Sentences with phrase «emotional character of»

Richard Nonas is an American sculptor, installation artist, and anthropologist whose work, varying in shape, size, and weight, shows viewers how objects can be used to perceive (and construct) the emotional character of a landscape.

The view from the side is marked by the dropping line in keeping with the emotional character of the vehicle.

Grandin sets out to portray the mental and emotional character of animals and its resemblance to that of autistic people — all of it set against the familiar backdrop of normal human intelligence and behavior.

This emotional character of the datum leads to another factor in human experience that is generalizable.

One may then speculate that the emotional character of the experience in the cells in the grass are somewhat replicated in the emotional component of their prehension in the mode of causal efficacy from which the sense datum, green, arises visually.

We have seen that this sense of the entity and power of the Word explains in great part the concentrated emotional character of the prophets and their deep anguish in proclaiming the negative message.

The prophetic sense of the entity and power of the Word explains in great part the concentrated emotional character of the prophets and their sometimes deep anguish in proclaiming the negative message, the pronouncement of doom upon the life of the political state.

Not exact matches

How can you draw on the emotional power of storytelling to bring customers close to the human character of your business?

Neuroeconomics professor Paul Zak explains: «Character - driven stories with emotional content result in a better understanding of the key points a speaker wishes to make and enable better recall of these points weeks later.»

The skills of initiative, collaboration, courage and character, quite rightly are very important have more to do with Emotional Intelligence, maturity and people skills.

For example, my experiments show that character - driven stories with emotional content result in a better understanding of the key points a speaker wishes to make and enable better recall of these points weeks later.

Many centuries ago, Aristotle analyzed success in political persuasion along three dimensions: logos (the quality of argument), pathos (the power of emotional appeal), and ethos (admiration or respect for the character of the speaker).

There are folks who have posted to this wonderful story about a group of youth who are working towards the Aims of Scouting: Growth in moral strength and character, Participating citizenship, and Development in physical, mental, and emotional fitness.

And back then, wasn't it the fans wrapped up in «theories» who were ultimately disappointed when they found out that Lost wasn't really concerned with answering the thousands of questions it had raised — that it was less a heady show about theology and science and more an emotional show about its characters and the human experience?

Though it may sound bizarre, engaging with fictional characters on a deep emotional level can be a sort of thought experiment in empathy, where we briefly step outside of our self - constructed glass boxes and engage with people who are both vastly different and the same on an intimate level.

One of American fiction's most attractive characters is the 13 - year - old Esme in J. D. Salinger's «For Esme — With Love and Squalor»; her unaffected charm and solicitude rescue the soldier - narrator from a World War II emotional and spiritual hell.

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

And while a lot of that will involve her hustle, talent and rare ability to play characters with atypical mental and emotional lives, it's also going to involve an even brighter spotlight.

The reasons for the difficulty in answering what time is are several, including the paradoxes of being and non-being; the experiential and emotional weightiness of the subject (consider, for example, the temporal character of hope, despair, regret, satisfaction, and boredom); and the metaphysical centrality of time in understanding such things as substances, events, causation, and consciousness.

I want them to walk away knowing that they know a lot more about the story, that they've gone on an emotional journey with the characters, and at the end of it, they're still left wondering.

Three factors stand out as essential to Whitehead's account of emotional experience: (1) active response on the part of the subject, (2) the qualitative character of this response, and (3) the object as causally related to the subjective response.

The reasons for the difficulty in answering what time is are several, including the paradoxes of being and non-being; the experiential and emotional weightiness of the subject (consider, for example, the temporal character of...

I can't add much to this flood of advice except to submit, with humility, that in my view we don't have much choice about our fundamental emotional attitude; it is a matter of personal character (body chemistry and the close culture of family and schooling), but this need not affect our choice of creed and code if we have independence of mind.

Their former emotional or feeling characters are more or less conformally repeated in the immediate occasion, modified only by the relevant, novel potentials of character aimed at by the subject (PR 162/246).

With each modulation Wagner purposely strains the tenor's voice more, the growing physical strain of the music conveying the emotional conflict within the character: although praising the goddess with his lips, his heart, or at least part of his heart, lies elsewhere.

I reply at once that where the character, as something distinguished from the intellect, is concerned, the causes of human diversity lie chiefly in our differing susceptibilities of emotional excitement, and in the different impulses and inhibitions which these bring in their train.

One mode of emotional excitability is exceedingly important in the composition of the energetic character, from its peculiarly destructive power over inhibitions.

