English can be a tricky language to learn, but your ability to
communicate in the language of Shakespeare can help boost credibility in your academic papers.
But you can not take this film away from its two leads, who beneath the sparse dialogue seem to be ever
communicating in a language of looks and gestures and sideways glances, a secret lovers» morse code blinking out between them like the light at the end of Daisy's pier.
Taking the Plunge: Immersion Programs Help Children Learn Other Languages In an increasingly diverse country and expanding global economy, it's more important than ever that children be able to
communicate in the languages of their peers.
Ivey cleverly juxtaposes the practical ambitions of Forrester and his crew against the deeply knowledgeable ways of the native Indians they travel with and encounter, whose warnings are
communicated in a language of legend and symbolism.
No longer limited to Europe and America, abstract artists from across the globe are expressing and
communicating in the language of line, form, color, and gesture.
«Think like a wise man, but
communicate in the language of the people.»
Many British Columbians speak languages other than English as their first language, and may choose to work with a real estate licensee with whom they can
communicate in the language of their choice.
Not exact matches
I'm a fan
of websites that
communicate in simple, direct
language.
In an effort to help plan sponsors and retirement plan professionals
communicate more effectively with participants, Invesco Consulting teamed up with the political consultants and word specialists, Maslansky + Partners, to conduct one
of the largest, most comprehensive studies
of its kind on financial
language.
20 people
in the same room can't pass a single sentence around a room playing telephone and these nutjobs think that these stories somehow were accurately
communicated with NO alteration for
language differences, or perception differences for hundreds
of years... I suppose they all thought EXACTLY alike...
The liberal churches need their own particular
language of faith to
communicate with the cultured despisers
of the modern world,
in a manner that lays claim upon the self and the community.»
It's just that it's hard to
communicate some
of these notions
in language that's understandable.
(I apologize to those that dislike metaphors, but I almost can't
communicate if I don't get to use them, and as insufficient as they at times are, they are very close to the
language of what I believe, because you can't really explain or define someone into believing... you can only live out your beliefs
in a way that you share with others, and when given the opportunity shine a light, or point a direction, or walk along with someone for a bit).
His point was that human
language could convey knowledge
of God, which meant that any form
of revelation
communicated the truth as it existed objectively first
in God's mind and then
in the structures
of the world.
Like the Leibnizian monad, the occasion is individuated by its individual essence, its particular perspective; but unlike the Leibnizian monad this essence is not predicated
of the occasion as a substantial substratum, but enters into the inner constitution
of the occasion as «a vector transmission
of emotional feeling» or,
in the
language of physics, «the transmission
of a form
of energy» from past occasions via the eternal objects that
communicate the emotional form and make possible the subsequent reenactment by the prehending occasion (PR 315 / 479f.).
Is Bell's desire to
communicate God to a TV generation who don't understand the
language of the Church simply heading
in the direction
of the nebulous spirituality
of Oprah?
For several decades, Charlie was probably the most widely known and beloved figure
in the world — not only because he was a master clown
communicating through the universal
language of pantomime, but because he grappled comically with universal human problems.
Enjoying your teenagers and relating to them creatively will be more feasible if,
in the
language of Transactional Analysis, you first make peace with your inner Parent; enjoy, befriend, and control your inner Adolescent; and keep your inner Adult
in the driver's seat when you
communicate with your teenagers.
The communicative enterprise would become a vast inductive project — a complex exercise
in theory - building, leading tentatively and provisionally toward something which,
in fact, the imputational groundwork
of our
language enables us to presuppose from the very outset.1 Only by using the resources
of thought to free our communicative resources from the spatio - temporal processes
of their employment can we manage to
communicate with one another across the reaches
of space and time.
But I am too, and those
of us who do not pray
in tongues or with spiritual prayer
languages often get concerned about what we hear from those who do, that we are not truly using all
of our emotions and feelings to
communicate with God, and that we are missing out on a true spiritual connection with Him, and so on.
Finding that many Muslims were illiterate
in their own
language, missionaries forged ahead with non-literate means
of communicating the gospel.
But part
of the answer may be his sense
of private
language, as reflected
in his longest poem by far, «The Secret
Language of Women,» about the Chinese women who found a way to
communicate with their sisters
in spite
of the Maoist revolution and all the powers
of earth.
Clearly, he's read a good bit
of it and been instructed by it — he does not
in any sense belittle it — but he tends to seek
language that captures and
communicates the quality, the feel,
of living and thinking as a Christian.
Many since Kant have doubted whether God, who gave us
language, actually uses
language to
communicate with uswhether, that is, God's «speaking» to people is a cognitive event for them as my speaking to you would be, or whether this «speaking» is a metaphor for some non-cognitive way
in which we are made aware
of his presence.
