Sentences with phrase «characterized by a sense»

He dislikes Obama's continuation of many of President Bush's policies and he is disillusioned with Obama's meager leadership skills, but his criticism is fairly low - key, characterized by a sense of quiet restlessness.

The study specifically examined loss of control eating, which is characterized by a sense that an individual can not control what or how much they are eating.

-- This syndrome is characterized by a sense of discomfort in your legs.

Establishing a learning culture characterized by a sense of common challenge and discovery rather than a culture where experts impart information.

The schizoid state... is characterized by a sense of meaninglessness and futility.

His plastic constructions are characterized by a sense of suspension and lightness, a sober and refined elegance that plays easily between wood, stone, marble and metal.

Seeing New York again after years of traveling, Rubinfien notes how the city «is characterized by the sense of promise it holds out to the thousands of people who come to make their way here, by its harshness, its mixed sense of brightness and disappointment, by how it places itself within us yet always remains unknowable.»

This series of drawings of Masae Suzuki are characterized by its sense for rhythm, and accurate and sensible lines.

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The Church's theology of suffering makes little sense to a society increasingly characterized by the drive to achieve what Russians call a «European» standard of living.

In this sense, what we mean by concordant parity is not so much cooperation or expressed support, but a relationship in the composition of the event characterized by reciprocal intensification.

Above and beyond the single denominations, it is characterized by a Protestant Christian consensus that is not defined in denominational terms but rather in association with its sense of a special religious mission toward the rest of the world.

There are many reasons for this, including the historical failure of any of the various theories to compel enduring universal consent, a general sense that we blaspheme against the sheer mystery of God by witnessing to the glory of God's actions with a cocksure orthodoxy, and a philosophic climate characterized by a profound skepticism about all metaphysical or theological attempts to probe rationally the truth of things.

The assumptions undergirding our democracy are a somewhat paradoxical amalgamation, characterized by a free - flowing sense of moral relativism, a laissez - faire individualism and a fairly profound liberal sense of social responsibility: It is difficult enough to make sense out of these dogmas without considering our Christian faith in the saving power of Christ's cross.

Writes Dark, «It is only when we're blessed by a feeling of finitude that we can begin to perceive the holy, that sense of a whole before which our limited understanding is dwarfed... Only a twisted, unimaginative mind - set resists awe in favor of self - satisfied certainty... More humility might characterize our talk of God if we believe that the whole truth can never be entirely ours and that our attempts to nail God down are always well - intentioned human constructs at best and idols at worst.»

The answer surely is that right functioning is always characterized by a deep sense of well - being.

The surge decades of pop history were characterized by the emergence of new subcultures and an overall sense of forward propulsion.

26 But this claim is not augmented by any exploration on Aquinas» part as to what sense can be made of a life that is not dynamic or interactive, the life of an ultimate being characterized by simplicity.

This perspective is primarily concerned to eliminate nonsensical statements, or at least to distinguish between nonsense (non-verifiable) and sense (verifiable) Under the pressure of this demand by logical positivists, those who speak and write in the field of religion have not only felt called upon to clear up the fuzzy and meaningless jargon that often characterizes their field, but many have relinquished all terms that refer to the non-verifiable.

This makes sense, given the recent push among complementarian leaders to embrace patriarchy — which, by definition, refers to a society characterized by male / father (pater) rule (archy).

I do not think that Kushner would deny that all genuine religious experience is characterized by such a sense of the ineffable.

Now, the occasions which cause us to call a society «living» are characterized by a certain freedom from domination by the physical past, and just to the extent that they are characterized by novelty they too become unlikely candidates to «register» on our sense organs.

It is not clear that church leadership is best characterized as professional leadership in the sense of professional assumed by the Berlin model.

The new questions and controversies caused by Pentecostals» public presence will oblige them, albeit grudgingly, to rethink the sense of omnicompetence that usually characterizes sectarian mentality.

In short, whereas the happy life is characterized by ease and pleasure, the meaningful life is characterized by generosity, deep engagement with difficult pursuits, and a coherent sense of how the self develops across time.

Eschewing the extremes occupied by the loudest voices in the national concussion and youth sport conversation, the ones who either deny there is a serious issue that needs to be addressed (who they characterize as the «just a knock to the head» crowd) or have become so convinced that contact sports inevitably result in lifelong disability that they are so fundamentally unsafe that they should be abolished, they opt instead for the common sense middle ground - a place where MomsTEAM and I have been all along - a magical place where it is possible to have a «more thoughtful, science - based» dialog about the role of sports in our kids» lives.

