Sentences with phrase «grasp of human»

He leverages a firm grasp of the Human Resources field to develop job search materials that are fully optimized for recruiter and hiring manager audiences.

In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in The New Yorker, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize - winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home.

Along the way, the horrors of slavery take their toll on his soul, as he experiences things beyond the grasp of human cruelty.

Playing something like High Noon meets «The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,» 1945 replaces the Cold War paranoia of Fred Zinneman's anti-Western and Rod Serling's Twilight Zone classic with a thoughtful meditation on the inescapable grasp of the human conscience.

Collateral Beauty is one of those cloying movies about learning to take the good with the bad that feels like it was made by aliens with little grasp of human life.

As soon as we start to feel comfortable with our grasp of human nutrition — which foods are healthy, which ones are unhealthy, and how to eat a balanced diet for optimal health — a new study gets published that shatters our once - felt sense of confidence.

He and his team have subjected the theory to its toughest test yet, to see if its predictions can properly describe an object — the double pulsar — that is barely within the grasp of our human imagination.

The development of doctrine in the early Church — the emergence of the creeds — is the story of how people tried to explain mysteries, that is to draw them down into the grasp of human imagination.

We have a better grasp of human motivations, the complex nature of human emotions, the development of personality and its dynamics, and the like.

According to Kant, the noumenal world — that is, reality as it is «in itself» — lies forever beyond the grasp of human reason.

They also have to deal with the limited and incomplete grasp of human goods that is apparent in every modern version of the tradition.

At this point, then, I would put in a strong plea for a more realistic grasp of our human position, for more true humility.

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.

Instead of understanding, as James le Fanu writes, that «the implications of mortality are intrinsic to a proper grasp of the human experience», we choose to sanitise the things of death, including the language we use to describe it (in Last Things, Tablet, 29 November 2014, p. 28).

We might hope that theologians would have a better grasp of human nature than do psychologists.

As much as we may loathe the behavior of the expert flimflam man, we also have to admire his grasp of human psychology and skills of persuasion — skills it's possible to use for far more admirable ends, according to author Alexa Clay.

Not exact matches

Legendary physicist Feynman won the Nobel Prize for his work in one of the subjects that's the most difficult for the human mind to grasp — quantum mechanics — yet his top advice for accelerating learning is actually to make whatever you're studying as dead simple as possible.

It exists to the human eye not as a sphere but as a colored star, as part of the endless outnumbering firmament, as the nightly whispered message that we may not reach what awe inspires us to grasp.

That sense of humor, that sort of sensibility — the seductress who grasps the absurd subtexts of human desire, lust, neediness — might just be the most important hallmark of the Stormy Daniels persona and brand.

Is it so hard to just admit that we, as humans, with our feeble minds, can not possibly grasp the intricacy of the universe?

Misery, sorrow, poverty, loneliness, helplessness, and guilt mean something different in the eyes of God than according to human judgment; that God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away; that Christ was born in a stable because there was no room for him in the inn — a prisoner grasps this better than others.

Each situation involves real, living human beings and I believe we should respect them by at least attempting to grasp the reality of their world instead or reaching for the nearest category to slap across their situation.

Because it so intimately concerns human beings, and the variability of our loves, such awakenings of love's intellectual desires will evade the grasp of rationalist reformers, remaining elusive and idiosyncratic.

Thus, while no experience can be an experience of itself (cf. CSPM 7, 91, 106, 109, 167, 224), each human experience directly grasps other human experiences immediately preceding it at only a moment's distance.

These it takes as the conditions for nurturing «qualities of mind and character» (ICC 25) that have enabled and should again serve to enable «generations of men and women to grasp a vision of the good life, a life of responsible citizenship and human decency» (ICC 6).

Does it mean that unaided human reason can not grasp the evident order, purpose, and intelligence manifested so clearly in the world of living beings?

Though we human beings must use concepts to grasp the content of our faith, in the end God does not reveal a series of ideas: He reveals the «mystery» of Himself in the person of Christ, who is «the fullness of all revelation».

Instead, my argument was based on the natural ability of the human intellect to grasp the intelligible realities that populate the natural world, including most clearly and evidently the world of living substances, living beings.

