Sentences with phrase «even in familiar places»

But it's hard to deny that there is something, sometimes, that happens when we travel, even as part of the regular hour - and - a-half the average North American spends doing it each day — a sense of dislocation, even in familiar places, that helps us notice new details about our surroundings or that gives a new cast to those we've internalized.

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Even the Brundtland Commission, which at first glance seems to be an exception with its blunt language about unsustainable population growth, ends in a familiar UN place: «Talking of population just as numbers glosses over an important point: People are also a creative resource, and this creativity is an asset societies must tap....

I refer to the latter's shape - shifting ability to make the familiar seem startlingly strange, books of the Holy Bible acquiring human (all too human) authors, ghostwriters, copy editors, places and dates of publication — everything, in short, but an ISBN number.But poststructuralism's powers of redescription exceed even those of historical criticism.

In the view of even the most faithful and sophisticated church members, including those who are close friends of the clergy, the theological seminary and the seminary professor are mysterious and awesome — familiar only to the privileged and spiritual elite, speaking an esoteric tongue, and no place for the laity.

The West Conference Conference championship game takes place this evening at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the two participants should be familiar to bettors.

Parties familiar with the state's broadband efforts have said the economics in places like the rural Adirondack Park has made it difficult to encourage companies to apply for grants in prior rounds — even with a relatively high state share of costs.

Even in this clean and bright room, the smell of so many mice concentrated in one place is overpowering — pungent, and familiar to anyone who has spent time with a pet hamster or gerbil.

Unlike a theme park ride which often directs your attention through sound cues placed in a 360 degree fashion around a room (think of the Hall of Presidents in Walt Disney World), cinema sound must contend with a two - dimensional screen on which audiences must stayed focused, even with 3 - D presentations where your eyes remain fixed on a general axis, where any movement outside that axis might reveal the images to be cardboard cutouts — a phenomenon all too familiar to me.

Incredibly, the familiar formula of comic relief and well - placed jump scares continues to work in the third installment even though the frights conjured up this time aren't the type to dig into your brain and leave you lying awake horrified late at night.

As someone familiar with many social practices of Web 2.0, Ed Cator seemed to recognize the value and place of «wild thinking, creating one's own definitions and rules... being «naughty»... and constructing knowledge» with other teachers across time and space; however, this study, coupled with published and anecdotal evidence in teacher education, suggests that many preservice teachers, practicing teachers, and even doctoral students in teacher education have had limited opportunities for professional collaboration or serious epistemic roles in education — especially in school - based professional development and university - based teacher education.

People that I give the Xoom too (even those familiar with technology) usually spend at lest 20 seconds looking for the lock button, which easily marks it as being not placed in an intuitive place.

It can help you discover an array of dining options you may not be familiar with, even in your native place.

At the time, the statement read as a simple acknowledgement that Hickman and Ribic's event would have line - wide repercussions since «Uncanny's» storyline is taking place solidly in the 616, even though the «All - New» team have found themselves stranded in the Ultimate U (a place Bendis is very familiar with, having written in the alternate universe since the very beginning, 2000's «Ultimate Spider - Man» # 1).

Some appear disorientated, for example, the dog may get lost in familiar places, even in their own homes.

Even when you've trained your dog to go in a familiar spot, it will sniff around to find just the right place before doing its duty.

Many dogs obey perfectly well in places where everything is familiar (and maybe even boring) to them.

The place is undeniably friendly and familiar, even if you've never stepped foot in the place before.

The locals we met were even familiar with the property and knew of its reputation, and I couldn't have asked for a better place to call home while in Tokyo.

As you venture out across various planets, space stations and even familiar locations but within different timelines, you discover a much deeper plot that's taking place which you, and your allies, must work together in order to overcome so that all species can survive in the universe.

Even when you visit places that aren't as nice, like a bar owned by the Yakuza, the suicide forest of Aokigahara, or a hostess club where a gross dude hits on you, it feels like a familiar Japan of the kind you might read about in a Lonely Planet guide, or if Bill Bryson ever wrote a book about it.

Not because I've been to Hope County, or that it even exists in the first place, but because I lived in the northwest United States for many years, and the setting of Far Cry 5 looks familiar to me.

It doesn't have many new areas, instead relying on running players through familiar areas in reverse and places that I personally had glitched into before The Dark Below was even released.

And so he remains, even now, an outlier, with a secure place neither in art history nor in art criticism's familiar hierarchies.

Even in setup, the act of placing a finger on the button in several different angles is familiar and easy.

«Numbers are great, but be sure to include categories, and even clients — anything that will give the reader a sense that you are familiar with the world that the role takes place in,» career expert and résumé writer Andrea Gerson told Business Insider.