He adds: «In our study, this was shown to primarily apply to «grandiose narcissism», a type of narcissism that is characterized by an exaggerated sense of superiority.»

This is characterized by alertness, logic, and «what is» according to the physical senses.

It is characterized by severe dysfunction in different parts of the nervous system involved in movement, the senses, and involuntary (autonomic) functions.

Can you sense the delightful, undulating motion of your breath through your spine, and let the twist deepen as you exhale, so that the movement is characterized by ease, not force?

Have never wrote a review until now because this is such a great game I almost didn't by because of the reviews Quote «GameSpot» The attention to detail, the well - considered level design, and the sense of momentum that characterize the finest shooters are missing here.

Like Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz is characterized by an all - too - rare sense of childlike joy in the possibilities of filmmaking, collaboration, and a night out at the movies.

In a world - this world - where growing up is so often characterized by losing one's childlike sense of wonder, I hope Haynes and all his kindred stargazers never lose sight of the sky.

Directed with zany aplomb by female Israeli director Tayla Lavie, this chaptered saga of woman in uniform vs. ennui is characterized by a soaring sense of voice and sees stars Dana Ivgy and Nelly Tagar face down the clock as they Minesweep their way through their deafeningly dull military assignment — paperwork.

In this sense, the SDGs of the post-2015 development agenda of the United Nations represent an innate opportunity for the emergence of a new biomimetic civilizational paradigm, since it is essentially an authentic Humanifesto: it is characterized by the universal declaration of human reconciliation with the environment.

I spoke with my students about Mary Beth Hertz's Edutopia post «Battling Fake News in the Classroom,» and I sensed that many of my students, while skilled at what Hertz fittingly calls «crap detection,» were still deeply troubled by what they characterized as a growing public aversion to the truth.

Such «a healthy school environment,» as Vanderbilt researchers call it, is characterized by basics like safety and orderliness, as well as less tangible qualities such as a «supportive, responsive» attitude toward the children and a sense by teachers that they are part of a community of professionals focused on good instruction.9

The culture is characterized by collaboration and a sense of community.

In addition to the classics, she is nearly obsessed with the sense of adventure and bravery characterized by J.K. Rowling's created world in the Harry Potter series.

Well, Achievement School Districts are characterized by several traits, none of which makes even the tiniest amount of sense in terms of helping to improve student learning or teaching quality:

The car's exterior is characterized by a sporty wedge shape that conveys a strong sense of forward motion; a deeply sculpted form in which the body is drawn inward fore and aft of the A-pillars; and distinctive character lines that extend from the front fender arches to the body shoulders.

His stylistic preferences molded the detective thriller into what is now defined as hard - boiled fiction, characterized by lean, direct writing and a sense of dark, gritty realism.

These principles are easy to understand and, characterized by findings such as «all else being equal, lower prices are better than higher prices», are grounded in common sense.

Have never wrote a review until now because this is such a great game I almost didn't by because of the reviews Quote «GameSpot» The attention to detail, the well - considered level design, and the sense of momentum that characterize the finest shooters are missing here.

Although Suda51 isn't on record as the mastermind behind Let It Die — he's listed as Executive Director — the game is distinguished by the same off - kilter sense of humor and pop culture pastiches that characterized Grasshopper games such as Shadows of the Damned and Lollipop Chainsaw.

Action Painting is characterized by energetic techniques that depend on broad gestures directed by the artist's sense of control interacting with chance or random occurrences (that is why it is also called Gestural Abstraction).

Indeed her works, which would be characterized abstract art rather than abstract painting, share some common ground, such as the spectacular use of colors, contrasts and shadows, the playful use of diagonals that creates a solid sense of perspective while different levels construct both volume and composition, but also the smooth way she moves from one texture to another, giving her paintings a rough surface by using colors impasto or with a palette knife or simply by incorporating different materials.

Structuring his own visual language characterized by the remarkable sense of tension, rhythm, and balance, he created portraits with great complexity and depth.

It is characterized by its distinct sense of experimentation and its...

Among them was Mary G. L. Hood (1886 — 1967), a painter whose art is characterized by brilliant color, a lyrical sense of line, a playful willingness to distort spatial relations, and a flirtation with primitivism.

Through a variety of sculptural and installation processes, Austin composes situations characterized by instability, impermanence and illusion — inviting from their visitors an urgent sense of empathy, mindfulness and openness to the unknown.