Sentences with phrase «human about the figure»

There's nothing human about the figure — no shape, no ability to display anything but broad motions, no way to determine if it feels anything.

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We've figured out some drugs that usually work, but as we learn more about the human body and our genetic code — the things we have in common but also the things that make us unique — we may come up with a new sort of medicine, tailored for each person.

Every vein and artery on this skinless scaffold — a human figure about six feet tall — could be seen in its precise pathways through the body.

The human animal has simply evolved to be able to figure things out about the external world and there has been a selective advantage for our species to show love and generally be good.

So we curled on the bed together and I told this small person trying to figure out how to be human about my love and about God's love, about how we live within this love in these moments of challenge.

In her pioneering study of cosmologies of different peoples, she shows that the human body is our most accessible metaphor for figuring what we really suspect about our group's and the world's makeup.

Although at the time there was only limited Jewish speculation about the Messiah, Jewish expectations of the Messiah were very varied.2 The predominant view was that the Messiah would be a human and earthly deliverer and not a divine figure.

@SMH I'll assume you're being at least a little serious when you say that neurologists haven't figured out anything about the human brain.

You go right ahead and believe that your human brain has everything figured out about the divine.

That's what the Greeks and later Michelangelo and the sculptors he most deeply influenced were about: elevating the human figure above the realm of optical phenomena and thereby endowing it with a more visceral presence, a deeper aesthetic resonance, and a greater emotional significance.

I wonder what would have happened if people had just kept on assuming that the world was flat or thinking «well, that's it; we've figured out all there is to know about the human body... there certainly can't be anything else (like DNA, essentially the motherboard for the human body) to find.

He had shed any romantic notion of the monk as a cowled figure padding about a cloister garden and had come to define the monk, as he did in a talk he gave just weeks before his death, as a «marginal person who withdraws deliberately to the margin of society with a view to deepening fundamental human experience» (cf. Asian Journal, 1973, p. 305).

Nevertheless, there is a historical connection between Jesus and the metaphysical claims about him, and the fundamental grounds of this connection in the human figure are as clear now as ever.

@Godpot... (God — pot... I'll have to try that... seems Dad has been holding back...) and that Moses character... I'll wager there was more than just a bush burnin» up there... (wouldn't know... me and that bird were trying to figure out the physics of stuffing «God» into a human womb right about that time... I'm thinking all these characters, not just me, were a bit «touched» as my child «Reality» likes to say...: 0)

Contemplation about Jesus, about God and us as humans trying to figure it out one day at a time — isn't that the point?

We talk about the strength of the human spirit and applaud those that figure out how to go it without help.

These programs also are meticulous about grading things like units and significant figures, details that human graders often overlook.

Ken had programmed these figures so that they captured a small truth about human relationships, in much the same way that someone else might express a fleeting insight in a poem or a short story.

So, but it does project into the future, and it's funny that you bring it up, because one of the things that one of the scientists I talked to, a couple of the scientists that I talked to, mentioned was that people have this ability, modern humans have this ability to project themselves into the future and think about a future self so that the theory of mind that allows me to figure out where you are in your head now also enables me to think where I will be in my head tomorrow or ten years from now.

Spinal cord injuries place a huge burden on the health system — about A$ 150 million a year in Australia, according to figures from the Department of Human Services and Health — so even a small cut in the frequency of such injuries would represent a huge saving to public hospitals, as well as benefiting people in general.

About halfway up the rock face, she saw a single red - colored human figure.

But when the figures flashed for just four tenths or two tenths of a second, the chimp trumped all, still hitting about 80 percent of the time, whereas his human challengers» success rate plummeted to 40 percent.

I mean, it really helped us to figure that DDT was a problem for one, and pesticides in general were an issue that we need to think about in terms of human health and people are, you know, becoming increasingly aware even today of that issue.

And what else is interesting about that is that there are other animals that have figured out, as human worm charmers [have], that if they set up vibrations on top of the ground, worms will rise to meet them.

According to one study that looked at eight fuel aridity metrics in the Western U.S. and modeled climate change's effects on them, human - caused climate change accounted for about 55 percent of the observed increases in fuel aridity between 1979 and 2015 (Figure 6), and added an estimated 4.2 million hectares of forest fire area between 1984 and 2015.7 Based on all eight metrics, the Western U.S. experienced an average of 9 additional days per year of high fire potential due to climate change between 2000 and 2015, a 50 percent increase from the baseline of 17 days per year when looking back to 1979.

