Sentences with phrase «kind of a moment in»

But there's also the traditional historical virtue of sympathy, which is to realize that the world we live in really is kind of a moment in time when we have the entire history of the universe behind us that we can explore as well.

I guess these are the kind of moments in life which are cherished forever.

Not exact matches

Emily, a psychic medium based in Brooklyn, New York, directly opposed my unrealistic, misinformed view of psychics from the moment I met her because not only does it turn out that she lives in my neighborhood, but also she embodies an even more mysterious kind of magic: the ability to be an everyday person, a working mom, and the possessor of an impressive gift.

«My guess is that this is the kind of network that you might find operating in creative people at the moment that they're being creative,» says Michael I. Posner, professor emeritus at the University of Oregon and coauthor of Images of Mind.

«And while this has been a very damaging reputational moment for the company — the dramatic decline in the stock price, the front - page stories, all kinds of negative press about the business and various assertions and attacks — we think the Valeant business is quite robust.»

It kind of pains me, but I'm up to my ears in work at the moment.

To give that kind of commitment, live in the moment and focus on doing the best you can today.

(Example: A perk like membership in an exclusive private club might look odd from the outside, but a moment's reflection should reveal that an executive who is responsible for massive fundraising efforts genuinely needs to be part of the kind of clubs where he or she can network with the right sorts of people.)

The answer to my initial query was, «Dave's not doing any talking at the moment but let's keep in touch once he's out of the studio and ready to get back in front of a different kind of mic.»

In many respects, being kind and giving to others opens our hearts and minds, which can lead to surges of creativity and «aha» moments.

You may think that you're immune from these kinds of influences (and for the moment that may be true), but it's only a matter of time (and which poison you pick) because, in the end, they're gonna get us all and most of us will go along willingly.

Exactly that kind of defining moment came for us when a member of our front - line staff went above and beyond, allowing an elderly woman to sit on his back while the two were stuck in an elevator together.

Fine diversions, yes, but hardly the kind of water - cooler moments that the public demands of live events in 2017.

Levandowski: When we got the tech kind of finally working, «working» is in quotes because there was a lot of things that were missing, but working well enough that it would go, it was kind of a very special moment.

In other words, those happen because those are natural firsts, those happen naturally because of evolution but can you create those kind of important moments in your life and it really comes down to creating doing new things, always creating — you have to be a little more creative when you get older to create those new things but those are the things you think about which I think are quite importanIn other words, those happen because those are natural firsts, those happen naturally because of evolution but can you create those kind of important moments in your life and it really comes down to creating doing new things, always creating — you have to be a little more creative when you get older to create those new things but those are the things you think about which I think are quite importanin your life and it really comes down to creating doing new things, always creating — you have to be a little more creative when you get older to create those new things but those are the things you think about which I think are quite important.

This means understanding what kind of content and strategies are creating organic reach at a particular moment in time.

This moment of checking your gut, however, is as good a time as any to consider whether you have the right proportion of your money in stocks versus other options like cash, bonds or real estate that don't experience this kind of volatility or may not rise or fall in tandem with stocks.

At the moment, the team is ranked No. 1 in the nation (Harvard University is No. 14) and Falwell tried to explain that the debaters were, in their own way, involved in a kind of ministry to the culture.

In the moment of d a r k n e s s they probably need kind words and support or facts for them to think rationally.

Tolkien says it best: «It is the mark of a good fairy - story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the «turn» comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art... In such stories, when the sudden «turn» comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through.»

Let us read history, our history, as a living account of what we once were, with the double - edged consciousness that all of this has gone forever and that, in spite of everything, that period of youth and every moment of our lives remain mysteriously present at the wellsprings of our soul in a kind of delectable eternity.»

blind rage... I grew up in that kind of environment... but no excuse to do it)... I admire people that never have a moment of rage....

For 20 years I'd believed that science and God were completely different, then in one moment to see them both together was kind of a shock.

As those vulnerable moments turned into long vulnerable months, extended hospital stays with tubes, pokes, mysterious infections, and all kinds of unknowns, I witnessed first - hand Sofia's courage in the midst of her situation.

Of course faithful Christians constantly mediate between the teachings of the Church and our needs in the moment, but the «moral complexity» mindset tempts us to recast this tendency as a kind of sophisticatioOf course faithful Christians constantly mediate between the teachings of the Church and our needs in the moment, but the «moral complexity» mindset tempts us to recast this tendency as a kind of sophisticatioof the Church and our needs in the moment, but the «moral complexity» mindset tempts us to recast this tendency as a kind of sophisticatioof sophistication.

She created and perfected a certain kind of character whose necessity in the pop culture canon seemed obvious the moment Plaza filled it.

Although feminists are extremely critical of the way men have written history and have understood the historical process, and although they sometimes call for the kind of sheer presence in the moment that is characteristic of Buddhists, nevertheless, they are inevitably immersed in social and historical analysis.

