Sentences with phrase «less than a mystery»

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The mystery, however, lies less with Merkel than the German public — or, rather, with Merkel's assessment of what the public wants and expects from politics.

She also hires mystery shoppers once a year (cost: less than $ 200) to get a snapshot of her own and her competitors» centers.

in some ways memory is a better key to the nature of experience than perception, not only because, by the time we have used a datum of perception, it will already have been taken over by memory, but for the additional reasons: (a,) in memory there is less mystery concerning what we are trying to know than there is in perception [i.e., «our own past human experiences»]; also (all) the temporal structure of memory is more obvious.

At first glance it might seem appealing to argue that the mystery of God outstrips our capacity to delineate it, that every theology in its own way must fall so short of the truth that no position can, however seriously maintained, be markedly any more or less true than any other.

Everywhere mystery was giving place to love, the aloofness of God to the nearness of Jesus, adoration to communion, repining for the Fall to that sense of Christ's victory which pervaded Gothic Christendom no less than the sense of his divinity.

To get an idea of the mystery and wonder which is a person, note that the number of elementary particles within a human body is 1027, whereas the number of stars in the observable universe is less, 1023; thus, there are 10,000 times more elementary particles in a human body than stars in the heavens.

i truly don't think we help the journey by pretending we «know» less than we do (read «know» as «have come to know» or «have been drawn into a community's story by experience, discernment, mystery, and tradition»).

The prodigal son, the friend at midnight, and the unmerciful servant are allegories, she believes, but they are no less authentic bearers of the mystery of the Kingdom than other figurative modes of expression.

This speaking of God may ultimately only point to the question which is man himself and thus hint at God's mystery in silence, the result may be less adequate than any statement on another subject, the answer, aimed at God's bright «heaven», may ever again fall back into the dark sphere of man or may consist in inexorably upholding the question that transcends any definition, formula or phenomenon.

For what this truly and blessedly means is that God can not be less than man, endowed with personality, freedom und love, and that the mystery itself is free protective love, not an «objective order» which one can, after all, possess (at least in principle), and against which one could ensure oneself.

Nothing less than God — albeit God in the mystery of his being as Father, Son and Holy Spirit — is the object toward which Scriptures, Church and Jesus Christ himself direct those who begin by loving them.

The lesser kinds of reverence have been noted only in order that we may be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship is applied normally to God and none other, although it is important that we understand that by association with God and His presence and work, creatures are seen in the Christian tradition as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they are worthy of reverence which is religious in quality, reverence about which there is a mystery, just as in human personality itself there is a deep mystery by reason of its being grounded in the mystery of God.

Nothing less than inexhaustible mystery can be the appropriate abode for the human spirit.

It would be interesting to show how the more conservative interpretations of Jesus, such as those of Edward Meyer, R. Otto, and H. Lietzmann, tend to do less than justice to the mystery of the presence of God in Christ.

The fact that mystery bears the character of futurity, however, does not make prophetic religions less mystical than any others, if by mysticism we mean a longing for and experience of union with ultimate reality.

And for their history, that theme was of cosmic scope and scale — nothing less, in fact, than man's being, in a world of incalculable power and mystery.

The mystery of God is thus not a riddle or a conundrum, not a brain - straining puzzle; it is the one reality that prompts an endless delectation of mind no less than heart and soul.

As with every all - inclusive resort, there are always mystery items at the buffet that look less - than - appealing.

If you know the baby's sex before birth, then deciding on your baby's nursery décor is more focused and less general than if you decide to keep it all a mystery until the actual birth.

Stormy Daniels» team has been flooded with tips on who her threatening mystery man might be less than 24 hours after she revealed the sketch, but she can't say she's that much closer to finding him.

A hidden population of black holes born less than one second after the big bang could solve the mystery of dark matter

Now the mystery — on which profound science admittedly does not turn but cool science definitely does — may at last have been solved by Scott Waitukaitis, a graduate student in physics at University of Chicago, whose work was just published in no less a venue than last week's issue of Nature.

The team was able to discover why some of these worlds seem to have less water than expected — a long - standing mystery.