Show us, Lord, how to contemplate the Sphinx: without being beguiled into error; how to grasp the mystery hidden here on earth in the womb of death, not by refinements of human learning but in the simple concrete act of your redemptive immersion in matter.

I have faith in the human ability to grasp meaning out of chaos, to forge determination in the way of nihilism, to love, to hope, and to give a damn about the feelings of others.

A few more judicial dicta are apt to grasp the noble amplitude of the human right to life.

This transition is effected by the death of the abstract and alien God in the kenotic process of Incarnation and Crucifixion; but a religious form of faith can only grasp this process as a series of events that are autonomous and external to human consciousness.

Accordingly, transcendence must be grasped, not as it has so often been in the past, in spatial terms referring to the God «up there» beyond the affairs of human life, but specifically in terms of what God has effected historically, and is doing now, on behalf of human beings.

Two sentences in the discussion of reason in the earlier version of the report could be taken to support the use of such analysis: «By reason we relate our witness to the full range of human knowledge and experience,» and «By our quest for reasoned understandings of Christian faith we seek to grasp and express the gospel in a way that will commend itself to thoughtful persons who are seeking to know and follow God's ways.»

But matter is the principle of individuality, which the abstracting human mind can not grasp in itself.

But the human mind can grasp neither the reality of individuals nor the mind of God.

But behind Lincoln's understanding of history was his idea of a God «who at times seems to want to frustrate the Statesman» (John Diggins, The Lost Soul of American Politics [Basic, 1984]-RRB- Lincoln «doubted that man could ever grasp God's will and therefore believed that human action would always be estranged from divine intention» (p. 330) Lincoln divined that God is both hidden and revealed.

It should be the guide of life, not merely a technical exercise in the analysis of logical problems, but a bold attempt to grasp the structures of reality within the limits of human knowledge and frailty.

Failing to grasp how Paul has made Jesus» human response to God part of God's essential gift to humans means failing to grasp how dispositions of mutual acceptance articulate the form of life possible only because of that powerful and transforming gift.

But these were largely asides, and were clearly distinguished from the discussions about what really grasped Wieman's own soul — the urgent demand that men and women commit themselves without reservation to the process of creative interchange which creates human good through the increase of qualitative meaning.

Accordingly, a fully developed philosophy of religion becomes desirable to achieve a properly human grasp of religious experience.

Rather, it is a variation of these along with the demonry of personality itself, of man's moral and rational capacities in tension with the sensitivities of spirit as a higher dimension of freedom and goodness which grasp him as a novelty of grace within his human structure, judging him, yet summoning him to that which is beyond his own human order of good.

Even those who don't understand a culture's language are sometimes able to grasp the emotional significance of human interactions by careful attention to nonverbal cues.

This experiential dimension demands the development of a framework to enable man to possess in a thoroughly human way what he grasps in religious experience.

All of the stories from all of Man's scriptures are fully accounted for, and so revolutionarily superseded, by Pandeism, which demonstrates the logical probability of all of these nonuniversal propostions as simply reflecting the miscomprehensions of the limited human mind in attempting to grasp an ultimate underlying reality.

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe.

I think that our preoccupation with the divine side of the Bible has resulted in our neglecting the human side of it and misled us into thinking that we have already grasped (and appropriated in our evangelical traditions) the revelational freight which it delivers.

And what he seems concerned to emphasize in this recent article is that (assuming the truth of the Christian understanding of existence) the Christian revelation embodies a view of life that objectively represents the meaning of human existence, so that if a person is indeed to grasp in a reflective way what the meaning of life in fact is he or she must understand it precisely in the way represented by the Christian witness.

By highlighting the importance of language in the development of personality, both Sullivan and Whitehead demonstrate not only the extent to which they had grasped this significant therapeutical insight, but how they were able to incorporate it into their dynamic view of the human person.

In this sense a process hermeneutic will be more fully «secular» than the new hermeneutic, since it will recognize that all beings, in all times and places, who can in the full sense be named human persons, are — simply by virtue of their humanity — capable of grasping (and being grasped by) the message of the text.