Sentences with phrase «adaptations of what»

Shortage of exotic shenanigans apart, artist - turned - director Sam Taylor - Johnson has delivered a decently acted and technically well - made adaptation of what remains a fundamentally silly and, at times, simply rather unpleasant story.

Actually, there's allot of people that think Purlo (the star game guy from Twilight Princess) is Nintendo's adaptation of what a «realistic» Tingle looks like.

The simplified action RPG follows the «main characters and main story of the console and newly announced Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition versions,» which presumably means it's a merely an adaptation of what some have already played, rather than an all - new story.

Not exact matches

No matter what you believe, it is hard to walk away from viewing Mel Gibson's highly publicized and somewhat controversial adaptation of the story that makes up the foundation for...

@DOC in addition to what we know about immunology in animals and humans, what you described concerning bacteria is precisely the definition of adaptation and not evolution, the gene already exists!

«in addition to what we know about immunology in animals and humans, what you described concerning bacteria is precisely the definition of adaptation and not evolution, the gene already exists!

scot: «what you described concerning bacteria is precisely the definition of adaptation and not evolution»

Paul Tillich's theology of culture, Rudolf Bultmann's demythologization, today's death - of - God theology are all adaptations of Christianity to what is conceived of as the nature of man and modern society.

A three - step method for resolving conflicts constructively consists of: (1) telling each other what you appreciate; (2) telling each other what you each need; and (3) negotiating a better plan to meet as many of both sets of needs as possible This adaptation of the Intentional Marriage Method (Before using this communication tool, I suggest that you read H. Clinebell, Growth Counseling for Marriage Enrichment, chap 2) can be used in an individual family communication session, and in family clusters, camps, and counseling.

Then, Scorsese's next film, Kundun (a biography of the 14th Dalai Lama), set the stage for the religious tones of what would become a passion project for him: a film adaptation of Silence, the 1966 novel by Shusaku Endo.

With the film adaptation of Lee Strobel's classic The Case for Christ now in UK cinemas, Adam Brennan explains what's on offer for both Christians... More

Read loses sight of Buber's concept of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's teaching shows how to replace the inter-individual tensions of the classroom by «an organic mode of adaptation to the social organism as a whole» and when he reinterprets the teacher's concentration of an effective world as a selective screen in which what is kept in and what is left out is determined by the organic social pattern through the medium of the teacher's «sense of a total organism's feeling - behaviour.»

Stegosaurus's plated spine is an example of what evolutionists call «adaptations,» characteristics that allow living organisms to survive long enough within specific environments to reproduce.

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

(What follows is an adaptation of ideas developed at more length in my article «Religious and Cosmic Homelessness,» in Liberating Life, edited by Charles Birch.

Man is what he has become; and his present being is what it is by virtue of the long struggle for more successful adaptation to the environment.

Neither Noah nor Exodus capture their respective directors the height of their creative prowess, but you can they they both had a lot of fun exploring the what if?s of their respective adaptations.

Pride is then followed by surprise at what I didn't already know, and the enlightenment of discovering new elements the adaptation left out.

Though he recognizes that what justice requires changes with changing circumstances, his thought about justice is so dominated by a «sense of things fixed» that little if any place is left for personal adaptation in its exercise.

On the contrary, what goes on in the world is a genuine manifestation of the living process which is his own nature; and it also makes a difference to him, for it makes possible the novelty of adaptation, the emergence of new actualities, and the appearance of real possibilities, which otherwise would not be available to him.

He uses the term only once, and that in what appears to be an adaptation of a Gnostic hymn.

Consequently, each ideal aim represents God's constant adaptation of specific situations to all of what is at work in the universe, and all these together are entertained within the larger context of what we might call his «universal aim» (CNT 180f).

Familiar also are a pair of widespread responses to the mainline's statistical decline: an increasing adaptation to conservative agendas and a growing enthusiasm for what some call the church growth movement.

Also, in low - grade living societies this purposive adaptation occurs quite without any consciousness; all that is required is that an occasion be able to incorporate some alternative for itself beyond what is supplied by physical feelings of its past.

What is interesting is that evangelicals have been the religious figures to make such full adaptations to the demands of television.

The book in question, The Sword in the Stone, was the first volume in what was to become a tetralogy of very loose adaptations from Malory (its author referred to it as «a preface»).

