Sentences with phrase «from fragmentary»

His analytical approach to form, lines and color often led him to create his images from fragmentary brushstrokes that will be further exploited by Cubists.

The reason we can have confidence that this trend happened is because the plunge in intake was so great and so consistent that it is obvious even from the fragmentary data we have.

Dr. Lecter believed, from fragmentary family records, that he was descended from a certain Giuliano Bevisangue, a fearsome twelfth - century figure in Tuscany, and from the Machiavelli as well as the Visconti.

Early hominin stature reconstructions are notoriously difficult to assess: the limited number of intact long bones available in the fossil record often requires reconstruction of the long bone length from fragmentary remains, before different methods can be used to estimate the stature; the eventual results can differ according to the method employed.

«This means that everything that has been written about variation, function and the anatomy of Australopithecus afarensis from fragmentary remains must now be in doubt.»

Identifying new species from fragmentary fossils is a challenge.

Likely human relatives predating, Ardi — Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Orrorin tugensis, and Ardipithecus kadabba — are known only from fragmentary remains; all probably walked upright.

The visual system has an obsessive desire to make whole objects from fragmentary evidence — such as a lion largely obscured by leaves and shadows.

Whitehead holds that the sixth constant arises from the fragmentary nature of perceptual knowledge:

But does this fact alone give us sufficient license to trust in human ability to reconstruct from fragmentary evidence the history of a past extending over many millions of years?

Ours is not, therefore, an intuitive act of reconstructing a personality from fragmentary witnesses.

You've said that interpreting the scriptures is more like performing the script of a play than constructing history from fragmentary evidence.

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Because it had for ever withdrawn his heart from all that is merely local or individual, all that is fragmentary, henceforth for him it alone in its totality would be his father and mother, his family, his race, his unique, consuming passion.

The conventional literary - critical judgment that the following verses (17 - 19) were not part of the original unit is doubtless correct, but the standard critical conclusions on vs. 16 — fragmentary, a corrupt text, distorted in transmission, et cetera — result from the failure to recognize the difference in form and the functional relationship between Scheltrede and Drohwort, the deliberated and composed invective called forth by the received Word, the divine threat or judgment.

Thomas suggested that whatever philosophers learned about God from a study of the world was always fragmentary and mixed with errors.

Our knowledge of the early church prior to the Council of Nicaea in 325 is fragmentary, but the fragments reveal many of the concerns African churches have today, from distinguishing between true and false prophets to deciding what should happen to church members who behave badly.

The title suggests the film's fragmentary character, and that in turn suggests one of the film's main themes: the failure of technique to redeem lives from chaos.

The record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain... but there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature.

Contrary to what has been said by western historians, there is evidence to show, though very scanty and fragmentary, that Christianity found its way into South East and East Asian countries even before the coming of western missionaries, through the efforts of Nestorian merchants and missionaries from Persia or India or China or from all the three places.

Marcus could read and write — though he could not write well, and had no inclinations to authorship, even in that publishing center of the western Mediterranean in the days of Nero — and so, as one of the few in the local congregation of Christians who could both read and write, he was commissioned to put together in his free time — probably late evenings, after the assembly of the Christians had broken up — the fragmentary translations of narratives from the story of Jesus and his teaching which were in circulation in the Roman church.

Such a stance must not be fragmentary or dualistic, separating and alienating the dimensions of the created order and human existence from one another.

It is true that the kerygma as we have recovered it from the Pauline epistles is fragmentary.

Gone, too, (at least virtually and in aspiration), is the infernal circle of egocentrism, meaning the isolation, in some sort ontological, which prohibits our escape from self to share the point of view even of those we love best: as though the Universe were composed of as many fragmentary universes, repelling each other, as the sum total of the centers of consciousness which it embraces.

This understanding of God saves one from recourse to either fragmentary individual interest or fragmentary group interest.

Furthermore, he fears that a group, motivated from such fragmentary and inadequate perspectives, can easily «simplify and impoverish in order to reduce multiplicity to unity» (BH 55).

As a result, he concludes that the fragmentary nature of experiences require an interrelated context from which they can derive meaning (OT 217).

