Sentences with phrase «certain sense of order»

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Similarly with the Starbucks secret menu, it gives people a certain sense of accomplishment to order a Frappuccino that the next person might not know about.

Even the most highly organized churches which insist on the importance of «legitimate» orders recognize with the Church of England that» «there always remains the power of God to give to the Church prophets, evangelists and teachers apart from the succession,» and even the most spiritualistic groups will elect certain men to interpret the sense of meetings in which anyone moved by the spirit is allowed to speak.

Or perhaps he even is conscious that he labors thus in order to sink the soul into obscurity, does this with a certain acuteness and shrew calculation, with psychological insight, but is not in a deeper sense clearly conscious of what he does, of how despairingly he labors etc..

Modern empiricism, on the other hand, which locates the possibilities of science in the brain (as if the brain and its patterns of order were not also in part a construction of the scientist's mind), precisely reverses this: the outside world known by the senses is alone the seat of what is — if anything is — universal, objective, real and certain.

Beyond this immediate sense of self - knowledge, I may also know myself in terms of an «assessment of long term propensities and capacities,» of «certain ways in which some of the incidents» of my life are «ordered» (CM 174, 167).

As these pictures show, the snap of the ball is the signal for what often appears to be inextricable confusion, although to the gladiators locked in man - to - man struggle there is a certain order and sense to the conflict.

The laughter begins with a certain sense of «70s cult metal with maniacal intent and window shattering operatic delivery as guitars swoon and peak under her order.

It used to be that a film had to earn a certain combination of guild nominations, or string together a certain number of wins in order to «make sense» as the Best Picture winner.

He argues that whiteness has not been historically marked by a certain sense of rigidity, but instead, has the ability to flex, change, and morph in order to ensure its survival.

I have a list of cards that describe certain personality types drawn from my observation of the folks around me and I use these as background to my fictional characters in order to imbue them with a sense of verisimilitude.

Predatory lending is in a legal sense the offering of certain secured loans such as home loans or car loans by lenders with the sole intention of seizing the property in order to sell it for a profit knowing that the borrower will not be able to afford the monthly payments on the loan.

The other major factor, unfortunately, is that a lot of dog behavior advice in the media and popular culture still has a tendency to pin most behavior issues on dominance, or conflicts over social status — so it makes a certain amount of sense to think that by spaying or neutering the dog and «taking them down a notch» in the pecking order, we might be able to fix the problem.

In previous games, grinding was essential in order to upgrade weapons to their maximum efficiency and gave an added sense of satisfaction to finally upgrading your favourite weapon, in addition to having to wisely upgrade certain weapons over others.

I know that's true of any painting (the famous Maurice Denis quote immediately springs to mind: «It should be remembered that a picture — before being a warhorse, a nude, or an anecdote of some sort — is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order») but I have a heightened sense of it here.

In thinking about the softening of modernist styles through both post-modernism and folk aesthetics, Morrison's works reveal how particular genres have been borrowed in order to lend a certain sense of authority, permanence or perceived refinement to the otherwise disposable late 20th century built environment.

A cost effective way to correct scheme rules: the High Court made an Order under section 48 Administration of Justice Act 1985 authorising trustees to apply the scheme rules in a particular way, on the basis it was clearly necessary to read certain words into the scheme rules to make sense of them.

Rather than having all your books perfectly lined up vertically, as in a library, turn some on their side and stack them up — the variation between vertical and horizontal stacks will lend a certain hodgepodginess to the arrangement without losing all sense of order.