Sentences with phrase «as the critics seemed»

It looks like doing so could take 30 + hours, so if that's your thing, I hope you enjoy the game as much as the critics seemed to.

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It involves a powerful company, a cocksure entrepreneur in CEO Mark Zuckerberg, gadfly critics who seemed less wacky as time went by, and even the occasional counter-villain, notably media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

Critics of the order have noted that the countries it targets seem arbitrary, and do not include countries that have posed serious terror threats in the past such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates.

He has his critics, to be sure, but the man has spent his entire career studying the depression, and it seems to have paid off, as Bernanke helped bring us back from the brink of disaster — at least for now.

Apple has been under an increasing amount of pressure as of late, with some critics arguing that the company seems to have reached an innovation ceiling.

Overall, critics seem to agree that the iPad Air 2 is the best tablet you can buy, but Apple will have to offer something more if it wants to keep that lead as the competition increases.

AfD seems certain to repeat its local success in a general election - in which case Ms Merkel's critics will see her as the German leader who paved the way for a racist and nationalist party to gain a toehold in the national parliament for the first time since 1945.

Providentially minded critics of American imperialism could as easily make the case that God in his providence is radically anti-American, that American failures and setbacks are manifestations of God's judgment on the U.S. Webb is aware of these questions but seems not to entertain them seriously.

However, to jump straight to the conclusion that it would immediately ban Bible sales seems somewhat disingenuous (as some of its critics don't even suggest that is the primary concern), and it threatens to undermine debate about the actual content of the legislation.

It seemed he could hardly talk about anything else, which struck his critics as a borderline unhealthy obsession and stuck him with all manner of unfortunate pejoratives like «communist» and «marxist.»

«As to critics, it seems to be my fate to disappoint my theological friends by being not Christian enough, while I'm too Christian for Harold Bloom's blessing.

Edwards is not so anachronistic on this point as he was, not so anachronistic as his 19th - century critics now seem.

But what critics who point to these reasons for the loss of certainty seem too often to forget is that the Church is never only a function of a culture nor ever only a supercultural community; that the problem of its ministers is always how to remain faithful servants of the Church in the midst of cultural change and yet to change culturally so as to be true to the Church's purpose in new situations.

’28 Kuhn's portrayal of normal science as dominated by unchallenged dogmas, his failure to specify criteria for paradigm choice, and his talk of «conversion» and «persuasion» all seem to these critics to threaten the objectivity and rationality of the scientific enterprise.

Unfortunately, it seems more likely that Huckabee will emerge as an ally of the establishment — though one disguised as a critic.

If these are in conflict, as indeed they seem to many critics to be, then the notion of revelation will not be taken seriously by intelligent people.

This movement of going from beginning to end in the narratives of historical critics can make it seem as if the beginning accounts for the end, rather than the end representing an astonishing fulfillment and supersession of what went before.

It seems to me that critics of the Quran point to specific passages that they see as offensive, whereas critics of Christianity effectively challenge interpretations, sometimes changing wording for their own version, or adding supplemental «scripture.»

Were the oil companies taking advantage of a crisis to boost prices and profits, as some critics and some evidence seemed to show?

, 47, and passim).7 In short, it seems to me that Hall, like Ellul and a number of other modern philosophers of technology, has accepted an image of technology not as it is but as certain of its practitioners would like it to be (and as many of its critics fear it is): as an embodiment of pure abstract rationality.

As that double entendre suggests, many Christian artists (not to mention fans and critics) have noticed that the more separate from the world the ccm industry seeks to be, the more worldly it seems to become.

To confess interest in «process philosophy» as a viable vocation (over and against the mere historical study of a certain tradition) is to seem to associate oneself with a tradition thoroughly discredited in the eyes of its more analytically - inclined critics as little more than an historical anachronism — a throwback to the worst examples of unrestrained 19th - century speculative nonsense.10

For it would rather seem that because of Whitehead's recognition of the thoroughgoing importance of feelings as the initiation of all judgment and action that he is in a uniquely perceptive position to discuss ethics, if and once, the critic recognizes the centrality of feelings for ethical life.

Even as a film critic, it seemed like a bad idea recommending a film praised by the occult for possibly showcasing a pro-witchcraft message.

But from the fall of the Bastille in 1789 until his death in 1797, Burke's writings seem to reveal an increasingly intransigent critic of almost everything we have come to understand as modern in politics, religion, and society.

