Sentences with phrase «is an alien place»

But don't be fooled: the night is an alien place to us.

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I see where Reid is coming from, I think, but it is a place quite alien to my experience (though, as an academic, I've seen it a lot).

She knocks Thor on his divine derriere destroying his famous hammer in the process, and boots him to an alien planet called Sakaar — a place that looks to be influenced partly by Tatooine, partly by District 9, and a lot from famed Marvel comic book creator Jack Kirby.

It would be a mistake to see this as entirely inflicted on the immigrant groups by an alien American culture.17 Some form of it is what lured many to these shores in the first place.

In arguing that moral philosophy should not be used to place in the Constitution what is not already there, I have been careful to say that I did not «mean that moral philosophy is alien to law and must be shunned in adjudication, but I do mean that it is valuable only at the retail level and disastrous at the wholesale.

For by defining nature as the otherness of spirit, that is, as that which is totally alien to mind, Hegel fails to recognize the place of nature in mind.

I'd admit freely to being influenced by alien currents of thought, but I use them to make our place better.

She also points to the revolutionary educational possibilities: «Other applications involve things in the classroom, where students are able to not just see a picture of Niagara Falls or some alien world like Venus — we have maps from our various spacecrafts of Mars and Venus that would allow students not just to hear about far - off places, but will allow them to scroll around the world at will.»

In the public relations game plan of responding, with the whole world watching, to relentless activists possessed by an insatiable appetite for vengeance (a.k.a. closure), the bishops adopted the alien vocabulary of «zero tolerance» and «one strike,» a vocabulary in which there is no place for words such as conversion, repentance, soul, and redemption.

In the second place, it is theologically basic to the inductive method that even in missionary preaching, the listener not be viewed as totally alien to God and devoid of Godwardness.

Here's the majors, so plan accordingly for your place in this life or the next: 1) there is not a single fossil to evidence mankind's evolution from some so - called earlier form (see missing link) however we do however have mountains of DNA evidence showing we have common ancestors with primates — so you either believe in a Creator, or Aliens, or actual evolution or a mix of any of the three.

It is not in a demythologized, secularized Christianity that human transformation takes place, but in our submission to the discipline of Scripture, where we may hope, in the words of Walter Wink, «to encounter an alien speech which is finally the self - disclosure of God.»

It actually does feel like your living like an alien here on earth, all I can do is hope for what at times seems like an uncertain future and trust that the power of our Lord will get me to that place where I can eventually fall into his arms, where he will reach out his hand when he sees me and place it on my face and say hello Tony.

As Winner puts it, «Esther is also a story about exile, about being an exiled Jew, an exiled person of faith, and what it means to live in a place that is foreign, to live in a place where you are foreign, where you and your kinsman are aliens.

It is not correct to say that liturgical worship is alien to that kind of Christian worship which finds place, as a central element, for the declaration of the kerygma.

It is one of the ironies of history that Christianity, which was born in Asia, has become alien in its place of birth.

3 quality players in the window might get us 4th place but to be honest giving the frog joker a lifeline is not what is needed at arsenal... the man has to go so it is a matter of whatever it takes... the thought of him still being around come may just makes my stomach churn... and new year revelries cant be blamed... any more than refs or world cups or the weather or alien powers....

Some uses for them: — Force your child to get attached to one as his security bunny / bear / alien — Attach to the outside of a store - bought baby gift to make it more personalized — Place on a shelf in your house to remind yourself that you can make things besides babies — Give to your mom as a reminder that she is the mommy and you are the child who still wants her approval

The fact that Marie Kondo places more importance on tidying her things than using them should give you a pretty good sense of how alien her priorities are.

Discovery Place has Alien Worlds & Androids and, Sea Life Charlotte - Concord has their new Serpents of the Seas exhibit, both are included in the price of admission.

(C) An alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States shall not be regarded as seeking an admission into the United States for purposes of the immigration laws unless the alien --(i) has abandoned or relinquished that status, (ii) has been absent from the United States for a continuous period in excess of 180 days, (iii) has engaged in illegal activity after having departed the United States, (iv) has departed from the United States while under legal process seeking removal of the alien from the United States, including removal proceedings under this chapter and extradition proceedings, (v) has committed an offense identified in section 1182 (a)(2) of this title, unless since such offense the alien has been granted relief under section 1182 (h) or 1229b (a) of this title, or (vi) is attempting to enter at a time or place other than as designated by immigration officers or has not been admitted to the United States after inspection and authorization by an immigration officer.

