Sentences with phrase «appearance to most»

The BMW 2 Series Active Tourer may have been a disappointing appearance to most brand enthusiasts, due to its front - wheel - drive layout, but the Bavarian manufacturer hopes to score big with the compact MPV in both North America and Europe.

Not exact matches

One of the most prolific surrogates for the current U.S. administration has returned to the nation's screens, disputing reports that she was intentionally «sidelined» by the White House following a string of controversial appearances.

They've clearly spared no expense, with commercials during every other break and appearances from some of America's most beloved characters — Dorothy and the Wicked Witch take a selfie, the Joker hands Batman a balloon animal, Super Mario offers a flower to the villainous Bowser, etc..

Most had to do with physical appearance or sexuality.

Standing in stark contrast to how most expect a leader to look and act, Gen. McChrystal's mentor shows that real leaders should be defined not by outward appearances, but by actual performance.

If its design sounds familiar, it might be because the bottle has made a few TV appearances most notably in season 3 of House of Cards when a bottle was gifted by Russian President Victor Petrov to President Frank Underwood at a state dinner.

When most politicians try this, as Finance Ministers often do to try to create the appearance of sophistication, it's usually just in nonsensical financial jargon that amounts to nothing more than bromides.

And if her name has seemed ubiquitous — repeated on cable television and in the White House briefing room, and plastered on signs outside nightclubs, where her appearance fees have multiplied — there is this to consider: Unlike most perceived presidential adversaries, about whom Mr. Trump is rarely shy, Ms. Clifford has not been the subject of a single tweet.

In addition to this special appearance by Danny Sullivan, SearchFest 09 will present multiple informative learning tracks, workshops, and panel sessions designed to provide direct insight into the most up - to - date strategies and technological advancements in online search marketing.

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia

This particular item can perhaps be dismissed as an oddity, but its appearance underlines the more general point that the most important intellectual and institutional expressions of the Christian faith, including Rome and Canterbury, have found almost nothing of value to say about the current Middle East crises, and more generally about the West's struggle against militant Islam and terrorism, and the terrifying possibilities now facing the entire civilized world.

It's hard for most of us to get past the distraction of appearance, and go beyond to explore the greater value of what we have to offer.

It is therefore reasonable to conclude that if the limb size in our hypothetical population evolved in the most conservative manner, it need only increase at a rate of 0.005 cm per generation (= 50 cm / 10, 000 generations), despite its abrupt appearance in the geological record.

I guess most Christians think Obama went to church just for appearances because that is what most Christians do.

This denial comes most often in the form of a blindness to the particularity of creation, the same kind of blindness that has burdened so many of our Sunday - school classroom walls with a generalized, handsome, and Teutonic Jesus when in fact our Lord was and is no doubt far more Semitic in his actual appearance.

But we must be missing something, because every autumn, when the chestnuts begin to fall from the tree, I can count on the appearance of friendly, silent strangers, most likely pilgrims to the Marian shrine up the hill, stooping under the tree and gathering the dark, shiny nuts into bulging plastic bags.

That said, like the appearance of most Greeks that I just mentioned, if you brought Jesus back to this country today, you'd be able to classify him as «white» at least as much as «black»

Let us admit this frankly, once and for all: what most discredits faith in progress in the eyes of men today, over and above its reticences and its helplessness in meeting the cry of the «last days of the human species», is the unfortunate tendency still shown by its adepts to distort into pitiful millenarianisms all that is most valid and most noble in our now permanently awakened expectation of the future appearance of some form of «ultra-humanity».

While most of the United States was shocked into mourning, the Daily Stormer chose to post a horrific article shaming Heyer for her appearance and lack of children.

Most Protestants (and perhaps many Catholics, also) consider belief in the Marian appearances at Lourdes, Fatima, Guadalupe, etc. to be official Catholic teaching.

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Not only might there be a problem of appearance and reality if the occasions are taken to be the final actual entities in the sense of most developed or last, but there is also another problem, one which concerns time.

Vistas such as these, I know, do not appear to come within the Christian perspective; and because of this most of those who point to them and welcome them seem, at least by implication, to be heralding the appearance of a religion destined to supplant all earlier creeds.

Of all the resurrection appearances, the one which is the most beautiful and moving is the appearance to Mary Magdalene on Easter morning.

The one that grabbed me was «The Hair Styles of Mieczyslaw Rakowski,» by Leopold Tyrmand, about the way this communist official's personal appearance changed from era to era, often quite subtly, the better to fit the most - winning image for a party official at the particular time.