The chimps have figured out how to use at least 13 unique tools by simply watching humans go about their business at the zoo — and they're known to select the best tool for a particular job with ease.

Humans are constantly trying to figure out what love is all about — and not just for their own emotional wellbeing.

«Finding that Theory of Mind is present in birds would require us to give up a popular story as to what makes humans special, but completing this evolutionary and developmental picture will bring us much closer to figuring out what's really unique about the human mind,» he said.

Perhaps not since Dr. Ruth commandeered American airwaves in the 1980s has there been a public figure with so much of an audience for her work on human sexuality... Instead of offering more explicitness, she writes and talks about the aspects of sexuality that can't be captured on a screen, the hidden, psychological states that do or do not set the mechanics in motion.»

Finally, there's The 99th Monkey, which is less a book about spirituality and more an exposé of the humans behind the revered guru figure.

Not a big success either, considering leopard spots are only good on leopards, not on humans... Starting to figure out it's all about the colorist, I did my homework and started traveling for my hair, other cities, different colorists, and I found one that did a great job, finally!

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Here's what happens in the movie: Zombies attack, human civilization collapses, and Brad Pitt has to figure out what to do about it, pretty much single - handed.

A remarkable story with tremendous human interest, about people we think we've figured out, but about whom we actually know next to nothing.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

That's because, against all odds, it's a remarkable story with tremendous human interest, about people we think we've figured out, but about whom we actually know next to nothing.

Analysis: «Sideways» and «The Descendants» director Alexander Payne co-wrote this science fiction comedy / drama, about an Omaha couple (Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig) who opt in to an experiment to shrink humans to action - figure sizes, and place them in environmentally conscious ecosystems.

Aasif Mandvi hits his (very odd, in fairness) role at about twice the volume and pace of anyone else, Justin Bartha barely figures, Mia Farrow is sweet enough, but doesn't make much of an impact, and Christopher Walken is interestingly restrained, adhering to normal human punctuation for the first time in recent memory, but at the same time, hiring Walken to play an average suburban dad is about like hiring Jason Statham for a film where he doesn't punch someone in the face.

Before Christina Hendrick finds herself encased in human - sized action figure bubble wrap with Ben Mendelshon raving about assaulting her against her will, the film had already lost its footing, and its soul.

«I've heard people say it's as if an alien watched a bunch of soap operas and tried to figure out what the human race was about,» said Rousselet, who was smitten.

This is a human story about a young man figuring out how to solve his identity crisis as well as his daddy issues while trying to create a legacy started by the father he never knew.

Finally, by including relatively small human figures in their works or not including humans at all, they were demonstrating ideas about humanity's connection to the larger natural world and reminding us that the natural world exists outside of human endeavors.

2D Human figures were introduced in the course who shared information about the company, its background and history, products, and their benefits.

Many students — and myself — are intimidated about drawing human figures.

In addition, Ofqual research with 50 human resources professionals revealed that less than half of them understood the new system, while among small businesses, this figure dropped to about a fifth.

Vanessa Woods, an Australian chimp aficionado, had never heard of bonobos until she fell for Brian Hare, an American scientist whose dream is to compare the behavior of chimps and bonobos living in Congolese sanctuaries and figure out what the differences reveal about human evolution.

DAVID E. BLOCKER, BS, MD, Dog Bite Rates and Biting Dog Breeds in Texas, 1995 - 1997 Bite Rates by Breed page 23 One out of every 40 Pit Bulls (2.5 %) and about one out of 75 Chow Chows (1.4 %) generated a reported human bite each year (Table 29; Figure 7).

Compare those human life expectancy figures to breeds like Bernese Mountain Dogs and Dogues de Bordeaux, which have an average life expectancy of about 5 to 8 years or other breeds such as Chihuahuas that might enjoy a life span of around 15 to 20 years.

How does one learn to see space as a container that encloses figures and objects and that drawing is less about the documentary depictions of disparate objects or human figures?

The second exhibition in a series of three about the human figure has opened at the gallery.