I used to love it; loved the glamour of the discomfort, the sense that life was being lived in an alien place.

Perhaps we haven't heard from alien civilizations because we're listening in the wrong place or with the wrong technology, he said.

Instead of looking at behavior in video games as alien, what you basically have is a place where you can study people.»

«Humans have been moving species to new places for thousands of years, so we might have expected that most species that have the potential to become aliens would already have done so.

Arecibo also holds a special place in my personal history: Watching actress Jodie Foster use the giant dish to listen for aliens in the movie Contact when I was 13 cemented my desire to study astronomy.

«If that's correct, there should be some signs of dead alien civilisations all over the place,» says Duncan Forgan of the University of St Andrews, UK.

If instead you place, say, a plush alien by your door and think, «I will remember to mail that card when I see the alien,» you may be more likely to complete the task.

If he wanted to communicate with intelligent aliens, Reiss told him, dolphins were the place to start.

As humans have learned about the size of the cosmos (and our not - so - central place in it), we have grappled with weighing our specialness against the possible existence of alien beings on other worlds.

The itchy place the alien specified, ↑ (cap) ↑, is the first positive vertebra on that new spine.

JUPITER»S icy moon Europa may be one of the most promising places to look for alien microbes, thanks to its subsurface ocean.

Europa is now considered to be one of the best places to search for evidence of alien life elsewhere in the Solar System.

Shannon notes that most of the inspiration for the appearance of aliens in Hollywood science fiction movies comes from places like deep sea vents, which are home to everything from giant bone - eating worms to «rainbow glitter» jellyfish.

NASA has been considering a mission to Enceladus to search for evidence of alien life for several years, although no confirmed plans are in place.

Science guy Bill Nye says the two logical places to search for alien life in our solar system are Mars and Europa, the smallest of Jupiter's four moons.

The NASA head, however, said that it is a research and development place and that he has not seen aliens or UFOs there.

Locked deep inside one of Saturn's frigid moons, Enceladus, is a warm place where alien life might thrive.

NASA is being forced by the US government to fly a mission to Europa — the most likely place we'll find alien life in the Solar System

And I'm not talking about a friendly alien that wants to know what this planet is all about — no, I am talking about someone who wants to launch a full - scale assault, but only in public places.

► An alien switches his appearance back and forth between his own and a museum expert while partially hidden behind a door, and thus giving the impression that a fight is taking place.

I am not sure how to categorize this genre, but i'll be bold and call it Offense Tower (as opposed to defense tower, where a player protects his base by placing turrets, in Alien Hallway a player sends soldiers to attack the enemy's base).

The early part of the movie, when Wikus gets exposed to the fluid, you'd think that the MNU or gov» t officials would have some kind of quarantine system in place, in case alien bio-matter intermingles with human... and indeed later on you hear about there being other cases of mutation — possibly induced by the illegal experiments — so they knew this kind of thing could happen... it seemed to me very reckless to have Wikus stumble about, puking his guts, bleeding from his nose, and not have his co-workers immediately call the medvac people in.

This particular fact raises a number of questions that are difficult to answer, such as how they have remained undetected for so long and why the aliens only placed the tripods here the first -LRB-?)

If it were a 59p iPhone app it might be easier to overlook such clumsy and uninspired construction - or at least not feel too aggrieved when you delete it - but by staking a place at the top end of the Minis price list, Alien Havoc draws too much attention to its shortcomings.

You play as one of the four vault hunters with each their special abilities and efficiency, you set out to find the The Vault, a legendary place that is said to contain alien technology and riches beyond your wildest dreams.

That is why, of the two tales, A Quiet Place is not just more enjoyable but, alien invaders notwithstanding, more coherently plausible, revelling in the logic of well - grounded terror.

It is Kubrick's belief that the moon is the safest place for us to invite the aliens over.

Based on Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel (though it departs from the original story in quite a few places), Ender's Game is set in a future where a bug - like alien race has attacked the Earth, and talented children are selected at an early age to train for battle through a series of war games.

Yes, space is an alien environment for us, a place into which we must take everything necessary for our survival; that we are able to do so demonstrates our ingenuity.