Sentences with phrase «in plain sense»

Had the task been a different one, had the Lord commanded Abraham to bring Isaac out to Mount Moriah and then would Himself have Isaac struck by lightning and in this way receive him as a sacrifice, then, taking his words in a plain sense, Abraham might have been right in speaking enigmatically as he did, for he could not himself know what would occur.

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Rather than trying to time the market or pick the right stock, Bernstein said, it makes more sense to put your money in boring, plain vanilla index mutual funds and ETFs.

There are unquestionably parts of the Bible where the real meaning intended by the author is not the plain literal sense of the words, and where an unintelligent insistence upon the literal sense stands in the way of a true understanding.

They want to make it plain (they are demonstrably often hard put to do so because of the intensity of their own feelings and emotions) that it is judgment in the full sense — justice, the setting right of the woefully wrong.

I have protested against confining the significance of Jesus Christ to a divine rescue expedition, but the plain testimony of two thousand years of Christianity is that Jesus Christ does rescue us in the supreme sense that through his deed, culminating on Calvary, he opens up the right road to fulfillment and provides grace — which, as Kenneth Kirk once said, is God's love in action — to enable us to walk that road, even in times of stress and even though we are quite likely to stumble and fall again and again.

The emotional and imaginative constriction of the American personality in a world of common sense and plain fact became ever more evident and ever more painful to that minority of Americans who sought a larger human ideal.

«When the plain sense of scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths indicate clearly otherwise» (Dr. David L. Cooper)

What I mean is that, if you take 1 Timothy 2:12 in it's most plain sense, at face value, then women are not allowed to teach period; somehow you have inferred that men can learn from women when done «PRIVATELY» but not «IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LOCAL CHURCH.&raquin it's most plain sense, at face value, then women are not allowed to teach period; somehow you have inferred that men can learn from women when done «PRIVATELY» but not «IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LOCAL CHURCH.&raquIN THE CONTEXT OF THE LOCAL CHURCH.»

It is my opinion that one should be leery of using «the plain sense» rule when dealing with documents that were originally written in a different language, culture and time.

Positively speaking, in the Theology of Liberation becomes manifest «the very tense transition from a culturally more or less homogeneous, and in this sense monocentric, church of the West, towards a world church which has many cultural roots and is, thus, polycentric», as formulated by Johann Baptist Metz.11 It is fairly plain that Boff has become, internationally, the most published and read theologian from Latin America.

He is, in the bare, plain, nonphilosophical sense of the term, an existentialist.

There was a sense timelessness further enhanced on Sundays when the Psalms were sung in one or other of the eight plain chant modes.

When we have deduced what we deduce by our reason and from study of visible nature, and then read what we read in His inspired word, and find the two apparently discordant, this is the feeling I think we ought to have on our minds» not an impatience to do what is beyond our powers, to weigh evidence, sum up, balance, decide, and reconcile, to arbitrate between the two voices of God» but a sense of the utter nothingness of worms such as we are; of our plain and absolute incapacity to contemplate things as they really are; a perception of our emptiness, before the great Vision of God....

There seemed little sense in boiling off the chocolate to refry it plain while also trying to bust out my Everything Biscuits.

«With this in mind, my family and I launched Meat Free Monday in the UK, an idea which has been gaining support from people like Tom Parker - Bowles who, after a lifetime of denigrating vegetarians, recently wrote in his Daily Mail column, «I wince at the memory of my boorish antics» and who pronounced himself «intrigued» by MFM: «There's no doubting the plain common sense of the message... Meat Free Monday is something to really savour».

A professional, determined and driven sense of direction coming from the very top — with a clear ambition for Liverpool to be one of the best clubs, in terms of competing, in the world, again, plain to see.

So it makes sense that keeping dirty diapers in your house in a regular pail would just plain stink.

Offering them lots of brightly coloured toys by placing them in plain sight will also stimulate their senses and promote their curiosity.

His determination to substantially increase the minimum wage, invest in hi - tech manufacturing and stop corporations offshoring skilled and semi-skilled jobs is acknowledged as plain common sense.

So this is not only a good poll in that sense but in the just plain mayoral match - up.

«Plain and simple, this law would allow us to get help to those who need it and keep many New Yorkers from knowing the pain a trauma that comes with gun violence,» said Tricia Pleu of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, one of more than a half - dozen groups that called for passage of the law.

«I think when you're talking about a super concentrated snowstorm, which, you know, let's say five, six hours of unusually intense snow, it is just plain common sense to not go out in that if you don't have to,» said the mayor.

The decision not to adopt the commitment «made no sense to me», as it was «plain wrong» in principle and denied Labour a potentially game - changing line of attack against David Cameron's Conservatives, he said.

