Sentences with phrase «discernible as»

A preoccupation with language as process, system and metaphor was discernible as a dominant aspect of many of these artists» works.

The subtle modulations of rich color remind me of palm trees silhouetted against the evening sky, becoming barely discernible as night falls.

Discernible as tally marks, the vibrating lines echo the x and y axis of the picture plane, allowing her to juxtapose overlapping representations of distinct objects.

While these subsequent pieces still evoke the landscape of California, they are not readily discernible as being representative of an actual place.

Chanel fans out there could easily point out the similarities it has with the Chanel Classic Flap Bag, but the differences are quite discernible as well.

Although in the early pronouncements on mission a great deal of stress is placed on direct evangelism, a broader framework for interpreting mission is discernible as the church faced new challenges.

These are often feeble and futile, but still discernible as they are unrolled before us in the pageant of history.

Not exact matches

It accuses some retailers, such as Costco Wholesale, with making few discernible efforts.

In her view, we're stuck with living as if grace didn't exist, because there's no discernible way we can rely on it.

The Christian tradition is full of those who have suffered death and persecution as a result of their faith and, in some cases, for no discernible reason whatsoever.

Closely allied to the conception of an event is Whitehead's conception of a duration as the general fact comprising the simultaneous occurrence of all nature discernible now (PNK 68f).

Next up is hell, the existence of which is presented as a rational, naturally discernible truth.

As a matter of fact, a tradition of violence is discernible throughout United States history — perhaps because it is a young nation, perhaps because it plunged into the industrial age without preparation.

But such would have to be Arkes» outlook: if indeed there are fundamental principles of natural law and natural right, discernible to the human mind generally (as Arkes thinks), then policies or practices that effectively deny these can only be supported for the short term, or in the long term only by continuing fraud and force.

The future grows creatively and continuously out of the present, and if it does not grow under causal constraints already operative and in principle discernible within the present, then our expectations about the character of the future are as groundless as Hume said they were.

As the report states, they are typically the end result of an understandable and often discernible process of thinking and behavior.»

... By «directionality» in this sense - as a scientifically accessible or discernible movement - I do not mean one with a single unique, or even definite, goal, but simply one whichproceeds towards a definite range of possible outcomes - which become more focused and delimited as evolution continues.

That system, as it were, came to be referred to as natural law, in order to distinguish it from the pattern of ethics discernible in the Bible.

Even as the bad news is that these notions rose and flourished together, the good news is that hints of their common fall are becoming discernible.

This was discernible by reason alone, as distinguished from reasoning derived at least in part from revelation.

How to act as a Christian should within this tension is a matter on which directives are discernible in the gospel, yet no arbitrary authoritative word can be found.

Yet, this is not the same as saying that there are discernible stages through which a person should pass if faith is to «mature.»

No galvanizing center of contemporary concern is discernible in North American systematicians, as may be the case, for example, in the seminary world of Germany, South Africa or Latin America.

In broad terms it may be affirmed that the Human, having become aware of its uncompleted state, can not lend itself without reluctance, still less give itself with passion, to any course that may attract it unless there be some kind of discernible and definitive consummation to be looked for at the end, if only as a limit.

This point won't be shared nearly as many times as the original image, but this «church» is really a cult, with no discernible relationship to Christianity.

They are, as religion reporter Amy Sullivan points out, some sort of cult with «no discernible relationship to Christianity.»

For an eternal idea is just as discernible in the mythical presentation of the cross as it is in pagan mythology — e.g. the idea of sacrifice or heroism.

For me, as a lesbian Catholic with no discernible call to monastic life, the absence within the Christian churches of a deep understanding of the human need for vocation is glaringly obvious.

It has to do with a quality, discernible in that human character, which confronts us with a claim to our worship: in response to which it is not absurd, as it would be in the case of other men, to exclaim «My Lord and my God».

The reason that the same rock, atom, or molecule can persist without change for millions of years is that its constituent occasions conform serially to each other without discernible modification as they synthesize their past.

Life, then as now, often seemed a helterskelter affair of pleasure and wretchedness befalling men with no discernible relation to their moral quality.

He fully accepts the Kantian view that notions such as God and world have no discernible objective basis in our experience.

This means that the degree of consciousness attained by living creatures (from the moment, naturally, when it becomes discernible) may be used as a parameter to estimate the direction and speed of Evolution (that is to say, of the Cosmic Coiling) in terms of absolute values.

Just as human personhood is not discernible at the level of the molecular interactions in our bodies, so God is impersonal when encountered solely in this dimension.

However matter by definition is a fact as it is discernible by our five rational senses...

The general rejection of socialism in America by the by the 1850s, after an earlier flurry of interest, is to be explained far more by the victory of the ideology of individualism than as a choice between alternate ways to order a new industrial economy whose outlines were as yet hardly discernible.

The same kerygma is also discernible in Luther's preaching of the cross, which is based exclusively on the cry from the cross as given by St. Matthew.

But by calling this a «percipient event» he then goes on to a duration as discernible from a percipient event.

As time went on a more optimistic note became discernible, chiefly in opposition to the false asceticism characteristic of the dualistic sects.

Thereby evolved Whitehead's basic philosophical problem — at first as a dark motor of his intellectual development, then, increasingly and more clearly, as the discernible, formulated center of his theory.

As you can see, there is no discernible edge either way.

The neatest thing about this success was that it was achieved by a crew of scramblers who reacted to the ball as if it were a live grenade and made no discernible attempt to play defense.

Whilst the majority of Porto's contemporaries are nowhere near as stable (there have at the time of writing already been close to one hundred player departures from next season's sixteen Primeira Liga participants), there is a discernible culture of adaptability that, whilst not unique to the game in Portugal, is rarely seen outside of South America.

Gran called it «their Michigan State stuff,» as the Buckeyes line up in a three - man front and bring pressure from seemingly everywhere, with no discernible theme.

And as long as there is no discernible change in the way our game is handled by the pgmob and the equally complicit FA, this will be a problem for us.

There is a discernible uptick in the rate of intrauterine fetal demise beginning in the 38th week and it becomes almost parabolic as one goes from 41 to 42 weeks and beyond.

It washes very well and we put it in the dryer as well and haven't noticed any discernible shrinking.

Baby colic (also known as infantile colic) is a condition in which an otherwise healthy baby cries or displays symptoms of stress frequently and for extended periods without any discernible reason.

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I could hear he was saying words as he screamed, but they weren't at first discernible, so I said, «You're mad that mommy left,» and «You're sad that mommy left.»