Sentences with phrase «human voices as»

Ross voices a diverse range of human voices as well as parrots, seagulls, and other animals in this novel set in Texas in 1900, the year of the Galveston hurricane.
Often choosing the human voice as her primary medium, Philipsz is especially interested in the emotive and psychological properties of sound and how it can alter individual consciousness.
The nine songs composed for her debut album, Sympathy (Software Recording Co), embrace the vast potential of the human voice as instrument, story, and landscape.
The Canadian - born, London - based artist has used the human voice as her material to make a choral work called DOUG (above).

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A Human - Voiced Resumebrands you as a person with a path and a story, not a disembodied bundle of skills.
You've heard a lot of social media experts stress the importance of having a genuine voice (as in sounding human rather than corporate) when posting links or information to your company's social media pages.
Talking with voice assistants is not like talking to humans and, as helpful as it is to be near the technology, we know the difference.
One came from Gary Van Prooyen while he was in his role as Motorola Solutions Global Brand & Content Operations lead, and that was to use a brand voice that is «Human, confident, imaginative and clear.»
A group of researchers discovered that ultrasonic frequencies inaudible to humans can be used as a way to access voice - enabled assistants such as Siri, Google Assistant, and Cortana.
Much of the effect can likely be explained by researchers unconsciously giving hints or suggestions to their human or animal subjects, perhaps in something as subtle as body language or tone of voice.
They note that he has been a powerful voice in defense of the sanctity of human life in all stages and conditions and marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife, though they do not praise him for that as I would.
I am, instead, committed to a gospel that truly is «good news» and gives us all voices and believes and sees those who have survived as fully human persons.
However, his proclamation of «a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sin» strikes most of us, if we are honest, as a call from another world — a voice from a wilderness that has long since been brought under human control.
It was as if, unable to reach toward heaven on my own, the confident voices of those around me raised my own voice like a marionette doll, awkward, but vaguely human.
One can see recent standoffs in Geneva on so - called traditional values resolutions as manifestations of a conflict between two rival conceptions of human dignity: one, supported by most Western advocates, that focuses on individual autonomy; and the other, proposed by voices from the global East and South, that focuses on traditional understandings of human nature.
After carefully reading the Quran and examining it based on his many years of study, a leading American theologian has concluded that via the holy book God is speaking to all human beings around the world, a voice that, in his astonishing book, he said he tried to transmit to readers and students, as well to himself, to deepen his understanding.
«We wanted to feature a woman's voice,» a well - meaning conference planner will inform me with excitement, as if mine is sufficient to capture the experiences of 3.5 billion human beings.
Dropping the mic would necessitate cultivating the art of classical oratory as well as constructing sanctuaries designed to carry the human voice, just as the use of the microphone (I would suggest) has relegated homiletics to an afterthought for many seminarians and encouraged uninspired ecclesiastical architecture.
As we listen to the witness of the Bible, we may be inclined to think, at first, that this is no more than the voice of the human Israel which points us away from the gods of idolatry as the first step in man's self - emancipatioAs we listen to the witness of the Bible, we may be inclined to think, at first, that this is no more than the voice of the human Israel which points us away from the gods of idolatry as the first step in man's self - emancipatioas the first step in man's self - emancipation.
No serious voice suggests they do not have «human faces,» as Scaperlanda chides.
I consider this an ambiguous gift: on the one hand, postmodern tendencies open up spaces for the new perspectives and voices mentioned above; on the other hand, as the social critic Jane Flax notes, a hard - core kind of postmodernity which would postulate the death of history, of the human being and of metaphysics undermines the kind of critical reason that is necessary to counter the «master narrative» constituted by capitalist globalization.
So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?
As long as we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices of our tradition that speak about the importance of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak of freedom in terms of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms of detachment and transcendencAs long as we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices of our tradition that speak about the importance of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak of freedom in terms of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms of detachment and transcendencas we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices of our tradition that speak about the importance of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak of freedom in terms of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms of detachment and transcendence.
