Sentences with phrase «made incomprehensible»

The film was a questionable piece to begin with (audiences were asked to sympathize with a German spy who cheerfully sent young British pilots to their deaths), but was made incomprehensible by Paramount's ruthless editing.

Or has the modern world made it both incomprehensible and unbelievable?

This is just another way of subverting the religious insight of the Bible, reducing judgment to a sort of transcendent verdict of conscience with no material consequence and making incomprehensible the mercy and love of God's judgment.

One setting in particular makes this incomprehensible.

After an exhale at the 12th, Jordan Spieth makes another incomprehensible mess at the Masters and is once again the talk of the tournament at Augusta.

In Lincoln, Nebraska, 85,000 people make an incomprehensible amount of noise watching on an enormous jumbotron as 100 young men walk through a hallway.

Do we ignore their needs or make incomprehensible demands on them or ridicule, name - call, and hit them when they misstep?

It makes the incomprehensible reasonable.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to a good enough microphone to get a good recording the road noise (my phone mic just makes an incomprehensible mess), but I took a video of jiggle and rotation tests on jacks.

Not exact matches

When naming a business, don't fall into the trap of making it so incomprehensible that your brand is lost.

«By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

Ironically, this new version of the Bible, intended to make the Bible understandable, proves my point: the Bible is incomprehensible to the casual reader.

But Tim recalls feeling utterly overwhelmed by the almost incomprehensible amount of money he needed to raise to make the building habitable — # 1.2 m.

You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables — of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and most of all, things unfair.»

It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»

Wolfhart Pannenberg concluded his incisive overview of the period with the observation that one must «spare the Christian doctrine of God from the gap between the incomprehensible essence and the historical action of God, by virtue of which each threatens to make the other impossible,» and went on to state that «in the recasting of the philosophical concept of God by early Christian theology considerable remnants were left out, which have become a burden in the history of Christian thought.»

That people tell others, who are already facing a difficult decision, that they don't have the ability to make that choice because THEY belive that it is wrong, when there is no garauntee to begin with, is incomprehensible to me.

It makes the presence of the Lord more incomprehensible to men.

Gabriele Schwab, in her analysis of this hermeneutical event in the bush, acknowledges that the elders «recreated their own cultural pattern within Shakespeare's plot» but concludes, «The Tiv people had to project their own cultural preconceptions in order to reduce the otherness that would have made Hamlet incomprehensible in their context.»

Thus we experience precisely in freedom what is meant by God, even if we do not name or consider this ineffable, incomprehensible, infinite goal of freedom, which makes possible the distance to the object of our choice, the actual space of freedom.

in every respect, too, He is man, the formation of God; and thus He took up man into Himself, the invisible becoming visible, the incomprehensible being made comprehensible, the impassible becoming capable of suffering, and the Word being made man, thus summing up all things in Himself: so that as in super-celestial, spiritual, and invisible things, the Word of God is supreme, so also in things visible and corporeal He might possess the supremacy, and, taking to Himself the pre-eminence, as well as constituting Himself Head of the Church, He might draw all things to Himself at the proper time.

But about this people concern themselves very little in our age which they think has reached the highest attainment, whereas in truth no age has so fallen victim to the comic as this has, and it is incomprehensible that this age has not already by a generatio aequivoca given birth to its hero, the demon who would remorselessly produce the dreadful spectacle of making the whole age laugh and making it forget that it was laughing at itself.

And so today, for instance, the casual remarks of a Pope made while travelling can be treated almost as magisterial teaching — something which would have been incomprehensible to a Catholic of the eighteenth century, whether «enlightened» or not.

«When I reflect on the fact that I have made my appearance by accident upon a globe itself whirled through space as the sport of the catastrophes of the heavens,» says Madame Ackermann; «when I see myself surrounded by beings as ephemeral and incomprehensible as I am myself, and all excitedly pursuing pure chimeras, I experience a strange feeling of being in a dream.

Ultimately, as he states, the God creative enough «to make the entire observable universe in a dense dot of pure energy is incomprehensible, beyond human imagining,» but still «we can see the consequences of this unimaginably powerful creative act: a universe congenial to the ultimate formation of life, life giving rise to intelligence that can ask questions science can not answer.

