Sentences with phrase «intensity of feeling»

My experience indicates that people battling addictions tend to be highly sensitive by nature and thus, when overwhelmed, may seek ways to lessen this intensity of feeling through means outside of themselves.

A specific beginning and ending includes children's use of an affective identification and scaling worksheet in which they identify their feelings (as they enter and leave therapy) and the intensity of that feeling.

Interestingly, the very act of naming your feelings helps reduce the intensity of the feeling, making it more manageable.

The intensity of the feeling is what fuels the intensity of the attraction.

Nearly half of those surveyed feel strongly this way, a striking finding underlined by our survey research firm for the intensity of this feeling.

A moral panic is the intensity of feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order.

Conrad Frankel (Fig 4) A degree in biblical studies has proved to be of no hindrance to Frankel whose work subtly exudes an intensity of feeling.

Part of the magic is in the editing, which segues back and forth in time, from high moments to low, in much the same way as Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine (2010)-- and achieves the same intensity of feeling by the juxtaposition.

Yet the movie has a quality and intensity of feeling that provoke respect and a sense of fellowship — something that makes me cherish some of its attributes.

Summary: With sly humor and an intensity of feeling, THE SPECTACULAR NOW (directed by James Ponsoldt) creates a vivid, three - dimensional portrait of youth confronting the funny, thrilling and perilous business of modern love and adulthood.

Unfortunately, Hiller doesn't command the intensity of feeling that might have made it emotionally valid, and he doesn't have the awareness of the cultural forces at work in his film that might have made it intellectually respectable.

Kids have all kinds of strategies for attenuating the intensity of feeling that this great transition entails.

As they discovered the result of both the UK vote on Brexit and the USA's election of Trump, participants became philosophical about the intensity of feeling on all sides of these political divides.

The realization of measured intensity of feeling depends not only upon the sensitivity and emotional discipline of the percipient, but also upon the expressiveness of the esthetic object.

Above all, aesthetic value implies the transformation of contradictions into contrasts that arouse a fullness and intensity of feeling, a sense of beauty, in those who experience the aesthetic object.

There he says concerning the subjective aim of a concrescence: «The subjective aim, whereby there is origination of conceptual feeling, is at intensity of feeling (a) in the immediate subject, and (ß) in the relevant future» (Cat.

In temporal occasions the initial aim is always an aim at some intensity of feeling both in the occasion itself and in its relevant future.13... The relations of an individual's own future and those of others introduce tensions that are highly relevant to man's ethical thinking.14 In God, however, there are no such tensions because the ideal strength of beauty for himself and for the world coincide.15 Hence, we may simplify and say that God's aim is at ideal strength of beauty and that this aim is eternally unchanging.

Yet even destruction can heighten zest and pave the way for fresh construction that will generate greater intensity of feeling.

Just as in the discussion of beauty we say that the tension between the ideals of perfect harmony and strength might war with one another except as they attain synthesis in the ideal, so here the aim at immediate intensity of feeling and the aim at intensity limitlessly beyond itself can attain synthesis only in an occasion with such concern for the general good that it finds its greatest beauty in its enjoyment of its contribution to that good.

There is, in fact, an embryonic suggestion of Whitehead's concept of peace as it appears in Adventure of Ideas, combined with what could just as well be termed, with Whitehead, «harmony and intensity of feeling.»

The courage to accept the restlessness and loss in the cosmic adventure is given in a genuinely religious faith that all achievement of intensity of feeling as well as all perishing is finally salvaged and creatively transformed by God's own experience.

Whitehead stresses that every occasion aims at intensity of feeling not only for itself but for the relevant future.

Conceived of on the model of tenderness rather than coercion, God «dwells in» and «relies upon» the workings of lower dimensions of cosmic emergence in order to realize the divine adventure toward intensity of feeling and enjoyment of beauty.

Every occasion aims at intensity of feeling both in its own subjective immediacy and in the relevant occasions beyond itself (PR 41.)

Pain is part of the price of consciousness and intensity of feeling.

The increased intensity of feeling of the «subjective aim,» and accordingly «importance,» does not mean, however, that «intellectual feelings» can operate apart from physical entities manifesting «physical purposes» (PR 273).

As the intensity of feeling increases, the sense of «importance» shifts from a society's characteristics to its purpose.

However, now the intensity of feeling is located totally in the sense of purpose involved.

Not only the spontaneous self - creativity of the individual but the social order which makes possible that particular exercise of spontaneity is essential for intense value - experience Indeed Whitehead says that» «order» means «society» permissive of actualities with patterned intensity of feeling arising from adjusted contrasts» (PR 244 / 373f.).

Thus an enduring object gains the enhanced intensity of feeling arising from the contrast between inheritance and novel effect, and also gains the enhanced intensity arising from the combined inheritance of its stable rhythmic character throughout its life - history....

This experience may be «lowpowered,» lacking in intensity of feeling, or it may be accompanied by an enormous passion and a yearning for total self - giving to the other who himself gives totally.

The adaptations arise in pursuit of a certain aim, in which intensity of feeling and conformity to a common pattern combine for the attainment of harmony.

In temporal occasions the initial aim is always an aim at some intensity of feeling both in the occasion itself and in its relevant future.

Even, sometimes, where the terms are of Israel's redemption, the prophetic intensity of feeling and pressure of conviction mark the intent to be universal.

Secondly, occasions may either contribute to the intensity of feeling or lead to denigration of intensity, hence toward monotony by simple repetition.

As long as the group is small and intimate enough for each member to know the other — a condition that rarely survives the early stages — great intensity of feeling, great solidarity, and great activity will characterize the members.

«What is inexorable in God, is valuation as an aim towards order»; and «order» means «society» permissive of actualities with patterned intensity of feeling arising from adjusted contrasts.

There is, to be sure, a vivid display of passion and intensity of feeling as he fends off Bultmann's critics.

This is fitting, for the temporal purpose of personality was primarily suited to the greater intensity of feeling made possible by the complex structures of personality.

For according to the category of subjective intensity, the subjective aim of an occasion is directed not merely at intensity of feeling in the present subject, but also in its relevant future.

«The ultimate creative purpose» is «that each unification shall achieve some maximum depth of intensity of feeling, subject to the conditions of its concrescence» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 381).

In the project of self - creation throughout his life, man must strive to bring these values into aesthetic harmony aiming at intensity of feeling both in its subjective immediacy and in the relevant occasions beyond itself to achieve objective immortality.63 And man realizes that to achieve his individual destiny he must create civilizations which embody truth and beauty.

At any moment of his life - project a man can know that he must choose among values which aim at intensity of feeling.

What kind of satisfaction the initial aim is directed toward is determined by the relevant possibility for its actualization, as established by its past, that will give it the greatest intensity of feeling and also contribute maximally to the future of the nexus of which it is a part.

Whitehead speaks of God as having, like all actual entities, an aim at intensity of feeling..

In both situations, we are supposing that the dominant thread of occasions has become a thread of the «nonsocial» nexus which is experiencing heightened intensity of feeling.

Similarly, I have observed far more intensity of feeling in debates among Buddhists than in their discussion with Christians.

This intensity of feeling lies precisely in the act itself whereby God loves particular actual occasions.

In the Whiteheadian system, God directs the development of an actual entity in the sense of luring it towards a form of self - realization productive of the greatest possible future intensity of feeling.

An occasion exercises its freedom, he says, toward «intensity of feeling (a) in the immediate subject and (/ 3) in the relevant future.»