Sentences with phrase «characteristic way»

I mean that we tend to have particular and characteristic ways of saying and doing things.

But the most characteristic way in which the lower process leaves itself open to the higher is to function without violation of its own internal principles and structures.

We can show the effects of these changing characteristics another way.

A baby who is obtaining lots of milk at the breast sucks in a very characteristic way.

Even if religion can be seen as an accident of birth — an idea that can frequently be heard even in certain fairly religious quarters these days — it is not simply a superficial characteristic the way race or ethnicity is.

The dominant functions of television, combined with the pressure on stations to maximize their audience, has shaped television programming in America in several characteristic ways: it has led away from in - depth, demanding analyses to an oversimplification of issues and their solutions; it has fed the desire for instant gratification of needs rather than disciplined resolution; and it has tended toward the sensationalization of events and experiences.

Furthermore, the church has certain characteristic ways of expressing its own life in grace, which have developed from inchoate and germinal beginnings and have become the main lines of its continuing historical existence.

Many molecules absorb light of this spectral region in a very characteristic way — they can be considered to have an «optical fingerprint.»

In paideia we are formed in such a way that we come to have certain habitus, certain settled dispositions to act in characteristic ways.

To be a person in any satisfactory sense is to have a characteristic way of life — a system of ideals and values that one has adopted as his own or to which he has declared his allegiance.

The interpreter has to look for that meaning which a biblical writer intended and expressed in his particular circumstances, and in his historical and cultural context, by means of such literary genres as were in use at his time, To understand correctly what a biblical writer intended to assert, due attention is needed both to the customary and characteristic ways of feeling, speaking and storytelling which were current in his time, and to the social conventions of the period.

The recognition that it was through an event, and through that event as a whole, that God made Himself known in the characteristic way in which He is known within the Christian community — this recognition has certain practical consequences which I propose that we now consider.

That Jesus was influenced by such ideas is not to be denied; but that they do not represent his characteristic way of thinking about the kingdom is, I believe, almost equally certain.

Love is the characteristic way to sum up the quality of life expected of the follower of Jesus.

where many habits dispose us to act automatically in mechanical and rigid ways, habitus dispose us to act in a certain characteristic way (say, prudently) but to do so intentionally (as opposed to automatically), thoughtfully (as opposed to instinctively), self - critically (as opposed to mechanically), and inventively (as opposed to rigidly) in light of the actual circumstances of the action.

A habitus is a settled disposition to act in a characteristic way.

The way a congregation uses power to adapt its resources is shaped by its culture, its characteristic ways of acting, speaking and socializing.

To disclose the «essence» of an object, a feeling, even of the very act of painting as in the case of Abstract Expressionist painters, means to envision a characteristic way of seeing.

The generally poisonous air of our politics owes much to the press and its characteristic way of reporting what goes on in our public life.

More dramatically Time magazine of 8 April 1966 took up the topic in its characteristic way.

We need, therefore, to be aware that these attempts at controlling us are the alcoholic's characteristic way of asking for involvement.

In his characteristic way, he was blurting out in public something that has been obvious to senior Tories in private: inheritance tax is no longer the priority it was.

For example, each of the phases allows hydrogen ions to flow in a characteristic way.

But culture at its core is simply the sum of a particular group's characteristic ways of living, learned from one another and passed down the generations, and other primate species undoubtedly have practices that are unique to groups, such as a certain way of greeting each other or obtaining food.

She has simply hunkered down to work in her characteristic way: keeping her eyes and her attitude wide open.

Common symptoms are limbs twisted in a characteristic way or missing altogether, and eyes without pupils.

In the first two experiments, Boehme says, the physicists made nuclear spins in a proton and deuterium wiggle in characteristic ways, and were able to read corresponding wiggles in the resulting electrical current.

Vaccinia is known to spread from cell to cell in a characteristic way.

Different brain tissues impede the current in characteristic ways: blood, for instance, impedes less, and grey matter more.

WEARABLE gadgets such as smartwatches or fitness trackers could use the characteristic way you move to securely pair with other devices on your person.

The embedded crystals refracted light in a characteristic way, allowing the researchers to distinguish blood cells with cargo from ones without.

Like actin, microtubules possess directionality because their subunits attach in a head - to - tail fashion — and inside the cell, the microtubule filaments are arranged in a characteristic way.

One of the characteristic ways of looking at Borsos is that his career was one of failed opportunities, or opportunities that ultimately failed, promise unfulfilled.

His sourced quotes explain the personal and characteristic way of Picasso in creating his painting art as «finding» and not as «looking for», which he liked to say frequently.

Kenneth explains in his quotes the characteristic way of Color Field painting art style which started with their important visit to the studio of the woman - artist Helen Frankenthaler.

The power delivery has an old - fashioned flavour to it, too, the characteristic way a supercharged engine feels as if it's got a larger cubic capacity rather than simply more power.

Observing the driver's steering behavior has proved to be a particularly strong indicator: several years of practical research by Mercedes - Benz have shown that drowsy drivers make minor steering errors which they often correct very rapidly in a characteristic way.

Each chessman has a characteristic way of moving and this is all that matters about it.