Sentences with phrase «commentary on the nature»

In Judaism, scripture and the understanding of it was historically taken to be a work in progress, a collection of inspiration and commentary on the nature of God and Man (including, of course, Womb - man).

A new commentary on the nature of pathogens is raising startling new questions about the role that fundamental science research on evolution plays in the understanding of emerging disease.

It's plausibly a commentary on the nature of an ecosystem, but the emotional reward doesn't compensate a player for the amount of busywork.

The combination of it being his directorial debut, his performance (which was a killer and, as you noted, filmed VERY quickly), the unpredictability and the strength of the supporting cast, not to mention the fact it has an interesting commentary on the nature of perception of who has a «perfect life» all added to a wonderful experience for me.

The original 2001 film wasn't particularly scary either, but it did succeed in delivering some interesting social commentary on the nature of electronic means of communication, and how it is separating us from actual human contact, leaving those who succumb to it as empty shells who sit in lonely rooms with nothing much to live for.

One - third fairy tale (literally), one - third musical and one - third social commentary on the nature of love, its weird visuals and eclectic songbook will make adults feel like they've consumed some crazy psychedelic drug; however, younger viewers may find its colorful and song - heavy stimuli generally entertaining.

Directed by Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus), his first effort since 1999's Man on the Moon, Goya's Ghosts may not rank among his finest works, but it does have its share of strong moments, enough to recommend the film as a thoughtful and sometimes frightening commentary on the nature of religious persecution, and the lives destroyed in the wake of their power.

You may recognize snippets omitted from films such as Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 or Laura Poitras» Citizenfour, but even if you haven't seen any of Johnson's work, she presents an accessible commentary on the nature of humanity while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of non-fiction filmmaking.

As the reclusive woman comes into focus, aided by interviews with former employers — including Phil Donahue, oddly enough — and the now - grown children she once cared for, a sinister shadow is cast on her past, making for an engrossing and provocative commentary on the nature of both her work, and of this very documentary.

Johnson's metathriller, spiked with gory intrigues and romantic subplots, is a ripping piece of fiction that is also an astute commentary on the nature of freedom, sacrifice, and glory in a world where everyone's «a survivor who has nothing to live for.»

It's plausibly a commentary on the nature of an ecosystem, but the emotional reward doesn't compensate a player for the amount of busywork.

For at least a day, most newspapers took his commentary on the nature of his art at face value.

By merging imagery from different sources to elements of her own life, Wylie's paintings offer a direct and sometimes witty commentary on the nature of visual representation itself.

Daniel C. Goodwin (36)-- See Climate Progress, linked under the Other Opinions section of the sidebar, for critically negative commentary on that Nature article by the blog owner, Dr. Joseph Romm.

On its website, New Hope Environmental Services states that it «produces cutting - edge research and informed commentary on the nature of climate, including patterns of climate change, U.S. and international environmental policy, seasonal and long - range forecasting targeted to user needs, and the relation between the earth's atmosphere and biology.

In reaching this decision, the High Court undertook a review of past Singapore case law and legal commentary on the nature and purpose of Article 34 (2)(a)(iii), ultimately deciding that «as a matter of policy, to hold that Art 34 (2)(a)(iii) does not apply, where no other limb under Art 34 (2) would be engaged, would allow an arbitral tribunal to immunize its awards against judicial scrutiny by delivering its conclusions on both jurisdiction and merits in a single award», which would have been an «unsatisfactory result».

What is completely expected from the trailer is more of Deadpool's mouthy wisecracks, a lot of bloody violence, and meta - commentary on the nature of superhero films.

Not exact matches

There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.

So yesterday I wrote a post intended to be a funny and self - critical commentary on the ambiguous nature of feminism, but which turned out to be a bit controversial.

of the commentary here is based on the assumption that there is a single true, correct answer to the question, «Does God exist, and if so, what is the nature of God?»

Eckhart's preaching is deeply scriptural in that sense, and in fact he says at the end of his Commentary on John that you have to speak excessively when you preach or talk about scripture because scripture speaks excessively — that's the nature of speaking about God.

Kendzierski, Lottie H., «Commentary on Mr. McTighe's Paper,» The Existence and Nature of God: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 28 (1954), 224 - 233.

In his Commentary on Philippians, Aquinas wrote that God's «emptying» does not mean that God has «put off» his divine nature, only that he has «assumed» a lowly human one.

Leo, too, taking up the best in his predecessors, creates a «science» of CST, and most of what follows has the nature of a commentary on his work.

For empirical theology it is the particular alone that is real, and pragmatism and radical empiricism are commentaries on the particular, whereas for conventional speculative theology (within, say, process theology) it is the general condition (such as the primordial nature of God), in addition to the particular, that is real.

He thought of philosophy as something going on, as nature and life go on, not as backward - looking commentaries on what was in books.

