Sentences with phrase «first intimations»

Ok, so there might still be snow on the ground and it's hard to remember what trees actually look like with leaves, but the first intimations of warmer days are upon us

Sunnier future The first intimations of war started with Solyndra.

Then come complex multicellular organisms, societies of animals with new emergent properties at the ecosystem level, and, finally conscious beings who create culture, use symbolic language — and experience the first intimations of transcendence.

We do not know when the first intimations and stirrings of divinity within his humanness made themselves felt, but given who Jesus was, and what he would have to give his life to, it is inevitable that such moments would come.

The first intimation of the constitutional effect of HRA 1998 came in late 2004 with the Belmarsh case (A v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2004] UKHL 56, [2005] 3 All ER 169).

Not exact matches

That may well sound more like «native» English, but at the cost of seeming faintly repetitious, merely rhetorical, and without the elegant little development of the Hebrew — which, merely through the verb, moves from an intimation of light as a garment in the first half - line to an explicit simile of God's wrapping light around him like a cloak in the second half.

Ours is the «First» world which, despite its continuing bravado, has been given intimations of the judgement that the first may turn out to be First» world which, despite its continuing bravado, has been given intimations of the judgement that the first may turn out to be first may turn out to be last.

The clue to the interpretation of whatever intimations of the divine are given us in our common life is provided by the first century event to which we find ourselves inevitably looking back and by the historical community through which the concrete meaning of that event has been conveyed to us and in which, therefore, the event itself is in a sense perpetuated.

In the first issue, he reviewed Jean - Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï (1967), his commentary identifying «intimations of the sublime orphic transports induced and moderated by classical restraints» (1).