Sentences with phrase «as figments»

Naively drawn totem animals work as figments of the imagination.

Miraculous healings have always been part of the supernaturalist stock in trade, and have always been dismissed by the scientist as figments of the imagination.

The typical Western man probably feels sure that angels, devils, and spirits do not exist in reality but only as figments in deluded imaginations, but he is not ashamed to admit that he does not yet know whether there are such entities as people on other planets.

In a rebuttal, the Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ishmael Ashittey described the NDC «s agenda as a figment of their imagination.

In a chat with the Nigeria Politics Online, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Habib Haruna, described Banire's claim as a figment of his imagination.

He further said that the National Democratic Congress has denied the authenticity of a similar report published by the Daily Guide Newspaper in response to him through his Lawyers and insinuated that the reports should best be treated as a figment of some people's imagination

In doing so any nuanced investigation into any aspect of the Trump Presidency is smothered and overwhelmed as a figment of the fake news.

I'm more inclined to think he isn't screwing with her head he is in her head as a figment of imagination.

Which means that Inherent Vice's presence here will likely be remembered, like the film itself, as a figment of a drug - addled imagination.

The list goes on and on for a while to include neo-Nazis and federal agents, a prescription - snorting dentist (Martin Short) and a maritime lawyer (Benicio Del Toro), and the proprietor (Hong Chau) of a brothel that's run like a buffet and an ethereal presence named Sortilège (Joanna Newsom), who spouts astrological trivia while perhaps existing only as a figment of Doc's drug - addled mind.

It never tries to present Manny as a figment of Hank's imagination, or a symptom of a psychotic break.

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gulliblenomore There is no such thing as nothing (I prefer Spinoza who argued there is only existence) before or after your existence which makes the curtain a figment of imagination where you have no proof that such a curtain exists.

Additionally, there is no such thing as pleasure, pain, joy, sorrow, etc. - it is all a figment of our imagination.

I suppose that the «holy» wars» deaths» and the conversion techniques of such times as the Spanish Inquisition, and such nice fellows as Sain Olaf, who chopped the heads off of non-convertable Europeans, all is simply a figment of the imagination.

Therefore a reasonable person rightly grasp that Zeus was just a figment of the ancient Greeks imagination, a way to salve their conscience as to how they perceived the «world» came into existence.

Is the figment of one person's imagination the same as that of another?

Some consider God as a myth, a figment of one's imagination, outside of reality.

This rules out the possibility of the event having taken place and Satan existing as a being, not just a figment of the imagination.

Similarly, God is not opposed, except perhaps as an ill - formed figment of your fevered imagination, because it is just not there to oppose.

Soon after, we find Christians heartily mocking other, irrational gods of the time which, being so hopelessly capricious, were to them no more than the work of human hands or, as we would say, the figments of men's imaginations.

Hot Girls Wanted chronicles four young women — this is a documentary, so they're real young women, not figments of someone's imagination — as they seek fame and fortune as porn models, showing their rapid progression from posing for photos in lingerie to participating in hard - core humiliation and bondage videos.

He knows all about this — in order not to follow it, but rather by the very opposite conduct to keep as free as possible of these deceptions, that he himself may not adopt any illicit way of deriving some advantage from the Good (earning money, distinction, and admiration) and so that he may deceive no one by a figment of the imagination.

Your little twerp of a deity is just a figment of your imagination, as all the other gods were / are.

The truth is this: that since atheists are people who have allowed a part their beings to die, how can they possibly understand those who speak of life which they not know??? It's like when a blind man would argue with the one who sees, telling him that there is no such thing as sight, and all the beauty he's seeing and describing to him is just the figment of his immagination...!!!

Based on that same freedom I referred to at the beginning I will share this thought with all, I'd rather spend my whole life seving Jesus, die, to then find out the this heaven was a figment of my imagination, than no believing, endorsing writings such as this, doubting Jesus, die, to then discover that hell was all so true.

Stop describing figments of your and your religious leaders» imagination as facts.

When they are doing their worst with us there is no comfort in being told that they are figments of our imagination, and that they must be accepted as part of the world we live in.