Why it didn't stop at 100 kilometres and a magnitude much less than 9.0, or continue for over 1000 kilometres as the Sunda megathrust fault did off the coast of Sumatra in 2004, remains a mystery.

During last year's visit, the New Horizons probe solved half the mystery: it found that Pluto's atmosphere is more compact than expected and so less exposed to the solar wind.

Sodium escaping the moon's atmosphere could also help explain the mystery of why many moon rock samples have less sodium in them than Earth rocks.

We have called it the Milky Way for thousands of years, and its exact nature was a mystery until less than a hundred years ago.

It seems impossible to us today that the structure of water ice was a mystery less than 100 years ago.

The longstanding mystery of their origin, which is further compounded by the fact that less than two dozen such events have ever been detected, has spawned a plethora of scientific (and not so scientific) theories, including the occasional speculation that aliens are responsible for them.

But better limit your first date to less than 2 hours to leave some intrigue and mystery for the next date.

The film gradually thaws out the stark, frozen mystery at its heart, but the warm - blooded, breathing truth of Linda's life is no less tragic than that of her cold death.

Based on the popular mystery play by Frederick Knott, Dial M For Murder is more talky and stagebound than most Hitchcock films, but no less enjoyable.

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

The sex in Freed is a bit more explicit than it was in its prettified predecessors — we get a look at Christian's pubic hair in one shot — but often less erotic because both the mystery and the threat have evaporated.

There's so much more to explore far beyond the outcome of the crime, but Kiri ultimately sets that aside to make room for a mystery whose final reveal is far less interesting than the exploration of emotional fallout that came before it.

Clement landed no less than four additional screenwriting gigs between 2005 - 2006 alone, including director Jon Jones» murder mystery Archangel (2005), set in Communist Russia; Goal!

Brilliantly and sensitively assembled entirely from footage of Gray, taken from interviews and one - man shows from throughout his career, it is a rich, full portrait — an autobiography of sorts — of a figure who was never less than candid but retained an air of mystery.

Elements of noirish mystery persist throughout A Fantastic Woman, but the filmmakers prove less interested in their protagonist's psyche than the intolerance she's made to endure at every turn.

Actor turned director Tate Taylor proves to be even less adept crafting mystery thrillers than he does insincere period melodrama with his third feature, The Girl on the Train, an adaptation of the bestselling pulp novel by Paula Hawkins.

His recent pictures, including the 1950s psychodrama «The Master» and the»70s noir «Inherent Vice,» feel less like stylized period pieces than weird, indelible relics of their respective eras — impeccably crafted, rich in mystery and deeply attuned to their characters» turbulent inner states.

Etrian Mystery Dungeon comes out in less than 48h in Japan, and Atlus seems determined to keep on actively promoting...

Its mystery, however, proves to be much less involving than the one that helped make Naomi Watts sort of a movie star.

«Inferno», the fourth book, the third film, offers little we haven't already seen from the series, but worse, it offers less than most mystery thrillers.

Open Road Films» new teen mystery «Before I Fall» — about a high school girl (Zoey Deutch) who keeps reliving her last day alive — is expected to open with less than $ 10 million.

The body and its myriad eccentricities is less a beautiful mystery than a grotesque inconvenience.

More straightforward and less of a puzzle than the original versions, it nonetheless builds a mystery around why Chastain's title character disappears, before casually dropping hints well into the film.

Although the resulting mystery is less intriguing than the unsettling atmosphere that surrounds it, the screenplay by director Aaron Katz (Land Ho) probes the aftermath of tragedy in fresh ways, while Kirke and Kravitz each find a balance between exterior strength and internal vulnerability in their respective characters.

But even at its best, «Mystery Science Theater 3000» is less satisfying than an actual movie.

It's less Philip K. Dick than Medgar Evers) and its attempts to pull in some literary credibility with a running gimmick about Hansel & Gretel (had Spooner really read the fairytale, he would've solved the mystery a lot quicker), I, Robot plays like a tug - of - war between a smart source material and some really venal, really cynical studio wonks.

While the cinematography is handsome (cradled by forests and dramatically framed by the Dolomites, this town never looks anything less than magnificent) and the performances fine, the mystery itself is quite conventional and the film plays like pieces of the plot were left on the cutting room floor.