Sentences with phrase «flashes of insight»

Love is a Four - Letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts, a new collection edited by Michael Taeckens, offers flashes of insight from well - known writers about love gone wrong.

Lit by humor and flashes of insight, this action - filled addition to the series about the Robinson children finds Perry and Ant off to stay with Mad Aunt Mabel, and Beany and Sundance to stay with the neighbors next door, when Mr. and Mrs. Robinson go away.

Flashes of insight still show through on occasion, but the navel - gazing (and often inappropriate fawning) of his pieces can be hard to take.

We all get «funny feelings» and «flashes of insight» and «solutions» that seem to pop out of nowhere.

Keep it beside your bed for flashes of insight, advice that reminds you of your own magnificence, and activity sheets to help you access your best self.

Wolves, with their larger brains, are more prone to flashes of insight, allowing them to solve problems on their own; dogs, with smaller brains, excel at using humans to help them.

Whitehead's genius is evident in the intuitive flashes of insight which are not only brilliant in themselves but are also consistent with his metaphysical system.

The Romance stage really depends, as does its counterpart Generalization, on chance flashes of insight.

Drawn from learning that is both vast and profound, the rich details and frequently exciting flashes of insight provided by this work confirm the stature of Robert Jenson among contemporary theologians» a stature that, it seems to this foreign observer, is not sufficiently recognized in American theology.

Eric Cantor's flashes of insight notwithstanding, the biggest roadblock to a populist limited government politics is the size, wealth, self - confidence, and insularity of the Republican operative and lobbyist classes.

While frequently heavy with longeurs, each of the chapters is also filled with brilliant flashes of insight.

Sleep also appears to boost creative powers, producing flashes of insight upon awakening — especially among those who enter REM sleep (a stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movement).

It's rare to find a successful one whose journey hasn't been characterized as much by stress, risk and insane hours as it has been by flashes of insight and triumphant wins.

Less than half a second later, electrodes that were attached to the subjects» foreheads — right above their frontal lobes — picked up a pulse that came with the flash of insight.

New ideas sometimes seem to appear as a flash of insight.

When you see it you can't help remember that before he was struck down in a blinding flash of insight, Paul was one arrogant man.

Men watched apples fail for centuries before Newton had the flash of insight from which he developed the law of universal gravitation.

That flash of insight, that glimmer of hope comes to us sometimes in fragments, the poet seems to suggest, a «loop in time,» when in spite of our spiritual drought and the church's ineffective attempts to bring Christ to us, he comes anyway.

But this kind of caution is perfectly compatible with Whitehead's own confidence that «there is no first principle which is in itself unknowable, not to be captured by a flash of insight.

Sometimes it comes as a flash of insight in my mind.

It's not something that you discover all at once, and it usually doesn't come in a flash of insight or mountain - top experience.

A better interpretation of these passages might be to recognize that Whitehead is expressing flashes of insights as he thinks about the functions of God from such a metaphysical view.

Then as you read, your mind is opened and a flash of insight jumps off the page as if it came from Jesus Himself.

I had this amazing flash of insight last night that I could pick my clothes out the night before and save some time the next morning.

According to this theory, the mind - reading skills necessary for Machiavellian deception come in a flash of insight during early childhood.

«Our understanding of the genome will not come in a single flash of insight.

One of Einstein's greatest inspirations, as he later recalled, occurred during a flash of insight in 1907: «For an observer falling freely from the roof of a house there exists — at least in his immediate surroundings — no gravitational field.»

The idea came to me, as it had come to Darwin, in a sudden flash of insight: it was thought out in a few hours — was written down with such a sketch of its various applications and developments... then copied on thin letter - paper and sent off to Darwin — all within one week.

The processes leading to that flash of insight can illuminate many of the human mind's curious characteristics.

The 2013 Nobel Prizes in chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine are all potent reminders that science, though studded with the occasional brilliant flash of insight, almost always takes years of persistent toil to move forward.

Talk about a flash of insight.

Finally Archimedes, with a flash of insight (Eureka!)

On the 40th anniversary of the first internet connection, a look back on how a flash of insight and a 20 - minute meeting got it all started.

They were thinking about this problem when they got a flash of insight.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Dr. Matthias Stephan experienced just such a flash of insight in the dark early hours of a Sunday morning several years ago.

I had always flirted with the idea of a teacher training, and in a flash of insight in 2013, realized there would never be a «right» time to do it.

You might recognize times when you've had a flash of insight, haven't yielded its call and ended up in a fix of your own making.

In an unexpected flash of insight a few weeks ago, I had a thought that has some relevance here.

For me, my experience with Link's Awakening was about getting that one major flash of insight and then using that to understand the rest of the game and then the rest of the Zelda series.

Apparently Derek received a geometric flash of insight into Earth's shape.

This was not a sudden flash of insight offered from the bench to the surprise of counsel who had never considered the matter in that light before.

We love to ask ourselves these questions in the hopes of having a flash of insight into our career direction.

Not exact matches

SK Hynix could be set to become a much larger player in the flash memory space if the deal goes through, says Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights & Strategy.

Tom refuses, responding instead that God can still deliver her at which point Cassy receives a revelatory insight — a plan that flashes through her mind and becomes the mechanism of her freedom through escape and Tom's through martyrdom.

It drifts like smoke or storms in like flashes of lightening - insight or takes our breath: we make love, we learn, we sing, we watch the stars come out, we care, we connect, we labour, we carry, we nurse, we cry, we dance, we witness restoration in a million tiny ways.

He had, and like a flash of lightning came the insight that for all my failures and faithlessness, my gifts were to be put to service in the Church of the One who had bestowed them on me.

Our approach rules out the commonly - held idea that religious insight or awareness is primarily the product of a special group of religious geniuses, or that it is the result of only occasional flashes of illumination.

It drifts like smoke or storms in like flashes of lightening - insight or takes our breath; we make love, we learn, we sing, we watch the stars come out, we care, we connect, we labour, we carry, we nurse, we cry, we dance, we have these moments of transcendence, like the veil between heaven and earth is fluttering, we can't breathe for the loveliness of the world and each other, and just like that, we remember something.

The fact that life - transforming insights do not flash on the psychic landscape of a very large percentage of a congregation on a given Sunday does not mean that the service is of little value.

Just a quick «flash» report that the Sports Insights Sports Investing Index ended the month of September down -14.6 %.