This reception of emotional tone is combined with the vector - character of prehensions or feelings in order more fully to describe the primary phase of a moment of experience:

This requires bravery, character, maturity and emotional competence but it's a responsibility we have to protect the namesake of Christ's bride.

This contemporaneous or nearly contemporaneous view of the tragic king explains the phenomenon of his emotional instability in its own terms: the positive character of the younger Saul («the Spirit of Yahweh...» i m: 6) is not now merely neutralized, it is negativized!

I could easily show you these regions if I had here a picture of the brain.1 Moreover, the diminished or exaggerated associations of what this author calls the Köperfühlshäre with the other regions, accounts, according to him, for the complexion of our emotional life, and eventually decides whether one shall be a callous brute or criminal, an unbalanced sentimentalist, or a character accessible to feeling, and yet well poised.

The churches, in their presentation of their answers to this query, have put forward aspects of religion which are expressed in terms either suited to the emotional reactions of bygone times or directed to excite modern emotional interests of nonreligious character.

One of the key characters in the book is disgraced «faith healer» Holy Wayne (played by British actor Paterson Joseph); a once - average man, bereaved on October 14th, who realises he can take other people's pain upon himself, like a kind of emotional sponge.

«So far does the character of the Communist's allegiance to the movement correspond to religious commitment that we can even observe the intensely emotional phenomenon of conversion when individuals are persuaded to embrace the Communist faith.»

This is the opening of The Lunch Line Fight: Looking at Different Perspectives, by Tosca Killoran and Jeff Hoffart, part of a series of 10 paperback books with a focus on citizenship, mindfulness, empathy, character and social - emotional skills, presented in story book format.

More a beautiful character study than a plot - driven novel, Shine On is worth reading simply for hours spent with Colwin's exquisite descriptions of the physical and emotional world.

But competitive character, managing through the mental and emotional burns of the season is a skill.

Buffon's comments after the match, in which he questioned the character of Oliver — calling him «a killer, an animal» with «a garbage bin in the place of a heart» — were classic reactionary statements to what was an emotional occasion.

I'm usually pretty balanced with my views on Arsenal and oddly despite being the most emotional of characters, I don't generally rant like a belligerent child over all things related to the club -LSB-...]

Experienced teachers focus on intellectual and character growth, attending to the social, ethical, and emotional needs of sensitive and capable students.

The UK's Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (Seal) framework, introduced in state primary and secondary schools in 2007, is the closest we have come to structured attempts to teach character.

Moreover, a recent imaging study compared the neural response of non-depressed mothers versus depressed mothers to their own infant crying and found a reduced neural activation in the depressed mothers in regions related to emotional response and regulation.35 Together, it appears that both the character of infant crying behaviour and maternal perception of crying differ when mothers are depressed.

Emotional intelligence, motivation and persistence — character traits seldom calibrated — are more reliable indicators of whether a child, from any background, will do well in life.

From comparing their preggo nipples (which, by the way, are totally different than normal nips) to various food products to find the similarities between the expecting emotional state and completely comical characters, those nine months have similarities to an awesome array of different things.

Michigan: Custody is awarded based on the best interests of the child, based on the following factors: moral character and prudence of the parents; physical, emotional, mental, religious and social needs of the child; capability and desire of each parent to meet the child's emotional, educational, and other needs; preference of the child, if the child is of sufficient age and maturity; the love and affection and other emotional ties existing between the child and each parent; the length of time the child has lived in a stable, satisfactory environment and the desirability of maintaining continuity; the desire and ability of each parent to allow an open and loving frequent relationship between the child and other parent; the child's adjustment to his / her home, school, and community; the mental and physical health of all parties; permanence of the family unit of the proposed custodial home; any evidence of domestic violence; and other factors.

If anything, the 140 character limit of Twitter exposes the intellectual and emotional vacuity of such partisan political posturing.

In a theatre dedicated to new writing, Sharon Clark's script is sharp and believable - the repartee between the characters is particularly bright, funny in parts and full of emotional attachment.

But whereas the uncanny valley is normally used to describe the visual appearance of a robot or virtual character, this study finds that, given a particular appearance, emotional behavior alone can seem uncanny.

The last film was an emotional victory, but in Dawn, the physical manifestation (of computer - generated characters) is a quantum leap forward.

However, a new study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business titled «Less Evil Than You: Bounded Self - Righteousness in Character Inferences, Emotional Reactions, and Behavioral Extremes,» to be published in the forthcoming Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Nicholas Epley and Nadav Klein ask whether the extensive research on self - righteousness overlooks an important ambiguity: When people say they are more moral than others, do they mean they are more like a saint than others or lesslike a sinner?