Sentences with phrase «less than a revelation»

If Jesus was right, this is no less than a revelation of the deepest reality of our existence.

When the Mazda MX - 5 Miata was unveiled at the 1989 Chicago Auto Show, it was nothing less than a revelation.

The exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 - 1985, organized by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, is a show that has been nothing less than a revelation.

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Among the data's revelations are that in many parts of the Deep South, people have less than a 5 % chance of going from the bottom income level to the top.

While it's a shock to get 89 percent of people to agree on anything (smaller numbers agree that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around, for instance), the fact that working together is less lonely than working apart is hardly a world - shaking revelation.

Friday's sudden departure of AMP chief executive Craig Meller provides a less than fitting end to the scandalous revelations this week at the Hayne royal commission.

We found that diversified portfolios have, in fact, been less risky, but only up to a point: A portfolio that allocates 60 % or more of its investments abroad has actually taken more risk than one that doesn't diversify at all — an interesting revelation.

If you are meditating on a Bible text, Hebrew or Christian, and if you see God operating at a lesser level than the best person you know, then that text is not authentic revelation.

Nor can I see that a single test, least of all a simple reference to the Bible as understood by the recipient of the special revelation, is now or ever will be a sufficient safeguard against the vagaries to which intensely sincere minds are sometimes even more liable than those whose convictions are less fiercely one - sided.

Viewed in this light, we may see the birth and deaths of stars, the emergence of life, its moments of complexification, and the eventual rise of consciousness as sacramental evidence of revelation's promise no less significant than God's calling of Abraham and the prophets.

How far he can move in these directions, as in exploiting others to one's own gain, driving a shrewd deal or pursuing an advantage, stretching the truth, «having a little affair,» or drinking in moderation, depends for most persons less on the will of God or the revelation of God in Jesus Christ than on what is and what is not done in one's community.

But this difference, which may be less real and important than I think, does not obscure my appreciation of the truth and brilliance of Dr. Morrison's discussion of the concreteness of revelation and of its inseparable connection with the community.

Thus truly understood, the idea of revelation is perhaps less difficult to assimilate than it would otherwise be; but, even so, the view that it has occurred in a special and supreme sense in a particular set of historical occurrences involves the acceptance of discontinuities within nature and history which we find it next to impossible to contemplate.

Since nobody has a device capable of intercepting and decoding divine, psychic messages, these people's experiences are no more or less credible than the «divine revelations» given to Abraham, Moses, John who wrote Revelation, Mary Baker Eddy or Joseph Smith.

Hence, faith in revelation's word about the ultimately trustworthy character of reality is no less rational than is the trust in truth, goodness, and beauty that makes all academic pursuits possible.

For as the author notes early on, «natural law... is less exalted than direct divine revelation and more exalted than merely local human arrangements.»

At heart the apparent «implausibility» of the idea of revelation to modernity with its secularistic assumptions, is less the result of its «unscientific» appearance than the consequence of the untransformed status of our unjust social structures.

The result was a revelation, and although it's been years since I made pizza dough, I think I never again made it with less than a third to a half corn meal substituted for the flour.

Charlie Blackmon, who had less than 500 career at bats entering the season, has been a revelation with a.306 batting average to go along with 14 home runs and 18 stolen bases.

City Comptroller John Liu was more blunt: «Honestly, I won't be voting for him,» he said in a less - than - stunning revelation before pivoting to his own record.

Given the events of the last two weeks, I imagine Republican donors are less concerned with the polling numbers and more concerned with the impression the Republican campaign is giving of being completely inept, particularly in light of the revelation that Romney's staffers are paid more to achieve less than their Democrat counterparts (though Rachel Maddow shared an amusing story this week suggesting that wealthy Republicans had no problem throwing money at a sinking ship [skip to the 2 minute mark]-RRB-.

It was about the shift in the reaction to the Snowden revelations from less than a year ago to now.

Less than a year ago, however, new revelations came out about NSA surveillance as a result of Edward Snowden's leaks, and this time the Right was deeply divided: establishment Republicans continued to support the surveillance practices of the NSA, whereas conservatives and the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party voiced concerns about whether the NSA was giving the government too much power.

Igini who made the revelation Wednesday while answering questions on a local radio program monitored in Uyo said,» less than seven million people have so far been registered for forth coming general elections».

Some of his supporters were less than impressed by the revelation that he had tried to strong - arm CSIRO chief executive John Stocker.

I hope with these revelations it will be less terrible than I've warned them it could be.»

Resident Evil: Revelations is less of a «fans of the genre» title than it is a «fans of the series» title.

But even as the revelations pile up and the screws tighten and you start to sense that terror and violence are inevitable, the movie never loses grip on what it's about; this is a rare commercial film in which every scene, sequence, composition and line deepens the screenplay's themes — which means that when the bloody ending arrives, it seems less predictable than inevitable and right, as in myths, legends and Bible stories.

Jennifer Lawrence just slammed the gender pay inequality in Hollywood in an essay addressing revelations from the Sony Hack that she was earning way less than her male co-stars in American Hustle.

And although Farhadi has peppered the proceedings with a handful of striking sequences - eg Emad confronts the man responsible for a transgression against his wife - The Salesman's pervasively erratic, meandering diminishes the potential impact of its third - act revelations and, in the end, confirms the movie's place as just another potentially intriguing premise squandered by Farhadi's less - than - focused modus operandi.

But no less than Sisters (which is referenced in a mid-film revelation about identical twins), the film's ripe cheesiness has a whiff of satire to it.

Whether or not you're familiar with the most scandalous aspects of Abramoff's stranger - than - fiction story, the movie thrives less on revelation than on Spacey's tireless energy, and the offbeat, almost winsome charisma he brings to his notorious con man.

Between the fervor caused by the supercharged, 707 - horsepower SRT Hellcat and the revelation that nearly 500 ponies can be had for less than $ 40k by opting for an R / T Scat Pack, the SRT 392 has become something of a neglected middle child in the Challenger lineup.

mong the many other less - than - desirable features of the mortgage modification program known as HAMP (Home Affordable Modification Program) is the revelation that, according to this AP report, your credit score will probably be lowered soon after you apply for help.

I found controlling Claire / Barry (more so than Moira and Natalia) felt clunky and less fluid than the previous Revelations game, but then again, control clunkiness is almost a Resident Evil signature.

Opened less than a year before, the institution — which focused on programmes by underrepresented, intersectional artists — drew fire over revelations concerning the real estate deal done by its building's anonymous owner.

Soutine is commonly thought of as an Expressionist, but his painting seems less emotionally assertive than intoxicated, flooded by an ecstatic — or terrified — revelation of existential flux and flow.

The revelation comes less than a fortnight after his counterpart at Sotheby's, William Ruprecht, announced his resignation.

Sometimes less than three inches high or over six feet tall, the abstractions will be a revelation to scholars of postwar American art in general and of Bearden in particular.

While this revelation might be refreshing to those who mistakenly believed it to be a problem plaguing Liberal dynamics, it may be less than inspiring to a generation who has been largely apathetic and removed entirely from public political discourse.

After the Cambridge Analytica revelations, a new poll finds that Americans trust Facebook less than ever.