Sentences with phrase «as much a mystery»

Materiality and life (soul) are as much mysteries for modern science as they were for ancient Greek philosophy.

According to espn.com, the size of the black market is as much a mystery as the number of athletes using the drugs.

Of course ypou can keep as much mystery about your personal details as you wish, but do go and share as much information that doesn't personally identify you as you can.

This elusive «something» is key to Malick's film; the intangible tide that disconnects people with as much mystery as it drew them so intensely together.

How that has translated in Lucas's work into the most cynical, over-written bits of juvenilia in his prequel trilogy seems as much a mystery to Lucas as it does to the rest of the sentient world.

When Link's world is absorbed into twilight with fearsome beasts roaming the wilderness, all seems lost for the land of Hyrule until Link is saved by the most lovable companion yet, Midna, whose connection to the twilight realm is as much a mystery as her true intentions.

Wiseau, in short, is as much a mystery as «The Room.»

Reimergarten promises as much mystery and magic out of Chalice as he brought to Fjords, which is to say, a lot.

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So the fact that Chinese stocks were rising as much as they were was a bit of a mystery from the beginning of the current run.

«Blind packs» like Shopkins or Disney (dis) Tsum Tsums remain popular for kids who delight in the mystery and unwrapping as much as the toy itself.

So seek out opportunities to feel dwarfed by something much bigger than yourself and your problems, such as gazing at the night sky, hiking through inspiring landscapes, reading up on the mysteries and grandeurs of physics, or even checking out an awe - inspiring YouTube video if you're stuck at your desk.

Faraday Future, the electric - car startup that has been pegged over the last year as a «potential Tesla killer,» still remains much of a mystery to the public.

Although the private company's finances are a mystery, industry experts question whether the company is subsidizing rides to grow market share, much as it did recently in a failed attempt to break into the Didi Chuxing - controlled Chinese market.

Mr. Szabo is nearly as much of a mystery as Satoshi.

But unlike that trip, which remained a mystery to much of the world until just last week, his maiden trip as secretary of state was replete with televised welcome ceremonies, live - streamed photo ops and well - attended media events.

It's hard to explain because there's so much mystery, and then when you see it, it becomes clear as to why I would play her.

I believe that the mystery of the Incarnation is as much of a Revelation of who we truly are as it is a Revelation of God as Unconditional Love.

James Nuechterlein's medley of reviews of the three new Lincoln studies is particularly artful in weaving together so much that we have come to know about the mature Lincoln who led the Union through the war years, as well as pointing out those areas in which Lincoln will perhaps always be clothed in mystery or contradiction.

In the end, as theologians like to say, Jesus is not so much a problem to be solved as a mystery to be pondered.

Therefore much mystery to be had and it being folly to think of one perspective in human rational terms as being superior to the other.

The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)

Like music, revelation was not so much the solution of mystery as it was the disclosure of new mystery.

Shepherds are a mystery just as much as sheep are.

But it may usefully be observed that the incident as it is presented to the reader is, primarily, not so much a miracle as a mystery.

This accounts for Jacob's destiny as much as for the mystery of the act in which God reveals his name to Moses — YHWH: the one who is (Ex.

What counts is not so much the name and the form as the response in the heart to the hidden mystery, which is present to each one of us in one way or another and awaits our response in faith and hope and love.»

In contrast, other scientists experience a sense of awe and mystery in relation to the known as much as to the unknown.

Honest recognition of this, along with our admission that much pettiness and silliness sadly disfigures the ecclesiastical world, need not rule out loyalty to the mystery of the Body of Christ, although it makes it imperative that such loyalty lead to action that will purify and reform the community as we know it.

For instance, Job is not interested in the problem of suffering as such but in answering the mystery of his experience; he does not ask so much for an explanation of evil as for an opportunity to take his case directly to God (Job 12:122, 23:1 - 17, 30:19 - 23).

As we shall see later, it is too much to expect that the biblical word of revelation will itself bring this sense of mystery along with it, as though we were encountering it there for the first timAs we shall see later, it is too much to expect that the biblical word of revelation will itself bring this sense of mystery along with it, as though we were encountering it there for the first timas though we were encountering it there for the first time.

If sentiments as simple as these are mysteries which one must receive as gifts of birth, how much more is this the case with those subtler religious sentiments which we have been considering!

All of this lies underneath the Hebrew attitude toward the name of God, the God who was mystery, the God who was ultimate, the God who was depth beyond penetration, height beyond perception, the God who was finally unknowable except that he chose to reveal as much of himself as his people could perceive.