Instead, Whitehead states that thought originates from the way a particular fragmentary sense experience impresses us in relation to other experiences.

In that confrontation, renewal can be found, and at least in a fragmentary way, the power of reconciliation overcoming alienation, the healing of brokenness, the experience of release from guilt, anxiety and despair.

Of course human memory preserves from such oblivion some of what happens, but this is only a partial and fragmentary solution to the problem.

In any case, as Western Europe turns away from Bonhoeffer as a theological mentor, we in America can welcome his fragmentary help.

Researchers reconstructed Timurlengia by combining its fragmentary fossils (shown in red) with bones from other, closely related tyrannosaurid species (in white).

It can be difficult to find material that is reliably documented from pre-Dynastic Egypt, but textile expert Jana Jones of Australia's Macquarie University managed to identify the perfect specimen at the Bolton Museum, north of Manchester, England: fragmentary funerary wrappings more than 6,000 years old, collected in the early 20th century from a region of Upper Egypt.

Apart from a dozen or so fragmentary skeletons and bones, the continent previously appeared to have been a virtual terra incognita during the 150 - million - year reign of the dinosaurs.

Modern researchers have combined the fragmentary, overlapping records they left behind into a series of annual temperatures averaged over the region, which stretches from England's south coast 175 miles north to Manchester.

In late 2016, team members described five new species of tetrapod and identified fragmentary remains of at least seven more, all from the Romer's Gap era.

Several paleontologists took issue with his team's reconstruction of the dinosaur, which combined the new partial skeleton with earlier fragmentary finds of specimens that differed in size, as well as data from Stromer's surviving notes.

Mair believes, based on their genetic signatures and fragmentary evidence about their language, that they came from somewhere between southeastern Europe and the Ural Mountains.

That's the conclusion from an analysis of the fragmentary remains of an ancient leg bone unearthed on Canada's Ellesmere Island, which lies just west of northern Greenland.

It was not until the polymerase chain reaction technique for amplifying nucleic acids was developed in the late - 1980s that it became possible to do anything with the tiny and fragmentary biochemical evidence from insects embedded in amber.

By curious coincidence, earlier this year, another group of researchers reinterpreted the fragmentary 7.2 million year old primate Graecopithecus from Greece and Bulgaria as a hominin.

Clothing and other items made of wool have been found throughout much of the ancient world, from 3,400 - year - old Egyptian yarn to fragmentary textiles unearthed in Siberian graves dating from the first century B.C.

In fresh excavations, they found stone tools and more fragmentary hominin remains, including pieces from an adult skull.

Fragmentary fossils of the new species — bones from a fairly complete skull, as well as some from one wing and leg — were discovered in 1983, when excavations began for a new terminal at Charleston International Airport.

Bird fossils from 72 to 66 million years ago are fragmentary, says Joel Cracraft at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Dr Berry has been studying cladoxylopsids for nearly 30 years, uncovering fragmentary fossils from all over the world.

It has even allowed us to identify new fossil hominin species, sometimes from just fragmentary tooth remains, and to reconstruct which species is more closely related to whom.

Although specimens of fishes, marine reptiles, non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and mammals of this age have all been recovered from this now - frozen continent, most fossils, especially those of land - living species, are fragmentary and poorly informative, and a number of major vertebrate groups that likely once lived in Antarctica (e.g., amphibians, crocodilians) have yet to be discovered at all.

Researchers from the Institute of Natural Resources, Ecology and Cryology found some fossils in the Kulinda Valley near Chita in 2010 but they were fragmentary.

She moves into uncharted territory again with this fragmentary Jonathan Ames adaptation, starring a bulked - up Joaquin Phoenix as a brutal, tortured mercenary who sets out to rescue a girl from a sex - trafficking ring.

Although its fragmentary structure ultimately undermines its potential for depth, toilet - side philosophizing and rewarding performances from Hartley regulars Parker Posey, Bill Sage, Martin Donovan, Elina Löwensohn, and Miho Nikaido (the director's real - life wife) make for an enjoyable 85 minutes.