Sentences with phrase «descriptive power»

In her book Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), environmentalist and writer Robin Wall Kimmerer describes her experience as both a biologist and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in terms of a pilgrimage: «Beneath the richness of [scientific] vocabulary and its descriptive power, something is missing, the same something that swells around you and in you when you listen to the world.»

Drawing upon the descriptive power of photography and the ease with which it can be accessed, duplicated, and recombined, Ethridge orchestrates visual fugues, collapsing distinctions between commercial, conceptual, and personal uses of photography.

It incorporates the characters and plot line of a novel, the descriptive power of poetry, the substance of a history lesson, the discursiveness of an essay, and the — often inadvertent — self - revelation of a memoir.

Above all, he understands that any new theory of space and time must preserve all the descriptive power of relativity while addressing, in exacting mathematical precision, the inconsistencies between Einstein's theory and the rules of quantum physics that cry out for another breakthrough.

But, at the risk of a little discomfort, let us try another hypothesis, just to see if it has descriptive power as great or even greater than the one favored by sociobiology.

Though Ramsey and I disagreed, I hope our exchange illumines the descriptive power of Christian convictions.

Their desire to accommodate Christian symbols to the reigning paradigms of knowledge is so great that questions about the descriptive power of those symbols are often dismissed as fruitless or irrelevant.

Listen to these lines for their chasteness, their descriptive power, or their sheer beauty — and this is in translation!

But I will remind you that I've been saying for a while that the American vs. European and Founders vs. Progressives narratives have outlived their usefulness and descriptive power.

The famous writer brings his descriptive powers to a novel -LSB-...]

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Power, William L., «Descriptive Language and the Term «God,»» International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 3, 4 (Winter, 1972), 237, 238f.

Parables, which are not stories about historical characters or about empirically descriptive events, have similar power, and for a very good reason.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

In 1981, not caring to quit while he was ahead, Boff published a collection of essays, Church: Charism and Power (Crossroad, 1985), which, in the original Portuguese, carried the exquisitely descriptive subtitle, Essays in Militant Ecclesiology.

Perhaps Elijah and his narrator would not have put it as the Second Isaiah did about three centuries later, but his words express what was essentially their own understanding of the Word - with - power: the entity not merely verbal and descriptive but also instrumental, by its very nature containing the resources for its own accomplishment and fulfillment:

She touches on the many other endearing and attractive qualities she finds in her husband, and proves that the power of the descriptive word can pull readers in like nothing else.

It involves step by step descriptive instructions on how to create slides on the power point software.

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The Nintendo Power blurb wasn't very descriptive.

His sustained attention to line, its descriptive and decorative power, offers a counterbalance to his abstractions, an aesthetic release for an artist whose public acclaim centered on the diffused surfaces of his bold abstractions.

44 In this case, the Board of Appeal's reasoning rejecting the argument based on the allegedly descriptive character of the «doughnuts» element of the trade mark was sufficient to enable the applicant to understand the reasons that had led the Board of Appeal to adopt the contested decision and to enable the Court to exercise its power of review.

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Currently available data on YODA is solely descriptive, although investigators are preparing to launch adequately - powered and well - controlled comparison studies (Whitehill 2012).