Sentences with phrase «long lecture on»

If you were looking for a long lecture on why and when we should do this, well, you are not getting it!

Developer Lionhead's head of studio Peter Moluneyx and Microsoft Games Studio's studio design director Josh Atkins will be giving an hour - long lecture on the subject — titled «The Complex Challenges of Intuitive Design» — at the Game Developers Conference next month where the validity of one «long - established game mechanic» in particular will challenged.

On Tuesday I did a cooking demo for all my lovely mom friends about the necessities of Thanksgiving and had a long lecture on cranberry sauce, because clearly that is the necessity of necessities and I had grown women tell me they have never eaten cranberry sauce!

Example: the meanwhile outdated «literature of silence», Warhol's films in which everything can happen at once or nothing at all and John Cage's 45 - minute - long Lecture on Nothing (1959).

Not exact matches

Today I am sitting listening to Ralph Merkle lecture on nanotechnology, part of a 9 - day - long series of lectures on how accelerating change in technologies of all types will affect our world.

At the end of the ten hours, I came in and he made me give him two pennies which was my contribution to the social security and he gave me two one Dollar bills and a long lecture about the evils of Democrats and the welfare state and the lack of self - reliance and it went on and on and on, so I had the right antecedents too.

Nevertheless, if I dare to criticize the president» on the policies, the passivity, the professorial condescension, the pea - eating lectures or on the general over-ratedness that I and many others counted, in 2008, as weaknesses rendering him unsuited to the Oval Office» my friend becomes «concerned» about me; my complaints «trouble» him in unspecified ways, but he no longer flings the cheap, easy and inaccurate epithet of «racist» my way, because he has learned that one can legitimately find Barack Obama underwhelming in the extreme, without any underlying motive.

These weekend - long seminars bring First Things readers and writers together for lectures and discussions on important topics on religion, culture, and society.

The last gasping breath of support for the long failed policy of Reaganomics is lecturing the Pope on Marxism.

His Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh on The Presence of Eternity: History and Eschatology (Harper, 1957) and various books of essays — the most notable collections in English being Faith and Understanding (Harper & Row, 1969) and Existence and Faith (World, 1960)-- show over how long a period, and in relation to how many challenges, he worked out his own presentation of the Word of God to our time.

This was brought home to me not long ago when, after a lecture on the subject of «process - theology», in which I had stressed the Johannine text, a member of my audience rose to put the following question: «Of course it is the Christian faith that God is love.

In his lectures on aesthetics at the University of Berlin, G. W. F. Hegel observed in the 1820s that «thought long ago stopped assigning to art the sensible representation of the divine.»

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin has made much of this in his widely read The Phenomenon of Man, but long before the publication of that volume C. Lloyd - Morgan in his Gifford lectures had indicated the significance of such «emergents», along with the «importance» (although this is not his, but Whitehead's, word) which they possess both in the ongoing movement of the world and as a way of our grasping of the meaning of that world in its on going movement.

Many teachers have commented on the fact that students, of all ages «turn off when some lesson or lecture takes longer than, say, eight to ten minutes.

This summary of the conclusions to which Luther gradually came, and which can be seen evolving throughout the long texts of his early lectures in the University on the Psalms, the Letter to the Romans, the Galatians, the Hebrews (1515 - 18) is only a summary.

When the Anglican patristic scholar and Church historian Trevor Jalland concluded his Bampton Lectures at Oxford in 1942 (published in 1944 as The Church and the Papacy: A Historical Study), he spoke of the Roman Church as having «in its long and remarkable history a supernatural grandeur which no mere secular institution has ever attained in equal measure,» and went on to refer to «its strange, almost mystical, faithfulness to type, its marked degree of changelessness, its steadfast clinging to tradition and to precedent.»

When most students are busy sun bathing, breaking out the bikinis, and reveling in the lovely spring weather, we were busy putting on our heaviest winter gear, wiping out on black ice, and freezing our butts off braving the long walk to lecture halls.

You just want to chat over a few beers, and instead you're getting a lecture on hops that's so long you'd rather just drink the cheap stuff from your college days.

But then, once a basic level of calm prevailed in the school, the coaches turned their attention to encouraging what they called cooperative learning, a pedagogical approach that promoted student engagement in the learning process: less lecture time; fewer repetitive worksheets; more time spent working in small groups, solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

Somehow I doubt you have been doing this as long as I have or you would have got my point instead of giving me a condescending lecture on what I do and teach.

Jeanice has lectured extensively on this and other topics and has spent the last 15 + years uncovering the roots of institutionalized violence and the long - term, inter-generational impact of birth trauma on parents, children, families, and our entire civilization.

