Sentences with phrase «is faint as»

The smell is faint as if it was sitting in a warehouse for years.

The radio telescope should be able to pick up signals was faint as those from a cellphone.

Not exact matches

Partly it feels like being damned with faint praise, as when people say Sylvia Plath was a «great woman poet.»

Just as the coffin was seemingly being lowered into the ground, a faint tapping was heard.

In one of the scariest movies ever made, director William Friedkin uses his background as a documentary filmmaker to create horror that feels so real, some people fainted while watching the movie when it was first in theaters.

pointing to the former Secretary of State's fainting spell and a persistent cough as evidence she wasn't physically fit to be elected.

Stepping in after Leo Apotheker's discredited 11 - month stint as Hewlett Packard CEO; cleaning up after his $ 7.4 billion purchase of Autonomy; and negotiating HP's breakup were jobs not for the faint of heart.

His injection of funds into the Canadian economy came at exactly the right moment, and his reign as U.K. bank governor now comes when there are faint indicators of a recovery in the British economy, with positive news on unemployment and inflation.

Most of the time this is a good thing as it keeps data costs down; however, there are times when a phone is just close enough to a router to pick up a faint Wi - Fi signal but is far enough from that router to only get a snail's crawl worth of data.

That desultory bit of hedging was a faint, final echo of free trade's bygone status as a litmus test of the Liberal - Conservative divide.

The monthly data points are preserved as faint dots.

As you know, I don't have the faintest idea what markets are going to do.

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It's not for the faint of heart, but as we said it can lead to some profitable binary options trades if you predict the right price movement.

Merely to over-ride a human will (as His felt presence in any but the faintest and most mitigated degree would certainly do) would be for Him useless.

Prudentius may have his limitations as a poet, but what is the point of rendering his work in this faint English doggerel?

It is the more pointed because obedience to this revoking command is taken as a test of loyalty to God, and Saul's faint leaning to mercy is unsparingly condemned.)

The long strip of linen cloth known as the Turin Shroud, which bears the faint image of a crucified and beaten man, has been an enigma and an object of reverence for centuries.

This journey is not for the faint - hearted: the reader's full attention is required as Caldecott takes us beyond LOTR to explore Tolkien's entire fictional corpus, as well as many of his critical writings and a number of personal letters and biographical details.

There is absolutely no evidence anywhere in the known univers, from the tiniest subatomic particle to the structure of the universe as a whole, that even remotely implies the faintest possibility thata deity exists.

Am I then really all that which other men tell of, or am I only what I know of myself, restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat, yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it alAm I then really all that which other men tell of, or am I only what I know of myself, restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat, yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it alam I only what I know of myself, restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat, yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it all.

The characteristic features of the present age could of course be detected in former times as faint traces, so to speak, because man was always to some degree the inventor and active manipulator of his own situation and the creator of himself.

I see no contradiction in my postulate; yours seems to play on the term given in such a way as to assert that the very faint is both given and not given.

Mornings in Bodley, drowsing among the worn browns and tarnished gilding of Duke Humphrey, snuffing the faint, musty odor of slowly perishing leather...; long afternoons, taking an outrigger up the Cher, feeling the rough kiss of the sculls on unaccustomed palms, listening to the rhythmical and satisfying kerklunk of the rowlocks, watching the play of muscles on the Bursar's sturdy shoulders at stroke, as the sharp spring wind flattened the thin silk shirt against them; or, if the day were warmer, flicking swiftly in a canoe under Magdalen walls and so by the twisting race at King's Mill by Mesopotamia to Parson's Pleasure; then back, with mind relaxed and body stretched and vigorous, to make toast by the fire.

My view must indeed take as a postulate that there is a faint givenness, so faint that it is for the most part totally absent from the given — a given that is not given.

«If the image of God and the law of God were completely obliterated from man's soul by sin, if no «faint outlines» of the original remained, men would have no conception of justice, righteousness, or peace to use as the foundation of the human standards of equity.

Then, as he described it, through reading, and pondering «beauty, art, water, flowers, trees...» something began to happen: «God began to appear on the horizon, it was a faint light, like hope.»

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint, Isaiah 40:31.

The French foursome who conquered the world as Phoenix are making their long, long - awaited return to music via a completely bananas new website that is not for the faint of stomach or the easily stressed.

Granted that Hartshorne does occasionally hint that God might be the fire that burns as well as the sympathy that soothes, but this suggestion needs developing far beyond the level of a faint acknowledgment.

Our task is to learn to feel its punch and kick as well as the faintest stirrings of the divine mystery as it moves within us.

O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

The propblem is that if he was the Lamb of God then he would have opened the Book of Life of the Lamb that is the Revelation of Jesus Christ: but he never did; I did; although I did it because I had the help of John of Patmos; the one who wrote it all down originally; and Elaine Pagels and all the rest of them don't have the faintest clue as to what they are talking about; of that I can faithfully assure everyone.

There are plenty of such excellent statements — formulated largely by ministers and adopted by the denominations, the Federal Council, and the World Council of Churches — to which we have as yet only faint approximations in the political and social life of the rank and file of church members.

In the light of this present possession, involving endless hope, affliction was not so much endured as rejoiced in by the early Christians, and of this spiritual triumph Paul's words are representative: «Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

As our mental fields succeed one another, each has its centre of interest, around which the objects of which we are less and less attentively conscious fade to a margin so faint that its limits are unassignable.

Similarly, says Kierkegaard, while we enjoy our worldly comforts, we get a faint emotional glow from the reading of the Jesus whom we would never be so foolish as to obey.

Thus, «your view must take as a postulate that there is a faint givenness, so faint that it is for the most part totally absent from the given.»

I guess some might say, maybe, that's a part of the strategy of the principalities and powers,» author and activist Shane Claiborne says with a faint laugh as we begin to discuss his arrest at a DACA - related protest in Washington D.C. last week.

It is not strange that in a city straining every faculty toward the very faint hope of survival, such a line as Jeremiah's would be regarded not merely with distaste, but as defeatist if not downright seditious.

And it ends with the oft - quoted assurance, «But they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

We shall have to consider a moment in the unfolding of the universe, that is, a snapshot that exists independently of any consciousness, then we shall try conjointly to summon another moment brought as close as possible to the first, and thus have a minimum of time enter into the world without allowing the faintest glimmer of memory to go with it.

Peanut Better's Spicy Southwestern is advertised as «not for the faint of palate.»

As I was walking by the meat market I heard a faint sound... hey you over here....

Citrus and honey were again mentioned, as were faint cherry, blackberry, ripe plum or yellow plum (leading to an off - topic discussion of the difficulty in obtaining truly good plums around here).

it is pleasantly sweet, and the poppy seeds add a tiny bit of crunch as well as a faint nutty flavor.

He had been taken to the hospital and they were doing a cat scan as he hadn't woken up since fainting.

Tiny and very faint, this fast moving object (centre) was captured by astronomers as it passed through our Solar system.

Here's a summertime salad as refreshing as a tall glass of O.J. Fresh citrus juice tends to boast a bold, sour essence — think grapefruit and lime — but a firm squeeze of a ripe tangerine produces a sweet nectar, light with faint floral notes.

It's not for the faint - hearted as Chellie says, that's for sure.