The battered wife sent back to her husband with a pastor's exhortation to bear her cross as Christ did is sadly no figment of imagination.

I think that everyone would like to believe that said abuse is a figment of Evra's imagination, but with the matter already going to the FA and Evra claiming that he was referred to as «a certain word» ten times or more, things are obviously starting to spiral out of control.

Is the Bear just the figment of an advertising man's imagination or is he a worthwhile, as well as a beloved, symbol?

as soon as you realize that this injury thing is a figment of someone's imagination, you'll agree.

To briefly sum up his thoughts, he described this film as a depiction of a middle - aged man who prefers to live in fantasy and who chases an unattainable ideal across the globe, only to realize this figment of happiness is a creation of his own feelings of cowardice and insecurity.

But regional executives of the NPP have described the intent as a dream and a figment of their imagination.

«As such, it is evidently clear that any allegations that the Jonathan government wasted trillions is not a well thought out allegation at best and is a figment of the imagination of the makers at worse.

None of our academic staff ever granted an interview stating that Korede wouldn't be allowed to write exams, so I see the reports as mere figments of the imagination of the people who wrote them,» the source said.

«The claim that «EFCC operatives subjected our staff to crude intimidation, psychological and emotional trauma, even as some of the men accused our organisation of publishing pro-Biafra, Boko Haram, and Niger Delta Militant stories,» is strange and clearly the figment of the imagination of the Sun.

As long as they don't have the majority, the call is a tall dream that will remain a figment of the imagination of the groups and their sponsors,» Senator Ibrahim saiAs long as they don't have the majority, the call is a tall dream that will remain a figment of the imagination of the groups and their sponsors,» Senator Ibrahim saias they don't have the majority, the call is a tall dream that will remain a figment of the imagination of the groups and their sponsors,» Senator Ibrahim said.

As one of the world's leading authorities on ancient seafaring, he has devoted much of his career to hunting down hard evidence of ancient human migrations, searching for something most archaeologists long thought a figment: Ice Age mariners.

Is there any chance that the bigon is just a figment — or some kind of ridiculous April Fool's joke, as virtually all other physicists are saying?

The mapinguari is also said to be another Bigfoot, a figment of the imagination of people like Dos Santos — and of a prominent scientist named David C. Oren, whose relentless quest to find one is growing as legendary as the beast itself.

Now the man once known as Father Donaldson has become Hellinger, an unstoppable demon with a unquenchable hunger for human souls and a special place in his black heart for the girl who now thinks he was a mere figment of her imagination.

At first the film is played out as a fantasy where you are almost certain that you are going to discover that Hesher is a figment of the boy's imagination.

And while Cruz struggles a little, much of the rest of the cast, particularly in the smaller roles (Noah Taylor, Tilda Swinton, Timothy Spall, Jason Lee and especially Kurt Russell as Cruise's psychiatrist, raging at the revelation that he's a figment of his imagination) are wonderful.

Unfortunately, society is Just Too Straitlaced, Man to deal with their forbidden love, so they keep it hidden with the help of a pair of gay dressmakers (one of whom is played by Alan Cumming)-- caricatures who are mincing one - note stereotypes at best, figments that would be denounced as deeply problematic were this movie's politics not in the right place.

In the opposite corner, Helen McCrory continues to prove Eva's worthy adversary, while Logan is careful not to present us with a CGI Devil or similar critter: the beast is, as it has always been, a figment of her personality, an internal force as much as an external tempter.

NOTE: Interestingly, the screenwriter initially envisioned the film as a more subtle, psychological character piece in which the creatures were merely the figment of a mentally ill young boy's imagination, but, uh... well, it didn't quite turn out that way.

In his 1997 book Figments of Reality, British mathematician coined the term extelligence — which refers to the intellectual capital that is available through external media such as video and audio.

The truth about this e-book «revolution» is that is was simply a figment of the imaginations of those in the e-book industry and the «revolution» only existed as long as the venture capital money lasted and that ran out some time ago.

I am curious as to how others decided that the affair with the student was only a figment of Arthur's mind.

Bodies pile up in her wake across Texas and New Mexico as the walls around her own secrets begin to crumble, and the authorities question whether the child is anything but a figment of her imagination.