that would cause the counsellor to experience these feelings himself, as counsellor.

Yet I feel a kind of isolation here too, and not just due to the near - absence of women.

A motion at its recent meeting asked the synod to «acknowledge the injury felt by members of the Church who enter into loving, committed and legally - recognised, same - sex relationships, due to the absence of provision for them to mark that key moment in their lives publicly and prayerfully in Church.»

The absence of proof «when measured on an absolute scale» is unimportant to a thoroughgoing naturalist, who feels that science is doing well enough if it has a plausible explanation that maintains the naturalistic worldview.

But what would it be like to feel the total absence somewhere of feeling other than one's own?

However, there are clear and welcome signs in recent years that we have learned anew the presence of a full set of emotions is no evidence of the absence of intelligence, nor is the ability to feel strongly about a matter to be interpreted as lack of maturity.

The perfection of the subjective aim of an actual occasion is «the absence from it of component feelings which mutually inhibit each other...» (Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 256) One form of inhibition, complete inhibition, is finiteness and does not derogate from perfection.

Highlights for me included Chapter 2 («Turtles All the Way Down»), in which Jason manages to use a strange blend of Stephen Hawking and Dr. Suess to engage readers in a really helpful dissection of presuppositional apologetics, Chapter 4 («The Weight of Absence»), which beautifully illustrates the fear and emptiness that comes from not feeling God's presence as often or as keenly as other people seem to, and Chapter 5 («Reverse Bricklaying»), which describes Jason's struggles with prayer and the comfort he finds in traditional liturgy.

In eternity, however, His absence will be felt in a place of never - ending pain, sorrow, and darkness — a place in which not even a wisp of His grace is present.

We are not aware of him, in any vivid sense or perhaps in any sense at all; he is present to us in the very fact of our feeling of his absence.

We talk about the deeper meanings we sometimes find in the contemplation of these things and how we sometimes feel God's presence there, and sometimes God's absence.

The absence of commonly accepted definitions means that people do not feel they have a place, do not know who they are in the congregation.