Sentences with phrase «as a novelty in»

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As anyone fighting in the trenches of modern marketing will tell you, the secret to winning isn't technology, it's novelty.

But others point to an overreliance on movie tie - ins and a lack of novelty: Star Wars toys didn't sell as well as expected, perhaps because kids see them as a tired formula.

As The Economist noted in a recent feature, it may become no more than a novelty or a historical curiosity.

We start in that honeymoon phase, but as the novelty wears off and the responsibilities grow, we can start to go through the motions and see only the negatives.

Despite its small footprint, Eatsa has garnered outsized buzz for the novelty of how its restaurants sell and deliver customers their food: Diners place their orders and pay on iPads, then pick up their meal in cubbyholes with doors doubling as digital screens displaying order numbers.

The inherent flaw in this method is habituation: The brain gets used to new odors, and stops responding to them as the novelty decreases.

Entrepreneur magazine reports a rising interest in luxury or novelty products for men, such as bacon - flavored toothpicks and men's shapewear.

There is not much novelty in pointing to regional, cultural or societal differences as a barrier to knowledge exchange.

Unless he is the first over the wall in a large - scale Conservative jail break, Rathgeber's decision to resign from Stephen Harper's caucus and sit as an independent, means he will likely become a short - term political novelty, a dissident whose voice will be silenced as the political circus moves into another ring.

Looking at results sequentially, both conversion and traffic comp improved from fourth quarter levels driving the comp uptick in our bricks and mortar stores as elevated fashion and compelling novelty styles drove improved handbag performance.

In the October 2011 version of their paper entitled «Event Driven Trading and the «New News»», David Leinweber and Jacob Sisk examine the trading acumen of a model (set of filters) trained to exploit Thomson Reuters News Analytics metadata (sentiment tone, stock relevance and novelty as measured by link counts).

SharafDG is one of the most popular electronic retailers in the UAE, hosting many laptops, mobile phones and all manners of electronic novelties, However, As is the case with most of the electronic shops in the UAE, The management / staff are utterly clueless as to proper security practices since «no one ever breached us so why should we care»As is the case with most of the electronic shops in the UAE, The management / staff are utterly clueless as to proper security practices since «no one ever breached us so why should we care»as to proper security practices since «no one ever breached us so why should we care»?

While a commercial Moon delivery service may seem like a novelty to some, Astrobotic CEO Jim Thornton knows that such a service fills a very real need in the marketplace — in fact, as Thornton explains to Chad Anderson in this week's Space Angels podcast, Astrobotic has over a hundred deals in their pipeline, all awaiting rides to the lunar surface.

Augmented reality has for too long been dismissed as a gimmick in the marketing industry, a novelty worth trialling but not something to include as part...

Bitcoin is just a blip in history, destined to fade away as the novelty wears off.

«By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

In reality, The Grey Album comes off as little more than a novelty.

On the contrary, given the presumption of a collective agency for the cell as a unified field of activity, it makes excellent sense to account for the stability of the field in terms of societies of inanimate actual occasions with their ongoing transmission of fixed patterns and for the vitality of the field in terms of the nexus of living occasions with their higher degree of novelty and originality.

The degree to which an actuality departs from a prior entity is determined by a number of factors, the flux of occurrent sensation, the baseline activity at each phase as it is activated, the decay of prior states and the emergent novelty inherent in the becoming process.

To pick out just three: that which Deleuze theorizes as «the virtual» bears a certain similarity to Whiteheadian pure potentiality; likewise, the elements of the virtual, namely, what Deleuze calls «Ideas,» play a role comparable to that attributed to eternal objects; finally, the factor in the Deleuzean system which corresponds most closely to Whitehead's notion of creativity — that ultimate principle by which the production of novelty is to be thought — goes, for Deleuze, under the name of «productive difference,» or «Difference in itself?»

As such, in the Deleuzean chaosmos, many factors (many features of God and of his various roles, both traditional and Whiteheadian) putatively necessary for the production of novelty are eliminated.

He wishes to associate novelty with men in history and stability with natural beauty, yet he never indicates how the latter can be without content and still serve as a model for society.

Necessarily unintelligible insofar as the very conditions for the production of novelty (viz. disjunctive syntheses of incompossibles) entail that intensive (potential) differences will always already be cancelled within the novel extensities and qualities in which they are actualized --(through the conjunctive syntheses of compossibles; in Whitehead's terms: through a demand for «balanced complexity» — the integration of incompatibilities into realizable contrasts, cf. PR 278).

But if, as Deleuze insists, that factor he calls «difference in itself» creates the requisite conditions for novelty, then the disjunction involved will be a genuinely affirmative synthesis within which «divergence is no longer a principle of exclusion, and disjunction no longer a means of separation.

Needless to say, as we have seen previously, the capacity for novelty is minimal, even negligible, in many actualities, thus, presumably, their responses are more in accord with the divine call than those of more complex creatures; the greater the degree of complexity, the greater the capacity to misuse freedom and refuse or diverge from God's call.

Even though Whitehead says «the novelty received from the aggregate diversities of bodily expressions... requires decision» to reduce it to a coherent expression (Modes 36), still the diversities once received are determinate object / parts logically required to remain as they are in order to retain the self - identity of the process / whole.

And, as we have seen, the notion of God arises in «the question whether the process of the temporal world passes into other actualities, bound together in an order in which novelty does not mean loss.