My formula for living with that burden was: utilize as much of one's strength as necessary to keep the inner turmoil subdued and to put up an appearance; the remaining energy will, in most situations, suffice to meet the demands of life.

Most important, Wahlberg argues, is the unique case of the physical Resurrection of Jesus from the dead and his subsequent appearance to his earliest followers.

We must now turn our attention to the New Testament witness concerning the appearances of the exalted Christ, for most scholars agree that they constitute the oldest element in the New Testament tradition of the rise of the Easter faith.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

It is necessary to understand that consciousness, in fact, advances toward the most interior self only at the price of the most extreme attention used in looking for signs and glimpses of the absolute in its appearances.

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For art and design to most properly serve others, then, it must tap into something experiential, even Christlike: «And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death — even death on a cross!»

We take I Corinthians 15 to be our most reliable testimony to the resurrection appearances, as being the only eyewitness report we have.

Idolatry is the basic sin, therefore, that which is deepest in us, most closely related to Original Sin; therefore, most likely to deceive us under the appearance of true worship or integrity or honesty or loyalty or idealism.

Lear reads Plato's dialogues as attempts to explain, by the articulation of a psychology, how irony is possible: «why it is that we are creatures who, for the most part, do not grasp the real situation we are in; and how it is that on occasion an individual is able to break free of appearances and engage in genuine acts of pretense - transcending aspiring.»

And yet, while Brown's most recent work, Love's Body (Random House, Inc., 1966), indicates he is familiar with Barfield's discussions on language as metaphor, Altizer does not seem to see the necessary connection between this concept and Saving the Appearances.

It was still a storefront, but neat and well painted, in marked contrast to the faded appearance of most of the shops and stores in town.

With that in mind, I have noticed that many, if not most new converts can have, in all appearances, a genuine spiritual experience before any high doctrine of «scriptural authority ever enters their head.Now, some may say that just how it works, first you crawl, then you walk... baby food, then the meat, but this is my point... the world is full of «spiritual meatheads»... there are so many believers who wdn't know an original thought, unless of course, they cd find the chapter and verse to unequivocally support it.Is it so difficult to comprehend how a collection of ancient documents may not be the final, complete and indisputable Word of God, but mere human artifacts, sometimes godly, sometimes not, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering.?

The Christian faith claims, most basically, that the universe is neither indifferent nor malevolent, but that there is a power (and a personal power at that) which is on the side of life and its fulfillment — and that we have some clues to specify and flesh out this claim in the life, death and appearances of Jesus of Nazareth.

In France were reported the most famous of the appearances of the Virgin Mary of the nineteenth century — in 1846, to two young shepherds on the plateau of La Salette in Savoy, and in 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous, a peasant girl, in a grotto near Lourdes, which became a shrine where miracles of healing were reported.

Even though they only made a brief appearance during the pregame coin flip, they still managed to be the evening's Most Valuable Player.

The most we can say based on I Corinthians 15 in conjunction with Acts is that the earliest accounts of the resurrection appearances may very well have been less explicit and elaborate than the present ones in the Gospels (which we had already assumed), and were perhaps analogous to the accounts of Paul's experience on the road to Damascus as we find them in the Book of Acts.

Most Likely to Both Convict and Inspire (nominated by Joy Bennett): Alece Ronzino at Deeper Story with «Grace Runs» «No, Jesus didn't avoid the appearance of evil.

There has to be some rules, as if not, residents could end up hanging up the most ridiculous decor and really ruin the appearance of the place.

Here is a (lighter) version of a cake most Russian cooks have up their sleeve — Ant Hill — named for its appearance, fairly simple to make, and out of this world delicious.

They usually make appearances at the most opportune times — on the walk to the beach or driving along some Sonoma County road.

I realize that most of the time, the term «aging gracefully» is bestowed to women who are embracing their natural beauty over a plastic surgery - enhanced appearance.

Stuffed peppers have made plenty of appearances at our house, from our basic Stuffed Pepper Recipe, to Southwestern Stuffed Peppers, and probably the stuffed pepper recipe we make most often, my husband's Creamy Chicken and Mushroom Stuffed Peppers.

We've literally eaten nothing but one pot meals for the past four months, with hardly any barbecue making an appearance on our table this year, so I'm excited to finally have some time to cook some new food after spending most of this year testing new recipes for you to try in a year and a half (ha!).

It is true that what you eat matters when it comes to a healthy outer appearance — you can buy the most expensive creams, treatments, and makeup in the world, but if you are not nourishing your skin from within...