To see bestowing their full
attention upon another human being as a significant favor.
Not exact matches
One wonders how many novelists and, for that matter, how many sermonizers
are prepared to confront in such detail this difficult fact about the
human condition, that sooner or later most of us will
be called on to give adults, to whom we
are bound with the most powerful ties of love and respect, the services we associate with the care of an infant, with their sense of dignity, and our own, now and for all eternity, dependent on the delicate
attention and sensitivity we bring to the task, even as they gaze
upon us helpless and vulnerable.
The first effect of the modern view of history and
human existence
upon New Testament study
was, as we have seen, to focus
attention upon the kerygma as the New Testament statement of Jesus» history and selfhood.
But the phenomenological description offered makes it clear that presentational immediacy
is consequent
upon a particular type of bodily amplification and selection of sense data derived from the stream of consciousness comprising the immediate past actual world, further abstracted and focused in the
human situation through selective conscious
attention to some, but not all, of the features of the immediate external world recorded and amplified by the body.
This has to do with the closer link between the mother and her offspring, a fact which
humans share with all mammals: the perpetuation of the genetic line
is more dependent on the females» constant care and
attention than
upon the males».
Only, because it
is always a joy to me to thank him to whom I
am indebted, I would thank Lessing for the one solitary hint of a Christian drama which
is found in his Hamturg ~ Drama ~ urgieA» He, however, fixed his glance
upon the purely divine side of the Christian life (the consummated victory) and hence he had misgivings; perhaps he would have expressed a different judgment if he had paid more
attention to the purely
human side (theologia viatorum).
The impact of Wieman in the American scene has sometimes
been compared with that of Barth
upon Continental theology, 17 and a parallel does exist at the point at which both men direct
attention away from humanity and
human values to the work of God which
is understood as prior to and sovereign over
human endeavors.
We tune in to
be reminded of what CSI, House, and the rest will never remind us: how easily and thoroughly any humdrum
human existence can
be transformed if you wrest your
attention from the tawdry Technicolor scenery of life and train it instead
upon the murk and gloom and the shadows that surround us.
Platforms: PC Reviewed On: PC Developer: IMGN.Pro Publisher: IMGN.Pro Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: No Kholat immediately had my
attention due to a simple fact; it
's based
upon the mysterious Dyatlov Pass incident, one of the most inherently fascinating mysteries in
human history, a true tale that has remained unsolved -LSB-...]
Somehow our discourse has to focus more
attention upon the ominously looming threats to the family of humanity that
are posed by the overpopulation, overproduction and overpopulation activities of the
human species now rampantly overspreading Earth in our time.
It
's a wide ranging, provocative and eye - opening conversation about «the arms race for
human attention, the ethics of persuasion, the consequences of having an ad - based economy, the dynamics of regret, and other topics»; and it has
been bouncing around in my own mind since I happened
upon this episode a bunch of weeks ago.
As an illustration of these concerns, this case brings to the European Court of
Human Rights»
attention a finding by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that the communications of Amnesty and the South Africa - based Legal Resources Centre
were unlawfully spied
upon by UK intelligence agencies.
If therefore the student in our laws hath formed both his sentiments and style, by perusal and imitation of the purest classical writers, among whom the historians and orators will best deserve his regard; if he can reason with precision, and separate argument from fallacy, by the clear simple rules of pure unsophisticated logic; if he can fix his
attention, and steadily pursue truth through any the most intricate deduction, by the use of mathematical demonstrations; if he has enlarged his conceptions of nature and art, by a view of the several branches of genuine, experimental, philosophy; if he has impressed on his mind the sound maxims of the law of nature, the best and most authentic foundation of
human laws; if, lastly, he has contemplated those maxims reduced to a practical system in the laws of imperial Rome; if he has done this, or any part of it, (though all may
be easily done under as able instructors as ever graced any feats of learning) a student thus qualified may enter
upon the study of the law with incredible advantage and reputation.
Bonnie Lou
is a very fortunate little dog with two
humans to shower
upon her
attention and genuine love frequently not received by
human children from their divorced parents.