Sentences with phrase «effaced so»

And yet, there are things that one can imagine happening to an apple (or a bone, or even a whole planet) that would efface it so completely, that no particles, atoms, bits of matter, or parcels of energy would remain that could meaningfully be asserted to have been the very ones that were once part of the original object.

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It's precisely because the class system has been so thoroughly effaced that sorting by education has become so so socially important.

become a man and come at last this hour: the lovely bride before the bridal bower, their family and friends, all smiles, embrace love writ so large that time can not efface this silver night's unbridled happiness.

He was self effacing, he had a great sense of humour as well, so he had great balance.

Our Lord, burden us not with what we have not the strength to bear; and efface our sins, and grant us forgiveness and have mercy on us; Thou art our Master; so help us Thou against the disbelieving people.

What allowed Jesus to attract to himself so many of those lacking social or religious credentials is his self - effacing desire to exist alongside of them rather than above them.

Then someone objects, and says that the Greek is just a translation of the Lord's Aramaic, so that we, by guesswork, can efface the Greek and replace it with a supposititious original.

Effacement could be accompanied by mild contractions, or none at all, so you might not know you're effaced without the help of an OB - GYN and / or midwife.

I just stopped working 2 - days ago so I've definitely kept active, but I'm only 50 % effaced, I'm not dialated at all and baby still has to drop.

The contractions may come at irregular patterns, and they may not help the cervix to dilate or efface, or do so only very slowly.

So while the new self - effacing Ed is a likeable sort of chap, capable of winning over voters on the streets, the «erk» approach is never going to be enough to get him into Downing Street.

Obsequious and self - effacing to superiors («I have so many papers I'm working on»), SciZ is rude, verbally abusive, and calculating with subordinates (including sanitation and support staff, as well as postdocs like me).

The skeleton's vertebrae and ribs were so straightly and intimately joined, their ligaments perfectly bony, and their articulations so effaced, that they comprise one uniform continuous bone.

So now I'm thinking the 28 - year - old single is being ironic or making a self - effacing joke.

At its best, it is self - effacing fun.But the cartoonish approach takes its toll: The random twists and contrived showdowns devolve into just so much abstract business, too silly to take seriously and too unmotivated to make sense.

It's self - effacing moments like this that make the ridiculous plot mechanics of Doctor Strange so easy to forgive.

In a Valley of Violence begins like many oaters we've seen in the past and the archetypal characters that therein show all the hallmarks of cowboy picture platitudes; Paul (Ethan Hawke) is a self - effacing drifter who appears more like a peacenik than the dangerous army deserter we suspect him to be; Gilly (James Ransone) is a murderous intimidator; Mary - Anne (Tessa Farmiga) is a virginal ingenue; Marshal Clyde Martin (John Travolta) is the conflicted reprobate law man; and so on.

And so «While We're Young» is essentially a riff on Murphy's «I'm Losing My Edge,» his super witty and self - effacing dance single about a hipster fearing his creeping obsolescence as a newer, more savvy, more wired - in generation redefines what's cool.

Attributing meaning to the game and that moment in particular was so effortless thanks to thatgamecompany's minimalist, self - effacing design.

Maybe he saw that he never could efface his gestures, so as a literalist he may as well take them as composition and as subject matter.

In them, Marden did not so much efface touch as compress it.

In order to fill the time so as not to completely halt dramatic action, or, to help transition the mood from one act to the next, an «entr» acte» would unfold before a simple backdrop with a minimum of props; embracing the economy of the gap and the leverage of interval, the «entr» acte» occupies a space between denouement and spectacle, effacing and dispersing the subjective identification and vitalist discoveries often associated with theater.

How does one begin to tell the story of Agnes Martin, one of modern art's most original and self - effacing artists, especially when so many aspects of her personal history are shrouded in mystery, misinformation, myth and misunderstanding.

And all because he kept his word and did so with self - effacing humour.