Sentences with phrase «insignificance as»

Compounding this challenge is our sense of insignificance as individuals in a world of 6.7 billion people.

Once the game is sighted, all else pales into insignificance as the dog concentrates on the chase.

But being highly agnostic, I don't claim there is not grand insignificance as a fact.

Not exact matches

Divine love is as glorious as a summer day high in the Alps; it is merciful and makes our sins, though they be as scarlet, vanish into insignificance, replacing them with his own action in us; it is, finally, self - sacrificial unto death, for it seeks not its own.

It paled — as did all else — into insignificance before the one thing that genuinely mattered.

Any Catholic who rejects Catholic teaching, or who technically accepts it but minimizes it to the point of insignificance, is not a «moderate» Catholic but a dissenter, or one seeking approval from the world (a temptation Our Lord warns against)-- and should be identified as such.

The genius of AA is not so much in its ability to help its members connect to some sense of a higher power that will help them succeed and overcome their problems, as it is in its ability to thoroughly convince each member of his or her own insignificance, thus rendering them vulnerable, helpless, and willing to «turn their lives over» to something... anything... other than their own power.

It is simply to say that, as I confront the meaning of my life, all this social world fades away to insignificance.

Pastor Sharon Huey talks of Grace's catechumenate as preparation for taking something like a «vow of insignificance.»

They also say, «Individual occasions in God eventually lose their individuality as their experience of the future fades into insignificance and they imperceptibly merge with the next lower level... «7

We reduce it to insignificance and remove its ontological and theological sting, by construing it as though it said that man's body was taken from the earth and in doing so we think of «body» as meaning just what fits into the framework of our standard and superficial ideas, and as something that has nothing to do with the «soul».

But then, as my Auntie Joanna pointed out, when he gets to Heaven and Edmund Campion asks him what it was like being an English Catholic, being stitched up on TV debates may pale into insignificance compared with being hanged, drawn and quartered in front of a large crowd.

We can hardly wonder, in the circumstances, that agnostics such as Sir James Jeans and Marcel Boll, and even convinced believers like Guardini, have uttered expressions of amazement (tinged with heroic pessimism or triumphant detachment) at the apparent insignificance of the phenomenon of Life in terms of the cosmos — a little mould on a grain of dust.

I think as soon as we realize the church is not a building, and the Gospel is a message of words AND a way of life, then some of these divisive issues within the church just fade away into insignificance and meaninglessness.

And so, apart from God, or the mystery of Nirvana, Whiteheadians and Buddhists can agree that all things human and humanly valuable are ephemeral, «passing whiffs of insignificance,» as Whitehead phrased it.

As a light - provider, Rudolph's glow fades into insignificance when compared to what happened when suddenly «the glory of the Lord shown around» a band of shepherds tending their sheep on a dark Palestinian night.

Yet the Argentine has made it pretty clear he regards the FA Cup and Carabao Cup as second - tier trophies which pale into insignificance when compared to the Premier League and Champions League.

We are never more essential than when we are rearing our young — as that enterprise becomes condensed, parents are nudged into the twilight of insignificance and forced to mourn the loss of their relevance.

As frightening as the foregoing cases may be, the cut - throat rivalry between the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, fritters all of them into insignificancAs frightening as the foregoing cases may be, the cut - throat rivalry between the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, fritters all of them into insignificancas the foregoing cases may be, the cut - throat rivalry between the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, fritters all of them into insignificance.

William Hague said the row paled into insignificance given his duties as foreign secretary.

As a teenager, I saw Pale Blue Dot, a photo of Earth taken by Voyager I that led astronomer Carl Sagan to reflect on the insignificance of man in the universe.

The film doesn't flow as well as its major theme would suggest, but it does hint at a truly devastating conclusion: how needless those events were given Earth's insignificance in the ever - expanding cosmos.

Yet there isn't a hint of pathos, as the stoic Charley ploughs on across a wilderness that forever emphasises his insignificance.

