Nature, I find, is where I can think, dream and find
the intensity of what we call meaning... It took me some time to realize that abstraction is the only way that I can find a personal vocabulary in painting, through the relationship of shapes, colors and light.
Other countries just don't understand
the intensity of what the American Way can bring to the table.
Red Thread Games grasp what David Cage never has — that emotional storytelling comes down to believable characters and reactions, not merely cranking up
the intensity of what happens to them.
During filming we lived three minutes away from it, so the shooting experience mirrored
the intensity of what these two young women were going through.
Perhaps Fiennes's intent is to draw the viewer into the solipsistic
intensity of what it is to be Grace Jones.
Again, I think the answer is to apply the principles but keep an eye on the volume and
intensity of what you are doing.
Increase
the intensity of what you are doing by increasing the pace, increasing the difficulty etc..
Volunteers designated as «teachers» were asked by an experimenter to continue upping
the intensity of what they thought were electric shocks to a «learner» — who was actually in league with Milgram — who erred time and again on a word - recall test.
He came on and didn't seem to be flustered by
the intensity of what will probably be the most intense game of our season.
Not exact matches
«So, the gap between their playoff
intensity defensively and
what they've been is so profound that they can overcome a lot
of schematic issues because there's no film
of them looking really locked in defensively.
«Our fans always want to explore deeper and more emotional connections to NHL hockey,» said NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, «and that is precisely
what Rogers has promised to deliver over the next 12 years — channeling the reach
of its platforms and the
intensity of its passion for the game into an unparalleled viewing experience.»
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What I think is more relevant for most people is that we've got to take a page from those confident players» playbooks and see that we've got to learn to kind
of step up that level
of confidence, particularly in those high
intensity situations like interviewing, at networking events or conferences,» she says.
But when it's a technical issue, and we're debating
what's the future
of AI is it this architecture or that architecture, I want the engineers to come in with data and real
intensity so we get to the right answer and the deep technical discussions.»
«We did our own analysis
of Fortune 500 companies,» he tells CNBC Make It, «and we found that companies that have women in top management roles experience
what we call «innovation
intensity» and produce more patents — by an average
of 20 percent more than teams with male leaders.»
If they're addicted to
intensity, competition, living on the edge, working without sleep, or any
of the other crazy behaviors that businesspeople sometimes wrestle with, they might be tempted to do
what Adamson did — to try adventure racing for real.
Because ultimately,
what the study proves is that we must increase the quantity and
intensity of exercise both at schools and at home if we want our children to be more globally competitive.
No one knows exactly
what happens in the cradle
of a hurricane but we do know that often the smallest
of factors can act as a catalyst to a storm that builds in
intensity as it crosses the Atlantic and crashes ashore in North America.
So
what if you could nudge that number down early on and reduce the risks and
intensities of ensuing storms?
I'm impressed by
what the practice says about the
intensity of Zappos» commitment to protecting and advancing its workplace environment.
At the same time you have this incredible
intensity of belief that this is
what people have to do.
Interestingly, Goldman Sachs already announced its desk recently and
what remains to be seen is the
intensity of the competition which gets played out especially with the regulatory eagle eye.
«But look
what has happened, the acceleration
of the number
of competitors, the competitors in aggregate, and the
intensity of the competitive evolution that's happening right now is I think
what has changed,» said Robb.
I wish to add that God's freedom is also temporal as well as nontemporal, and that his influence on the world, beyond his free, nontemporal valuation
of pure possibilities, lies in the emotional
intensity with which he freely loves the particulars
of the world both for
what they are and for
what they can become.
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.
What could be meant by maximal happiness, or beauty, or «
intensity»
of joy, or variety, «the spice
of life»?
But even more important than this testimony to
what will inevitably prove to be a temporary
intensity of joy is the institutional structure that seems to be emerging.
The diversity
of weapons within the low -
intensity - conflict arsenal is
what makes the U.S. war against the poor so insidious and destructive.
The problem for Nature, as he describes it in Process and Reality (Part II, Chapter III, Section VII) is to produce societies which can survive through time but which do not sacrifice all opportunity amongst their constituent actual occasions for
what he called «
intensity»
of experience.