Many critics seem frustrated by how difficult it is to categorize your works, and yet that seems to be a large part of your appeal to the general public, much as it was for Gershwin with Porgy and Bess or Bernstein with West Side Story.

That attention comes at a particularly apt time, as feminist critics argue that society tends to discourage «nurturing» attitudes in favor of the «domination» stance that runs through Bacon and Descartes, and seems inescapably built in to modern pragmatism.

I'm sure he gets angry letters, but as a generalization, this seems to me untrue, given how I've heard and read some critics speak of the stories.

And far from being a broken or dejected man at the end of his life — as some critics maintain, the better to make their case against him seem plausible — Paul VI was carried and sustained by something much stronger than anything in this world, his faith.

As a critic, I get to taste enormous quantities of shiraz, cabernet, chardonnay and sauvignon blanc and its various blends, and sometimes it seems that choice - one of wine's greatest fascinations - is contracting.

Having been dropped against Brighton last weekend, he would likely have been eager to get back on the pitch and silence his critics, but instead, it would seem as though Arsenal fear that they could be without Bellerin for some time depending on the severity of the injury.

Those who were foolishly calling for Arsene Wenger's head seem to be increasingly quiet currently as the team continues to prove the critics wrong.

In fact, some park critics seem to be experiencing a change of heart, just as Haag predicted.

And existing blogs such as Political Gastronomica and Blog P.I. have been weighing in ever since the first ’08 exploratory committee sites were launched, with the folks at the Bivings Report seeming to build a second career as online campaign critics (they're very good at aggregating the reviews of others as well).

The strange, self - interested, hermetically - sealed national debate we have been having - one in which the interests of other countries are treated as meaningless and the concerns of critics are treated like blasphemy - seems to extend to the formal economic documents the government is publishing.

Klein and his colleagues have seemed eager to paint their critics as racists — until very recently they were attacked for being a tiny all - white conference that was subverting the will of hundreds of non-white voters in New York City who voted for Democrats who conference with regular Democrats in the Senate.

While critics view chairmanship stipends, also known as lulus, as a way for the City Council speaker to draw loyalty from council members, Mr. Cabrera's appointment seemed to counter that point of view.

Spock, Star Trek's most famous Vulcan, was noted for his adherence to logic and reason, doing away with emotional displays, and Redwood, critics said, seemed to follow the same code as the Starship Enterprise's first officer.

What critics like English linguist Geoffrey Sampson, author of Educating Eve: The «Language Instinct» Debate, seem to find most irksome is Pinker's wholehearted promotion of a linguistic model that views the human capacity for learning language as distinct from other abilities, such as building bridges or writing symphonies.

I get irritated by critics who seem to think that because psychiatry has elements of irrationality, there is essentially no such thing as mental illness.

~ 3C seems to be heading towards ~ 2.5 C. I am encouraged as I have been a somewhat vocal critic that when models have been over estimating the temps fairly consistently that it somehow wasn't translating into lower CS estimates, or constraining the upper range.

What Montaño's critics don't seem to understand is that the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists encourages pregnant women to keep up their usual level of fitness as long as they get the O.K. from their doctor.

In rebuttals to previous criticism on «The China Study,» Campbell seems to use his curriculum vitae as reason his word should be trusted above that of his critics.

(That problem seems like it has been corrected heading into 2017, as Capcom's new Resident Evil game is receiving strong marks from critics.)

Now, it seems like more people are going for Birdman, seeing as how it swept PGA, DGA, and SAG, which, given how they have actual members of the Academy voting in them, are far more reliable precursors than the critics» prizes.

Critics seemed to have cooled on bizarrely praising the movies completely out of left field at this point as well, as Sharknado 3 hits the series» first negative rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The HFPA voters — a relatively small group as far as major awards bodies go — typically make some oddball selections, and while not all of their film choices were favorites among the film critic community, the voters seemed to avoid any laughably bad selections this year.

Critics Consensus: A major letdown coming off the end of season five, True Blood seems to be running out of steam and isn't aging as elegantly as its eternal vampires.

All things considered, it was a win - win, as this critic appreciated the overflowing conversations with talent and the talent seemed to enjoy the limelight.

Some critics have said that Adaptation., like Being John Malkovich, loses itself as it moves along but it actually seems to grow more transcendent as it moves slowly toward its uncertain conclusion.