Sentences with phrase «grasp of realities»

Ciaran McCabe «puts his clients first, and always aims to secure the best results for them,» according to impressed sources, who also highlight him as «effective and sensible with a fine grasp of the realities of litigation.»

By the end of the class, a student will have a much deeper grasp of the realities of establishing a career as a working writer and will have taken practical steps toward doing so.

But interest and a firm grasp of realities on the ground are two different things.

(As I sit here with my pumpkin spice coffee, I seriously question the man's grasp of reality.)

Fantasizing too much and too positively may cause you to lose grasp of reality.

While she manages (improbably) to keep her two kids alive, Jamie's grasp of reality grows weaker with each pill and plastic cup of tequila.

The history of thinking has only weakened our grasp of reality, which involves understanding our intimate relation with Being.

The task is not to preserve them unchanged but to develop them in ways that increase their grasp of reality.

Those who approach experience objectively, dispassionately, analytically, and rationally, are praised for having an accurate grasp of reality.

Even though these attempts at typification do not yet lead to consolidated results — Whitehead tries above all to define common sense as a «middle» level between the mathematized natural scientific and the individual emotional grasps of reality — he acquires in this phase several fruitful insights which will also leave their mark on his mature cosmology.

As to healing, yes, there is a known benefit to believing in supernatural control, but it is a weaker form of psychological regeneration because it substi - tutes a (potentially) imaginary answer for a firm grasp of reality.

Whitehead looks forward to a future when a still more comprehensive vision can be attained in which his own work will be seen as also fragmentary in its grasp of reality.

After enduring a few body blows from a multicultural critique of my white male perspective, I'm far less likely to imagine myself capable of the larger - scale, overall grasp of reality.

Maybe it's because she lives in LA now and therefore has no grasp of reality outside of her always - perfect - weather bubble?

The radio chat convinced us that City fans have a decent grasp of reality.

My already tenuous grasp of reality was rapidly weakening.

I told myself I understood this, yet my understanding was from an ego - bound grasp of reality.

You remind me of many of my students who really showed their intelligence through their grasp of reality and concern with things other than what is considered the norm for many your age.

While their trippy misadventures with demons real and imagined test Toby's sanity, Javier's already tenuous grasp of reality dissolves altogether.

What the Legend doesn't have is a grasp of reality - not when you look at the window and see a $ 36,800 sticker staring back at you.

Now Square Enix has released a new Final Fantasy XV trailer, which showcases beautiful CGI effects and Noctis gradually losing his grasp of his reality.

Never before have the overheated blunderbusses of «The Party of NO» so stumbled over themselves in evident confusion over an issue which, because it exists largely in their own cognitively - challenged minds, not only assures that they will lose any ensuing face - off over the science (which is very much «there,» Thank You) but reveals their grasp of reality to be failing miserably, presaging a welcome and long overdue meltdown of the entire Republican Party.

Maybe you were only taught basic, basic, stuff because your instructors thought you had potential to be a Warmist — who appear to have little grasp of reality in many instances.

Climate change has come to the rescue of that political class, whether or not mainstream climate science has the better grasp of reality than its detractors.

I voted for the candidate who has a decent grasp of reality and isn't doing anything more or less than what all the other politicians are doing.

It's someone at Readers Digest whose grasp of reality I question this time around... honestly.

Not exact matches

Canada's federal and provincial governments are racing ahead with drastic changes to housing regulations — without having a good grasp of current reality

Introduction to grasping reality with both hands: Private university students who try to take out $ 250,000 in student loans when they're barely out of puberty are patted on the back and given directions to a high - quality local state university.

There are few things more frustrating than working for a leader that has little grasp of the facts, or reality surrounding a decision.

Tight Grasp on Reality At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at a price of $ 7,538.19, marking a rough 6 % decline in the last 24 hours.

Not that I would dream of rehearsing the controversy again; but I will note that, at the time, I took my general point to be not that natural - law theory is inherently futile, but rather that its proponents often fail to grasp just how nihilistic the late modern view of reality has become, or how far our culture has gone toward losing any coherent sense of «nature» at all, let alone of any realm of moral meanings to which nature might afford access.

The fact that someone can profess to believe in something as insane as an invisible magic man in the sky in the first place tells me their grasp on reality is tenuous to begin with, and probably shouldn't be the sort of person to be trusted with the means to wipe out our species.

At this moment, for example, I am trying to understand something very abstract indeed — the fading, vanishing of tasted reality as we try to grasp it with the discursive reason.

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.

Binx recognizes a kinship here that escapes his understanding of himself as dislocated in time and place in relation to the Wandering Jew, who is not a literary shibboleth but a reality eluding his grasp.

They have been involved, and will continue to get involved because they have been grasping the reality of secular power since the Church was established.

Bergson surrendered to the doubts of modernity, denying the intellect's ability to grasp reality.

If I have accepted the variety of usage and am looking to find or create a use to support metaphysical generalization, I can rely on the uniquely intimate and immediate revelation of my own experience — intuitively grasped from within — to authorize an insider's judgment about what reality is like at its heart.

Philosophy is the «science of common experience» which provides our most fundamental and most certain grasp on reality.

Barr's essay addresses at some length the question of design in biology, but does not clearly affirm that reason can grasp the reality of design without the aid of faith.

Indeed, true science is impossible unless we first grasp the reality of natures and essences, the intelligible principles of the natural world.

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.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

The task of theology is to articulate the teaching of the church only to the extent that the church's teaching grasps and expresses the reality of our historical situation.

Throughout the 1960s and 70s and 80s of the 20th century, the Church was - slowly - grasping the reality of the situation.

But we can not yet grasp fully and with unfailing security the reality of the divine life to which we are called — in this life we must recognise that we are still marked by the effects of sins, that we still experience weakness andfrailty.

Jesus was able to «grasp the logos of reality as such and to re-present it through symbolic speech and action,» and this in a normative fashion.

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

Just as I can't possibly grasp the true nature of the reality of science, I've had to admit that I also can't possibly grasp the true nature of the divine, sacred, God, whatever you want to call it.

Many others, who did grasp my meaning, were dismayed because, while I asserted the objective reality of God's act at Easter, I did not take the stories of the empty tomb as the basis of my interpretation of that act of God, but, on the contrary, suggested that these stories may be unhelpful to our understanding of the Easter message.