Sentences with phrase «is mysterious about»

What is mysterious about people with exceptional memory, says Ericsson, is not their memory but their motivation.

«That gives you the chance to be mysterious about it and not have to over-egg it.

BioWare has mostly been mysterious about the new title so far, but they assure that development is going «at full pace» even after the departure of senior development director Chris Wynn from the team at the tail end of last year.

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As he pushes the firm further into government corridors, Barton realizes that people are leery of power that hides its face — that there's something sinister about the mysterious adviser who sits in a corner taking notes and is never introduced.

Everything about the company Eckert would soon be running had been a bit mysterious.

«It's a mysterious juggling act that requires not only a thorough knowledge of the time - honored laws of the game but also an open heart, a clear mind, and a deep curiosity about the ways of the human spirit.»

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I preordered the Switch the night it was announced — I'm a longtime Nintendo fan, and having followed rumors for years about Nintendo's mysterious «NX» console, I believed Nintendo would correct many of the mistakes it made with the underwhelming Wii U, a game console I bought and, sadly, returned a year later.

About 7,500 light - years from Earth, two of our galaxy's most massive stars have engaged in a mysterious war that's raged off - and - on for millennia.

Even here in the real world, there's no shortage of gossip about the CEO and the underling, shunted to a dreary regional outpost under mysterious circumstances.

A six - way Democratic primary for a Pennsylvania congressional district is about to become a battle of the super PACs, with a mysterious «centrist» organization attacking two of the candidates and billionaire Tom Steyer going in to beat a third candidate.

The Fox News host doesn't get all the fuss about him being Trump lawyer Cohen's mysterious third client.

But when I took the opportunity to re-read these books in the light of my later findings about the depth of financial difficulty out there, it was obvious that — whilst from my own perspective those statements were true — for possibly the majority of ordinary individuals, my efforts to open up and explain the mysterious world of personal finance had failed.

To me, there is nothing mysterious about it.

But Hudge, the Socialist, in his turn, is highly vague and mysterious about whether he would preserve the family life if there were any; or whether he will try to restore it where it has disappeared....

The very essence of religion is the fixed belief that all the answers are either already known or the sole and mysterious property of some god who must not be questioned about them.

Despite about a million think - pieces on the topic, the reasons are not that mysterious.

That is why they must resort to talking about the mysterious ways in which God works or God's Great Plan.

Ironically, I recently discovered that the context of that commonly - quoted verse is not about God's mysterious wrath but about His mysterious mercy.

There was something about McAuley — what his hymn - writing partner Richard Connolly called an «inner, mysterious power.»

It was like scratching the surface of something deep and mysterious - yet something I very much wanted to know more about.

On the contrary, the very fact that it is possible to produce a secularized version of the New Testament conception of faith proves that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural about the Christian life.

Of course, we may be wrong to think that we truly remembered those long - lost almost - humans: Perhaps instead they were only speculative imaginings to explain old bones and arrowheads, fossils and mysterious cave paintings — just as our own stories about Neanderthals are also, mostly, fantasies.

The question that seems so apparent to me is, why does Paul say to the Thessalonians about the mysterious restrainer» you know what now restrains him ``.»

The mysterious origin from which our cosmos came and the even more mysterious future into which it is moving must render us very tentative in our attempts to say what this universe is all about.

There is nothing mysterious about this at all — it is just correlation.

lol You won't sound as dumb, especially if you happen to be a leader if you tell «your people» that you at least know about the mysterious instead of just being real and admitting you really have no idea how the earth, those twinkling lights in the black sky and the sun all work.

The Qur» anic account of Moses and his mysterious companion is undoubtedly, the source of Muslim traditions about Moses and al - Khidr.49 Traditionally the mysterious teacher has been identified with one al - Khidr.50 The accounts of al - Khidr, the hidden saint - instructor abounds in Uwaysi hagiography as well.51 Ibn «Arabi includes this tradition of Moses - al - Khidr to support the idea of the superiority of the knowledge of the saints over the prophets.

We can refuse to let ourselves be called out beyond the ordinary, we can try to hang on to the everyday — ignoring what is terrible and mysterious about it.

There is nothing mysterious about the end of the world any longer — we know how it will end unless we change our tune.

I think the Christian right is delusional about who these mysterious aborted babies are... It isn't the educated population going out becoming repeatedly pregnant.

There are many mysterious things about the modern world, but the biggest mystery of all is how «the sexual revolution» is viewed as some sort of feminist triumph, when the objective truth is that if the most despicable, cretinous, woman - loathing men of a century ago had outlined their....

The chairman of Christian Aid also appeared to blame the ongoing debate over Europe on a growing sense of nationalism in the UK, he said: «With the Scottish independence agitation and all the questions about a federal UK quite a lot of people feel we need to affirm now what we are, what we distinctively are as English even more than British and that imperceptibly I think strengthens some of this unease about that mysterious entity called Europe which is over there.»

But while its origins remain mysterious, there is near unanimity; about the fact that individuals exercise no real personal choice in the development of their sexual orientation — heterosexual or homosexual.

they just don't try to reason about their belief... that's why they come up with saying such as «god works in mysterious ways» and so on.

---- the egyptian mystery systems — maybe they are not as mysterious as you think, maybe worth another look, — this time without preconceived notions — like that they are pagan, like that they are about gods and goddesses — try to find and establish the «Eye», which the glyphs speak of ---- Comparison is the key, to the door which is Life --

God allows everything to happen, but is at work, in His mysterious ways, to bring about repentance, death to the self (the religious, self - justification project), and new life.

I portrayed them, correctly I think, as remaining obsessed — albeit negatively — with the classical god of metaphysical theism, while I was talking about Someone Else, the mysterious and elusive Other of the prophets and Jesus, who — like Jacques Brel — was very much alive although living in unexpected quarters.

There's something vital about creativity... some almost mysterious power that is not stopped even by extreme physical handicaps.

The myth - maker was feeling round for suitable story - models in which to express, and partly to explain, the mysterious changes and events in which he found himself caught up in the living world about him.

Relativity tells us that there is a mysterious elasticity about time and space, that all physical reality is in a state of flux, and that the cosmos was not made for any obvious purpose.

There is nothing terribly mysterious about the question, however controversial the traditional answer.

What's so mysterious about that?

Hmmm let's see... relish posts at 12:06 pm (railing about Bishop John just like Salt), Whitney posts at 12:10 pm, and then the mysterious new «George» posts at 12:12 pm (who apparently has been following this blog minute by minute and has suddenly come out of the woodwork and is relish's identical twin)...

I thought about Cormac McCarthy's mysterious trout at the end of The Road and wondered whether they too were victims of disaster, or strange signs of hope.

You may not agree with it, and individual Christians will have variations, but it certainly doesn't seem to me to be a mysterious byproduct of being Christian — seeking to protect the rights of the unborn is about as central to politics as it gets!

Most people who write and talk about autism are reluctant simply to describe the odd behavior and mysterious qualities of autistic people.

In other words there is a simple and basic «being there» about these things which makes them particularly appropriate in talk about the mysterious business of prayer.

Biologists do not agree about the mechanism of the continual disappearance of phyla in the course of geological time, a process almost as mysterious as that of their formation; but the reality of the phenomenon is indisputable.

The good stuff in question mostly concerns a mysterious aristocrat named Alexandra (Sigourney Weaver), who is consorting with a lot of the leftover villains from the other shows and is clearly up to something, though the show is mighty cagey about what.