In the liturgy as well as in other departments of the Church's life there are regrettable excrescences and an arbitrary desire for novelties which must be repressed courageously and charitablIn the liturgy as well as in other departments of the Church's life there are regrettable excrescences and an arbitrary desire for novelties which must be repressed courageously and charitablin other departments of the Church's life there are regrettable excrescences and an arbitrary desire for novelties which must be repressed courageously and charitably.

Rather, it is a variation of these along with the demonry of personality itself, of man's moral and rational capacities in tension with the sensitivities of spirit as a higher dimension of freedom and goodness which grasp him as a novelty of grace within his human structure, judging him, yet summoning him to that which is beyond his own human order of good.

Heidegger seems to me obviously correct in regarding modernity's nihilism as the fruition of seeds sown in pagan soil; and Nietzsche also correct to call attention to Christianity's shocking — and, for the antique order of noble values, irreparably catastrophic — novelty; but neither grasped why he was correct.

Indeed, [d] expresses the same tension between order and novelty that was already expressed in the lines that precede it, except that the tension is expressed, in [d], in a technical language (with terms such as physical feelings and intellectual feelings) that is not used in the immediate context.

Vast as the actual world is, and insistent as actual occasions are upon realizing novelty, the potential variety contained in the actual situation is finite.

The situation is somewhat different with Lewis Ford, whose article in the collection, «The Nature of the Power of the Future,» continues his long - term effort to forge a bridge between Whitehead and Pannenberg.4 The crux of Ford's project is to reconceive God as pure becoming and the source of all becoming (creativity, novelty).

Each of these two types secures stability amidst environmental novelty, but the former overwhelms and virtually eliminates these intrusions and thereby persists much as we observe in crystals, rocks, planets and suns.

As a matter of fact, Whitehead refers to «order» and «novelty» as «elements» in the very next section (section 3As a matter of fact, Whitehead refers to «order» and «novelty» as «elements» in the very next section (section 3as «elements» in the very next section (section 3).

If there be any divine warrant for a church (in this day), there is a divine warrant for a Creed, as a test of union, a bond of fellowship, a fence against error, and a shield against that spirit of restless inspiration, which esteems every novelty an improvement....

There is continuity here insofar as the religious problem is formulated in the terms of the tension between order and novelty that is discussed before [d].

Indeed, this dual character is precisely the nature of life in its basic organic sense as well as in its religious dimension: an appetitive urge toward what might be, and an inertial contentment with what is: freedom paired with conformity, novelty with repetition.

In Process and Reality Alfred North Whitehead dealt extensively with God as an indispensable part of his metaphysical system, as that without which there would be no order or novelty and, hence, no world.

As a potential, it functions to lure women toward novelty, novelty rooted in actuality.

The shallow novelty, the low - cost nihilism, and the vague and sentimental spiritual pretensions of so much contemporary art — in every medium — are the legacy of this schism, as well as the cynicism that pervades the arts world.

Brief as they are, these remarks should indicate to someone familiar with Whitehead's scheme of ideas how I would propose to deal with the topics of order, novelty, and subjective aim in a Whiteheadian scheme stripped of the concept «God.»

Furthermore, by its novelty miracle impels a recognition of order, not in the sense of a regular occurrence, but as a given structure or condition which is this rather than that.

Whitehead, in contrast, introduces God as the organ of novelty.

The philosophy of organism culminates in a new metaphysical theology.12 In Whitehead's view, «The most general formulation of the religious problem is the question whether the process of the temporal world passes into the formation of other actualities, bound together in an order in which novelty does not mean loss» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 517)-- as it does in the temporal worlin a new metaphysical theology.12 In Whitehead's view, «The most general formulation of the religious problem is the question whether the process of the temporal world passes into the formation of other actualities, bound together in an order in which novelty does not mean loss» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 517)-- as it does in the temporal worlIn Whitehead's view, «The most general formulation of the religious problem is the question whether the process of the temporal world passes into the formation of other actualities, bound together in an order in which novelty does not mean loss» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 517)-- as it does in the temporal worlin an order in which novelty does not mean loss» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 517)-- as it does in the temporal worlin which novelty does not mean loss» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 517)-- as it does in the temporal worlin Cosmology 517)-- as it does in the temporal worlin the temporal world.

God is still that supreme reality who on the one hand maintains order and provides novelty and on the other hand through the process of nature and history secures ends that are incorporated into the divine self (in the divine «consequent nature,» as process thinkers would say), and thus validates and vindicates what is done in the world.

In particular, false propositions would amine our sensitivity to novelty, difference such that a moral life would entail living, as Nietzsche remarked, «beyond good and evil.»

The problem is not the need to explain continuity as explained by determinism, but the need to explain originality which in turn leads to the concept of God as the source of»... the initial aim from which self - causation starts» and evolves into people who are self - creating entities, actively participating in their own creation, capable of creating novelty and assuming responsibility.

Morgenthau: «The great overriding issue that we must face in our government and that other governments must face as well lies in the discrepancy between our conventional modes of thought and action on the one hand and the unprecedented novelty of the objective conditions under which we live.

His analogy is functionalist: physical inheritance in prehension functions like the general populace which predominates in a tradition - rooted society; the novelty of the conceptual pole of a prehension plays the same role as the originative activities of the «fortunate classes», the middle class entrepreneurs, who predominate in modern society.