Sentences with phrase «at mundane»

Hyperbolic color planes and tactile quotidian objects are used as props to enhance color interaction and hint at the mundane within an overblown and histrionic constructed composition.

I think working dogs have a place in this world, as guards, personal protection animals, livestock guard dogs, and working at mundane jobs like sniffing for bombs or drugs.

Pose and Romero opt for atmosphere over plot and succeed with looks at mundane things like that joyless Boggle game, insect repellent application, and a boring water plant tour.

In search of a passionate and compassionate women who is curious and able to laugh at the mundane events of daily life.

Back in 1963 they were big and slow, but already replacing humans at mundane tasks.

Not exact matches

We all have the capability to be this creative, but often our creativity is hindered or even stopped cold by the mundane daily routines and responsibilities required of us at work and at home.

Look at what your business already does — no matter how mundane or insignificant it may seem at first — and then focus on a byproduct that provides more meaning, happiness and even a better bottom line.

It's better when robots take over mundane tasks or drive cars for us so we can be more productive at other tasks.

At the same time, though, Americans don't experience the same enthusiasm and excitement as they once did for buying cars, a trend the Washington Post recently described as «America's once magical — now mundane — love affair with cars.»

Summary: «Follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.»

For the myriad of instances in our daily routines in which we find ourselves faced with the mundane — a traffic jam, a line at the grocery shopping, a long shower — giving the brain free - rein to wander is not only acceptable, but beneficial.

From mundane objects like the wooden cutting board I made one Mother's Day to countless science projects I presented in classrooms and at science fairs, Mr. Clarke made me believe in my own thinking and the power of unedited imagination.

We often hear about Google's oddball «Moonshot» projects — from using balloons to bring internet to isolated areas to developing self - driving cars — but according to at least one of the company's former execs, Google's obsession with shooting for the stars actually reaches into even the most mundane aspects of its everyday business.

Staff at the 15 - member firm declare «healthy lifestyle objectives» for each week at a regular group meeting (where they also discuss more mundane details like the work they do for clients).

«His success came from questioning conventional wisdom, challenging authority, and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane.»

A look at a budget filed with the court shows that in addition to the mundane cost of keeping the lights on at an office and paying healthcare costs, roughly half of this money will go to the ongoing legal costs of both the company's bankruptcy proceedings and its work on the Section 201 case.

One is tempted to use laundry duty as a metaphor for the priestly task of cleansing the soiled soul, & c, & c.but it is at the same time more mundane and more exalted than that.

The univocal and equivocal imaginations deny metaphor, deny that any new insight can come through the ordinary — the one flattens it to sameness, the other escapes from it — but what Lynch calls the analogical imagination delves into the mundane, for it is precisely in and through the complexities of historical, limited existence that insight comes, if it comes at all.

We get to hold the wonder and sleepiness, the boring and the magical at the same time, the work and the delight, the mundane repetition and the ferocious love altogether, it's not one or the other.

You are absolutely right that a lot of stuff gets supernatural explanations that are mundane, and I am happy that there are atheists who challenge spiritual claims and force religious people to look hard at their beliefs.

Of course these laws can be grasped only by intuitive faith — which is why ecology has become a religion, and why the battle over mundane issues like dams or highways is at bottom a holy war.

Thus, the real box score of the act of ministry symbolized by the preaching image is not back there at all, but is rather in the appraisal of the remote and mundane hydrolysis the next week.

This sense that eternal issues are at stake in the mundane choices of our everyday life helps, I think, to account for the fact that, in this country, Lewis has been so popular among evangelical Protestants.

At heart, Christianity is a robustly materialist religion, for it affirms that the sacred has entered the mundane.

At Reformation 21, Carl Trueman enters a debate over the purpose of Protestant seminaries — specifically, whether they ought to make a point of actively sculpting the spiritual lives of their students or whether they should tend to the more mundane goals of imparting knowledge and certifying graduates.

I was already tired because I had been up nursing during the night, Brian was off at work already, I simply wanted a quiet morning with my coffee because there was so much mundane work ahead on this day — cleaning bathrooms, doing laundry — but instead the Rice Krispies multiplied to biblical proportions while they flew through the air and one small cereal bowl became a nuclear wasteland scattered into seemingly every corner of the kitchen while milk streamed off the edge of the table puddling into the carnage and the bowl continued to spin.

On a more mundane level, we know that Jesus spoke Aramaic (the spoken dialect of biblical Hebrew), since fragments of his speech are embedded in the Greek Gospels (see Mark 5:41; 15:34), while St. Paul proclaimed that same evangel to the world in Greek, though he seems to have been equally at home in Hebrew.

We must trust that Our Lord is at work in the very mundane occurrences of our daily lives.

