Sentences with phrase «as imitation of»

Defining what AI really means is too complex for what this article is trying to achieve, so for now we will simply define it as an imitation of the ability to draw conclusions and make decisions based on information given and prior experience.

The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two - dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time - honoured theories of art as the imitation of nature.

The faceless portraits from carpet swatches act more as logos or conceptual deconstruction as an imitation of the formerly porteyed — banned immortaly in oil.

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An early example was Betty Cavanna's 1946 novel Going on Sixteen, which was as much an homage to as an imitation of Daly's novel.

They are suspicious of the exaltation of suffering as the imitation of Christ.

Otherwise, the Wahhabi fanatics condemned mevlud as an imitation of Christian devotions to Jesus.

It can degenerate into a war of all against all, as imitation of the desires of others leads to rivalry with them.

Not exact matches

In Gatsby, the Rumsey estate appears in slightly modified form, as Gatsby's own house: «a colossal affair by any standard — it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.»

Chobani's McGuinness pointed to too many products, too much duplication and imitation, as well as a lack of innovation in yogurt for declines in the category.

For example, Michele Bachmann has her own off - beat, opinionated social media flair, taking to Facebook make quips such as: «Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery; thank you Governor Perry for using my ideas for your tax plan.»

While imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, doing things exactly as they have been done in the past does not catch the interest (and money) of any given market.

I just finished reading a Henri Nouwen book «Wounded Healer» and the following sentence just resonated with me: `... the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his».

Of course, that Catholic culture was fading at exactly the moment the Land O» Lakes statement codified its necessity, and that left us only with things like Land O» Lakes and its many imitations and successors: documents that define America's Catholic colleges as institutions that exist fundamentally over against the Church.

One is not so much indebted to a particular mind in imitation of that mind as he is an inheritor of truth about reality insofar as that mind has cogently expressed it and turned one to desire the truth of things.

The resurrection stands as God's tangible sign that implementing Jesus» nonviolent ethics now is not a foolish imitation of a visionary fanatic but rather a sane submission to the One who is Lord of heaven and earth.

Now Presbyterorum ordinis (PO, Vatican II) had already spoken of priestly celibacy as the imitation ofChrist's own celibacy.

'' If any one asserts, that this sin of Adam, which in its origin is one, and being transfused into all by propagation, not by imitation, is in each one as his own, is taken away either by the powers of human nature, or by any other remedy than the merit of the one mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ... let him be anathema.»

The Church canonizes a person when his or her life is recognized as having heroic sanctity and being therefore worthy of imitation.

The element becomes personal only in so far as (in imitation of that Omega point which draws it onwards) it becomes universal.

The definition of art as the effort to exalt some beauty in nature, but not to enslave man to mere imitation, is Camus» aesthetic equivalent to the notion of a dynamic value in nature.

As Christians, our most «deeply held religious belief» is that Jesus Christ died on the cross for sinful people, and that in imitation of that, we are called to love God, to love our neighbors, and to love even our enemies to the point of death.

Catholic laymen must take up their place in life and face their family, their love, their children (who perhaps do not always come up to their expectations), their professional duties which grow ever more irksome and their duties as citizens; in doing so they will meet situations in which, because they reflect on their faith, they will know how to behave as Christians living in the grace of God, the light of the gospel and the imitation of the crucified Christ.

A beautifully written piece of literary criticism that mines the depth of the connection between O'Connor's achievement as a novelist and her quest, in imitation of the desert fathers, for aloneness with God.

And it is not so much imitation of the picture of Jesus given in the New Testament as it is imitation of the response which is God's action and to which the New Testament witnesses, whereby God's intention in creating us «toward the divine self» is manifested in a concrete human life.

But then on the other hand how on earth can one expect to find an essential consciousness of sin (and after all that is what Christianity wants) in a life which is so retarded by triviality, by a chattering imitation of «the others,» that one hardly can call it sin, that it is too spiritless to be so called, and fit only, as the Scripture says, to be «spewed out»?

This is not a lifeless imitation, but a decision to identify ourselves as radically as he did with both God's will and the suffering and need of men.

So we are delivered from the «imitation of Jesus» type of theology and from that kind of reductionist thinking which interpreted Christianity as «following a great prophet» and nothing more.