While aspects of my role as a curriculum dean are important they pale into insignificance when compared with my teaching.

He may have competed there nine times before, and he may do marathon running as a hobby, but all this will pale into relative insignificance on the 12 - 13th June when 37 - year - old Olly takes on the legendary 24 Hour race in the large industrial town of Le Mans in North West France.

A slightly frustrating touchscreen and tight rear accommodation pale into insignificance when a car handles and drives as well as the ATS - V does.

As of June 30, 2008, the global derivatives market had exploded to $ 530 trillion, while credit default swaps had grown from mere insignificance to $ 55 billion.

Neutering causes the prostate to shrink into insignificance thus preventing both prostatitis as well as the uncomfortable benign hyperplasia (enlargement) that occurs with aging.

As annoyed as I am with American for hitting us so hard with these changes it pales into insignificance compared to how annoyed I am with the bloggers who are trying to portray these changes as «not so bad»As annoyed as I am with American for hitting us so hard with these changes it pales into insignificance compared to how annoyed I am with the bloggers who are trying to portray these changes as «not so bad»as I am with American for hitting us so hard with these changes it pales into insignificance compared to how annoyed I am with the bloggers who are trying to portray these changes as «not so bad»as «not so bad».

Cezanne depicted buildings and people as mere extensions of the natural landscape of Aix - en - Provence while the traditional Chinese landscape painters of the Song and Yuan dynasties used their depictions of the mountain ranges in the Shaanxi province as analogies to humankind's insignificance in the grand order of the universe.

Moving from the city to the rural hinterland and the coast, Hayes reflects on contemporary and historical engagements with the land and its representations, observing our insignificance within its expanse as keenly as our urge to manipulate, inhabit and delight in it.

Thiebaud's paintings, like good novels, use telling details to draw us in, so as to obliquely convey some harsh intimations of aimlessness and loss, of the insignificance of human wishes.

Often, these lines blur: the iconic Caspar Von Friedrich painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog can be read as man conquering nature; man in awe of nature; or man's insignificance within the natural world.

Titled «Right Misplacement,» the artist admits to the awkwardness when her sculptural installations — often made of street junk such as cardboard, nylon net, and concrete blocks — intervene in the gallery's standard white cube, but goes on to affirm their insignificance through their production method and display.

I used Dr Mann as his work was so iconic and influential and every other climate science paper pales into insignificance besides it.

I'd recommend changing the plane to one of proving relative significance / insignificance (among other null ideas) as part of the essay.

As impressive as humanity's capacity for causing environmental modifications appear to be at first glance, they pale into insignificance besides the influences and counter-influences of the lowliest of lifeformAs impressive as humanity's capacity for causing environmental modifications appear to be at first glance, they pale into insignificance besides the influences and counter-influences of the lowliest of lifeformas humanity's capacity for causing environmental modifications appear to be at first glance, they pale into insignificance besides the influences and counter-influences of the lowliest of lifeforms.

When the poll contains many items of concern and the people are asked to rate them in order of concern (as the poll I mentioned did), then it drops way down, almost to the point of insignificance.

R Stevenson says: May 22, 2011 at 6:23 am As a so called greenhouse gas, CO2 pales into insignificance when compared with water vapour.

Phil says: R Stevenson says: May 22, 2011 at 6:23 am «As a so called greenhouse gas, CO2 pales into insignificance when compared with water vapour.

As a so called greenhouse gas, CO2 pales into insignificance when compared with water vapour.

I guess I will be so bold as to ask where you think all of this is headed; i.e., is it possible that these efforts will produce the additional 150 early strong storms Peter Webster says are needed to reduce the apparent trend to insignificance?

At first, as Carol sat small and waiflike in a chair in front of me, I felt an internal pull to rescue her from her husband and her religious congregation — a road I knew I couldn't take without perpetuating her sense of insignificance.