Sentences with phrase «fragmented world of»

But now brokers are delving into the fragmented world of home services.

It offers a break from that fragmented world of sensory overload.

Not exact matches

As the world of online and mobile video continues to fragment, the shifting landscape is requiring media companies to be more nimble to keep up.

This new world of stock trading, in which volume is fragmented among dozens of electronic trading networks instead of concentrated on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, has both benefits and drawbacks.

This fragmented management and trading environment is in sharp contrast to that of the modern financial world, and often presents a barrier for entry for a large percentage of the population.

But as the cave dwellers of MacIntyre's dystopia emerge into the light, what they see is not the Sun of Plato's ideal world but mere shards and fragments of the past, with no coherent way of putting the pieces back together again:

Although we are a mere fragment of our ancient self, we nonetheless continue to contribute greatly to the intellectual religious thought of the world.

But, theologically, the world which modern man knows as «chaos» or «nothingness» is homologous with the world that eschatological faith knows as «old aeon» or «old creation» — both worlds are stripped of every fragment of positive meaning and value.

The church also convened an international conference in Crete, but as Patriarch Bartholomew says, «our efforts will be meaningless if they remain fragmented».19 The demands of the world call upon Christians not only to act ecumenically but together with all people of faith and good will.

Like other products of evolutionary change, we only notice what is likely to matter to us: We experience only a fragment of what is happening in the world.

When Plato acted it was probably in the belief that his freedom to act could only affect a small fragment of the world, narrowly circumscribed in space and time; but the man of today acts in the knowledge that the choice he makes will have its repercussions through countless centuries and upon countless human beings.

Of course as Lohia sees clearly in his Fragments of a World Mind, the messianic historical spirituality has produced more «strife» in society than the mystic, while the latter has produced «stagnation»Of course as Lohia sees clearly in his Fragments of a World Mind, the messianic historical spirituality has produced more «strife» in society than the mystic, while the latter has produced «stagnation»of a World Mind, the messianic historical spirituality has produced more «strife» in society than the mystic, while the latter has produced «stagnation».

Farther along, we descend a flight of steps aligned with another massive archeological fragment: the concrete «survivors» stairs» that provided hundreds with an escape path from the World Trade Center plaza.

In Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre's «After Virtue» (1998), Wilson responds to moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who concludes his celebrated 1991 critique of modernity by calling for «the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us....

To Lohia, the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi was not an episode of Hindu - Muslim fight as of the war between the Liberal and the Fanatical in Hinduism («Hinduism» in Fragments of a World Mind).

1) Copenhagen demonstrated that global governance has overreached itself; 2) The crisis provokes a shift away from idealistic globalism, back to pragmatic concerns; 3) «Global consensus» established by «experts» is not and has never been genuine; 4) The institutions of global governance prove unable to resolve their identity crisis and to reform themselves; they are fragmented; 5) Global governance pays the bill for not taking into account non-western cultures and civilisations; 6) Displaying an incapacity to provide real leadership, produce a vision for the world, new ideas / ideologies, global governance opts for a survival approach.

Zarathustra's art and aim is to be the creative poet of the world, to save the temporal world through reconceiving and revaluing life and the world, «to compose into one and bring together what is fragment, riddle, and dreadful chance» (TSZ 161, 216).

Many pages of Ethics connect intuitively with the world as if they were written yesterday, but to fix Bonhoeffer's meaning clearly requires considerable work on the fragments.

On a more mundane level, we know that Jesus spoke Aramaic (the spoken dialect of biblical Hebrew), since fragments of his speech are embedded in the Greek Gospels (see Mark 5:41; 15:34), while St. Paul proclaimed that same evangel to the world in Greek, though he seems to have been equally at home in Hebrew.

This transformation of the realm of the active by the power of the passive is a key not only to isolated fragments of Paul's witness, but also to an understanding of the man's total bearing within the world of nature and history.

Gerard and his friends in the «Brotherhood» respond to these charges by reaffirming the value of individual moral struggle and the need for tolerance and sympathy in a fragmented, pluralistic world.

To love is to discover and complete one's self in someone other than oneself; an act impossible of general realisation on earth so long as each man can see in his neighbor no more than a closed fragment following its own course through the world.

Either American democracy is living on social capital inherited from an earlier time when Americans shared a common perspective on life's questions, in which case we face a slow descent into the fragmented and violent world Hauerwas sees; or else the enthusiastic, individualistic and yet genuinely loving piety of Emerson, Whitman and Ellison has a better grasp of our human nature, and it really is possible to be both democratic and virtuous.

