Sentences with phrase «constant call of nature»

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This could happen only if the guilty person were by nature endowed with extraordinary stupidity, and presumably by shouting in antistrophic and antiphonal song every time someone persuaded him that now was the beginning of a new era and a new epoch, had howled his head so empty of its original quantum satis of common sense as to have attained a state of ineffable bliss in what might be called the howling madness of the higher lunacy, recognizable by such symptoms as convulsive shouting; a constant reiteration of the words «era,» «epoch,» «era and epoch,» «epoch and era,» «the System»; an irrational exaltation of the spirits as if each day were not merely a quadrennial leap - year day, but one of those extraordinary days that come only once in a thousand years; the concept all the while like an acrobatic clown in the current circus season, every moment performing these everlasting dog - tricks of flopping over and over, until it flops over the man himself.

In the call of Abraham to leave the home of his ancestors, in Moses» leading his people away from acquiescence in Egyptian slavery, in the prophetic protests against any localizing or naturalizing domestication of Yahweh's presence, in the apocalyptic rebellions against the status quo, in Jesus» idealizing of homelessness, in the Evangelists» turning our attention toward the Risen Lord and in St. Paul's relentless call to freedom from the slavery of legalism, we have a constant chorus of discontent at the idea that we can find our fulfillment in what nature apart from history has given us.

Almost universal access to computers and the internet, the interconnected nature of computer networks, and the constant development of new techniques mean that attacks can come from anywhere, from state actors to terrorist organisations, and even to individuals operating from their own homes — a point underlined by the emergence of so - called «hacktivists».

So scientists were intrigued by the announcement last August that one of the so - called constants of nature might not be so constant after all.

The quantities we call constants of nature, such as the masses of elementary particles, Newton's gravitational constant, and so on, take different values in different bubble types.

So for years, physicists have chased an elusive dream: replacing the physical kilogram with a standard inherent in properties of nature such as the speed of light, the wavelength of photons and the Planck constant (also called h - bar), which links the energy a wave carries with its frequency of oscillation.

There are two constants in Alonso's cinema: nature and the desire to confront the viewer with primitive ways of life that are far removed from so - called civilization.

The constant of proportionality σ, called the Stefan — Boltzmann constant or Stefan's constant, derives from other known constants of nature.

In a paper in Nature this week, scientists present palaeo - oceanographic evidence that deep convection of surface waters in the North Atlantic — the engine that keeps the AMOC in constant motion — began to decline as early as around 1850, probably owing to increased freshwater influx from Arctic ice that had melted at the end of a relatively cold period called the Little Ice Age (D. J. R. Thornalley et al..

«The nature of our business calls for constant growth, and we work to achieve that through recruiting new and experienced agents as well as looking for strategic acquisition opportunities, as we did with the acquisition of ZipRealty in January of this year,» he says.