Sentences with phrase «certain kind of expectation»

Not exact matches

This kind of faith plays no part in my life, and the other definitions are more a synonym of trust, or a certain expectation.

At least, our experience of the animals with whom we live is that they exhibit behaviors similar to many of our own; that those behaviors clearly seem to be signs of emotional and mental qualities familiar to us from our own knowledge of ourselves; that animals possess distinctive individual traits, characteristics that are irreducibly personal (even if we feel obliged to recoil from that word on metaphysical principle), their own peculiar affections and aversions, expectations and fears; that many beasts command certain rational skills; and that all of this makes some kind of natural appeal to our moral sense.

«Without branding all generals and statesmen as murderers or thieves... a portrait of war makers and state makers as coercive and self - seeking entrepreneurs bears a far greater resemblance to the facts than do its chief alternatives: the idea of a social contract, the idea of an open market... the idea of a society whose shared norms and expectations call forth a certain kind of government.»

It is not that retailers ignore us (M&S caters for Older Women — if you like the kind of dreary stuff older women are supposed to wear), it is that there is such a heavy expectation that women of a certain age must dress in a particular way irrespective of our personalities and wishes.

When implementing this approach, we only compare the outcomes of students for whom the same pair of teachers is making the assessments to ensure that our results are not biased by certain kinds of students being assigned to teachers with especially high (or low) expectations.

I've been in nearly every book advance scenario possible, and I've come to realize that there are certain myths and misunderstandings that are weighing on authors and their expectations about what kind of book advances for first - time authors are even possible.

It's the kind of book that sets up readers» expectations about a certain kind of «genre fiction,» and then completely upends those assumptions, resulting in something both unexpected and thoroughly satisfying.

It also puts a time stamp on your material, kind of like with fresh baked bread, and with that, a certain hype and expectation, something to look forward to, which is why it is so important to strategize and come up with a plan for a PR campaign at least six months before pub date.

Marshall, however, has increasingly voiced a «strategy of resisting prediction» in making his art, that is, resisting the expectation for a certain kind of art work - in his case, painting.