Sentences with phrase «contrast between past»

The differing perspectives of developed and developing nations — and the contrast between past and future actions — remain a key issue.

Historical fiction has often been of interest to my book club, since the contrast between past and present mores adds another topic to be discussed.

The contrast between the past of the journals and the present day is decidedly poignant.

«Martha Marcy May Marlene «The single thing that cinema does better than any other artform is the shifting of time: can paintings, or architecture, or music, show the immediate contrast between past and present and future in only a few seconds?

To overstate the situation somewhat, the essential Pauline contrast between past and present / future is replaced by emphasis on the present, and while Paul's scheme is primarily historical / eschatological John's is cosmic / personal.

But the further contrast between past and present is irrelevant and misleading.

But there is no need to stress the contrast between our past and God's future.

Secondly, because the notion of proposition is tense with contrast between past and future, it can carry a lot of eschatological freight.

Not exact matches

For the past few years I have been struck by the stark contrast between investment charts that show the impact of compounding interest for a 25 year old versus a 30 year old with a 30 year retirement time horizon.

In contrast, medium - term inflation expectations implied by financial market prices, which are calculated as the difference between nominal and indexed bond yields, have been broadly stable at around 2.6 per cent over the past nine months.

The growth of the economy over the past year has been characterised by sharply contrasting performances in the farm and non-farm sectors and, within the non-farm sector, between goods and services industries.

Psalm 90:4 - 6 shows the contrast between God and the life of man: «For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

The central allegation of paradox seems to me to run roughly as follows: a nontemporal divine experience would include in itself all events in time (cf. CSPM 105); but to experience all temporal events simultaneously would dissolve any real distinction between past and future (cf. CSPM 66); so there could be no temporal transition, no change, no contingency, and no freedom (cf. CSPM 137); and since nothing could become, there could be no real permanent and unchanging reality either, «for then the contrast between the terms, and therewith their meaning, must vanish» (CSPM 166).

While these implied contrasts between a moral past and an amoral present can be documented in certain respects, as general propositions they are ill - founded and, to be frank, downright wild.

So far our comments have been largely a contrast of stances toward human existence: a plea for a more truly dialectical, less dualistic understanding of the relation between form and energy, a plea for a similar openness toward the past, a question about the future to the effect that the incompleteness of the present ought not to frustrate Dr. Altizer into insisting that the total reversal promised by the glimpsed eschatological future be the only standard or norm of faith.

The Jewish «Christian dialogue of recent decades is a new thing that stands in sharp contrast to the terribly complicated relationship between Jews and Christians over the past two thousand years.

For concrescence was seen to be inherently temporal, and the contrast between subjectivity and objectivity could be understood as the contrast between present immediacy and past determinateness.

A contrast is sometimes drawn between religion and science by saying that science thrives on change whereas religion clings to the past.

It gives deeper meaning to the contrast between speaking «in the past to the fathers» but now speaking in «one who is Son».

In this regard the contrast between Japan and the United States may be especially instructive since in Japan in the recent past and to a certain extent even today there seems to have survived a civil religion of archaic type (involving a fusion of divinity, society, and the individual), whereas the United States has a civil religion of distinctly modern type (with a high degree of differentiation between divinity, society, and the individual).4

For Whitehead the contrast is between the new aim derived from God in each moment and all that is inherited from the past.

While the prospect of an epic ideological showdown between the two former colleagues — Cuomo was de Blasio's boss at the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the 1990s — is overwrought, there's no denying the sharp contrast at work here, and the need for Cuomo to avoid becoming a symbol of the Democratic Party's past.

In contrast to psychoanalytic therapies that delve into someone's past, CBT helps a person focus on current problems through an active partnership between the patient and the therapist.

«In contrast to past electrode designs, this fixed geometry allows accurate measurements that are fully comparable within and between experiments, and that tell us exactly how tissues like that of lung or gut mature within a channel, keep in shape and break down under the influence of drugs or other manipulations.»

Looking at extremes, consider the stark contrast between the severe droughts in California in recent years and the torrential downpours, mudslides and flooding this past winter.

In contrast, for the past many decades, many health concerns developed due to a complex interplay between nature (our genetics) and nurture (our environment and lifestyle).

Director Gary Ross (incongruously best known for the sugar - coated Seabiscuit) and his director of photography Tom Stern (Clint Eastwood's regular DoP for the past decade) establish a shrewd visual contrast between the muted blues and greys of District 12, where Katniss leads a hand - to - mouth existence, and the garish neons of the television studio into which she's later thrust.

The film presents a fantastic contrast between the old and the new right from the very start when a statue of Christ is flown in by helicopter past ancient Roman aqueducts, over construction sites for new suburban tenement buildings, and over the rooftop of penthouse apartments decked out with bikini - clad women of the leisure class.

