Sentences with phrase «like detachment»

Thus, even while counseling rational tranquility and Zen - like detachment, one may smuggle in a little dig, such as «Communications Experts have recently coined the term «MA Rodger Syndrome» to describe this dynamic.»

What looked like detachment was actually a passion to include, to transcend petty identifications in favor of a more fundamental whole — not just in physics but in everyday human existence.

Not exact matches

MEUs are Marine detachments that sail around on amphibious assault ships like the Wasp and America - class.

like the pagan I worship a God who can be touched; and I do indeed touch him — this God — over the whole surface and in the depths of that world of matter which confines me: but to take hold of him as I would wish (simply in order not to stop touching him), I must go always on and on through and beyond each undertaking, unable to rest in anything, borne onwards at each moment by creatures and at each moment going beyond them, in a continuing welcoming of them and a continuing detachment from them; like the quietist I allow myself with delight to be cradled in the divine fantasy: but at the same time I know that the divine will, will only be revealed to me at each moment if I exert myself to the utmost: I shall only touch God in the world of matter, when, like Jacob, I have been vanquished by him.

Just like Kim said, you need detachment sometimes to maintain your sanity and then get back on the game when you are ready.

Like the ancient dybbuk separated from its body and consigned to wander the world, modern man senses his detachment from life as the peculiar curse of his modernity, the price paid to Satan in return for distance.

They were composed not by historians, with what we like to call scientific detachment, but by Christian preachers and teachers, and for certain practical purposes.

We can hardly wonder, in the circumstances, that agnostics such as Sir James Jeans and Marcel Boll, and even convinced believers like Guardini, have uttered expressions of amazement (tinged with heroic pessimism or triumphant detachment) at the apparent insignificance of the phenomenon of Life in terms of the cosmos — a little mould on a grain of dust.

Heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and the philosophical tradition of Logical Positivism (the idea that if something is not able to be judged true or false, then we are rationally compelled to ignore it as irrelevant), much of the modern Church has bought into the belief that the truth of Christianity should be treated like any other set of factual claims, and that people of faith can somehow rationally observe ultimate truth with a level of personal detachment and objectivity.

I certainly do not mean to sound like a philosophical idealist or to say that all we need is a psychological detachment from the various manifestations of alienation.

And not liking your last last paragraph — and for me just shows Thierry's slight detachment from reality.

Anyone who thinks that this does not provide the resources with which to solve the Blue Labour problem of the detachment of places like West Cumbria is not thinking imaginatively enough about the rich ideas bequeathed by the liberal tradition.

It's surprising that the easy detachment mechanism can recover this stored energy, so the researchers are interested in studying whether this is coupled with other aspects of the gecko's physiology to enable it to take advantage of the recovered energy — much like a kangaroo does when bounding.

Like the Soviet study from the 1950, Chinese researchers cut the donating specimen at the chest, not the neck, in a technique that may offer an alternative to head detachment for a successful head transplant.

Online dating just feels like another form of detachment and I do nt need.

Before long, Harold can hear this narrator too, and like any sensible human being he's alarmed by the idea of some disembodied voice following him about and commenting on his actions with an air of snarky detachment.

With his hard - bitten squint and studied air of scowling detachment, Bale seems to be channeling Clint Eastwood at his most enigmatic and reserved; like Eastwood and his characters, Bale allows both the camera and his fellow characters to come to him, rather than proving his bona fides through more obvious and eager means.

Here, his score functions as something like the sieve of the page — watching a film with his soundtrack suggests an approximation of the literal detachment of reading a book; as Candyman unfurls, defenses fall away and the fable - like quality of the story gains a kind of archetypal weight.

Told mostly from the male point of view, Fatal Attraction does build Alex as a credible character, but Lyne makes films that feel like Douglas Sirk films done without the ironic detachment that makes them work.

When a student's needs for belonging, success, freedom, and fun are not being met in the classroom, it can look like misbehavior, detachment, or disruptions and lead to a school failure identity for the student.

Furthermore, we make it a priority to give back to the community that has helped our Phoenix Toyota dealership grow, sponsoring worthy organizations and charities like Crisis Nursery children's shelter, Phoenix Children's Hospital, Madison Street Veterans Association and the Marine Corps League Old Breed Detachment # 757.

There was always a shortage of Obersturmführers on the Eastern Front, and a long list of SS officers already there who had earned a sweet sinecure like the SS - SD detachment in Marburg an der Lahn.

So he's giving up «something like 20 % or 30 %» of his digital retail channels, but he's gaining Amazon's «marketing muscle» — «and if Amazon blows out the marketing for The Detachment, [his current and future self - published books] will benefit enormously».

Treatment of sudden blindness In some cases the underlying cause of the blindness will be reversible and normal vision may return, but in many cases (even if the primary problem can be controlled) damage like retinal detachment is non reversible and blindness is permanent.

All the DLC will also be included, which means that the likes of Hard EX Mode, Edy's Mission, Selvaria's Mission, and Challenge of the Edy Detachment will be in there.

With that, there's this sense of detachment from the character in Western, like in games such as Fallout 3, where immersion and story development doesn't seem as important.

Like most of Wekua's sculptures, the boy's pose indicates distance, a detachment from the world around him.

His veiled paintings give sexual imagery a proper, knowing detachment, like Gerhard Richter or Pop Art without the thrill or poignancy.

Rauschenberg would subsequently explain his detachment from what he called «a whole language used in discussions of abstract expressionism that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like «tortured,» «struggle,» «pain»»; whereas he himself «could never see those qualities in paint.»

Like many of his younger contemporaries, by the 1950s Bush had become dissatisfied with Canada's detachment from international contemporary art.

The feral, organic, orgasmic energy of Meat Joy, and many of Schneemann's other works from that time, also took aim at the polish and cool detachment of Pop Art: «The male Pop artists» endless depiction of nudes that looked like shiny parts of automobiles — these were all very strong influences that I could work against,» says Schneemann.

From Instructions, his 1989 guide to painting do - it - yourself «Stingels» — perhaps a satirical reaction to ego - fuelled 1980s painting — to his orange carpets that, from 1991 to the present day, have stretched over the floors and walls of viewing spaces like an industrial version of color field painting, Stingel has sought to strike a balance between conceptual rigor and the retinal sensuality of painting, between detachment and participation, even between decorativeness and mental purity.

When the world looks like it's falling apart, though, perhaps ironic detachment will begin to look less like an antidote to chauvinism and more like a banal evil, unequipped to fight the pricks of history.

As for what I left for Andy to address, I meant (though it may not have been as clear as I'd like) that it would be a noteworthy article to discuss the detachment of your average consumer with the environments they are affecting.

It's kind of like simultaneously sustaining passion and detachment — those qualities in a decent journalist.

In fact, it was partially due to the research of people like Dr. Kelly, that a direct link was established between the 30 % detachment rate between divorced dads and their children, and the Every Other Weekend «visitation» schedules.