Sentences with phrase «flat contradiction of»

In flat contradiction of their stated views that climate change represents an imminent cata - strophic threat, anti-nuclear environmentalists from Germany to Illinois to California bless the burning of fossil fuels if it means they can force the closure of a nuclear power plant.

Now if «eternal» used in this quotation meant «not temporal,» the expression «eternal event» would be not merely paradoxical but a flat contradiction of terms like «round square,» because events are necessarily temporal.

Not exact matches

This point of view is not compatible with the Jewish way of understanding human existence, and it is in flat contradiction to what we now know about ourselves as human.

«8 «There are flat contradictions between some of his theological arguments and his own doctrines and behavior,» she says.9

Obviously this was in flat contradiction to the ideal of higher education.

And when we're inevitably less than perfect, less than victorious on my own terms, I feel as though we're failing in our call to be prophetic signs of contradiction for our culture and instead affirming less than flattering images people have of couples with small children and big families.

The hole is that, with all of the science and astronomical data we have, repeatedly and independenly confirming that the Earth is (pretty close to) a sphere, there is still a Flat Earth Society, and people who try to bend the data to serve their ends, even when it yields contradictions within itself, not just to physics, etc..

Sometimes the two are in flat contradiction, sometimes in a sort of agreement; but at others, as in the Agnus Dei coupled with Owen's «One ever hangs where shell'd roads part», they are wonderfully together.

For Hartshorne, much of the usual argument for personal immortality seems to reduce to a sort of «dog - in - the - manger attitude to the universe; and since the basic drive through the entire created order is unselfish action towards fuller good, this attitude appears to him to be in flat contradiction to the purpose of creation.

They are likely to find that the Buddhist account is different from what they have learned in their tradition, but that it is not a matter of flat contradiction.

Is there here a flat contradiction which no amount of ingenuity can harmonize?

«In flat contradiction to Paul, the Gospels (when they discuss the process of resurrection at all) strongly present a physical, fleshly notion of Jesus» bodily resurrection.»

«What I found most indicative of industry influence were the reason given by Jeremy Browne for the policy switch, in flat contradiction to what have been stated previously,» said Jim McCambridge from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

This is such a granny post, but I've got terrible feet: any suggestions for a cute flat that I can wear to work that has good arch support and a tiny bit of a heel (I know that sounds like a contradiction — I don't mean a kitten heel so much as a flat that isn't, well, completely flat — maybe a small lift in the back?).

Matisse achieves this most characteristically with flat, unmodulated (or flatly patterned) planes of colour, to be seen everywhere in this exhibition, but perhaps most obviously in the «Seated woman with a vase of Amaryllis» (1941) and «Asia» (1946), accompanied where necessary with a strategic contradiction of the prevailing perspective as in the left - hand picture / window / doorway in «Large Red Interior» (1948).

It's a picture of contradictions: dynamic yet flat and static, strongly evocative yet lifeless.

Designed abstract sculpture is something of a contradiction; and flat abstract sculpture is an abnegation of potential.

Which puts me in mind of one of the more egregious contradictions of the «yes, but uncertainty» crowd: the absolute certainty that implementing any form of carbon mitigation will lead to the collapse of the global economy, pensioners freezing in dark, unheated flats, wailing and gnashing of teeth, dogs and cats living together, etc..

The ariticle referenced, while still towing the standard political line, states clearly that no matter how you look at it the temperature trend over the last decade is flat or negative - in direct contradiction to the assertions of this blog and further pointing out the incorrect stance of the blogger.

The contradiction between a culture that is — at least by Canadian terms — green, and one that makes a cult of quarter mile in twelve seconds flat post-war American sedan worship does cause a double take.