Sentences with phrase «cloak which»

The darkness masks detail and obscures texture, a monochromatic cloak which diminishes the visible and encloses the subject in a poverty of visual information, drawing the viewer's mind more acutely to the subject, thrusting it forward into sight.

Assuming you've put points into the blacksmithing skill you can head to the nearest forge and start dismantling all your old weapons and armor and using the parts to craft new, better gear for yourself, like a bloody big flaming sword or a fetching new cloak which just so happens to bolster your magical powers so that you can happily electrocute people for hours on end.

In vacuum, air, and other surroundings supporting ballistic light propagation according to Maxwell's equations, invisibility cloaks which are macroscopic, three - dimensional, broadband, passive, and that work for all directions and polarizations of light, are not consistent with the laws of physics.

Not exact matches

Once you reach this point, you've essentially overcome your fear of change, which shows up to cloak our «fight or flight» mechanism.

«We don't miss any demographics but we miss one psychographic — people who can't see the positive side of things,» John Jacobs told me during a recent interview, during which I kept my dark underbelly discreetly cloaked.

He manufactured a hostile takeover of the rump Progressive Conservatives, a merger in which his more radical, more muscular style of politics cloaked itself in a brand name that however tarnished was at least familiar and historic.

«It is a classic move to make everyone poorer, cloaked under the veil of redressing income inequality,» Rosenberg said in Breakfast with Dave, a tipsheet for which Rosenberg's employer, Gluskin Sheff + Associates, charges $ 1,000 for an annual subscription.

Primarily, link cloaking is a defence against commission theft in the affiliate marketing industry which is a serious problem.

Secondly, Google's webmaster guidelines specifically advise against deceptive linkbaiting: «Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as «cloaking.»»

The algorithm which uses your credit report to determine your credit score is cloaked; we don't know how each line item affects the final score.

Mat 24:15 When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand), Mat 24:16 then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains: Mat 24:17 let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house: Mat 24:18 and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloak.

Religion encourages the need to cloak one's self in a security blanket which only belittles any argument presented by the religion — and they do it with a 2000 year old book.

But this servant - form is no mere outer garment, like the king's beggar - cloak, which therefore flutters loosely about him and betrays the king; it is not like the filmy summer - cloak of Socrates, which though woven of nothing yet both conceals and reveals.

As must now be evident, the charismatic orientation may be cloaked in the style of those groups which call themselves charismatic or Pentecostal, but it is important to note that the charismatic negotiation is primarily a structure and as such may give form to the world views of persons and groups that do not adopt any of the features or practices of what is conventionally called charismatic religion.

On the accidental level, however, to say that Socrates is shrewd or homely, is not to attribute to him extrinsic qualities which cling to him in about the same way as his cloak.

When people use their religion as a cloak of immunity which they feel gives them the right to spread lies about another person's character, well that is just wrong.

As a rule, this happened under the cloak of fighting the partisans [in Soviet territories], yet those who were directly or indirectly involved could scarcely fail to see that the SS brigades and Einsatzgruppen were carrying out a comprehensive «ethnic cleansing,» to which the Wehrmacht, if only by condemning large numbers of Russians to starvation, were giving active support.»

That may well sound more like «native» English, but at the cost of seeming faintly repetitious, merely rhetorical, and without the elegant little development of the Hebrew — which, merely through the verb, moves from an intimation of light as a garment in the first half - line to an explicit simile of God's wrapping light around him like a cloak in the second half.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

They recruited and trained a group of secret assassins called sicarii — which means «dagger - men» because of the deadly, curved dagger they carried hidden in their cloaks — and killed Roman politicians and soldiers by slitting their throat, or stabbing through the back to pierce the heart.

Unless something changed, there have been and still are 613 such hedges (613 also being the number of pips / seed in a pomegranate — which they base on the pomegranates, for example, on the hem of Aaron's cloak.

Thus a cloak of unity is thrown over all kinds of religions which have appeared in India.

Poverty and wealth can then become the venue in which redemption once accepted leads to a working out of salvation for both the giver of the cloak and the recipient, done within the life of grace.

This fear (which we prefer to cloak under the more respectable name of «anxiety») is the real story behind the current steady decline in the humanities.

This magisterial text faced what amounts to the direct contrast of Pelagianism which exalted human endeavour and Lutheranism which considered humanity purely passive and grace «like some brilliant cloak of gold thrown over the human corpse by God» (Karl Adam: The Spirit of Catholicism ch.11).