Those who use
language to express themselves — rather than to
communicate something
of value to others — are not concerned with either the situation
in which they speak or the persons to whom they speak.
ENTIRE BOOK The problem
of communicating Christian teaching — especially the use
of language in bible study.
The
language of the constitutional debates was, like that
of the Almighty,
in Madison's view, «rendered dim and doubtful, by the cloudy medium through which it is
communicated.»
The ease with which the early Christians translated their writings into Greek and other
languages indicates that they, at least, had no prejudice
in favor
of any
language, even Hebrew or Aramaic, for
communicating religious ideas.
You can think
of sex» within marriage and
in other relationships» as a form
of bonding; as a way to deepen and expand the meaning
of intimacy; as a type
of language even, where human beings can
communicate subtly, beautifully, passionately, without words.
The very fact that the name
of this Messiah means «God saves» shows that no matter what Jesus was like as a person, the correlation
of these texts and
language, written at different times and
in different places all
communicate the same message: Jesus was the Son
of God, the Word made flesh and thus, one can not deny it, he had to be telling the truth.
But the pastor may have to set aside all specifically religious
language for a time precisely because at some stage
of communicating with the person these get
in the way
of clear thought and honest feeling.
The message which the churches attempt to
communicate falls on deaf ears, not because the ears are really deaf, but because the Word
of God is spoken
in so strange a
language or
in such trivialities that it fails to be the Word
of God to those who otherwise might hear it.
Thus, from the earliest times, it is more reasonable the Jesus Group was both literate and capable
of communicating in two
languages.
I mean,
communicated from a divine source by Jesus Christ as God, through inspired prophets and wise men, apostles, teachers, the writers
of the books
of the Bible, councils
of church leaders, popes, and so on,
in such a way that the message has been transmitted
in human
language, clothed
in the external forms
of human thought, given, indeed,
in the characteristic
language and thought - forms
of particular nations and cultures, but at the same time
in such a way that its essential content has been unaffected by the human mind's fallibility, ignorance and feebleness
of apprehension.
A second observation is the main theme
of this book — that if the layman's life is to be radically affected by the Christian gospel, the Christian faith must be
communicated to him
in language that he can understand.
By undertaking to learn the
languages of others and to
communicate in their idioms, missionaries became their own first converts, providing an example
of what might be involved when prospective believers saw their idioms had also become the idioms
of outsiders.
If they write
in their particular regional
language they can not
communicate with their own colleagues
in other
language areas or with theologians
in other countries
of the world.
The starting point is the Revelation which bears witness to us
of how, until his full manifestation
of self
in the Incarnate Son, God
communicated his marvels precisely through
language and the real experience
of human beings, «according to the culture proper to each age» (Gaudium et Spes, n. 58).
If man is to have faith, it will be caught from those who have faith, and
communicated to him
in myth, the
language of faith.
For those
of us who are unable to
communicate in multiple
languages, really good translation programs exist, most
of which are free.
How do communities
of generosity
communicate security
in Christ to a world that speaks the
language of financial meltdown and turmoil?
Because the ordinary Spaniards
of that period
of time were mostly illiterate and came from the medieval world which was so rich
in imagery and the native world
of the Americas
communicated mainly through an image -
language, it was much more at the level
of the image - word than
of the alphabetic spoken word that the new synthesis
of Iberian Catholicism and the native religions took place and continues to take place today.
Humans have always
communicated their religious questions and expressions
in the
language of gesture and dance.
We are free to talk about that, to be critical even
of the ways
in which the New Testament describes it, to use whatever
language most clearly
communicates what we find.
Instead
of threatening his audience with the judgment
of God, as he did
in the Prague manifesto, Muentzer used the
language of humility and personal experience to
communicate his thoughts.
After receiving his Bachelor
of Arts
in English and Philosophy from the University
of Texas and Masters
of Arts
in Humanities from the University
of Chicago, Scott found himself teaching
language arts and writing, giving him a greater understanding
of how to
communicate with the masses.
«Obviously, they're a lot closer
in age and perspective to the recruits that we're going after, so being able to not just talk to them but actually look at their accounts and see the type
of language and tone and ways that they
communicated.
Aspects
of language include phonology (creating the sounds
of speech), syntax (grammar - how sentences are put together), semantics (what words mean), and pragmatics (
communicating in social situations both verbally and non-verbally).
If taught a few signs, he may talk back to you
in sign
language — easing the frustration
of not being able to otherwise
communicate hunger, thirst, and other basic needs.
Or they think
of the caricature
of a ten - year - old Einstein, who might get along fine with college professors but can not
communicate in the everyday
language of children.