Sentences with phrase «is at once»

The former is at once a slinking creative force and cunning finisher; the latter a dazzling dribbler with a penchant for the spectacular.

His lack of ruthlessness (or abundance of loyalty, if you want to look at it that way) is at once endearing and frustrating, and marks him as the opposite of Fergie.

College football is at once redeeming and disappointing.

But as with everybody in baseball, there is a book on the Boston Red Sox righthander, and it is at once a short story and a tall tale.

Martina is at once warm, generous, passionate, impulsive, paranoid, arrogant, sentimental and naive.

He is at once the talisman, the on - field leader and the playmaker — roles he excelled in across the board with a match - winning display against Sunderland at the weekend.

His size is at once an advantage and a source of danger.

Paso Robles was announced as the Wine Region of the year 2013 by Wine Enthusiast magazine, where the style of the wine is at once classic and contemporary, showcasing the uniqueness of Paso Robles AVA.

The experience of slurping down a bowl of the stuff is at once entirely different and bizarrely similar to that of tucking into the chef's signature hot, chicken broth - based torigara ramen.

This renegade combination is at once sweet, tart, and savory — the kind of dish that's as comfortable at the breakfast table as it is at a potluck.

At the head of his group, Alain Ducasse is at once a chef - creator, and an entrepreneur.

The food at Ignacio Mattos's downtown restaurant is at once visionary and elusive: The Uruguay - born chef does brilliant things with little - heralded ingredients like... endive and mussels.

Sometimes it's like watching a slow - mo train wreck: the trail of destruction is at once cringe - worthy and absolutely fascinating — you just can't look away.

Giri's approach to training is at once scientifically informed and socially strategic.

Translated from the French, the novel is at once a romantic comedy and a comedy of errors — two people from different worlds coming together in a small French town immersed in the culture of food.

It works perfectly in this recipe, and makes a loaf that is at once dense and fluffy with just the right amount of moisture.

Yet there is ample seating inside that is at once both spacious and roomy, and yet intimate and romantic.

Because of this, over time, I've learned that when he has an idea, I should listen to it — and that's the story of how this raw garlic dip, which is at once dairy - free, gluten - free and vegan, came to be.

Paul refers what is said of «man» in the first creation story in Genesis to Christ, who is at once the Wisdom - image of God through which creation was made and the created image of God mentioned in Genesis 1:26.

He consented, and before going out, sat down and wrote quickly the five thousand characters which constitute what is at once the most delightful, and perhaps also the most baffling of all the sacred books.59 It is translated variously into English as The Canon of Reason and Virtue, The Way and Its Power, and otherwise, but when one compares the translations, they differ greatly one from the other, probably reflecting therein the religious biases of the several translators.

The Bergsonian physical event, like the Whiteheadian actual entity, is subject - superject, and Bergson is in fundamental agreement with Whitehead's comment: «An actual entity is at once the product of the efficient past, and is also, in Spinoza's phrase, causa sui» (PR 150 / 228) 6

Cyprian, sometime lawyer, fiery martyr - bishop of Carthage (249 - 53), whose rich pastoral correspondence survives in extenso, is at once the picture for us of a third - century pastor of a flock scattered and bewildered by two violent and systematic persecutions Decian and Valerianic) and at the same time a major theorist of the nature and function of the ministry.

It is at once very true and yet over-facile to say that the Holy Spirit alone is efficacious.

«Scoffing in ambiguous words» (VI, 586)» saying one thing and meaning another or several others» is at once an ability the devils have and a mode of performance to which they are doomed.

This injunctive word against illicit traffic through the mind is at once sum and climax of the pentalogue in protection of Israel's integrity.

It is an approach that is at once radical and practical, grounded in the belief that an investment in children can transform an entire community.

In keeping with the movie theme, Miller quotes at length from Robert McKee, the Hollywood screenwriting guru whose book Story (1997) is at once a detailed guide to the principles of narrative and a primer on the principles...

This book is at once a protest and a lamentation against what might be called the tradition of traditionless evangelicalism.

In short, Abraham is at once both Abraham and Israel.

The film is based on a true story as detailed in Sixsmith's book, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, and is at once laugh - out - loud funny and excruciatingly sad.

The non-temporal act of all - inclusive unfettered valuation is at once a creature of creativity and a condition of creativity.

In a number of places the arrangement of the gospel material is perplexing; thus in chapter 5 Jesus is represented as being in Jerusalem, but in 6:1 he «went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee»; again in 14:31 he finishes a speech with the words, «Arise, let us go hence», but the speech is at once resumed and continues for three more chapters.

At very least, one is at once conscious and (most of the time) self - conscious.

When in our age one hears this saying, «It is to be judged according to the result,» a man is at once clear as to who it is he has the honor of talking with.

Walker Percy's sixth novel, The Thanatos Syndrome (Farrar Straus Giroux, 372 PP., $ 17.95), is at once his most thrilling and most disappointing book.

So understood, theology is at once a subject's disposition (habitus) to be wise and a subject's capacities to be critically self - reflective in its wisdom (capacities for «dialectical activity»).

Nonetheless, music, as literary and cultural critic George Steiner insists, «is brimful of meanings which will not translate into logical structures or verbal expression... Music is at once cerebral in the highest degree — I repeat that the energies and form - relations in the playing of a quartet, in the interactions of voice and instrument are among the most complex events known to man — and it is at the same time somatic, carnal and a searching out of resonances in our bodies at levels deeper than will or consciousness.»

Here, of course, the law is in conflict with itself over two opposing principles: a slave is at once human life and mere property.

The two currents of Christian love and Buddhist compassion for the cosmos flow together in the saying of one of the greatest Eastern Orthodox mystics, Isaac the Syrian, a saying that is at once entirely Buddhist and Christian:

Born of the coalescence of biblical elements, it is at once conservative and innovative.

In this way, «Man» is at once a product of the evolution of the material creation, and is also a special creation, through the soul.»

There is something about Sophia that is at once unsettling and beautiful.

My answer is at once a new definition of freedom and a defense of the ongoing legitimacy of liberalism.

Each occasion is at once caused by the world that produced it and cause of an entirely new reconstruction of the world from its new and original perspective.

The Alexandrian school, on the other hand, viewed him primarily as the incarnation of the Logos, which is at once the universal divine principle, the cosmic structure and the eternal word.

From this standpoint it is at once apparent that, to unify the living forces of humanity, at present so painfully at odds, the direct and effective method is simply to sound the call - to - arms and form a solid block of all those, whether of the right or the left, who believe that the principal business of present - day Mankind is to achieve a breakthrough straight ahead by forcing its way over the threshold of some higher level of consciousness.

The third noteworthy feature of a theological school as an «intellectual center of the Church's life» is that its intellectual work is at once disinterestedly theoretical and driven by a passionate interest.

«In jedem Nu beginnt das Sein» (Zarathustra III) is at once a portrait of our Sein and a call to true: Existenz.

The «subject» is marked by several polarities: it is at once community and institution, one and many, local and universal, protestant and catholic (i.e., finite «incarnation» of the infinite), and finds itself constantly in polarity with the world that is its companion before God.

The Nicene tradition has struggled for many centuries to discipline its concepts so that they fit with the Bible, so much so that it is difficult to identify a way of thinking about God, history, and human destiny that is at once more metaphysically self - conscious and more thoroughly and constantly invested with exegetical substance.