Sentences with phrase «as something mysterious»

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As he pushes the firm further into government corridors, Barton realizes that people are leery of power that hides its face — that there's something sinister about the mysterious adviser who sits in a corner taking notes and is never introduced.

As 20 - somethings living in Mile End, they had no trouble figuring out what appealed to mysterious millennials: They just needed to walk around the block.

You called me out as being disingenuous when I said «that as time goes on however, I'm finding things that are helping to disprove things previously held as fact among Christians», so I have provided you an example that not only wasn't it a disingenuous statement, but that I've done my homework, on both sides of the argument, and came up with something that no one has been able to give me a response with even either the slightest chance of being possible, or falling back to the old status qua of «mysterious ways» and «having faith».

We can only salute as it passes that restless and mysterious figure, knowing at last that there must be in him something mystical as well as mysterious; that whether in the sense of the sorrows of Christ or of the sorrows of Cain, he must pass by, for he belongs to God.»

The world of man in which his action is placed, being man - made, can not simply be accepted as nature was in former times, even where it was mysterious, for even there its incomprehensibility appeared as something divinely matter of fact.

«Everyday life ceases to appear as something manipulated by vast, mysterious forces beyond human control or understanding and becomes a world that is manipulable, predictable, and intelligible... When you can get by happily enough without God, even if you do believe in him, why bother with him at all?»

Christian mysticism would refer to the mysterious presence of God in the soul or heart as something immanent but also «Other», so it is not ourselves but rather the presence of the Kingdom of God.

Also compare the penetrating echo of the teachings of Jesus in the New Testament with something as mysterious and utterly confounding and void of human - to - human concern as the Dao De Jing.

Conscious as he is of his own moral responsibility, he can not conceive how baptism in water can convey a mysterious something which is henceforth the agent of all his decisions and actions.

As an intimate, affectionate, and loyal bond between two (or a few) persons, a bond unlike those of kin or tribe in that it is not simply given with birth, friendship will always have about it something a little mysterious.

Something I could use as the smoothie making process is often mysterious to me.

When Walcott returns Wenger will inevitably have no reason to keep him in the bench as he does with Ox, who Wenger seems unwilling to trust due to inexperience or something mysterious.

These revolutionaries are something of a lost tribe because the philosophical and conceptual foundations they rest upon — as we saw with Hannah Arendt — are still presented as mysterious.

Most of the material in the universe is something called dark matter, mysterious stuff that doesn't emit or reflect light and doesn't interact with what we think of as ordinary matter.

In either case, the believer will often take the uncertainty of a big, genuinely mysterious question like consciousness as license to believe in something smaller like astrology, which can be disproved by experiment.

As the forests of Madagascar and other Edens fall, and as species after species tumbles toward extinction, we all yearn to hold onto the survivors a moment longer — to touch something wild and mysterious before it disappearAs the forests of Madagascar and other Edens fall, and as species after species tumbles toward extinction, we all yearn to hold onto the survivors a moment longer — to touch something wild and mysterious before it disappearas species after species tumbles toward extinction, we all yearn to hold onto the survivors a moment longer — to touch something wild and mysterious before it disappears.

The results may reveal something profound about how galaxies form — or even about the very nature of the mysterious substance known as dark matter.

Dating a rich man is not something mysterious as you think.

The aliens who created this environment are not shown as the film ends on this very mysterious note, which has been a source of much commentary and has inspired meanings ranging from: it's all rubbish to something divine has happened.

That something missing is her mother, as Sharon has brutal nightmares of a mysterious place called «Silent Hill,» unaware if «Silent Hill» is a real place or not, Sharon searches for answers but runs into a speed bump when her father, Christopher (Sean Bean), goes missing.

Teddy (Marton Csokas) clearly has something wrong with him, and does terrible things to practically everyone he meets as he searches for the mysterious avenger who has had the temerity to jeopardise his master's interests.

Relying on assumptions and prejudices brought into the film by the audience as much as anything shown on screen, The Loneliest Planet is something of a distant cousin to Roman Polanski's 1962 drama Knife in the Water, where a relationship is threatened and the presence of a mysterious other man is used to unsettle.

The particulars of the case, something to do with a string of mysterious suicides precipitated by an Egyptian cult existing in Holmes - era London, aren't nearly as interesting as the lengths to which Spielberg and company go to make Homes «exciting» for a mid-Eighties youth audience that mostly learned what they knew about popular entertainment from twin godheads Spielberg and George Lucas.

Meanwhile, macho jock Oz (Chris Klein) is now a high - profile TV sportscaster in L.A.; brainy Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) is married and working as an architect; and mysterious Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) is a bohemian fantasizing about doing something more daring than managing a Staples store in Jersey.

