Sentences with phrase «curious world of»

Now, publisher Henry Holt and Co. is about to release his book, The Party of the First Part: The Curious World of Legalese, in which, according to Publishers Weekly, he «offers a cornucopia of hilarious, offbeat and downright bizarre examples of simple concepts contorted into words that defy understanding.»

The Intuitionist is set in the curious world of elevator inspection, portrays a universe parallel to our own, where matters of morality, politics, and race reveal unexpected ironies.

It luxuriated somewhere in between, a curious world of truth with the enthralling palette of fantasy and the strangeness of myth.

Working with anything from sea worn plastic toys, clay pipes, wire, painted drift wood to cloth, carpet and leather, Nelson's sculptures have an improvised and makeshift attitude, forming part of a curious world of «possible objects» which defy critical context by reaching out through their physicality.

She is the author of The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate, among other books.

(A sequel, The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate, was released earlier this year.)

Travis and Stinky by Jacqueline Kelly (Macmillan Children's, October 4) This is the first installment in a new spinoff series of chapter books from Kelly's beloved The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate and The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate.

To understand the curious world of modern Edsel collectors is to accept that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Let's dive into the curious world of»90s sunglasses before recommending you 15 pairs of the coolest small sunglasses for women you'll add to your wish lists!

Enter the complex and curious world of pattern recognition.

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Instead of being universally good at book learning, Bryant observed that most if not all were fiercely curious about the world around them.

We're also curious as to exactly how expensive it is to commission such an out - of - this - world endeavor.

«I think ultimately the Caitlyn Jenner story has shown that there's a marketplace for these stories well beyond Logo and it's shown that people are curious and interested,» said Post, «and I think the fact that she's opened up her life and story we're likely to see more of these stories unfold in scripted and unscripted worlds, for sure.»

From deserted Olympic venues to silent amusement parks to hotels that haven't had guests in centuries, abandoned places continue to capture the imagination of urban explorers and curious people around the world.

If you're an entrepreneur who's always been curious of their neighbors next door or someone who wants to work their way up the ladder in the tech world, these tech crawls are a great chance to build new relationships and learn why Silicon Beach has earned its well - deserved reputation as the new Silicon Valley.

If you've ever been curious about what happens at Tony Robbins events, or just want to get a better understanding of the world - renowned life and business strategist, from how he prepares for 60 + hours on stage in front of thousands of people to what truly drives him to do what he does, this film is a must - see.

If you let the Harlan K Ullmans of the world dominate your life, or go through life in an unexamined manner, the elite's unfolding game of Jenga, unseen but visible to the curious eye seeking to be informed, will destroy you.

Therefore, we are faced with an extremely curious situation where a direct consultant to and spokesperson for the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Advisor and the President of the United States is also one of the most high profile cheerleaders in the world for gold.

---- Which is why it's curious why God continues to create human beings, and place them in areas of the world where christianity does not exist, and they will never hear the word bible, much less read it.

Anal Haq ~ A Sufi is A Sufi is A Sufi ~ all is love in the world of the Sufi.Today I was curious of Nik Richie's soul so I looked him up in the esoteric Akashic records to see his past lives.

the other curious thing is when theists go after the atheists over our knowledge of scripture, most atheists were once theists so we would have some idea of scripture like you all however with the onslaught of attacks from religious folks in the real world when they discover we're not «one of them» has the same effect as the villian in the comics unwittingly creating the superhero.

We avoid here one of the curious consequences of the Augustinian ontology which is that the world can add nothing to God.

I'm curious... Did you really need this article, and some of the believers to help you understand that the world will one day come to an end... and... we really don't know exactly when...?

Peter Dobbins» decision to set his production of As You Like It in the Spanish colonies of the New World is a curious one, but the choice provides a unique and welcome spin to the usual forest setting.

Anyone familiar with the Eastern Christian world knows that the Orthodox view of the Catholic Church is often a curious mélange of fact, fantasy, cultural prejudice, sublime theological misunderstanding, resentment, reasonable disagreement, and unreasonable dread: it sees a misty phantasmagoria of crusades, predestination, «modalism,» a God of wrath, flagellants, Grand Inquisitors, and those blasted Borgias.