«The International Association of Genocide Scholars, over 200 members of Congress, and over 70 human rights experts and organizations, spanning the nation's religious and political spectrum, have raised their voices that the treatment of these communities by ISIS meets even the strictest definition of genocide under international law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of Christians (IDC).
But elsewhere it warmly endorses the teaching of John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae and explicitly names abortion and euthanasia as violations of human rights — although, admittedly, not in its own voice but in quoting another evangelical document.
These vocations have come through human voices and relationships, institutions and communities; they call to me as a husband, father, son, pastor, citizen, colleague, friend.
The electronic age with its offering of a wide variety of ways to present the human voice has commanded new attention to oral language.1 Perhaps the ascendancy of science and the domination of the scientific method has created such a restricted view of language that a reaction in favor of more dimensions to language is to be taken simply as clear testimony to a general degeneration of meaningful discourse, a degeneration in which the church figures prominently.
What he sought was ecclesial density, a «density» characterized by an intensity of common teaching, worship vibrancy, the confidence of a tradition extending to the very beginnings of the Church, and the welcomed contention of many voices around and within all of it as each yet seeks better to understand the core, foundational truths that God is triune and Christ is fully God and fully human.
He sees the Church as the voice of truth and of human dignity and values.
In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.
It is within the human spirit that the voice of Christ sounds and the dead rise to a new life which is eternal; there, in quality of living, men pass «out of death into life»; there, as the first Johannine Epistle puts it, «He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.»
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Children may be small in size, but they are as fully human as we are, and as deserving as we are to be trusted to know what they need, and to have their voices heard.»
Just as your baby naturally prefers the human face over any other visual pattern, he also prefers the human voice to other sounds.
Each of the voices in this conversation brings a breadth of experience, research, and knowledge — and BOND is a tremendous opportunity to bring it all together: research on infant / early child development, attachment, sociology, public health, education, the experience of medical professionals, pediatric support professionals, educators, volunteer, and manufacturers, and of course, our collective minds and skills as a service community working to strengthen human bonding and family health.
Of course, there are other necessary elements including an innovation strategy, policies to boost human capital giving employees a stake and voice in the firm as well as upgrading skills, more investment in science and R&D, and more risk capital for firms in export - led sectors.
Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and
As David Cameron arrives in Colombo today, fresh from a grilling in India about his choice to attend the Commonwealth head of government meeting (CHOGM) he seems to have found his voice at last on human rights concerns.
Countries such as the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany on the other hand were voicing criticism about Greece's human rights record but supported the country's continued membership in the Council of Europe and NATO because of the country's strategic value for the western alliance.
The Fund was established by a generous gift from Dr. Sessler's children, recognizing both his remarkable career as a physicist and his leadership in bringing the voice of scientists to global concerns of human rights and intellectual freedom.
However, much more can be achieved when the science, engineering and health communities embrace human rights as an area suitable for and deserving of robust inquiry, and become an influential voice in the defense of human rights.
And they warn that while human women do tend to prefer males with deeper voices, we men advertise ourselves in many other ways as well.
We have much work ahead before we can attain a complete understanding of the functional role of the voice area, in macaques as well as in humans.
They found that the more prevalent the human - generated sounds, such as traffic, machinery and voices, the poorer the ecological condition.
Secondly, the research team looked at the implications stealing voices had on human communications as its other application for the paper's case study.
Yet 30 % of American voters describe themselves as evangelicals, and the voices of this massive segment deserve to be heard, according to panel speaker James Childress, formerly of President Bill Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission, which informed the president on stem cell research, cloning, and human subjects research.
If the upcoming human trials work as well as the animal experiments, the questions may be silenced — and so may the voices of schizophrenia.
«In human communication, voice is not sufficient: even the torso and in particular hand movements are involved, as are facial expressions,» concludes Nespor.
Human traits such as the face, voice, and gait are commonly used for biometric - based person recognition.
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