The movie presents Eastern religions as mysterious, «magical,» something that's wildly different that exists only to be understood and mastered by a white person.

He sees things, then disappears into his car and drives, and all the while the film becomes obsessed by the joining of male and female automobile parts in the pits: the swapping of bits, the stroking of rods, the cry of pistons as something exactly as mysterious and laden as e.e. cummings's sly ode to auto - philia, «she being brand.»

As an adult, his attempt to recover and sell a mysterious and ancient artifact swept him up in something quite bigger: a conflict with the will of the interstellar warlord called Thanos.

Coding has always been regarded as a mysterious field, something Derek Lo, co-founder of the new application «Py», wants to change.

Lucinda and her senator husband know something about Kit Noonan's mysterious birth father — but unraveling the secret will have major repercussions for the Burnses and Fenno, who is now in his 60s, as youthful decisions come back to haunt the trio.

But Cady senses something else behind Gault's mysterious façade, and as the two grow closer she learns that his closely guarded secrets could spell life or death for the town — and for Cady herself.

So slight a chance I decided to still go to this mysterious rendezvous, but still likely enough that I asked a friend to drive there before me to act as a lookout should something shady happen.

Apart from the fact that most shipwerecks as well as many other great dive sites require deeper diving, there's something exciting and mysterious about the depth that attracts adventurous divers.

There's something incredibly special and heartwarming about everything in Knights & Bikes, from the hand - drawn art style to the amazing music and the fact that all of it, every part, seems like something you would have done as a kid: cycling around the woods, keeping mysterious detritus as «treasure» and making up fantastical adventures in your head.

He describes it as «something personal, intimate, dark, and mysterious.»

Characters enter the game as something of a blank slate after they are resurrected from death by the mysterious «Well of Souls» following a grand in - game conflict.

He still points to something larger than life and as mysterious as art.

Anny de Decker, co-founder of the infamous Belgian gallery, Wide White Space, of the 1960s and 1970s, described space as «something mysterious, an element which had only recently found its way into people's consciousness.»

The impulse behind a work may be something surreal and surprising, like the works of Matthew Ronay or mysterious and immaterial, as we see in Trisha Donnelly's works.

Before moving to Sweden, she painted a lot of people and mysterious landscapes of quite own style, but after leaving New York and come to the Swedish nature - oriented way of life, her work has shifted towards painting animal motifs; something she sees as a manifestation of hope to a wounded world.

She too would use the circle, or orb, as something dark and mysterious.

Rather than showing the viewer something completely new, these artists uncover the new and mysterious using our own faculty for recognition as a co-conspirator.

Taking the name from a conversation between Jeff Wall and Lucas Blalock where the two world - renowned photographers spoke of the need for art that is experimental as well as mysterious, «You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred» features work exclusively from the Zabludowicz Collection, bridging the gap between artists of different generations and varied backgrounds.

He loved Nature — the sea in particular — but he feared it as well, seeing in its beauty something magical, mysterious, and terrible.

By doing so, the human body radiates as something more powerful, more curious — the human spirit; an infinite, robust, and mysterious strength that's as serene as a natural vista and as indomitable as a city skyline.

Having left the United States and moved to Bali almost twenty years ago, Bickerton is something of a postmodern Paul Gauguin, insofar as the subject of his paintings is not the alluring exoticism of the mysterious East as constructed in the Western imagination, but rather the underlying and sordid impulses of the fantasy itself.

«So I came up with that name with Rachel Libeskind, who I share the studio with, as something that is at the same time enticing, mysterious, but it looks very much official, so it segregates the casual passerby into two categories: the person who wouldn't even notice that something is a little peculiar, and people who would stop and wonder, «wait a second, what's in there?»»

He is determined that something mysterious and unknown is causing recent climate change so as part of this he has to deny all prior forms of climate change including aerosols, CO2, solar etc..

Given historical climate and physics, the only way that implicit endorsement means «implicitly endors [ing] that humans are a cause of warming» where «a» is something less than primary (that is, over half) is if there is some as - yet undiscovered sink absorbing human CO2 emissions and, simultaneously, an as - yet undiscovered source of CO2 that is releasing it into the atmosphere - and moreover, the CO2 from this mysterious source just happens to possess a carbon isotope signature that matches fossil fuel CO2 as a total coincidence.

They want to read the yellow underpants story, and there's something magical and mysterious that happens from telling it: you feel wobbly and shaky and like you'll be exposed as the gawky unloveable outsider that you are.

As it turns out, there's something about the dark and mysterious color that makes not only fans of the world's second most popular mobile OS go absolutely berserk with enthusiasm.