In a much more abstract sense one may speak of Christian discipleship as imitation.

However, true to the idea of imitation, the goal of the «conduct» prescribed by the Mahayana ethic can never be to attain this Nirvana (whose precise nature is still unknown to us) as quickly as possible.

It follows that the highest command can no longer be the attainment of individual salvation — as Pali Buddhism formulates the goal of its way of life — but rather the imitation of the Buddha, who in turn is understood to be not merely a model for the attainment of one's own salvation, in the Hinayanist autosoteriological sense, but a universal world savior.

What we need is not imitation but the affirmation of our own heritage as a viable source of identity and renewal.

· Whilst tradition in England has people carrying Palm branches in imitation of Christ's triumphal procession into Jerusalem, in Italy they usually carry olive branches and strew their churches with bay leaves, so that the Palm Sunday Procession leaves the most delightful smell, as those walking by crush the leaves as they go.

«Biblical natural law,» he argues, «avoids the self - cleaving tendency in anthropocentric natural - law doctrine and instead recognizes human fulfillment as achieved through imitation of the divine ecstasis.»

What Pius XII was ring - fencing in Humanae Generis was the Tridentine definition of Original Sin being passed on by generation not by imitation, not the existence of an individual named Adam as such.

Since Aristotle, we've known there is something pleasurable about mimesis, the imitation of life as it is portrayed in drama, literature and even sermons, especially when the mimetic activity accurately portrays our most cherished or fearful experiences.

Such imitation, however, is not nearly so simple as it might seem, for what Cobb asks of the individual believer in our own generation is to relate effectively to the example of one from whom we are distanced in virtually countless ways.

All the various aspects of the teaching of Jesus are closely interrelated, and to speak ofiesus as teaching the necessity of response to the neighbour's need as the crucial aspect of human relationships is misleading, unless it is clearly understood that this is an imitation of God's response to one's own need.

But God's own self - sacrifice is itself the criterion of human existence as well, ans in our imitation of God's own self - emptying, we would discover our own proper limits.

According to The Random House Dictionary, plagiarism is «the appropriation or imitation of the language, ideas, and thoughts of another author, and representation of them as one's original work» (italics mine).

Drawing on the humanists» assumptions about teaching and learning, the Reformers viewed the catechism as a kind of classic text to be internalized through imitation and practice.

Until recently those sciences have been marred by a slavish imitation of the methods and concepts of the physical sciences (as, for example, in behavioristic psychology).

The individual models which it has set up as typical and worthy of imitation are not only the more interesting dramatically, but psychologically they have been the more complete.

Technology often serves as the portal to finding attractive imitations; the easy, ever - present, all - too available delivery system of those empty tonics for serious heartsickness.

The Elisha parallels are a rank and, of course, insubstantial imitation — one has to say, again in quotes, «improvement» — of the Elijah episodes, designed to represent Elisha as the greater miracle worker.

We learn of the importance he attached to daily Mass, his fidelity to prayer, the rosary, promoting Eucharistic adoration, weekly confession of sins, his attention to the needs of others as though he or she were the only one he'd ever met, his self - sacrifice in imitation of Maximillian Kolbe whom he had canonised; most importantly, we learn of his very deep understanding of how life is transformed through chastity for married and single alike.

It might have seemed of small account that in their processions the boys of Catholic Action walked in threes, in imitation of the Fascist militia, and not in fours, as they had done up to 1922; that they carried their flags with the staffs resting on their stomachs, again in imitation of the Fascists, and not on their shoulders, as had been the custom before the March on Rome; that even the most obscure parish magazines and journals of religious associations showed the year of the regime along - side that of the Christian era; and that Catholics habitually observed all the outward forms of Fascism, beginning with the Roman salute and the conversational use of voi, abandoning, because the Duce so willed it, the age - old use of the third person as the polite form of address.

It is said that from them twelve monasteries arose, each with twelve monks and an abbot — as with the Irish peregrini in imitation of Christ and the twelve Apostles.

From the monasteries many went forth, some as individuals to live as hermits, and others in groups, often of twelve with a leader in imitation of the Apostles and Christ.

When a friend is looking to you as a living example, you will be challenged to live better — that is, to live a life that is worthy of imitation.