Sentences with phrase «grand ideas about»

Professor Rod Macdonald had grand ideas about many things, ideas that were insightful, brilliant, quirky, courageous and original.

Many physicists have already swung into action, swapping rumors about the contents of the announcement and proposing grand ideas about what those rumors would mean, if true.

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Swirling about him are Model 3 production issues, three investigations between two federal organizations, and a near never - ending cycle of new, grander ideas and plans that often buoy the stock in the short term, while threatening to further sap the company of much - needed cash down the line.

The whole idea of Downtown is grand and wonderful and purposeful, but sometimes the way we're going about it isn't psychologically healthy.»

The universe has a grand business for Israel that you atheists have no idea about.

It was from such moments (specifically from thinking about the «Grand Ole Opry») that Keillor got the idea of doing a show of his own.

Through these accounts, Schmidt intends to give us a popular, social history of American atheism, one that tells stories of local, concrete fights over religion and the public sphere, rather than a grand history of ideas about belief and disbelief.

If you haven't yet «liked» the page, you're missing out on some great reader discussion (in fact, posts with zero comments on the main blog are often getting talked about quite a bit on Facebook) along with the grand unveiling of the new USDA MyPlate icon (replacing the old Food Pyramid); a distressing graphic of what the White House garden would look like if it were the recipient of current farm subsidies (hint: hope you like corn); a great Father's Day gift idea for dads who cook; news of an exhibit of vintage government food posters; an egg salad recipe; and even a chance to win a coveted (not really) Lunch Tray fridge magnet!

It is going to take a month or two to ensure the entire party is happy with the ideas; and Politics.co.uk understands the senior Tories debating their options are still unclear about whether they might choose to incorporate some elements of Ken Clarke's ideas involving a «grand committee», as favoured by the Liberal Democrats.

Of course, the Legislature will have its own ideas about how to spend that one - time surplus, and will surely try to either whittle down Cuomo's grand prizes or swap them for something of interest to our downstate brethren.

The English poet and essayist Matthew Arnold speaks about such historic moments of creative arousal in literature in his 1865 essay «The Function of Criticism at the Pres - ent Time»: «The grand work of literary genius,» says Arnold, «is a work of synthesis and exposition,... its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it finds itself in them; of dealing divinely with these ideas....

Come to a Republican Party Meetup to discuss current issues and talk about the ideas, values, agenda and policies that define and drive America's Grand Old Party.»

Courtesy of a great Lynsky performance that's equal parts miserable and furious, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance before premiering exclusively on Netflix) finds humor and horror in the notion that «everyone is an asshole» — and then locates hope in the closing - note idea that, rather than worrying about them, life is best spent in the company of those precious few who aren't.

This is a movie that is more about grand ideas than grand explosions.

The idea being, if the dealer knows about your trade - in we will overvalue our 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee or undervalue your trade - in.

When we went into our meeting with our publicity team, we were full of grand and fantastic ideas about how to promote and market our book, and were wildly enthusiastic about having a giant corporation that specializes in successfully publishing books behind us.

Indeed there is something theatrical about the pitched battles fought across continents and decades between those on opposite sides of a grand ideological divide, each with a great deal at stake beyond the ideas themselves.

This is history on a grand scale — a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far - reaching consequences of noble ideas.

The idea of the Grand Palais came about in the late 1800s when a competition was held inviting architects to design an iconic structure, due to Paris hosting the Universal Exposition in 1900.

To give you an idea about how many copies were sold, the PS2 version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas sold 12 million units.

It looks like Grand Theft Auto VI is in the works, with Rockstar Games president Leslie Benzies revealing that the developers have «some ideas» about the sixth instalment of the smash hit video game series during an interview with Develop.

Working within a strict set of limits, he created a string of similarly grand, powerful works and defined many of the ideas about line, form and color that still drive his work today.

With its name taken from Theodor Herzl's Altneuland, a novel about a Jewish socialist utopia, and much of the rapid development coming from European émigrés, Tel Aviv's very bones reflect the grand aesthetic ideas of the last century.

I caught up with her for the MoMa show, The Artist Is Present, and spent two wonderful hours finding out more about her, as well chatting about grand ideas to the practicalities of opening the Marina Abramović Institute (for the preservation of performance art), which she will be opening next year in Hudson, New York.

As the field narrowed, «I could see people taking stock, considering how their vote reflected Grand Rapids as a community, and their own ideas about what has value as art.»

It alluded to the idea that we shouldn't pollute, and should do something about the traffic problem, and that these are problems in cities — but I'm not sure what the grander theme was.

This idea was expressed by New York's chief justice in the 1980s when speaking about the one - sided nature of grand juries, he stated that he could indict a ham sandwich if he wished.

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Grand Forks, ND About Blog Barter is Evil is an economics blog where the author, Professor David Flynn (University of North Dakota) encourages the exchange of ideas on economics, economic history and statistics.

Of course, not everyone accepted the idea that therapy needed to be about large goals; we called these folks behaviorists, and we felt a bit sorry for them because they seemed like technicians who lacked a grander vision.

I especially liked the «slate» detail... I had never thought about doing that... what a grand idea!!!