Sentences with phrase «by perceptive»

And it begins early in life in the experience of nature mediated by perceptive and caring adults to validate the child's fascination with bugs, animals, trees, rocks, plants, water, seasons, and landscapes.

While his remarkable trajectory may be discouraging to families of severely autistic children who have not made the same strides, the real pleasure of The Spark does not lie in Jacob's story alone but in his mother's unwavering view that each child has tremendous promise, an innate spark, which can be ignited and nurtured by perceptive parents.

Though mine was created by my perceptive father, often the best portfolios are those put together by students themselves.

Long pauses in Harrison's track make it a slog, but at lest Jewison has a sense of humor, occasionally chuckling at the ways the film is now dated even as he stands by its perceptive social commentary.

Much of the war he spent poaching in the uniform of the Royal Artillery, his talents having been recognized in his early training days in Scotland by a perceptive commanding officer, who sent him on leave to Breconshire to collect his gaff, then relieved him of normal duties so that he could get to work on the Scottish salmon for the benefit of the Officers» Mess.

This attitude is encapsulated in the remark made by a perceptive analyst of the complex processes at work in the early church, Robin Lane Fox, who begins his chapter entitled «Persecution and Martyrdom,» with the words: «The most excellent Christians in the early Church were neither virgins nor the visionaries.

That is why the concluding episode, the deathbed conversion of Lord Marchmain, is the denouement pointed to by the perceptive Cordelia.

Not exact matches

Viking Global Investors and KKR led the round, and were joined by investors including Perceptive Advisors, AIG, Aisling Capital, Cormorant Capital and Janus Funds.

Perceptive Conservatives know this move toward openness will have to be legitimately addressed and this wave of political trouble can't be turned back with endless and groundless claims that their tormenter - in - chief Tom Mulcair could have ended Quebec corruption by blowing the whistle on the mayor of Laval 17 years ago.

As one of his more perceptive interpreters have pointed out, «It is much easier to grasp what (Bonhoeffer) meant by «religious than nonreligious».

A perceptive young wife commented, after a marital growth group session, «I was helped by discovering that no one begins with a perfect relationship.

I also enjoyed the earlier comments by others, especially the one by Richard... very perceptive.

To make the point he quotes Dawkins» own «perceptive» summary of Lot in The God Delusion: «If this dysfunctional family was the best that Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain sympathy with God and his judicial brimstone» (Cheekily adding, «Well, Rabbi Dawkins, I think I'm very happy with that gloss!»)

Several perceptive laymen should be asked by the minister to listen with a keen ear and report on the strengths and weaknesses of a particular sermon.

For the theater, Theatre in India, by Balwant Gargi, gives an introduction to the traditional and the modern theater, with a wealth of information and perceptive interpretations.

But perceptive event - sequences, by definition, are quickly traced out through the sense organs into the events of the environment explicitly not parts of the person.

A member of the French Academy of Sciences stated: «Natural order was not invented by the human mind or set up by certain perceptive powers....

Whitehead seems to mean by a systematic geometry that it is a geometry representing a structure of uniform curvature yet not a geometry identified as one of the particular uniform metric geometries.6 Further, this systematic geometry, exemplified within the presented duration, is taken to be a defining characteristic of the «geometrical» society, a basic member of a hierarchy of societies comprising the present cosmic epoch (PR 148 - 59K Thus Whitehead explains that the perceptive mode of presentational immediacy is of importance, for it exhibits a»... complex of systematic mathematical relations which participate in all the nexuses of our cosmic epoch, in the widest meaning of that term.»

Both narrators bring to bear a literary and interpretative artistry by the primary means of a highly perceptive selectivity and arrangement of material.

By comparison to other medieval Western portrayals of Islam, Riccoldo's Book of Pilgrimage is a fresh, realistic, and perceptive portrait of Islam as it was practiced in the lands of its birth.

But some internal rhythms can be so attuned that they register and reinforce the rhythms of distant vibrations; these are the ones that are «perceptive» of the distant, or ontologically conjoined by virtue of mutually supportive or organically connected harmonies.

What renders possible this mutual interpretation of events postulated by quantum physics is that the concrete constituents of nature are all perceptive by nature.

