Sentences with phrase «as blind alleys»

Many will remember the late 1960s as the time when the modernist fever finally broke, when the ever - narrowing pursuit of flatness and optical purity was revealed as a blind alley at best, or a whitewashing fantasy at worst.

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Kierkegaard conceived it his function as a writer to strip men of their disguises, to compel them to see evasions for what they are, to label blind alleys, to cut off men's retreats, to tear down the niggardly roofs they continue to build over their precious sun - dials, to isolate men from the crowd, to enforce self - examination, and to bring them solitary and alone before the Eternal.

We see paws turned into pincers, paws equipped with hooves for running, burrowing paws and muzzles, winged paws, beaks, tusks and so on — innumerable adaptations giving birth to as many phyla, and each ending in a blind - alley of specialization.

They point to these as egotistical blind alleys filled with danger for the seeker.

David Landry can testify that his Tuesday noon downtown group or his Sunday evening sermon forum, while not robbing him of his calling to preach the gospel as he sees it, has nevertheless kept him out of many blind alleys in seeking to ride the trajectory of the text into today.

In The So - called Historical Jesus and the Historic Biblical Christ (1896), Martin Kähler described the search for the historical Jesus as a «blind alley».

the whole transfer policy is utter bullsh!t, NOW we will be charged over the odds for a CB as everybody knows we are desperate, IF we'd have brought in Adequiet cover last season or two seasons agao this would, nt be a problem but the frugality of the board and manager has lead us up yet another blind alley.

He has done well and fights hard, which he has needed to do as he runs down blind alleys as much as jack wiltshere.

For Jurgen Klopp there was that familiar creep of dread as he stood on the touchline with his team dominating the possession but running down the same blind alleys, and the cold realisation setting in that inevitably, inexorably Jose Mourinho was doing his thing.

Liverpool 0 West Ham 0: The howls of frustration around Anfield as Luis Suárez sent a corner straight out of play and Glen Johnson ran into another blind alley encapsulated another story of torment for Liverpool.

Branislav Ivanovic almost gifted the visitors a free run at Thibaut Courtois goal as he dawdled in possession and sought to turn away down the blind alley he should have been trying to guide Philippe Coutinho down.

N'Zogbia, Abgonlahor and Scott Sinclair are all attacking options who tend to run down blind alleys and share finishing best described as «wayward» but often approaching «wildly incompetent».

«If they become, in a sense, more representative of their membership as a whole, they would not be leading either themselves or the Labour Party down what I regard as a pretty blind alley.»

If they become in a sense more representative of their membership as a whole they would not be leading either themselves or the Labour party down what I regard as a pretty blind alley.»

I shan't rehearse all the ways we have acted as if (a) is true and what I consider to be the blind alleys it has led us up - you can read my many past articles on the point in the unlikely event that you care what I thought.

Famous mathematical conjectures may not be as amenable, because those problems tend to have a long history — and experts already know all the blind alleys.

A problem we all want to avoid as single Christians who have enough trouble meeting people already, let alone going down lots of blind alleys.

Multiple genre cliches are affectionately trotted out — the trenchcoats, the cigarettes, the Venetian blinds, the clattering typewriters, the alleys, the pool halls, the gambling parlor, the clattering typewriters, the shadowy stalkers, the apartment trashed in a futile search, the gun pointed through a pocket — as Hammett pursues both the lost girl and an overdue manuscript which he has foolishly dropped.

Here he charts the brief rise and dramatic fall of Invicta's post-war blind alley / Brasier, part one — Sébastien Faurès Fustel de Coulanges begins his in - depth study of Charles - Henri Brasier's racing cars, focussing on the early years of the marque / Pebble Beach — Paul d'Orléans throws caution to the wind and tells us exactly what he thinks of the vehicles on show at the world's most prosperous concours / Amiens GP Centenary — Stefan Marjoram joins a group of British enthusiasts as they head to Amiens to celebrate the centenary of the 1913 French Grand Prix / Goodwood Revival — David Venables brings us his report of all the action, both on and off the track, from another exciting Goodwood Revival weekend

In the GLAM specced ADAM on test, other standard features complement the blind spot assist; such as front and rear park distance control mated with Advanced Park Assist (APA2) which automatically parks the car, either in parallel or alley docking — a system that works flawlessly and even straightens out to avoid parking too far over to either side of a bay.

Driving here is a nightmare, since the streets are so narrow, and the GPS takes me down blind alleys as I try to make my way to Hotel Novecentro.

A blog is described as «heavily criticised» (by whom I wonder — no don't bother, it was a rhetorical question), and a confusion among the troops ensues by the cleverly inserted link «it was the sun wot done it», which if followed, leads you down a blind alley about the Thatcher election being won by virtue of the Sun newspaper editorials.

So maybe it's just as well that you chose to lead yourself up a blind alley.

John Brookes Following on from your first few paragraphs you could have just as easily written «Science has been up a few blind alleys so why would climate science be any different?»

And, yeah, there are always going to be dead ends, blind alleys, and ripoff alternatives offered as «green» when something turns out to have problems, as HCFCs turned out to be greenhouse gases.

Orthogonal to coaching, a lawyer might well wish a client to research factual issues, especially anything the client has some experience with, to help identify facts the lawyer might not know to as about, and especially to exclude researching blind alleys from becoming part of the lawyer's more expensive efforts.