In a study of how taste buds determine an animal's diet, Xia Li at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia and colleagues let six mammals choose between plain water and water flavoured with natural and artificial sweetenerIn a study of how taste buds determine an animal's diet, Xia Li at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia and colleagues let six mammals choose between plain water and water flavoured with natural and artificial sweetenerin Philadelphia and colleagues let six mammals choose between plain water and water flavoured with natural and artificial sweeteners.

Here today at the annual meeting of the AAAS (which publishes Science), two researchers explained how remote sensing technology, including satellite imaging and drone flights, is revealing the traces of past civilizations that have been hiding in plain sight.

Smokers no longer derive a sense of identity from cigarette brands after plain packaging rule was introduced in Australia, helping them to kick the habit

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just plain common sense delivered in a way that awakens your spirit, mind and body.

And while it makes sense not to chug a glass of fruit juice in two gulps, Diamond's advice about «chewing juice» so it doesn't disrupt the digestive system is just plain strange.

I know Mondays aren't exactly everyone's favorite day of the week, but after a genuinely restful, relaxing weekend indulging in things that I just plain enjoy without any deadlines or expectations, like sleep, fixing up old furniture and tons of snuggles with my man Hamlet and some quality time checking in with my hubby's heart, Monday really becomes a fresh start in every sense of the phrase.

And the evidence is plain: Millions of Americans sense that terrorism is in their midst, and CBS doesn't mind kicking up that fear a notch for the sake of gaining a rating point or two.

Playing the younger version of Michael B. Jordan's nuanced villain for only a few minutes, the young lad was only on screen briefly at the start of the movie, in a flashback scene and for a longer - speaking part in a poignant dialogue in the ancestral plain (trust us, it makes sense in the movie).

Ketchum and O'Rourke come off as goons for being impressed by this, particularly when O'Rourke follows up her observation by comparing The Lost to The Sixth Sense (which she says was directed by «that guy whose last name everybody always mispronounces») as one of those films where you pick up stuff that the filmmaker has hidden in plain sight the second and third time you see it.

Frequently filming his heroines through half - concealed doorways and rain - pelted windows, and employing medium and long shots as well as closeups, Haynes uses these obscuring, distancing visual devices with an unerring sense of thematic purpose, slowly pulling us into a veiled world where scandalous truths are hidden in plain sight, and only a privileged (or cursed) few can see them clearly.

A persuasive kernel of common sense, in many cases, lay hidden inside Illich's wild - eyed notions: that students learn a great deal from their peers; that educated people teach themselves or otherwise discover, outside the classroom, many of their most important lessons; that advanced education indoctrinates individuals, teaching them a kind of professional code and knowledge for work that can be addressed in a frank manner using plain facts and everyday language.

Some are just plain hungry whereas others are overindulged; many live in dire poverty whereas others have a sense of entitlement.

The littlest Jeep manages to combine a healthy smear of Fiat's sense of humor with a surprising degree of practicality, especially in the just plain silly subcompact crossover segment.

Finally, the Plain Jane hose - out interior makes a lot of sense in sandy or muddy conditions, where frequent stops to investigate the terrain inevitably drags dirt into the cabin.

We're not a collective, in either the plain language sense or the legal sense.

Written in an engaging and easy to read style, I still felt that much of this was just plain ol' common sense.

The media queries make a lot of sense with Amazon essentially bifurcating their offerings into plain vanilla Kindle files for the eInk devices and enhanced multi-media and fixed layout offerings in KF8.

While we can't do much for the social lives of actuaries, we can work to simplify Irving, TX renters insurance and explain it in a way that just plain makes sense.

In these pages we offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense: and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and prepossession, and suffer his reason and his feelings to determine for themselves that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off, the true character of a man, and generously enlarge his views beyond the present day.

There's yet more evidence that it makes sense to invest in simple, plain - vanilla index funds, whose low fees often lead to better net returns than hedge funds and actively managed mutual funds with more impressive performance numbers.

Third, plain common sense dictates that firing weapons in residential neighborhoods is extremely dangerous to people and property, let alone animals.

When you stop to think of the complexity involved in breed specific legislation and breed identification, such laws just plain make no sense.

«There's a real sense of the land in this song, you can see wide open plains and red earth, huge skies and isolation whenever you hear it.

For the small cost of a policy in comparison to the overall cost of your dive trip - and the peace of mind it brings - taking out adequate insurance is just plain common sense».

Beyond the (occasionally a little buggy and rather plain) load screens — buggy in the sense that the bar went from beginning to end, and then back to the beginning for me — you're plopped straight into a checkpoint area in the dungeon, usually surrounded by a couple of chests for you to make a start with.