Sentences with phrase «at the novel time»

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It works by examining how much time subjects spend looking at certain «novel» images within a series of images over a period of four and a half minutes.

But «Ready Player One,» based on a 2011 novel, is vying for moviegoers at a time when the box office has been dominated by serial tales of comic - book superheroes and sequels to established hits, making it tougher for new material to shine.

Flamberg decided to market to affluent finance executives via Bloomberg Terminals, a novel idea at the time.

It was a novel and slightly controversial idea at the time; now it's a model repeated around the world, and helped turn Waterloo into a centre for engineering and technical talent.

This time I came up with a novel new plan: gather all the steaks and have them cooked for us at one restaurant, thus sparing the need to move, or clean up, or waste energy travelling when we could be drinking.

It's an homage to the bygone era when writers like Charles Dickens published their novels in newspapers one chapter at a time before collecting the work in book form.

This was a completely novel idea at the time, because I had originally thought I would pursue either a post-MBA rotational program or a human capital consulting job following school.

Indeed, if you listen on occasion to O'Leary's turns on the radio, you may observe he speaks at times like a character out of a novel by the libertarian author Ayn Rand.

In addition to his full - time job at a cafe, Matthew also works as a freelance artist and editor and even published a small graphic novel.

Her recommendation to use key cards for entrance to secure areas was a novel concept at the time, but it became a standard procedure in most offices.

The Manhattan Bridge was novel in its engineering, particularly in comparison to the Williamsburg Bridge, the New York Times highlighted in a report at the time, as the bridge's structural design limited movement caused by elements such as wind.

A novel concept at the time, High Resolution Fundraising was put forth as a means to solve one of the hardest chicken - and - egg problems faced by nearly all fundraising companies: in an asset class historically dominated by social validation, how do you get someone to be your first investor?

At the same time, the investor mix is changing as the digital health landscape evolves and matures and new players and novel partnerships are emerging.

Rob emailed me to mention that he was already at work on his second novel — it was about the End Times — and he was enjoying my Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse as part of his research.

A novel particle time of flight diagnostic for measurements of shock - and compression - bang times in (DHe)- He - 3 and DT implosions at the NIF

While her book at times threatens to become a kind of Answer Key to Waugh's novels, which themselves, in her hands, almost resemble mere romans clef, she does convincingly show that Waugh always drew from his own life in his fiction.

At the same time one says that The Violent Bear It Away is a religious novel with a vengeance, and that the supernatural appears to be everywhere evident in it, one must also say that it is thoroughly parabolic — the supernatural never obtrudes.

One of his novels, Descent into Hell, describes the strange after - effect, as it were, of two martyrdoms in a town that is obviously St Albans, at the time of the Reformation.

Powers is the bard of prosaic parish life at a time when hot political novels and tricky metafiction prevail.

The novel is built like a missionary biography, one with the at - times brutal feel of a Scorsese film.

Suppose you were sitting in a chair with earphones and were hearing a lecture on politics over the earphones at the same time that the printed pages of a novel were being reeled off on a screen before you.

During that time, sharing is the key — talking, listening to the rain, or reading a sexy novel together, taking a walk along a stream, eating by candlelight — whatever both mates find relaxing, satisfying, and at least a little romantic.

Whether the issue has been abortion, or euthanasia, or «gay rights,» the courts have taken steps that were noticeable even at the time as novel and portentous.

Because of their symbol systems, men have, at times, failed to respond to novel challenges and have preferred, instead, simply to be destroyed.

At the time, it felt novel — almost like a trinket.

The problem is that while at times Whitehead conceives of God's ordering of the eternal objects to be eternally unchanging, at other times «the ordering is such as to specify the initial aim for each new occasion... (it) is extremely difficult to see how one unchanging order can provide a specific and novel aim to every new occasion.

He cites the rites of prostration and kissing in the Orthodox liturgy, and notes the number of times the kiss is a symbol of acceptance and forgiveness in the novel: Zossima at the foot of Dmitry, Christ and the Inquisitor.

I was single for a long time and struggled with loneliness, but I learned from experience that I was far happier at home reading a novel than I was dating the wrong person.