The world is finally starting to shake off the cloak of myth that it has been wearing for thousands of years - in large part because we are, one - by - one, empirically explaining that which humankind formerly relied on gods to explain.

Thus in the long struggle through Israel's life in the land, Yahweh attained victory over Baal by various processes; in part, it was by the use of force and authority — a summary statement which cloaks the political strife that continued until the Yahwists were able to overwhelm their opponents.

The ghostly blue color which pervades the background contributes to this feeling, as it lends its tone to the sky, the sea, the beach, and the clothing which cloaks the figures.

This quadruplet of mouth - watering meats cloaks a medium depth thick feathery crust, enriched with garlic, which delivers a slight crunch.

Then he describes what can only be a Chinense, and probably is the original Bonney: «The other of the same color, and glistering as much, but shaped like a large Button of a Cloak; both of one and the same quality; both so violently strong, as when we break the skin, it sends out such a vapor into our Lungs, as we fall all a Coughing, which lasts a quarter of an hour after the fruit is removed; but as long as we are garbling [selecting] it, we never give over.»

Jason Day, after his Players Championship win cloaked him in an aura of invincibility similar to that which enveloped his texting mentor in his heyday, is drawing the inevitable comparisons to Tiger Woods.

His two - seamer, which has a darting, sinking action, and his splitter, which is cloaked in a two - seamer's clothing only to dive more sharply, aredesigned to be thrown low.

The reason was to try and cloak the site [which sounds a bit Klingon doesn't it?]

She says the committee, which is formed as a not - for - profit 501c4, is using rules intended to protect givers to charitable and civil rights concerns as a «cloak» to «shield from disclosure» names of donors who give money for more purely political purposes.

«This cloak - and - dagger approach to public consultation is unacceptable and is a fundamentally flawed basis on which to change school funding arrangements.

«This cloak and dagger approach is leaving those schools which do become academies on 1 September vulnerable to legal challenge and possibly industrial action.

Officials did not discuss motives for the shootings on Monday, two of which remained unsolved, but the police have attributed much of the recent bloodshed to local gangs, who used the cloak of darkness to settle rivalries and disappear into the crowds.

They have been implemented in a cloak and dagger way which suggests ministers are well aware they would spark public outrage if they were properly understood.

Krueger noted she voted «no» on the amendment, which she deemed a «sneaky attempt to maintain power, cloaked as reform, by a party afraid of losing its leadership position due to demographic trends throughout our state.»

Given that Kiev isn't part of Russia (for the time being) that alludes to the variety of sporting achievements which were cloaked under the Soviet banner.

She says the Committee, which is formed as a not for profit 501 C 4, is using rules intended to protect givers to charitable and civil rights concerns as a «cloak» to «shield from disclosure» names of donors who give money for more purely political purposes.

«The propagation of such irresponsible and destructive falsehood made against my client should not be availed the cloak of parliamentary immunity which, if had been said in anywhere else in the open, will certainly be giving rise to a meritorious court action in defamation.

«It's been reported that this has been a black - box process,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, referring to a device in which the inner workings are cloaked.

Their materials can be used for noise cancellation, vibration control and sonic cloaking, which can be used to hide objects from acoustic waves.

Producing a cloak to hide objects from visible light, which has a wavelength several orders of magnitude smaller than microwaves — let alone cloaking objects when viewed from any direction — seemed a more remote possibility.

Some 250 mountaineers have died on the mountain, which is on the border between Nepal and the Chinese region of Tibet and can be climbed from both sides in a season that is cut short in late May by rainy - season clouds cloaking the Himalayas.

They had succeeded in cloaking a small cylindrical object — shielding it not from visible light but from microwaves, a form of electromagnetic radiation with a substantially longer wavelength, which makes the cloaking effect considerably easier to achieve.

Ulf Leonhardt — the only one of the researchers who admits to enjoying the books — explains that Harry can see through his cloak, which is made of a thin material in which he can walk and climb.

Chen's coworker Baile Zhang of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, as well as John Pendry at Imperial College London, and their coworkers have shown that a compromise of partial visible - light cloaking of macroscopic objects can be attained using blocks of transparent materials such as calcite crystal, in which light propagates at different speeds in different directions.

In principle, metamaterials can create «perfect» cloaking — which makes the cloak itself invisible as well as its contents.