Sentences with phrase «gets at the heart»

It requires curiosity, wanting to get at the heart of what is said.

You're welcome — and this gets at the heart of the need to listen to insider critique.

Sheer exercise of power somehow does not get at the heart of what characterizes God's activity.

Questioning every element and teaching of the church is one good way to get at the heart of our mission and ministry.

Still, I think this lyric from Jefferson Airplane's She Has Funny Cars better gets at the heart of this matter, by coming at the self - isolating intellectual not from the angle of the social - commenter, but from the angle of her lover:

Here was a life, the potency of which gets at the heart of the world by caring enough about the world to die for it.

All these formulations about God's disappearance from modern culture, says Altizer, do not get at the heart of the matter.

We can best get at the heart of For the Sake of Heaven by extracting from it those parts that deal with the character of the Seer and the Yehudi and with the encounters between them.

Second, if «The sciences can do nothing in getting at the heart of this,» then this conversation is pointless as we are only left with opinions that can not be supported.

«That really gets at the heart of what we do as an organization — we discover the potential within our people,» said Joe Nayquonabe, Jr., CEO of Mille Lacs Corporate Ventures.

Recognizing this possibility can lead to questions that are more likely to get at the heart of the matter than those that begin with «Why don't you...?

Of all the questions I've received while leading workshops and webinars on openness, this one stands out because it gets at the heart of the the deepest fears people have about undertaking a parenting journey in which our child has (shudder) other parents.

Cuomo, however, does not support that legislation; his spokesperson has said he does not believe it gets at the heart of the problem.

The question gets at the heart of a psychologist's true job.

«Discovery» learning, in which students discover facts for themselves rather than receiving them directly from an instructor, has been in vogue lately; Blikstein and his colleagues at FabLab@School, a network of educational workshops Blikstein created in 2009, are trying to get at the heart of how much or how little instruction students really need.

«We're trying to get at the heart of the mechanism behind neurodegenerative diseases and with this research believe we've found one that seems to be commonly disrupted in many of them, suggesting that similar drugs may work for some or all of these disorders,» says Jeffrey Rothstein, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of neurology and neuroscience, and director of the Brain Science Institute and the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

We focus on delivering our members highly compatible partner suggestions, employing an in - depth personality test to get at the heart of people and their wants and needs.

No games... No endless emails full of questions that really don't get at the heart of why either of us wants to find a mate.

Matchmakers have to be able to hear what the client says, but also ask the questions that will get at the heart of what the client really needs — to feel loved.

FarmersOnly's lighthearted yet caring attitude and ability to get at the heart of what their users really want has shaped what it means to be a niche dating site and a great dating site in general.

This sums up the whole of Menashe, and gets at the heart of why it still works pretty damn well despite a somewhat tedious structure.

Tokyo Idols gets at the heart of a cultural phenomenon driven by an obsession with young female sexuality and internet popularity.

It's a good piece that gets at the heart of what makes Welles's work special, especially to his biggest fans.

Like Ross's own old - meets - new appropriation, the 1981 meta - musical Pennies From Heaven, in which Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Christopher Walken danced and lip - synched to Depression era - standards, Brewer's Footloose is an attempt to get at the heart of contemporary culture via slavish re-creation of an earlier time.

The betrayal is what T'Chaka finds, a revelation that both changes the course of Wakanda's future and gets at the heart of one of the more difficult ideas Black Panther repeatedly asks: If Wakanda is the mighty beacon of excellence it claims to be, why hasn't it done more to help the world?

We hear Blake's mounting exasperation as he's required to answer a series of clueless and robotic questions, all of which fail to get at the heart of the issue — that being his heart, of course.

I'm being silly, but I'm trying to get at the heart of why I did not want to see this film when it first came out.

This scene actually gets at the heart of Greg and Earl's filmmaking ways and the inspiration for shooting a movie for Rachel.

She always got at the heart of things and the interviewee always seemed to open up and have more fun with it as it was somewhat of an honor to be one of the interviewees in that particular tradition.

What the film does that no amount of perusing declassified State Department documents can do is truly get at the heart of the movie business, and give it a deserved ribbing.

Konami can issue statements all day long, but nothing here gets at the heart of what's rocked players for the past few weeks.

White's new film gets at the heart of a man (played by Ben Stiller) going through a midlife crisis.

As Armand starts to get at the heart of who this enigmatic artist was, a human being starts to emerge from the fog of legend.

In trying to get at the heart of why For Your Consideration is merely good, not hilarious, I think that an over-reliance on improvisation is at fault.

Gerald's Game Year: 2017 Director: Mike Flanagan Director Mike Flanagan's Gerald's Game trims fat, condenses and slims, stripping away some of the odder quirks of Stephen King's novel to get at the heart of themes underneath.

'» Heineman's well - executed intention was «to get at the heart of how this cartel violence is affecting everyday people, the response of everyday people rising up to fight back, and then the ramifications of what happens when citizens take the law into their own hands.»

Or maybe that's only the noise in the background that we need to look past to get at the heart of what's going on inside these people's heads.

Rather, it tries to get at the heart of how these two connected.

seems to not really get at the heart of the matter.

My only hope is that the conversation about this case be broadened a bit beyond just teachers to get at the heart of the legal claim: that poor and minority kids are being denied their constitutional right to equal educational opportunities.

Thank you for an intelligent article that really gets at the heart of the growing disparities between schools in our education system.

Design thinking is the template to getting at the heart of meaningful, heart - centered learning, creating and discovering.

Her trenchant observation gets at the heart of one major failure of federal and state education policy: the unwillingness or inability of public officials to invest more resources (fiscal, political, and entrepreneurial) into failing schools.

To get at the heart of the college - completion challenge, researchers recently spoke directly with students — those currently enrolled in a community college, some who had completed a degree or certificate, and others who had dropped out.

That question gets at the heart of what kind of legacy will be left in D.C. for Rhee, who resigned shortly after Mayor Vince Gray defeated Adrian Fenty in 2010 and went on to form a well - funded advocacy group called Students First.

To avoid the common tendency to get lost in a long list of questions, district or school staff should, in general, identify no more than five or six crucial questions that get at the heart of what they need to know.

But the teachers» complaints go far beyond compensation, and when viewed in the context of their other demands, it's clear that the strike gets at the heart of some of the biggest issues facing America's children: access to effective teachers, high - quality learning materials, and modern facilities.

I think this question gets at the heart with the issue I have with both extremes of the current education reform landscape.

I want to get at the heart of the argument: We ought to support schools that work, period.

This decision removes a critical approach to formative assessment that truly gets at the heart of thinking processes and skill development, through which some of our greatest ability to impact a learning trajectory lies.