You must read my book «Discerning Perceptive; by Sister Glory Sanders Thompson.»

To answer your question — As someone who has been extensively mentored by people who are very gifted in inner healing and as one who also administers pastoral counseling, I believe that I've become perceptive to things that might not be aware to others.

By envisaging nature as pervasively perceptive we can offer a solution to this problem.

And this is just the sort of way in which cardinal philosophic advances are in fact made; by being more perceptive and more realistic than others are about something which is always taken for granted.

The structure of actual occasions as perceptive, as actively inheriting and synthesizing the past, and leaving themselves open to synthesis by subsequent occasions, gives us a basis for affirming the continued influence of occasions on subsequent occasions in the cosmic process.

I am amazed how feebly multitudes of persons have imagined what it means for God to be ideally perceptive and retentive of worldly happenings, as by most definitions God is said to be!

By following this method, Bristow has produced a study which is both commendable in its manner of doing theology and perceptive in its evaluation of contemporary ethical stances.

How to Get to First Base, with captions by Red Smith, is one of the funniest and most perceptive books ever done on baseball and is now something of a collector's item.

If he were Spanish, Italian or German, he would not cost anywhere near # 16.5 m. Yet, even amid the disturbing inflation scarring English football, Jones looks a perceptive piece of business by Alex Ferguson.

Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

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There were a couple of books that helped me particularly, Nighttime Parenting: How to Get Your Baby and Child to Sleep by William Sears and Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide For Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, Energetic by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, which helped me see that some children's needs are just more intense than others, not wrong, not right, just different.

Of everything that has been written on the Euro crisis so far, I think one of the most perceptive and insightful pieces was an op - ed by Anne Applebaum all the way back in September 2010 (doesn't that feel like a long time ago?)

The perceptive speaker will respond to agitation by doing the opposite of whatever he or she was just doing, like a dodgem swinging round after impact.

Founded by multi-touch pioneer Jeff Han in 2006, Perceptive Pixel is dedicated to the research, development and production of multi-touch interfaces for the knowledge worker.

Perceptive Pixel was founded in 2006 by Jeff Han, a recognised leader in the touch technology field, and focuses on the research, development and production of multi-touch interfaces for the knowledge worker.

Dennis Kavanagh, my splendid and perceptive co-author from 1974 onwards, has now taken charge of 2010 and 2015, aided by Philip Cowley.

• The acutely perceptive Baron Mandelson has noticed that the Labour leader's speech was driven by politics.

Artificially intelligent by design, deceptively perceptive, mining superfluous data with malicious intent.

An emerging class of pillbox - size computers, outfitted with sensors and linked together by radios, can form perceptive networks able to monitor a factory, a store — even an ecosystem.

The idea that a father's age could affect the health of his children was first hinted at a century ago by an unusually perceptive and industrious doctor in private practice in Stuttgart, Germany.

Being physically fit is the number one word that is likely to generate an approach from a fellow online dater, closely followed by being ambitious and perceptive.

I am a Veterinary Doctor by profession, and I have many of the personality traits that you might expect to go along with the profession: I am compassionate, gentle, perceptive, intuitive, communicative, loyal, reliable, trustworthy, analytical, ethical (Hmmm..

Part gentle comedy, part perceptive, Cassavetian blue - collar character study, it's also tellingly poignant despite it's shaggy - dog style structure fair riveted together by Buscemi's compelling central performance.

An occasionally perceptive and endearingly un-commercial drama undercut by some serious narrative awkwardness.

Anchored by a sensational Charlotte Rampling as its lead, the movie combines Haigh's perceptive style with shades of Mike Leigh's «Another Year» to create a quietly moving and deceptively tragic look at aging romance haunted by past mysteries.

Directed with an understated, observational eye by Jason Reitman, «Tully» is a perceptive, acerbically funny, empathetically observed slice - of - life of a middle - class New York suburban mother's postpartum exhaustion.

Though salvaged in parts by Lindon's impassioned performance and a few perceptive asides that hint at a better version of the events, At War is mostly a redundant portrait of working - class struggles that does more to belittle the efforts of its subjects than position them in galvanizing terms.