As my explication of and commentary on the text of the Enquiry proceeds, it should become clear that the picture suggested later by The Concept of Nature, a picture that represents Whitehead as dogmatically claiming that»... there is but one nature, namely the nature that is before us in perceptual knowledge» (CN 40), is, however justified by contextual evidence, a distortion by way of an oversimplification of the deliverances of a mind greatly occupied with issues at once subtle and coNature, a picture that represents Whitehead as dogmatically claiming that»... there is but one nature, namely the nature that is before us in perceptual knowledge» (CN 40), is, however justified by contextual evidence, a distortion by way of an oversimplification of the deliverances of a mind greatly occupied with issues at once subtle and conature, namely the nature that is before us in perceptual knowledge» (CN 40), is, however justified by contextual evidence, a distortion by way of an oversimplification of the deliverances of a mind greatly occupied with issues at once subtle and conature that is before us in perceptual knowledge» (CN 40), is, however justified by contextual evidence, a distortion by way of an oversimplification of the deliverances of a mind greatly occupied with issues at once subtle and complex.

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

Longest section of the commentary is the one explaining the saying «the restoration of peace in the world depends on ordering the material life»; quite in keeping with Confucius» well - known preoccupation with questions of a political nature.

«Longer droughts will have many additional social and economic consequences, for example on food supply, health and hydropower,» climatologist Jonathan Overpeck writes in a commentary on the research published in Nature January 18.

In a Nature Commentary he proposes a community effort to collect economic data on the new website zeean.net.

«Although we are still far from knowing to what extent worms and their ilk influenced the geochemical history of our planet, this is a novel and testable hypothesis, which will inspire novel thinking,» writes Filip Meysman, a biogeochemist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in Yerseke, in a commentary on the research in Nature Geoscience.

«On Pluto, almost the whole game is haze,» says planetary scientist Robert West of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who wrote a commentary on the new work, also published in the Nov. 16 NaturOn Pluto, almost the whole game is haze,» says planetary scientist Robert West of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who wrote a commentary on the new work, also published in the Nov. 16 Naturon the new work, also published in the Nov. 16 Nature.

Picking out twisted photons from a black hole would provide new information about the objects themselves and provide important tests of general relativity, says Martin Bojowald, a theoretical physicist at Pennsylvania State University who wrote a commentary on Thidé and his colleagues» work for Nature Physics.

► In a commentary in this week's Nature, five scientists propose a moratorium on gene - editing in embryos, sperm, or egg cells.

But to ensure that the outcome of most such devices is truly random, a skeptical user would have to crack it open and parse its inner workings, says Valerio Scarani, a physicist at the National University of Singapore who wrote a commentary accompanying on the research in Nature.

The risks are high that there will be no action on many of the issues arising from the Gulf spill, Boesch explains in a commentary article in this week's Nature (see «Deep - water drilling remains a risky business»).

Two years ago, he co-authored a Nature commentary calling for a moratorium on clinical embryo editing.

Despite their ubiquity, there's been precious little effort spent evaluating whether these programs actually work, writes Daniel Koehler, director of the German Institute on Radicalization and De-radicalization Studies based in Stuttgart, in a commentary published today in Nature Human Behaviour.

The contents of the syringe, my Nature commentary on the influenza vaccine, 10 July 2008.

Nature Geoscience has two commentaries this month on science blogging — one from me and another from Myles Allen (see also these blog posts on the subject).

In a commentary published in Nature Reports Stem Cells on 25 June 2009, Shahragim Tajbakhsh examines the history of some of the key terms in stem cell biology, and suggests how we might begin to unpick the knots in current naming practices.

The Nature commentary on this research suggests that previous attempts by the authors to publish their work had failed at least in part due to ethical issues.

A commentary on the research is published in the August 26 edition of Nature.

A commentary published on 30 January in the leading science journal Nature Plants highlights the importance of an ancient grass species for wheat breeding.

Seeding research funding into carbon removal options now will pay dividends in the coming decades: Photo credit: Jamie McCaffrey / Foter / CC BY By Guy Lomax and Peju Adeosun Last month, we published a Commentary in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, co-authored with Professor Tim Lenton and Dr. Mark Workman, calling on policymakers -LSB-...]

One of the earliest posts on this blog pointed to commentary by Feringa in Nature «In control of molecular motion», which included commentary on Prof. Sauvage's work on molecular muscles implemented by contraction and stretching of a linear rotaxane dimer.

In a commentary in the journal «Nature Climate Change», the two internationally renowned experts reflect on the lessons learned from ocean acidification research and highlight future challenges.

«Asking whether it's natural or caused by humans is silly,» said Eric Steig, of the University of Washington, who wrote a Nature commentary on the new research.

Knowledge of these thresholds is key to the sustainable management of ecosystems and to anticipating irreversible changes and / or ecological collapse,» wrote Alfredo Huete, a researcher at the University of Sydney in Australia, in an accompanying commentary on the study in Nature.