While absolute certainty is, of course, impossible at this late date, non-Mormon scholars are pretty well convinced that its basis was an historical novel by a one - time Presbyterian clergyman by the name of Spaulding, which he intended calling The Manuscript Found in the Wilds of Mormon or, Unearthed Records of the Nephites.

Since the real being of an occasion is the becoming of a harmonized integration of the multiplicity, its components stem either immediately from God or from what it prehends; since what it prehends are other occasions, themselves analyzable into novel and prehended features, it can be suggested that every feature at some time in the present or past is or was a spontaneous novel pattern or value immediately created by God.

What makes this novel approach perfection — and two comments on the book jacket actually employ the word — is the way Ishiguro leads the reader into Stevens's life through his own words, enabling us to feel his pride in being a «great» butler and at the same time experience the pain of personal loss which he is utterly unable to acknowledge.

At the same time, one must acknowledge that part of the special enchantment of the novel, considered as a distinct literary form, is the illusion it can create of a fully realized world; a truly great novel is like a magic mirror, whose surface reflects not only the appearances, but the souls of living men and women.

The connection between freedom and time (and between them and selfhood or personal identity) appears clearly in Sartre's insistence that the good novel present a self shaping an open future, not a puppet ruled by the past whose end is contained in his beginning: «But in order for the duration of my impatience and ignorance to be caught and then moulded and finally presented to me as the flesh of these creatures of invention, the novelist must know how to draw it into the trap, how to hollow out in his book, by means of signs at his disposal, a time resembling my own, one in which the future does not exist.

Here's a deeper look at the spiritual imagination that informed one of the most popular novels of all time.

Many Christians (including dispensationalists and futurists) believe that, at a time and hour unknown (Matthew 25:13), God will trigger an elongated Apocalypse involving various prophecy - fulfilling elements, which is why there were so many Left Behind novels.

«At times», says Howse, «the book reads like a Gothic novel of the more salacious kind, with wooden dildoes and a Venetian confessor - seducer sitting «like a great Turk in his seraglio».

In simpler language, we may state that primordial objects in the universe (grounded in an ineffable reality) are causally transformed into a limited set of cosmological, biological and cultural entities, which at the same time, allows for an endless number of creative outcomes and novel possibilities.

(13) Bibby and Brinkerhoff in their study of membership additions to conservative churches found that of the 9 percent of the new members who had become members through a novel proselyte - type conversion, 32 percent were either married or engaged to a member of the church at the time of their conversion.

At that time his viewpoint was novel, but it was a sign of things to come.

The belief in a general resurrection at the end - time was certainly a novel development in Judaism.

«When we offer guests novel options to try for the first time at Regal, we want them to have that «wow» experience.»

Some of us have to consider health as well as taste (I use a low carb diet to maintain normal blood glucose instead of taking diabetes drugs, while at the same time I focus on foods that have a long tradition of supporting healthy populations, as well as limit processed «fake food» ingredients which are novel to the human diet).

Clean Label Categories: How Consumers Prioritise When someone adopts a cleaner diet, they generally don't make the change one novel purchase at a time.

I want to mention that the second «key idea»: < >... misses bw1's point entirely: < > It's that your notion of «some parents no longer want [ing] their kids eating a cupcake at school every time a classmate has a birthday» is not novel; there have always been parents not wanting that and they've always had to deal with it.

What a novel idea, that babies are expecting to be with their mothers at all times!

It was a novel idea at the time, and today many parents consider it a necessity to know what's in a movie before paying and perhaps even more important risking disappointment by having to walk out with the kids in tow.

Leave your romance novels and iPod at home - no time for that.

What is your favourite book?A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell, a sequence of 12 novels that look at political, military and cultural life over a 50 - year period in the 20th century through the eyes of the narrator, Nick Jenkins.

«If I find myself with some spare time I will have a look at this fascinating novel someone has written about me,» Mr Cameron said from Chicago, where he is attending a Nato summit.

Fifteen years ago, Pearl brought to her S&T Policy fellowship three years of postdoctoral mathematics research, experience designing a novel master's program at Rice University, time as a college - level mathematics teacher and a period delving into the technical and legal world of intellectual property.