Scientism thus divides us by harbouring a «fragmented vision of the world.»

Exile describes for them their sense of being fragmented inside, of feeling like divided selves, torn between two worlds.

Gradually the counselor begins to grasp precious fragments of understanding of his inner world of hopes, fears, and pain.

It is one's use of language, then, that constitutes his world as either estranged and fragmented (inauthentic) or interrelated and united (authentic).

The curse of Babylon fragments the world audience, so it must be somehow overcome: the point of the meta - language is therefore accessibility; it must be readily understood by the largest number of people.

Man has a fragment of the divine life in him, but he is imprisoned in the evil world of matter, and redemption is a movement away from the body and this world, away from the fear and determinism that bind him.

In 2012, another drama played out in headlines across the world: a fragment of ancient manuscript in which Jesus purportedly refers to his «wife» was trumpeted as evidence that Jesus had been a married man.

... just as some fragments of the past are taken up vividly into our new human experiences, so all things in the world are taken up into God's experience.

Or is the term «Baptist» so flexible that it designates only a loosely defined collection of heterogeneous fragments clustered haphazardly in one vaguely outlined section of the world Christian landscape?»

I think of my friend Monika, who knows how to take the broken fragments of an ugly world and, somehow, piece them together into art.

A whopping 30 percent of the world's forests has been destroyed, while another 20 percent has been degraded (and most of the rest has been fragmented, leaving only about 15 percent intact).

Like precious family heirlooms, from time to time I reverently unpack the memories of your daddy gently swinging you on his arm during fussy periods of the day, how one of your big sisters would interact with you, the way you calmed when I held you, the seriousness with which you would watch light dancing on the wall, and other fragments of the time when you were the smallest big thing in my world.

And the narrative not only resonated with journalists but also citizens who suddenly started googling for fake news (see Fig. 1) and found dozens of news articles that were painting a dark picture: not only are we living in a post-truth world, but our society is also fragmented into numerous echo chambers in which fake news is shared freely, thus eroding our society's basis.

«Although only little research has been carried out in this area, the results to date are concerning: fragments of plastic are present practically all over the world and can trigger many kinds of adverse effects.

«Not only the oldest known human fragment from Africa,» Leakey proclaimed, «but the most ancient fragment of true Homo yet discovered anywhere in the world.»

The world's oldest protein fragments of fossilised soft tissue to date were discovered by American scientists, and dated back 80 million years.

Polish scientists say they've discovered the world's oldest preserved fossils of blood vessels and fragments of fossilised animal proteins.

Landfills have altered animal behavior, distribution and abundance around the world in a variety of ways, from increasing abundance of storks to fragmenting populations of bears.

The last remaining fragment of that primeval European wilderness — half a million acres of woods straddling the border between Poland and Belarus, called the Bialowieza Forest — provides another glimpse of how the world would look if we were gone.

Out beyond the orbit of Mars lie fragments of worlds that might have been.

And there must be something common to the creative act, whatever its discipline, in James's assertion that from one evocative fragment of conversation overheard by the writer a entire novel can be written, that from the slightest bit of material a whole novelistic world is created.

To build a biofilm, bacteria secrete stringy sugars, proteins and DNA fragments into what effectively becomes a defensive mesh around the microorganisms — making the structures the microbial world's equivalent of «walled cities,» according to structural biologist Perrin Baker of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children.

Radiocarbon dating of minute leaf and wood fragments preserved in the cave's ice indicates that its glacier is at least 10,500 years old, making it the oldest cave glacier in the world and one of the oldest glaciers on Earth outside the polar regions.

This photograph, showing plastic fragments collected in just an hour at a cove near Gloucester, Mass., hints at a lesser - known but equally disturbing story: much smaller bits of plastic that are accumulating in oceans all over the world can potentially harm marine life and possibly even human health.

He adds that the same applies to other endangered species of tropical tree with large fruit and seeds dispersed by birds, as evidence from other fragmented tropical forests around the world shows that seeds of this kind are dispersed only locally.

The Antarctic Peninsula is among the fastest warming locations in the world and, according to the European Space Agency, the enormous Wilkins Ice Shelf is in imminent danger of collapse, much like the Larsen ice shelf fragmented a few years back.

So much of our world seems to be in fragments, in disjointed pieces.