That the Eternal, the Infinite, the Incomprehensible should make decisions, that he should be confronted by an Either / Or, that he should grant or withhold his presence, that he should show grace or wrath, that in other words God has a history, that there is a story of personal encounter between him and man: these are things a philosopher could never admit.

The reconstruction of «that which was» may rationally appear to be merely a fantasy for idle minds; but in fact the meticulous work accomplished in the past hundred years by the collectors of fossils, the results which they have patiently recorded in innumerable papers and in barbarous language, perfectly incomprehensible to non-initiates, the paraphernalia of systematized knowledge and the clutter on the museum shelves, all this has made a contribution of the utmost importance to the world's thinking.

To make the history of the Reformation intelligible to a Japanese student, means to explain it to him in terms of his own historical thinking and his knowledge of history and in positive or critical relationship to it; otherwise any such lecture remains incomprehensible.

Moreover, the demythologizer, like the Liberal Protestant, finds a Jesus who in some ways resembles himself but makes the rise of Christianity incomprehensible.

The win / win benefits to not only the environment but also health care — with plant - based diets known to reduce heart disease, diabetes, several types of cancer, and obesity (currently at a shocking 23 per cent, with 60 per cent of Canadians overweight)-- make this negligence incomprehensible.»

About the incomprehensible environmental devastation and the stark contrast between the haves and the have - nots and the adverse impacts of globalization that will make you want to come home and sell everything you own..

It has been truly astonishing — almost incomprehensible — the progress that Pochettino has made at Spurs.

They are still learning how to speak their thoughts, which make them frustrated in communicating with adults since their ideas remain incomprehensible.

Part of the magic is that faced with the incomprehensible, the loss of a parent, Camp Kesem has made those affected better people, such as Abi and Shamon.

«I just find it inconceivable — incomprehensible is a better word — that given the progress that we've made in making these streets safe, we would run risks of tampering with it,» he said.

Instead, it doesn't make a recommendation at all - and is thus tactically confused, strategically incomprehensible.

I made it there on my own, successfully figuring out an incomprehensible map of the underground while wondering who would be in the audience and if they would subject me to a tough interrogation.

So finally, even if in his Einsteinian pragmatism God could only be accurately described as the Old One, surely there was a faith in that image, perhaps an agnostic's faith, that made it presumptuous for any human being to come to any conclusion about the goodness or incomprehensible amorality of God's universe or the souls it contained until we at least learned the laws that governed it.

In the face of tragedy, we try to speak because so often we rely on words to connect, to reach out, to make sense of the incomprehensible.

If you don't «get» the Judeo - Christian religious allusions and texts that make the questions in this film, it will remain incomprehensible, I suppose.

This is entertainment for 12 - year - old man - children that's even more incoherent and incomprehensible than the previous movie, and the diminishing returns of this worthless franchise makes it obvious it's past time to put a bullet in its head.

I know people love this band passionately and would defend incomprehensible lyrics by claiming they need to be «deciphered», but as a causal fan Yorke's voice and lyrics make my ear bleed sometimes.

I'm sure he'll make a good, if incomprehensible, Capone.

Though more than capably portrayed, one - dimensional characters make it difficult for Oculus to truly get under the skin, and overused audio cues and increasingly incomprehensible cuts between past and present ultimately cause the bubble of dread that Flanagan so desperately tries to preserve to burst far too quickly.

What makes The Act of Killing such a sickening film to watch is the realization that, as bone - chilling and incomprehensible this world is, it isn't too far off from ours.

Dark and repetitive, the action sequences are routine and incomprehensible (Even a faux one - take siege on the terrorist headquarters doesn't make much sense on a logistical level, because director Babak Najafi just wants to show off the gimmicky camerawork).

Franco directed «The Disaster Artist,» based on the making of Tommy Wiseau's incomprehensible «The Room,» which some describe as the «' Citizen Kane» of bad movies.»

Christine is therefore at best a conservative, pedestrian biopic desperate to make sense of something incomprehensible.

Full of lazy dialogue, unconvincing performances, and lackluster action sequences (made nearly incomprehensible if you have the misfortune to see the movie in its 3 - D version, inarguably the worst conversion to stereoscopic imaging since the trend began anew), The Last Airbender is an unintentional laugh riot.

Why have a short movie with an interesting and watchable appeal when you can make a feature film with immeasurable filler, incomprehensible editing, and poor lighting?