When we think of him that way, in our most honest moments, we think that while it would have been nice to be back there and hear some of His teaching, see some of His parables, and go ask him that theological question that's always been bothering us — if we're honest with ourselves, we're not sure he's really the kind of guy we would want to hang out with.

At the moment I think, we might rather try to be life - giving in some other sense, as looking for some kind of project or social work we can do together (as I think it is very important for a relationship to not just focus on each other forever).

As we then said, such moments have their «importance» in that they illuminate what has gone before, are in themselves a kind of concentration of what is actually present, and provide new opportunities and possibilities both for understanding (which is the «subjective» side) and for that emergence of novelty in concrete experience (which guarantees «objectivity») which is the occasion for further creative advance as the process continues on its way.

I do not propose to embark upon any analysis or defense of the very particular kind of optimism which does not for a moment claim that we are living in the best of all possible worlds, but only (a quite different matter!)

This popular notion is the ancient Greek idea that in the moment of inspiration the human personality was put into a kind of cold storage; or, to use the Greeks» own example, the person became as a flute, passively ready to play whatever was breathed into it.

And in Buddhism, the illuminating moment of enlightenment may be understood as a kind of revelatory experience even though there is no self - revealing God.

Rather we may be Content for the moment simply to acknowledge that some kind of boundary maintenance is essential in order to protect the saving or revealed information that religions value so highly.

The forms are distinguishable moments in the on - going process that constitutes reality, Creating a new style in painting, such as Picasso's innovations in cubism, is surely a qualitative change in kind within antecedent traditions of painting.

Well I kind of doubt the old family would feel that way if their voices had not been snuffed out by a God that saw so little value in them that he slaughtered them (the moment He said ok He knowingly set that end in motion) for the sake of some cosmic game.

Heaven only knows what kind of problems some of them might be going through outside of school, but here, in the sanctuary of sports, was a rare moment of grace, communion, and joy.

He wanted to express the actual thoughts and emotions he was experiencing, and in the moment, the kinds of songs many people think of as worship just didn't fully represent how he was feeling or thinking.

It was just a spur - of - the - moment rant born of frustration to be honest because even though there is amazing theological basis for this kind of a marriage it never seems to make its way out of the silo of academia or even strong local churches so sometimes it feels like the popular and prolific teaching in the modern Church leans more towards a form of soft patriarchy.

So they're kind of the same in some deep mathematical sense, and as of today we don't really know what happens at the center of a black hole and we don't really know what happened at the moment of the big bang so these are two puzzles that are cousins of one another and anything that we learn about one is certainly going to shed light on the other.»

All I can do in this life is be happy, be kind to others, enjoy as many moments as possible, raise happy, healthy children that are productive members of society, and live each day to the fullest.

It does not mean that one lives every day simply as if it were one's last — a kind of crazy living «for the moment» rather than living «in the moment,» to use a distinction made by the dying poet Ted Rosenthal in his book and movie bearing the same title, How Could I Not Be Among You?

It is not just the skepticism of intellectuals or the inadequacies of moral education but the structural and cultural realities of our society in this historical moment that make us doubt any kind of transcending narrative.

At the moment admittedly there are still many gaps in our knowledge, but the closing of so many gaps in everyday experience has meant that it needs no great stretch of the imagination to see that the gaps could readily close to the point where there is no room left for any faith in that kind of God.

What in an older kind of philosophy would have been called the chain - of - cause - and - effect is here seen as being very much richer; it is a congeries of occasions, events, pressures, movements, routes, which come to focus at this or that point, and which for their explanation require some principle that has brought and still is bringing each of them, rather than some other possible occurrence, into this particular concrete moment of what we commonly style «existence».

This kind of repentance is selfish, a matter of the senses, sensually powerful for the moment, excited in expression, impatient in the most diverse exaggerations — and, just on this account, is not real repentance.

Sallie Tisdale, a nurse from an abortion clinic reveals in an article in the October 1987 Harper's Magazine («We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story»): «There are weary, grim moments when I think I can not bear another basin of bloody remains, utter another kind phrase of reassurance.»

A powerful storyteller, Evans captures transformative moments, such as leaving a church full «of kind, generous people»; investing wholeheartedly in a new church that «collapsed slowly, one week at a time»; and witnessing healing at the Gay Christian Network's conference, feeling «simultaneously furious at Christianity's enormous capacity to wound and awed by its miraculous capacity to heal.»

A blessing is a moment of meeting, a certain kind of relationship in which both people involved remember and acknowledge their true nature and worth, and strengthen what is whole in one another.»

My thoughts were no more impure than they are to - day, although my belief in the necessity of illness was dense and unenlightened; but since my resurrection in the flesh, I have worked as a healer unceasingly for fourteen years without a vacation, and can truthfully assert that I have never known a moment of fatigue or pain, although coming in touch constantly with excessive weakness, illness, and disease of all kinds.