Sentences with phrase «grasping movements in»

Understanding these changes can help us grasp movements in our culture, especially the rise of the Religious Right and its impact on the politics of 1996.

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Three Viacom television brands — MTV, BET, and Comedy Central — showed a brilliant grasp of PR and cause marketing when students across the country today walked out of their classes for 17 minutes today in support the Parkland movement.

At this stage in the book, it was hard to grasp what was meant by the term «foyer», perhaps because Blake carefully limits his vantage point to the movement's conception in 1936.

Once we grasp the radical Christian truth that a radically profane history is the inevitable consummation of an actual movement of the sacred into the profane, then we can be liberated from every preincarnate form of Spirit, and accept our destiny as an occasion for the realization in the immediacy of experience of the self - emptying or self - annihilation of the transcendent and primordial God in the passion and death of Christ.

In this paper I take induction to signify the passage from individuals to the universal, and nous the terminus of the inductive movement wherein the universal is finally grasped.

Whitehead, on the other hand, stands at the forefront of a movement that was destined to debunk absolutes in both philosophy and science, in order to grasp the nature of reality with more subtle and flexible intellectual tools.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin has made much of this in his widely read The Phenomenon of Man, but long before the publication of that volume C. Lloyd - Morgan in his Gifford lectures had indicated the significance of such «emergents», along with the «importance» (although this is not his, but Whitehead's, word) which they possess both in the ongoing movement of the world and as a way of our grasping of the meaning of that world in its on going movement.

First, the movement sustains interest and preserves the anticipation necessary not only to hold attention but to prepare the hearer's mood or mind set to grasp and participate in the central idea when it comes.

Both the descriptive terminology and vocabulary - in - use in new social movements count in trying to grasp what is going on, yet they are not enough.

The infinite resignation is the last stage prior to faith, so that one who has not made this movement has not faith; for only in the infinite resignation do I become clear to myself with respect to my eternal validity, and only then can there be any question of grasping existence by virtue of faith.

If we now place under a concept a representation of the imagination belonging to its presentation, but which occasions in itself more thought than can ever be comprehended in a definite concept and which consequently aesthetically enlarges the concept itself in an unbounded fashion, the imagination is here creative, and it brings the faculty of intellectual ideas (the reason) into movement; i.e., by a representation more thought (which indeed belongs to the concept of the object) is occasioned than can in it be grasped or made clear.21

My view is that the profession as a whole has only begun to grasp what has happened in the Anglo - American movement that we six, with many others, represent.

Now, listening to him along with the worshipful and the skeptical, the editors had to acknowledge that «theology has come to be taken most seriously again in our time where it defines itself most modestly, without slippery movements into all the other disciplines, without fastening an encroaching grasp or a suffocating embrace on other human enterprises» (May 16, 1962).

For to affirm that all things eternally recur, and recur eternally the same, is to grasp an absolutely chaotic movement or flow, a movement in which identity and difference flow into one another, and nothing at all either preserves its own identity or remains different from anything else.

The italics are Teilhard's own; and the succeeding pages of the essay from which the quotation comes show that for him «what has gone wrong» was the failure of much traditional Christian teaching and preaching to see that the world — the whole created order in its materiality, along with man's grasp of the importance of secular effort and achievement — is an ongoing movement in which significance is given to human life.

If we grasp this aspect of our preaching, we may well have our part in a great movement of return to the intention of the Reformers of the sixteenth century as well as of the Fathers of the ancient Church: that the Lord's Supper shall in very deed be the act of Christian worship most loved, most used, and most honored by the whole of the Christian world, without base superstition or ungodly fear but in loving obedience to the command of the Lord and for the «strengthening and refreshing» of his people.

In order for the monkey to see the object, it was briefly lit before the start of the grasping movement.

In order to program these interfaces properly, it is crucial to know how and where our brain controls the grasping movements.»

The key finding of a research team based at Brown University is that neurons in the area of the brain responsible for planning grasping motions retain information about the object to be gripped as they make their movement plan.

«The subsequent grasping movement then took place in the dark with a short delay.

Even though Sultan sits at a distance, he raises his arm in precise synchrony with Grande's grasping movement.

Babies often exhibit mirror movements in which, for example, an intentional grasping movement with one hand or a kick with one leg is accompanied by a similar involuntary movement by the other side.

Eventually, they were able to move the robotic arm to reach and grasp objects in random locations on a table and move objects from the table to a three - layer shelf by only thinking about these movements.

«We found that different neurons in the AIP were indeed selective for different grasps, but we also found activation for shoulder or hand movements, whether imagined or attempted, and for either side of the body,» Andersen says.

The researchers were able to identify single neurons in the PPC that fired when Sorto was presented with an image of an object to be grasped — a rock, say — and identified a nearly completely separate class of neurons that responded when Sorto engaged in motor imagery (the mental planning and imagined execution of a movement without the subject actually trying to move the limb).

With one hand grasping together the two ends of the towel, your upper body will start the gradual climbing movement by alternating your two hands in grabbing a higher piece of the towel.

Every action, every methodical movement on the boat feels like the work of hands that have grasped this hunk of wood and metal for years, resulting in a character that is always believable and a performance that feels authentic right down to its salt - soaked bones.

This position also requires grasping, repetitive hand movement and fine coordination in preparing statistical reports and data, using a computer keyboard.

Once mastered (or, in a more likely scenario, simply grasped with some degree of competence), the movement feels fluid, natural, and extremely responsive.

Olivier Malingue says: «To arrange them in dialogue in this way allows the works to speak not just to each other but to the viewer, highlighting the theories of collective thought inherent in the Surrealist movement — which is, to me, key to grasping the continuing relevance of this groundbreaking cultural movement.»

«Blom... recounts how, as a young artist living in South Africa, his grasp on Modernism has been mediated, thus compounding his estrangement from this once avant - garde movement that turned the visual arts on its head at the turn of the last century.

There is a tremendous disconnect between what most people (especially here in the US) think that the state of the scientific knowledge is, and what it really is — partly, I think, because it's hard to grasp just how big the field of climate science is, partly because of organized disinformation campaigns orchestrated by the likes of Senator Inhofe, Exxon and Massey Energy, and informed by the tactics (and sometimes funding sources) of the tobacco denial movement, and partly because who really * wants * to believe in a big, tough - to - deal - with danger to the well - being of our kids and our society?

But rather than shying away from engagement, or under - emphasizing the dangers we face for fear of scaring people away, the green movement would do better to grasp the nettle with both hands, but do so in a manner that is conducive to promoting Flow.

But I can see how, with the right pair of youthful video - game - trained peepers, and the right subject in the right hands, the gig - a-minute flow could lead to an understanding of the dynamics of a situation that you couldn't otherwise grasp, much as the marvelous movement in Hans Rosling's Gapminder managed to surprise and delight me.

This can be seen in their movements such as wiggling their body, throwing their arms out and trying to grasp objects.