As someone who has worked in classrooms for the past 39 years, I consider the contrast between school and real world to...

By contrast, weather forecasting that leverages «data science» collects a vast amount of historical information on air, temperature, and humidity, and assesses the relationship between those measurements and actual past events, such as whether or not a storm occurred.

Alternating between past and present, Black - Eyed Susans contrasts the chilling details of Tessa Cartwright's abduction with the renewed search for the killer 20 years later.

We have reported extensively in the past on Pixel Qi's technology, it basically allows you to switch between full color and high contrast (nearly grayscale) modes.

He begins by remembering her glory — Venice is always a female, if not always a lady — for the contrast between her regal past and her faded present is never far from his mind.

There is, of course, a long - standing contrast between the assumption that people in the past were fundamentally just like us and the belief that they made different assumptions about the world and cared about different things.

«There's a strong contrast between our top - earning authors — those who made over $ 5,000 in the past 12 months — and those who earned under $ 100 in that same time span,» said BookBaby President Steven Spatz.

Slautterback said between the company's two clinic locations, staff have administered at least 30 flu vaccines within the past week — a stark contrast from its previous average of only one every three months prior to the outbreak.

Take a gentle rafting trip down the Indus River, floating past traditional Ladakhi villages, enjoying the mesmerizing views, and the contrast between the greenery of the Nimoo village on one bank and the stark barren landscape of the other.

- Kataoka believes the world of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the true protagonist of the game - at times, really beautiful and delicate, and other time's it's rough and ruthless - the natural beauty is one of the main appeals of the game - she wanted the music to not just reflect, but also enhance that appeal - she wanted the music to reflect the long History of Hyrule, but also the ordeals of the Link and Zelda of this particular entry - in order to express the idea of a world in ruin, yet so vibrant, she decided to use traditional instruments - these included the shinobue and the erhu, which are not commonly used in orchestras - these contrast the synthesizer sounds of the ancient civilization - the main theme includes chord progressions which are not really suited to classical music - Kataoka wanted reflect Link's 100 - year sleep in the main theme, which explains the rather strange break in the song - the break represents Link taking a «new breath», after 100 years in stasis - the break basically serves as the division between Zelda and the past, and Link and adventure in the present day - she usually does not pay much attention to such details, but had the opportunity to do so this time

The stark contrast between such missions and the rest of the game means it is possible to argue that the two threads of the narrative, the present and the past, are a bit too separate at times.

The city itself is super eclectic, even walking around the city centre you can see the great contrast between some really wonderfully experimental new buildings, and their brutalist concrete counterparts, nestled in between areas like the Chinese Quarter, and also the remnants of Birmingham's more industrial past with tons of great old warehouse spaces, some of which have been repurposed into really interesting places.

Those familiar with her previous work will recognize elements that recall past collections, specifically the Face in the Crowd project from 2013 that shares the contrast between crowded public spaces and a lone heroine with her latest works.

Her works frequently explore our relationship to our built environment and draw comparisons and contrasts between the historic and the modern - industrial architecture, eliciting tensions between past and present.

Bruna Esperi: By looking at your portfolio and taking into consideration your past works exhibited in solo shows such as «Deep Black,» «High Light» and «Black & Wide,» one seems to notice that in your photos the contrast between black and white dissolves over time until reaching an abstraction of landscape photography, as we can see in in the current exhibition «Light Shift.»

Observational records show that anthropogenic - influenced climate change has already had a profound impact on global and U.S. warm season climate over the past 30 years, and there is increasing contrast between geographic regions that are climatologically wet and dry - the hypothesis that the «wet gets wetter, dry gets drier» is seen in a new paper by Chang et al..

Bauch, H. A., Kandiano, E. S. & Helmke, J. P. Contrasting ocean changes between the subpolar and polar North Atlantic during the past 135 ka.

For some contrasts between the Younger Dryas and the most serious droughts since then at 8200, 5200, and 4200 years ago, see Fagan (1999) and Harvey Weiss, «Beyond the Younger Dryas: Collapse as adaptation to abrupt climate change in ancient West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean,» pp. 75 - 98 in Confronting Natural Disaster: Engaging the Past to Understand the Future, G. Bawden and R. Reycraft, editors (University of New Mexico Press 2000), at http://www.yale.edu/nelc/weiss/byd.html.

4) Usage: there was an interesting contrast between some of the online publishers: those that base renewal of their subscriptions on heavily the customer used the product over the past year (i.e., if it was heavily used, the customer would pay more on renewal) versus those that based it instead on enhancements to the product, the costs to maintain the database and other factors.

The Fed noted this income disparity and said that the decline in average income of the richest 10 percent between 2007 and 2010 «stands in stark contrast to the generally steady pattern of rising mean incomes at the top of the income distribution over the past two decades.»