(1) Teach in a dynamic, well - organized style that makes use of proven pedagogical approaches to promote student engagement in the learning process via less lecture time, fewer repetitive worksheets and more time spent working in small groups solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

These moms might lecture you on your decision to use a stroller and present a long list of the benefits of babywearing.

It is important, then, that in the «Attlee to Miliband» history set out in her lecture, O'Grady fixed on the failure to compromise, co-operate and adapt as behind the long - term decline of the union movement.

The first secretary attacked shadow chancellor George Osborne's own assessment of the public finances, calling his Mais lecture «longer on assertion than specific proposals».

James Coll, a veteran New York City detective who lectures on constitutional law, is appealing a Long Island judge's recent dismissal of his lawsuit seeking to kill a commission considering state legislative, executive, and judicial pay raises.

This was the lead - up to a joke about him threatening to deliver another lecture just as long on foreign policy, but it also served to underline the impressiveness of his achievement in memorising it all.

A veteran New York City detective who lectures on constitutional law is appealing a Long Island judge's recent dismissal of his lawsuit seeking to kill a commission considering state legislative, executive, and judicial pay raises.

2016 Suzi Gage is honored for her generous public engagement activities that center on evidence - based approaches with the potential to build long - term critical thinking skills in her audiences.Gage writes a science blog for the Guardian newspaper's website, and frequently gives public lectures and talks.

Paula S. Apsell, the senior executive producer of NOVA, described the process behind the long - running series during a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award lecture at the University of Oregon on Nov. 10.

The problem is that there is always something — lecture notes, paper revisions, departmental committees, the list goes on — that needs to be done, and the to - do list grows ever longer.

A scientist who reads my columns and has attended my lectures on these topics approached me not long ago with a phone call and an e-mail, too long and too demanding.

Perhaps our architects and planners need to sit in on some long lectures in packed auditoriums, to see what it's really like.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

The program was specifically designed to provide an intermediate alternative both to 6 - month or year - long sabbaticals, which can be disruptive to the head of an active laboratory, and short visits to give a lecture, which on average do not leave enough time for thoughtful discussions.

Steven Chu referenced Hell's groundbreaking research during his lecture on Wednesday morning, which focused on his recent efforts in optical microscopy — quite a departure from his previous work in energy during a decade - long sabbatical.

The program kicked - off on June 9th with the week - long Introductory Course in Plasma Physics, an intensive lecture series for students before they begin their research.

Of course, as one maternal blogger observes, «long - term consequences are nowhere near the radar» during adolescence, and lectures by parents are unlikely to soften teens» sense of invincibility.21 On the other hand, teenage boys are certainly mature enough to begin to understand «what is good and what isn't,» even if they won't admit it.21 Fortunately, parental willingness to cook regularly with ingredients like butter and bone broth greatly facilitates the task of preparing appetizing meals that teenage boys will not only accept but gobble up.

The Child has been on the receiving end of loving - lectures about the benefits of ending shit which no longer serves us.

While the film is seemingly accessible as a portrait of an artist who seems particularly attuned to his own creative process, and particularly adept at describing this attunement (Cave has given several long - form lectures on the peculiar metaphysics of songcraft), it's unlikely that many who aren't already whole - hog Bad Seeds fans would be able to stomach much of Cave's self - styled pomposity.

Besides reviewing films, she lectures on film history, particularly the silent film era, has served on the board of the Meramec Classic Film Festival and is a long — time collaborator with the St. Louis International Film Festival, serving on various juries.

Summit teachers are able to invest more time in one - on - one mentoring because they are no longer focused on their next lecture.

Upon moving into teacher education at Kings College, London in 2007 he was able to focus on this long held concern and now researches, lectures and publishes in this field.

On the other hand, Alison Kent described a more «traditional» INSET course where she and her colleagues were subjected to a series of boring PowerPoint slides with a long lecture from a consultant who listed a large number of tips and tricks to improve whole - school behaviour which included avoiding sanctions, giving more chances, and using more praise.

By developing my own content videos to replace lectures, students no longer rely on me to access the information.

Tablets are more interactive and one - on - one than most classroom situations, so students stay on task longer and experience less boredom than they would with a lecture - style lesson.

Their long friendship began when Price was a senior at Duke, and he picked her up at the train station to ferry her to the campus where she would deliver her famous lecture on «place in fiction.»

I was enraptured not only because I felt I was looking at a wild man — someone whose long, tussled hair intimated that he had rushed in from a hike along some windblown cliff to lecture to a bunch of physics students — but more so because I knew he could explain mysteries to me, decipher Newton and the others and render them comprehensible on a practical level.

«There were about 22 lectures, on average each 10 - 12 minutes long,» Danforth continued.