Sentences with phrase «in circumlocution»

In certain peculiarities of expression, in the habit of sometimes speaking of God in circumlocutions, Jesus resembles the pious Jews, if our record is to be trusted on this point.

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Miller says, «The coming years will not be lacking in interest in this regard — which is a Vatican circumlocution for saying they will be exciting.»

For still others such Germanic circumlocution is impossible to understand, let alone embrace; they will regard the resurrection in a rationalistic, relatively «old - fashioned» deist - liberal manner as a prescientific way of expressing the timeless content of Jesus» life and ministry — his preaching about the love of God and the need for human fellowship.

Some use of subjective terms may be warranted in describing the behavior of human beings and perhaps of higher animals to avoid ponderous circumlocutions, but should be avoided in attempts at the most precise formulations.

With one blow it pulverized the contradiction in that without circumlocutions it placed materialism on the throne again... One must oneself have experienced the liberating effects of this book to get an idea of it.

Poverty indeed is the strenuous life — without brass bands or uniforms or hysteric popular applause or lies or circumlocutions; and when one sees the way in which wealth - getting enters as an ideal into the very bone and marrow of our generation, one wonders whether a revival of the belief that poverty is a worthy religious vocation may not be «the transformation of military courage,» and the spiritual reform which our time stands most in need of.

That Luke is dependent upon Mark, or the tradition which Mark is using, in Luke 22.69 is, we believe, to be argued from the way in which he maintains the Semitic circumlocution for God, «Power», while adding «of God» for the sake of his Gentile readers who may not understand the construction.

This passive was a circumlocution for the activity of God, as is regularly the case in Aramaic.

This is suggested by the passive now found in Luke 12.9; it would also be an Aramaism (the passive voice as a circumlocution for the divine activity), and it would provide a basis from which the «I» and «Son of man» forms could have developed in the tradition, as variant ways of giving Jesus a role in the judgement.

7.13 found in Mark 14.62 and the same combination found in the pre-Lukan formulation of Acts 7.56 can not be dependent upon one another, since the one, Mark with the circumlocution, reflects a Jewish way of thinking, and the other, Acts with the direct mention of God, reflects a non-Jewish way of thinking.

in arguing that he is, then the phrase «the right hand of God» is not specifically Lukan, despite the fact that it is oriented towards the Gentile world in that it mentions God directly and not by circumlocution.

Another complication is the possibility that Son of man could be used as a circumlocution for «I» in Aramaic, which could mean that the two forms in Greek are possibly simply translation variants of this Aramaic idiom.

digressions and circumlocutions; the hand - gestures, head - shakes, eye - blinks; the splintered syntax and mispronunciations - under - pressure when he gets flustered... At least you can tell (unlike certain modern politicians one could name) that he's actually thinking as he talks, sifting through evidence and debate tactics and talking points in his head, not just going blank and letting his lips flap.

Such circumlocution seemed necessary, at least early on, in defence of Kline's work.

The corridor is one of several, the layout of which is hard to envisage, like the tangle of the Circumlocution Office in Charles Dickens» Little Dorrit (1855 - 7).

The life of forms in itself suffices, so as to avoid the circumlocution of the narration, because fine art is, of necessity, a fiction of its own reality.

In justice to nigelj, diplomacy with AGW - deniers demands a measure of circumlocution.

Lang seems to pick on those too polite to accuse him directly of being a liar, but one can readily find circumlocutions such as CBDunkerson «s «The continuing fictional works of Peter Lang» that amount to the same thing, which I didn't have to search far for: it's in the same thread containing Ronald Brak's comment above.

As a result, many of our statutes define, as we have noted, T in terms of «striking circumlocution».

However, these usually turn out to be unhelpful responses to poor adjudication, under a definition of the «striking circumlocution» variety, in which there has been a failure to equate T with M.