We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds.»

Curious seyedibar about how you feel about this description «I am the light of the world: he who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.»

At the same time, he's curious about his world, unafraid of disagreement and open to new experiences.

Thus the Old Testament is not to be read as an odd collection of curious stories and ideas from a remote and primitive world, any more than it should be taken, on all its levels indiscriminately, as a definitive statement of unchanging truth.

I was just curious, was the information about people crossing over from Russia to America to become Indians you found or likely heard about from what I can tell in the same 1534 handwritten edition of Columbus's voyage to America when it was still hot news that they finally found out the world was round?

The definition of material world, for instance, is «a set of relations and of entities which occur as forming the field of these relations (MCMW 13)-- a most curious definition when we consider Whitehead's later view that the world (ourselves included) is understandable as a coherent logical system of polyadic relations of actual occasions.

Finally, in the fourth place there is the question of ontology, of just what kind of world it is in which gift without return and the death of the other linked to my own death gives rise to subjectivity and ensures that as subjective beings we are first and foremost ethical creatures — even before we are erotic creatures or curious creatures.

The combination, a curious joining of anger and friendly love, offers alternatives in a world of hatreds.

When the theme of the second assembly of the World Council of Churches was announced, and more acutely when the preliminary study document was made available to the churches in North America, there was a curious reaction.

We can advance clever theories and make guesses, and men have been doing so for ages and have expressed most curious opinions about the purpose of the happenings in the world: Each one has made his guess from the center of his tiny circle of experience.

In a world that is increasingly being crowded together, we ascertain curious evidence that the widening effects of overpopulation and social inequity are creating frightening shapes of self - consciousness.

I can see no other way to interpret their curious claim that pacifists of the messianic community wish «to explore amid the ambiguities of the world what less violent alternatives might exist.»

The culture - specific interpretations of North Americans and Europeans will no longer be regarded as «real theology» while the rest of the world produces its curious provincial variants — «African theology,» «Asian theology» and so on.

Curious statement, as Romans dominated half of the known world then, and certainly had defeated army's more powerful than a 1 +12 group even if they were packing heat.

It is curious to note the way in which our world calamity has destroyed some of our comfortable delusions, but not others.

It is not hard to believe that Coleridge would have been highly sympathetic to, for instance, Whitehead's remark that «In our direct apprehension of the world around us we find that curious habit of claiming a twofold unity with the observed data....

Buster People all around the world have experienced near death events... of all regions and non-believers... over all those people do not have the same experience but those that are religious see the after life in terms of their religion, but all have a spiritual experience that changes them... What I am curious is do these prove that Christians are correct..

On Ash Wednesday, as the people come up to receive the ashes, they hear the words: «Polvo eres The ashes of the beginning of Lent are a curious and mysterious religious expression of the Mexican tradition which finds its full socio - religious meaning when coupled with the Holy Water which is blessed during the Easter Vigil — when, through God's power, justice triumphed over injustice in the resurrection of the innocent victim from the death inflicted upon him by the unjust «justice» of this world.

There are hundreds if not thousands of common terms for the pods in languages from all over the world, so it is curious that the following ones have been debated with such passion.

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There are hundreds of terms for the pods in languages from all over the world, so it is curious that the following terms have been debated with such passion.

Hi... Just curious, which waffle maker did u use... Im planning on buying one and embarking on the wonderful world of waffle making.

I am curious to try this recipe with the butter extract — I have a feeling it will be out of this world and won't stand a chance at my house.

So if you're up for yet another grain free pizza, looking to sneak in some vegetable in that man of yours, feel like using your juice pulp and minimise your food waste or simply are too curious to let this recipe pas, I am welcoming you in to the world of green and groovy pizzas.

With the golf world still rocking from a series of curious incidents involving the rules, and with weekend practitioners trying out a whole new batch of regulations proposed by the U.S. Golf Association, it is appropriate that the best book on the rules ever written by an American should be published at this time.