I doubt that Orthodox faith communities are any easier to abide in than Catholic or Protestant communities when it comes to the mundane experiences of life; but at least those of us with mystical tendencies would not be attacked for being «pietistic» as we so often are in most Protestant, even many Catholic, excesssively rationalistic and legalistic Latin / Western Churches.

Closeness to God within Islam is not undeveloped or limited to the domain of mysticism; Islamic theological traditions affirm explicitly that God is at once both transcendent and immanent — temporal opposition does not pertain to the uncreated — and day - to - day Muslim culture reflects discernible intimacy with God even in mundane affairs.

Second, the psychologist most frequently associated with Nietzsche is Freud, but Brooks isn't at all talking Freudian psychology when he tells us that «it is possible to achieve momentary harmony through creative work,» or that we don't secure «the good life through heroic self - analysis but through mundane, self - forgetting effort, and through everyday routines.»

I Merely the look of it, buttercup at the edge of the «Lawn Falls» where the water seeps, sweeps down to the seaside is enough to carry the viewer in awe over the edge of reason to a logic beyond the modest mundane: the rocks being pitted are jointed by torrents of balm - like uproar.

The real transformations of my life didn't come about at a conference or on a mountain top; the real transformations in my spirit and my character and my life were born and tended and raised in the daily mundane habits and faithfulness of my life.

How tragic it would be to live a whole life focusing on mundane, meaningless things, and look back at the end of life and realize you've lived a wasted it.

Even Bob's supposedly positive posts about women above are mostly promoting women staying at home doing extremely mundane domestic activities.

Like the series itself, the Christmas shows got increasingly absurd and unrelateable as the premise dragged on, but season 2's «Christmas Party» was everything that was great about the show: Steve Carell was at his peak Michael Scott - ness while pouting about an oven mitt he'd received as a gift; the mundanity of office life getting broken up by an even more mundane party; Jim and Pam at the height of their pre-dating romantic tension.

Jesus stated that during our time period (that is called his invisible «presence» at Matthew 24:3, the KJV and other Bibles inaccurately reads «coming»), pseudo Christians or false Christians would be busy (along with the rest of the «world») with the mundane affairs of life, getting married, having children, eating and drinking, in which Jesus compared to the «days of Noah», and with the exception of Noah and his family, pseudo Christians would «take no note» that they were living during a critical juncture in human history.

This idea, at the beginning, doubtless coexisted with earlier and more mundane conceptions; it was thought by a few before it was held by many; it was conceived by many before it became practically operative in their daily religion.

This arrangement saw sliced head of porpoise occasionally arrive at the table of the Buckland household along with the more mundane delicacies such as mice en croûte and roast mole... The cliffs yielded many magnificient dinosaur specimans to Mary Anning (1799 - 1847), the remarkale nineteenth - century fossil hunter.

The great saints are immediate successes; the smaller ones are at least heralds and harbingers, and they may be leavens also, of a better mundane order.

Of course, it does not matter at all, but human beings know many things that neither bear relation to mundane necessities nor could plausibly be considered simply as spin - offs from the exercise of rational skills developed to cope with those necessities.

At first this noetic encounter must have been limited to a utilitarian style of mundane thinking, involving just an engagement with simple arithmetical and geometrical ideas.

The larger context through which our total situation may be transfigured is best conceived in terms of Civitas Dei, or the Kingdom of God, «which is not in Time at all — either present, future or past — and which differs from all temporal mundane states in the radical way of being in a different spiritual dimension, but which, just by virtue of this difference of dimension, is able to penetrate our mundane life and, in penetrating, to transfigure it».

Sometimes cookbooks can get a little mundane or run - of - the - mill so it is really a nice treat to see something that is exotic without being impossible to recreate at home.

It's as though they live at the edge of a looking - glassworld where mundane objects come to life, where flora and fauna take on near - human qualities.»

There's the rather mundane name (I've been to half a dozen Spring restaurants across the country during my 17 years at Bon Appétit).

Travel with an NHL team and you hear grumblings about things as mundane as the soap in the visitors» dressing room, but the griping these days about the condition of the chippy and rutty ice at many arenas is genuine.

With Stowell, learning quirky and mundane tidbits about her felt like a refreshing distraction from the elephant in the room: she wrote homework questions, despite wanting to avoid homework in high school; she was part of a lab group that focused on eating competitions; she had a nail polish collection; she loved watching terrible movies; she used to play rugby, realized she wasn't good at it, and then switched to ultimate frisbee.

Ballparks with high walls (like at Boston's Fenway Park) can turn mundane fly balls into home runs, and sharp line drives into long singles.

I watched bayern very dort mundane earlier and could imagine him slotting in superbly, he looks like a fish out of water at arsenal wondering what the fook he did coming.