Sentences with phrase «less than my imagination»

We are used to two possibilities: on the one hand, prophecy being punctured by reality, and our settling for far less than our imaginations were excited into expecting; or on the other hand, prophecies being fulfilled, and a boost being given to our expectations and our sense of who we are and what we deserve.

my grandmother used to say «if you're bored it's because you're boring»... i don't think i'm boring... i think what people ask of me is boring... they want so much less than my imagination has to offer... and man, it's tiresome!

An imagination test, for example, varies depending on the situation, so to unlock a door or to search a cabinet you roll as many dice as you have imagination points and count up the successes, while another version of the test has you rolling two dice and seeing if the result is equal or less than your imagination.

Not exact matches

Depending on how it's reported, a significantly smaller income figure on Trump's Form 1040 than on his financial disclosure could be a fresh sign that his personal fortune, too, is less than the «more than $ 10 billion by any stretch of the imagination» that he's claimed.

In his Attack upon «Christendom» Soren Kierkegaard suggested that «the illusion of a Christian nation is due... to the power which number exercises over the imagination... It is said, that [an innkeeper] sold his beer by the bottle for a cent less than he paid for it; and when a certain man said to him, «How does that balance the account?

I would accept this stress on the importance of the categories of understanding imposed by the knower, but I would want to attribute them less to the given structures of the mind (as in Bohr's neo-Kantian view) than to the limitations of our experience and imagination.

It is more an act of self - expression on Endō's part than a work of historical reconstruction; less a work of imagination than projection.

Imaginations made up by a less (scientific) time than our current time are running short on believability.

Thus, although the notion of imagination is extremely vague, it is not on that account any less respectable than a good many other fundamental philosophical notions whose usefulness seems to be directly proportional to their degree of vagueness.

As one of the Second Vatican Council's more enthusiastic experts — as well as one of its first critical interlocutors during the years of its sometimes questionable presentation in the popular imagination — Ratzinger can scarcely be accused of having a less than astute sense of the context within which the Church has to evangelise.

God for Smith is more than the power of imagination, although never less than that.

But the problems of discriminating between what is and is not Christian are less acute than the problem of the dessicated imagination, the problem of the abyss between the word of God and our imaginative appropriation of it.

And also the correlation between your truly - terrified - of - poop friend and your own fears — your imagination is generally worse than reality, and even when reality IS pretty gross (like that time my baby had an explosive poop all over my lap at a restaurant that only had the tiniest bathroom ever, like there wasn't enough room between the toilet and the door for the diaper bag, much less a three - month - old) you just sort of... take it in stride and deal with it, knowing that the benefits of babies and children outweigh the occasional brush with grossness.

And if such a scenario doesn't happen — and Governments implode far less often than frustrated oppositions hope — will any of the new Labour leaders have the imagination and charisma (leaving aside freedom from past «baggage») to build positive electoral enthusiasm for Labour, in the manner for which John F Kennedy provides the paradigm case?»

«In sum, it beats our imagination that Governor Chime, a senior counsel, who is at the twilight of his administration should deviate from due process and rule of law, by requesting for N11 billion loan, in less than transparent manner», the statement added.

For women who want a cycling short that's a bit less revealing than the typical spandex - like option, these mountain biking shorts will leave a little bit more to the imagination.

They really do leave little to the imagination and for me, that was less than optimal.

The noisy, bloated spectacles of combat were surely the most expensive parts of the movie, but the money seems less like an imaginative tool than a substitute for genuine imagination.

If the movie is finally something of a failure as a romance, it's rarely less than a triumph of soulful imagination.

The meat - and - potatoes style of Sacco and Vanzetti seems less a failure of imagination than a means of putting in the foreground its intriguing subject matter.

That humor and imagination are far less prevalent in this brisk outing than they were in last November's outstanding Wreck - It Ralph also accounts for something.

How good the work is matters less than how good one works a room, or how closely the work aligns with a cultural shift in imagination.

Less a fully - fleshed out story, than an impressionistic sketch flick which leaves the rudiments of plot structure to the viewer's imagination, Nights and Weekends is, nonetheless, an engaging slice - of - life adventure as riveting as a train wreck.

From an N - word laced opening sequence to a steady diet of profanity to its graphic dialogue to gratuitous frontal nudity to its much - anticipated sex scenes, Zack and Miri Make a Porno leaves even less to the imagination than its suggestive, testosterone - teasing title.

Its phantasmagoric imagination is less homoerotic than that of Midnight Express, but it yields comparable hallucinatory effects, including glittery evocations of Jesus carrying a plastic water bottle.

Indeed, it's consistent with much recent work on collective bargaining (including the 2008 study The Leadership Limbo that I authored with Coby Loup), which points out that contracts are frequently less constricting than reputed — but that state and federal requirements, along with timidity and a lack of imagination on the part of district leaders, have contributed to a culture of management passivity.

As a result, their «next - gen» model proved less efficient than their competition's; DEC's attempt at a 2.0 product was limited to the organizational structure and imagination of 1.0 teams.

Children today have less time for free play, but their imaginations are sharper than ever, according to new research from Case Western University in Cleveland.

Prices have stayed reasonable, so if the design and concept captures your imagination, you might consider buying two, which would still set you back less than the price of a single Vette.

In fact, it takes less imagination than it does to get through the black and yellow camouflage in this teaser video.

In Vedema you can't expect something less than a culinary experience that is the pick of Mediterranean, and far beyond imagination.

Newer pixelated horror titles such as Home and even lesser known ones such as The Witch's House are good examples of how visual simplicity allows the story and the feelings the game elicits to overlay what is otherwise nothing more than a wire frame for our imaginations.

Most of the levels consist of you walking through a castle or cave and this leaves less to the imagination than just a plain wall.

Gauguin (1848 — 1903) abandoned impressionism to create an art driven less by observation than by imagination.

«It's less about making things up in the imagination than it is just incredible observation.»

In his foreword to The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination, Antony Gormley reminds the reader of the «pre-enlightenment idea of a Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities... a collage of objects and images put together less to tell you what to think and what things were, than to incite your wonder and curiosity.»

There was magic in those waters, and nothing held more power in my imagination than the elusive salmon... We knew little, and understood less, about the true stature of salmon in the ecological and cultural heritage of our bioregion.

As a dollhouse it is a lot less detailed than many we have shown, and requires a bit more imagination.

It was also announced separately by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Premier Wen Jiabao (also the chair of the State Council, and pictured right, showing what President Hu meant by a «notable margin»... at least in my imagination) will attend the Copenhagen climate conference that begins in less than two weeks.

Since some argue that it was originally envisioned that every bitcoin user would help secure the network - as opposed to massive companies - miners have long been the subject of the less - than - trusting imaginations of the network's users and security - conscious developers.

And in distant relationships it takes a lot longer before you start to see the differences between the perfect person who lives in your imagination and the living, breathing, decidedly - less - than - perfect person who lives on planet earth.

A single national lending limit created by law is a figment of imagination which was creatively expressed in ML 2009 - 07: «To avoid potential cases where a claim could be less than the national limit, as adjusted for the special exception areas, HUD had decided not to make the adjustment.»