Sentences with phrase «make sharp distinctions»

Finn does not make sharp distinctions between his adoptive family and his birth family.

This means that we are not able to make sharp distinctions of an ultimate and definitive kind.

To try to make sharp distinctions would be like asking a lover to provide a neatly divided report indicating in detail the various ways in which he has been with and delighted in his beloved.

Bohm; Yes, but I don't think we should make this sharp distinction between knowledge and being.

I do not make a sharp distinction between the physical and the spiritual.

Should we make a sharp distinction between public and private life as in the judgment (attributed to Martin Luther) that it is better to be ruled by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian?

Hayek made a sharp distinction, however, between those failures of justice that involve breaking agreed - upon rules of fairness and those that consist in results that no one designed, foresaw, or commanded.

To be sure, he correctly makes a sharp distinction between the Greek view of death and the Jewish.

So, I would not make a sharp distinction between individual leaders and broader publics.

Personally, I don't think it is a help overall; by making a sharp distinction between areas that the government will protect, and those it won't, it increases the total panic level — better they should not guarantee anything.

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It is also in tension with making a very sharp a distinction between what has been canonized by the church and other writings by faithful Jews and Christians.

Another error of «biblical theologians» is that of making too sharp a distinction between history and nature.

It is characteristic of the tendency of neo-orthodox thought, even when it returns to the Biblical conception of time, to make the distinction between kairos and chronos too sharp.

In modern times the term Aryan has become a racial term, as in Germany under the Nazis, when a sharp distinction was made between the Aryan and the Semitic elements in the population.

Brightman makes, «a sharp distinction between my actual self and its causes.»

Niebuhr explicitly criticizes Nygren for making the distinction between agape and human love too sharp.76

At a later cultural stage a sharp distinction is usually made between two kinds of existence which, it is supposed, may occur separately as mindless matter and as disembodied mind but, at least in man, in an association of body and soul.

But Michael Novak's Catholic faith should better prepare him to make a much sharper distinction between a good man and a holy one.

However, since the evangelical - revivalistic mind was not particularly keen when it came to making sharp and precise distinctions, this dichotomy did not become a problem during our period.

The distinction is not as sharp as is often made out.

«He is making me think that the distinction between living and nonliving matter is not sharp,» said Carl Franck, a biological physicist at Cornell University, in an email.

Because - and especially in their assessments - they tend to reflect familiar categories: The sharp and often distorting distinctions among and between «subjects»; age grading; the value placed on quick recall; the dumbing down of the quality and grace of expository prose to make it fit into some sort of rating scheme; the overload of material to be covered, usually the inevitable result of intracommittee ideological logrolling, which leads to a bit of this and a dollop of that; the almost absolute denial of a value placed on individual ingenuity, craggy but provocative thinking, sustained work, and desirable variety; the lack of interest, signaled by the assessment apparatus, of the virtues of fairness, good character, and imagination.