Sentences with phrase «almost human sense»

n the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.

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For example, talk of coming down from heaven may have been appropriate in a world that conceived the divine habitations as almost literally «above»; it will also be appropriate as a useful metaphorical way of describing the presence among us of that which (again in a symbolic sense) is higher than human experience as such.

It has almost been as if we humans, with our limitations and in our finitude, not to mention our obvious and tragic defection from right alignment with the divine intention for the world and for us, were to insist that until and unless we are given what we regard as due recognition and the security of our own survival in an individualistic sense, we shall refuse to take our place and play our part in the creative advance of the universe.

To be sure, the war against the Axis, followed almost immediately by the Cold War, had introduced a new recognition of evil, with its concomitant sense of human limitedness and imperfectibility, into American political - philosophical discourse.

Typically, big dog harnesses are going to be made out of a heavyweight material that feels almost like a seatbelt used for humans — and that makes sense, considering some dogs are bigger than humans.

If these human - killing instruments are going to available to almost anyone, shouldn't there be common sense regulation?

Humans, whose sense of taste works almost exactly like that of mice, almost certainly have the same taste bud.

Babies do produce functional enzymes (pepsin and proteolytic enzymes) and digestive juices (hydrochloric acid in the stomach) that work on proteins and fats.12 This makes perfect sense since the milk from a healthy mother has 50 - 60 percent of its energy as fat, which is critical for growth, energy and development.13 In addition, the cholesterol in human milk supplies an infant with close to six times the amount most adults consume from food.13 In some cultures, a new mother is encouraged to eat six to ten eggs a day and almost ten ounces of chicken and pork for at least a month after birth.

The Martian celebrates both the indomitable human spirit and the belief that our species can, with patience and common sense, think its way out of almost any problem.

Don't forget, Bea loves the creatures, which complicates things somewhat when a rather implausible romance blooms almost instantly between the two humans, which only serves to escalate the stakes on Peter's side — not that it makes much sense.

«Animals have better noses than humans and use their sense of taste on almost everything.

Almost seems like common - sense but we do know that the differences between humans and pets are nothing to sneeze at.

His distant, almost flippant demeanour in Human Revolution made a degree of sense considering the events early in that game, but on the back of the Aug Incident and his personal investment, his almost sociopathic failure to address these events beyond mere lip service makes his attitude all the more bizarre.

White Cube Bermondsey, until 14 September 2015 British sculptor Rachel Kneebone makes extraordinary works in ivory - white porcelain in which Rodin-esque human bodies — often dismembered or disturbingly in flux like out - of - control stem cells — merge together with an almost Rococo sense of formal flourish.

Freud's treatment of the nude human body marries the detail of Renaissance studies with the personality of modern portraiture — balancing a sense of intimacy with the sitter and a cold, almost clinical look at the human physique.

It almost goes without saying, but a human image is only a part of the «sense» of a picture.

These sculptures almost seem to tremble with a sense of human vulnerability and sensitivity whilst also alluding to the constant presence of the development's processes and machinery churning at the landscape.

From a vegan standpoint, it would almost certainly make so much more environmental sense to feed those grains direct to humans, rather than pass them through a system of animal husbandry — however local and low impact — and deal with the inevitable nutrient loss that come along with those pesky laws of entropy.

But though it's true that almost anything humans do on a big scale has * some * environmental cost, still oil drilling and refining and coal mining and combustion are dirty businesses in both senses.

While the front part of a dog's nose is almost entirely committed to respiration, the rest is committed to olfaction — the sense of smell — and since there are hundreds of millions more olfactory receptors in a dog's nose compared to a human's nose, a dog is able to smell more and detect a scent in much smaller quantities: «This means two things: A dog definitely experiences smells, odors — volatile molecules — that we don't,» Alexandra Horowitz, assistant professor at Barnard College and author of Inside of a Dog, told Modern Farmer.