Sentences with phrase «as a strange form»

-- with a great show of reluctance relinquished the bed to Mr. Goncourt as a strange form of pledge, a hostage in reverse — a talisman, perhaps — assuring that this would always and forever remain his vehicle.

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The «Keeping Up with the Kardashians» star certainly knows by now that she can never please everyone — so our guess is that she treated this strange form of mom - shaming like business as usual.

All bets are on the table as to whether he will deliver it in some form of another (dragons aren't real, by the way) but the boss of Tesla, SpaceX, and a few other tech companies is no stranger to pulling gags with his witty Twitter posts.

Or, like the rest of us that took one baby step further, realized that it is ok to say «I don't know, and may never know, but will ask questions until I am satisfied (which is never) and meanwhile will «treat all others with the respect I expect from a stranger, as well as whenever possible and reasonable will treat all life forms with respect and dignity.»

«Despite the tremendous increase in geological activity in every corner of the globe and despite the discovery of many strange and hitherto unknown forms, the infinitude of connecting links has still not been discovered and the fossil record is about as discontinuous as it was when Darwin was writing the Origin.»

It may be a puzzling one — this strange mixture of theism and pantheism — but it functions as a God - concept for him and forms the basis of his thought.

It is a strange story, surely not meant to be taken as a literal record of an actual encounter with Satan in bodily form.

As one who accepted the strange vocation of being an apocalyptic seer, Blake was not in quest of a hidden but ancient mythical form; instead, he was engaged in a desperate search for a new mythical «system» by which he might record the dawning of a final movement of redemption in the arena of our totally fallen history.

Early Old Testament: God's presence shows up in burning bushes, rods / staffs, other physical manifestations, and as «strangers» or «forms» different than «just men.»

Unless we are to suppose that there is little or no correlation between the initial aim and the final form of the subjective aim — a very strange supposition — we must assume vast differences in the initial aims derived from God by a primitive man and by an Einstein, or for that matter, between myself as I drop off to sleep in the evening and as I write these words.

Third, and perhaps most significant as something new in Christian education, we can assist students in understanding by illuminating the strange logical forms which the language about God takes.

So we have the strange phenomenon, as Kant assures us, of a mind believing with all its strength in the real presence of a set of things of no one of which it can form any notion whatsoever.

The first is that, as an instinctive Platonist, I naturally believe that every genuine act of human creativity is simultaneously an innovation and a discovery, a marriage of poetic craft and contemplative vision that captures traces of eternity's radiance in fugitive splendors here below by translating our tacit knowledge of the eternal forms into finite objects of reflection, at once strange and strangely familiar.

It sees the truth of any sort of object (say an apple) not as that object itself, in its strange and lovely transience, passing through its various moments of existence (seed, tree, ripened fruit hanging on the bough, fruit eaten or moldering away) but as the unchanging form on which it is modeled (the apple that never shines forth in the beauty of its own color, that has no flavor or fragrance, that has never lived).

Thus, children are exposed to the risk of coming into the world as strangers, in which the biological ties that form the natural family are arbitrarily broken.

They came out perfectly formed but a bit strange but I'm not going to somehow blame you for that or that lack of bananas on a Saturday, as some commenters might!

Their story begins back in 1900 on a small isolated Pacific island known as Ocean Island with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discovered.

Lubbock has produced: Rock and roll, in the form of Buddy Holly; the Texas singer - songwriter tradition as personified by Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, and Butch Hancock, strange hacker / culture jammers of the 80s, the Cult of the Dead Cow, pioneering pornography industry member Michael Morrison, who broke ground by selling the Pamela Anderson / Tommy Lee sex tape online, and the Lubbock Lights, a major UFO / lights - in - the sky deal.

Arsenal can go second in the Premier League table, which would be good for the Gunners of course, because yesterday was one of those strange days when nothing went as planned or as the form guide would lead us to believe, with every single one of our main rivals for the title dropping points, or those who played anyway.

Strange little man, though I believe in fate and if he isn't coming there is a reason, hopefully in the form of a top name goalscorer... as usual time will tell..

It's easy to see why Jenkinson could form part of the deal as he has struggled to hold down a role at the Emirates, but it certainly would seem strange to include Oxlade - Chamberlain in it.

Ancelotti insists that he is selecting his keeper on form only, but it does seem strange that Casillas, who is widely regarded as one of the very best in the world, can not get a game.

You may find it strange, but sometimes the physician forgets to actually check the «clear» box on the version of the most commonly used preparticipation evaluation form - the one produced by the group of five medical organizations known as the «Five Society Monograph» - which is used in various versions around the country.

Accepting space and time as forms of animal sense perception (that is, as biological), rather than as external physical objects, offers a new way of understanding everything from the microworld (for instance, the reason for strange results in the two - slit experiment) to the forces, constants, and laws that shape the universe.

Strange green flatworms, also known as «mint - sauce worms,» collect together in shallow waters along much of Europe's Atlantic coast, forming what researchers call a «superorganism.»

If you're just getting started, many of the more ballistic moves (such as swings or push presses) will be a little strange to you, so start with a light weight to perfect your form.