Isn't it amazing that our minds are so overdeveloped for our short - lived life on earth (as in, our brains «a mystery» can hold so much more information than it can ever gather in a 80 - 100 year lifespan?

For, we understand the divine mystery not so much as a substance as relationship.

It is akin to Barthian fideism in as much as such revelation leaves shrouded in mystery the resolution of apparent fundamental paradox within the immanent dynamic of human knowing andloving.

This reviewer chose to use «Living the Mystery» as a Lenten exercise for a study group within the parish: it was much appreciated and stimulated wide ranging discussion, combining, as it does, an accessible orthodoxy with fresh insight.

For him the goal of universal knowledge is truth, which he defines as «facts and their relations, which stand towards each other pretty much as subjects and predicates in logic,... [from] internal mysteries of the Divine Essence down to our own sensations and consciousness,... from the most glorious seraph to the vilest and most noxious of reptiles.»

There is so much for all of us that hides Jesus from us — the church itself hides him, all the hoopla of church with ministers as lost in the thick of it as everybody else so that the holiness of it somehow vanishes away to the point where services of worship run the risk of becoming only a kind of performance — on some Sundays better, on some Sundays worse — and only on the rarest occasions does anything strike to the quick the way that little girl's cry did with every last person who heard her realizing that Jesus didn't show for any of them — the mystery and miracle of Jesus with all his extraordinary demands upon us, all his extraordinary promises.

The Trinitarian view of sacrifice is totally lost when the Christological Mysteries are separated from the Trinitarian Mystery, as they have been in much of the contemporary theological thinking in the Latin / Western Church.

Updike presents the reader of his novels and stories with the pseudo — wise men of today's society — with Jimmy, the big Mouseketeer who quotes Socrates; with the neon owl that advertises pretzels; with Ken Whitman, the scientist living in Tarbox who is considered intelligent in his field but who lacks a basic understanding of life; with Bech the writer, honored in direct proportion to the decline of his literary production; with Connor, the efficient, well - trained administrator of the old people's home who fails to comprehend as much of life's mystery as his simple and sometimes senile wards do.

To this day, much Jewish faith requires a specific homeland as the indispensable sacrament of its encounter with the mystery known as God.

It is much more probable to imagine generations of Muslims agitated by the same mysteries, moved by the same yearnings, troubled by the same questionings and doubts, and aspiring to the same peace as had generations of their ancestors who lived in the same environment.

It is the living through of difficult situations which really represents living the Christian mystery, just as much as the joys when things are going well.

It is a mystery as to why it has not become much more wide spread, although the dominance of the Capsicum annuum lineage throughout the world at an early date may be responsible.

Undertaker still hasn't answered John Cena's challenge, and I love that they're leaving this as a mystery because there is so much more going on at Mania 34 that they don't exactly need to openly sell Taker vs. Cena, one of the most anticipated possible matches at Mania for either in their careers, in order to succeed.

The sad truth is that we are just a couple of players away from having a very strong starting 11... Wenger's fixation with Walcott and mertesakher as starting players remains a mystery to me... neither have the quality of a top team like arsenal... I am not a giroud hater but he is still too inconsistent and the big question is whether welbeck can push him in a way Walcott won't... Campbell has done well and has moved ahead of Walcott and, ox for sure but there is still a question about how much more he can improve... Elneny is certainly an upgrade over arteta and flamini whether he will make it I don't know just hope that he does but arguably wenger could have been more ambitious... That leaves a top quality striking option... There is no doubt that wenger deluded himself over the summer and that needs to be corrected ASAP... Draxler dybala aube and even griezman with a big enough big could have been prized in summer... january not a good time for this but it is not difficult to find better options than Walcott ox or Campbell... All a question of whether wenger wants to win EPL on his terms or wants to win this for the club

Yet as much as the names will dominate the headlines, the game could come down to players whose stories remain a mystery to casual fans.

Team Kluever (Sunset Foods)-- Currently tied for 12th with 0 points (Last Week: NR)-- This Squad still remains somewhat of a mystery to me as I have not been able to take in too much of their games.

In any case, Roma drew the short end of the stick, as they'll run smack against two of the world's most dangerous sides in Chelsea and Atletico Madrid, while Qarabag, the competitions first Azerbaijani side, remains very much a mystery.

As much as pregnancy is an exciting and wonderful experience for the parents, it can also be a time ridden with mystery and great stresAs much as pregnancy is an exciting and wonderful experience for the parents, it can also be a time ridden with mystery and great stresas pregnancy is an exciting and wonderful experience for the parents, it can also be a time ridden with mystery and great stress.