Rather, it seems to me
of value to retain this sense
of tension as essential to
what Whitehead so suggestively termed «
intensity.»
Once the extraordinary
intensity and longevity
of grief's pain is actually witnessed, many people (including not a few grievers) simply refuse to believe that an emotional response
of this magnitude could possibly be healthy, or be
what grieving books, counselors, etc., are referring to («They told me you'd cry, but not this much!»)
Strength
of beauty is attained by harmoniously integrating as much as possible
of what the past offers while maintaining the
intensity of its parts and heightening their contributions through contrasts.
God offers as its subjective aim a vision
of what that entity might become, disclosing relevant novel possibilities that would provide «ideal» opportunities for the concrescing subject with the maximum enjoyment
of complexity and
intensity.
«
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.
«I understood nothing
of what they said, but I was always excited by the richness
of their rhetoric, the
intensity of their arguments, the urgency and longing behind that hot river
of words that came pouring ceaselessly from them.»
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What can the churches do to teach people loyalty to humanity with a degree
of intensity which places that loyalty superior to loyalty to the nation state, the national economic system, the ethnic «in - group»?
I shall explore
what It might mean to live as a confessing people in the context
of the radical sin
of low -
intensity conflict and how we can faithfully respond to the present historical moment in which our participation in the structures
of oppression call us to be prophetic witnesses and living signs
of hope.
That Spirit - informed faith came finally to see in Jesus the one in whom God dwelt or through whom God worked with singular
intensity, to provide a re-presentation
of what God is always up to in the world and intends for humanity.
Only one chapter is explicitly theological, dealing with Life, based on the Whiteheadian understanding
of God, exploring
what enables the development
of life, its increased complexity and capacity for
intensity, harmony, contrast, and richness
of experience through the lure
of novel possibilities to be actualized and the abiding acceptance
of all experience, preserved everlastingly with no loss
of immediacy.
A rightly developing personality is related in differing ways and with differing
intensity with the whole range
of reality, and humans are becoming
what they have in them to become in their response to this whole range, again with differing
intensity and with various kinds
of awareness.
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.
That is
what I propose to discuss here: not from the viewpoint
of Sirius, as the saying is — that is to say, with the lofty detachment
of an observer seeing things from so far off that they fail to touch him — but with the anxious
intensity of a son
of Earth who draws back in order to be able to see more deeply into the matter and spirit
of a movement upon which his happiness depends.
What if the same
intensity of policing went into making sure our leaders abided by ethics that prevented people from getting abused.
The very search for a solution to life's problem was to the writer only «a striving after wind,» (Ecclesiastes 1:13 - 14) and in the end, seeing wickedness in the place
of justice and evil men where the righteous should have been, (Ecclesiastes 3:16) he «hated life,» (Ecclesiastes 2:17) denied all moral government in the world, and concluded that although a man, in the
intensity of his search, «see no sleep with his eyes day or night,» he will never understand
what life is all about.
Yet if we are to judge purely on the basis
of immediate aesthetic quality,
of «
intensity» in a Whiteheadian sense, on
what grounds are we to prefer the experience
of «passive» contemplation to that which comes from the active exercise
of instrumental reason?
They are testimony to
what religious experience can inspire in man's intuition, and they reveal in retrospect the power and
intensity of religion in the history
of man.
This
intensity of commitment is a big part
of what makes church so difficult.
Once again, the chief ecumenical officer
of the Russian Orthodox Church misrepresented
what is afoot in Ukraine, which is not a «conflict» but a Russian invasion and a low -
intensity war, which has already cost more than ten thousand lives while displacing over a million persons and wreaking economic and social havoc in Ukraine's Donbas region.
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.»
We can imagine
what his town and area suffered from every invading or even passing army in the last four decades
of the eighth century; and we can better understand the
intensity of his prophetic wrath especially when the high fortress - city
of Jerusalem is his target.
What is «harmony,» «
intensity,» «the trivialization
of experience?»