Their story begins back in 1900 on a small isolated Pacific island known as Ocean Island with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discovered.

They may seem strange at first, but as soon as you start performing reps, you'll see how applicable they are to maintaining proper form.

It may feel strange to think of tighter clothing as flattering to a larger body, but showing the world a defined form will create a more pleasing silhouette than showing the world a formless mass.

As Thanos moves closer to his goal, the old alliances are split, and new ones — like Thor teaming up with Rocket and Groot, Dr. Strange having to deal with Tony and Peter, or the renegade former Avengers finding their way to Black Panther's (Chadwick Boseman) realm of Wakanda — form.

If there is anything I didn't like about the film, it's Cameron's lack of realism when dealing with the roles of children, especially Jonathan Lipnicki's (Stuart Little, The Little Vampire) character as the boy that Maguire forms a bond with, as he's too unrealistic in demeanor and too strange looking to buy as a real kid, and for that matter the same goes for Tyson Tidwell's (Suarez, The Ladykillers) demeanor (son of Rod) as well.

Launer based the premise of the film on the lyrics to the classic song of the same name by The Clovers, which is a strange form of inspiration for a film, but in its own limited, predictable fashion, it works as a pleasant and occasionally funny comic diversion.

DLC is no stranger to the Fire Emblem series as it has been a huge part of it as far as the recent instalments have gone and just like with them and Hyrule Warriors, Fire Emblem Warriors is to also receive its own extra content in the form of 3 packs that will add new maps, new costumes and characters, with a Season Pass available to purchase the day it releases, but before the first pack arrives in December, as well as Story Mode, there is of course History Mode.

Whatever new identity he may claim, there's no way to escape the wrath of «mysterious strangers» like Rodney Cole (Frank Langella, chilling as always); whatever alliances he may form with outsiders, he represents too great a danger to them to be indulged for long.

Not to mention a strange device, a large metallic bracelet that is latched on to one of his arms, that springs to life as a form of self - protection and unleashes with a thunderous boom of laser energy at whatever it points at.

Growing up, they were subjected to the never ending saga of their parents» famed performance art, wherein the family would travel around and stage confrontational situations with strangers, believing the natural reactions created constituted as the only real art form there really is (including fake bank robberies, pretending to heckle their kids during a street performance, manipulating a high school staging of Romeo and Juliet, etc.).

Hostiles As a by - product of orders Captain Joseph Blocker (Christian Bale) receives that require the safe delivery of ailing Native - American tribal leader Chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi) to his homeland hundreds of rough miles away, a strange, unlikely family is formed.

This strange look at director Agnes Varda and photographer / muralist J.R. as they travel through rural France and form an unlikely friendship is just fascinating.

Hannie Caulder, that bizarre European - based western of last year, included a wealth of outrageousness that seemed to presage a return to grace and a renewal of promise for Kennedy the director: Raquel Welch strutting around the desert naked under a poncho, Robert Culp prancing auspiciously out of the wilderness in El Topo hat and granny glasses to teach her how to shoot; brothers Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin, and Jack Elam forming a manically inept criminal trio who nevertheless managed to be lethal for two of Hannie's menfolk; Christopher Lee as a gaunt and happy gunsmith and family man living on the seashore; and a never - identified stranger in elegant black who materialized wordlessly now and again to collaborate in Hannie's adventures.

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The placemat includes: • The national curriculum's definition of how pronouns and determiners overlap • The national curriculum's definition of an exclamation • The difference between prepositions and subordinating conjunctions depending on the word's function • Concise, technically accurate definitions of tricky concepts such as adverbs; the overlapping nature of adverbials with other areas of grammar; and all verb forms and tenses from the subjunctive form to the present perfect FULL VERSION INCLUDES SECTIONS ON: • Word classes • Functions of sentences • Sentence construction • Verb forms and tense • Punctuation • Vocabulary I've left the file as a word document as it kept going all strange when I tried to convert it to PDF!

Now, in a strange - bedfellows twist, Ms. Rhee has named Mr. Parker as the first senior fellow of Students First, the national group she formed after stepping down as chancellor last fall.

Veteran YA author Andrew Smith is no stranger to metaphor: The dark horrorscapes that mirror real world terrors in The Marbury Lens (and its companion novel Passenger) established him as a master of the form.

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and although I was not scammed financially, I learned that the odds of having a stranger in my court as some form of literary fire power, was really less than zero.

Gemma is also a writer who has created form - busting projects such as Speak to Strangers and 5 am London.

Asus, which has form when it comes to cooking up strange combo designs - witness the PadFone - obviously thinks that's the case as the new Transformer Book Trio is both: a 10 - inch Android tablet and a Windows 8.1 notebook.

I teach price action as you probably know (honestly, if you don't know that by now you need to checkout this article right now: price action trading introduction), and it's not simply some strange coincidence that I teach this particular form of trading, I also personally trade with price action... because it is simple (and effective).

Some pets will only tremble when under some form of duress, such as when approached by strange people and animals, or during thunderstorms.

Colonies of these polyps form the reef structure growing in strange and exotic shapes from which the different varieties of corals take their popular names, such as brain coral, staghorn coral and elkhorn coral.