After the fall of northern Israel in 722 B.C. there seems to have been an adaptation of «E» to Judean purposes and it was published in a Judean edition.15 Later the two were fused into what scholars regard as «JE.»

I made a few adaptations based on what we had around the house: — Polenta instead of just cornmeal... mainly because I live in Europe and covet my stone - ground cornmeal from home — Subbed in buttermilk / cream instead of milk; both were close to their use - by dates — Regular yogurt instead of sour cream — Brown sugar instead of regular sugar (and I thought 5 Tbsp of brown sugar turned out quite nicely)

What a great adaptation of your grandmother's recipe.

That is what will justify the extra costs associated with the importation and transportation of the products compared to local adaptations.

I of course love the sauce just as written, but have included a couple of suggested adaptations depending on what suits your family.

I've decided there are two simple treats that I like more than any other — and I'll bet you'll never guess what they are — good ol' chocolate chip cookies — and they have to be good, like my favorite chocolate chip cookies (which are my adaptation of the Jaques Torres / NY Times cookies) and the other favorite is brownies.

Many food bloggers put up excellent photographs of what they cooked which is their effort, adaptation and all.

I do not agree at all with his tactics (that didn't stopped people labeling me an AKB» er for which I could care less for it is exactly the Trump syndrome) and with his lack of rotation and adaptation to the modern football (result driven) but I admire him for not giving up an inch from what he believes football is.

Throwing pots on a potters wheel is the classic pottery image; the clay is placed in the centre of the wheel and using hands as a tool, combined with the force created by the turning potters wheel a pot shape is manipulated from the clay into a recognisable shape and is a notoriously difficult skill to master; but this is only the start, Penny Spooner explains what happens next,» Once I have thrown a pot I leave it to dry until it is leather hard (green ware) and turn off any excess clay, make adaptations and scratch designs into the clay.

What I thought of as failure to stick to my well - intentioned values was actually a beneficial adaptation for me and my children.

What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

The newly sequenced genome of the plague - causing bacterium Yersinia pestis suggests human adaptations are what have kept this disease in check

What proved possible included an extension of the Kyoto Protocol for a period of either five or seven years (excluding Canada, Japan and Russia but adding nitrogen trifluoride, used in semiconductor manufacture, to the list of gases covered — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons), a Green Climate Fund to help low - income countries cope (albeit without any actual funds yet), an Adaptation Committee to coordinate such efforts globally, rules for a global program to reduce deforestation and how to monitor such deforestation, and a Climate Technology Center that will help launch projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The researchers say follow - up studies could explore questions such as what extent demographic changes — especially a larger population of older adults — will have on heat - related mortality, and the effect of specific interventions related to adaptation and greenhouse gas reductions.

By the time you sit down at the table in December 2009, you are missing the last four years of what we now understand about climate, adaptation, mitigation, security and about all sorts of interactions with our society.

What the endless seekers of the meaning of the chin ought to know, he says, is that the chin is a secondary consequence of «the adaptation to stand upright, the reorientation of the face to maintain a horizontal visual field, and the development of our large brains.»

So what this shows is it sort of gives us a window to say, well, one way the gene duplication allows novelty or specialization or adaptation is by having more genetic parts to work with — each part can be optimized and specialized in a way that if you just have one part, you can do.

In this activity you'll investigate what the adaptations of birds in your area tell you about those birds» lifestyles.

As a graduate student, Bruckner accepted what she was taught, that the foot, a bewildering heap of 26 bones and 23 joints, is a marvelous biomechanical contraption that propels humans with speed and remarkable control — proof of evolutionary adaptation.

What would amount to ex-situ conservation for the moved populations, could amount to in - situ conservation of the recipient populations, if the new genetic material assists in adaptation to higher environmental extremes.

Those who study dinosaurs are more eager to know the life histories of the beasts: what particular adaptations they had, how they ate, how they raised their young, and what evolutionary relationships they might have had with one another and with modern - day animals.

Dr Hawkes, formerly of Bangor University, added: «The wider implications of these findings are for low oxygen medical conditions in humans, such as heart attack and stroke — suggesting what adaptations might help prevent problems in the first place and learning how animals have managed to cope with really extreme environments.»

Squeeze a baseball or pen between your thumb and the tips of your fingers: You are using what researchers call a precision grip, a highly evolved adaptation thought to be unique to modern humans and our most recent ancestors.

Sereno wonders — that's what would be expected in the traditional view of evolution as progress in adaptation.