Sentences with phrase «makes peculiar»

If your cat makes peculiar noises while breathing, it might be time to consult your veterinarian.

Though the movie is the most explicitly «noir» of all the Coens» pictures, its look more closely resembles that of science fiction movies of the 1950s — a fact that makes its peculiar UFO subplot a touch less incongruous.

What was said of Cromwell — that he was the most typical Englishman of his time because he was the oddest — makes the peculiar logic of uniqueness apparent.

: Allies of the president have made some peculiar comments over the past few days.

One need not necessarily join Salinger's Holden Caulfield in the Roxy gallery, watch the Rockettes make their peculiar obeisance to the Incarnation in a tinselled Christmas routine, and hear the lad remark, lonely and honest amidst the gurgling delight of the audience, «Good ol' Jesus would a» puked!»

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

Berrigan himself cannily distinguishes between the «settler state» and the «long - settled state» — a distinction that would make the peculiar evil of this settlement lie in its comparative recency.

They mostly make these peculiar cries when they are discomfortable..

Though interracial relationships have their benefits as well, there are certain things about interracial dating that make it peculiar.

Why has Jolie made this peculiar film?

It almost sounds like a bolt was loose because the seat would rock back and forth as if it was not tight and at the same time it would make this peculiar sound.

The fan motor made some peculiar humming - ticking noises but worked okay.

he rattled on about the words of the winds and made peculiar gestures to lower the humidity.

It was a good call, though: in his bizarre characters and acerbic look at the Vietnam era, it's impossible not to see a connection to today's Tea Party, making this peculiar relic peculiarly timely.

These games don't have squares, but the team is always struggling to make peculiar stuff.

Maybe they made their peculiar just so they could have the appearance of firm ground under the 95 % figure.

Not exact matches

«Back to around the 2000 peak,» is one comment from a senior executive of NEC Tokin Corporation, a major user of tantalum, which has peculiar properties making it the best metal for switching electronic signals in small devices.

It is as a creature of wants that a human being has acquired, not only other characteristics that have been said to distinguish him (his disposition to make things, to fabricate, and his invention and use of tools), but also his peculiar attitude toward the world around him: both positive and intelligent.

In that book he made the point that the teaching of Jesus — his words as reported to us in the New Testament — has its peculiar importance for us in that it shows «who Jesus was» in terms of «what Jesus said.»

Newman concedes this dilemma, saying that «we can not make sure, for ourselves and others, of real apprehension and assent, because we have to secure first the images which are their objects, and these are often peculiar and special.»

Claiming that their son was «gender non-conforming» (six months later they declared him to be a transgender girl), the Edwardses demanded that the school make special provisions for his «needs» that required infusing everyone else's child with their peculiar version of reality.

This, of course, is not to say he is not rightly esteemed truly human, a man of flesh and blood with the peculiar Biblical force of that phrase; indeed it might be claimed that the very stress laid on the limited character of his experience makes us more vividly aware of the reality of his human nature.

A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society by Rodney Clapages InterVarsity, 251 pages, $ 14.99 paper A prolific evangelical Protestant writer, Clapp proposes an understanding of «church as way of life» along lines made familiar by the work of Stanley Hauerwas.

The latter in some respects are peculiar; but the melancholy presents two characters which make it a typical document for our present purpose.

This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of cells in a particular part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.

Hence in him, the reflective consciousness made the soul the object of its reflection to discover the soul's peculiar character and to achieve the ideal embodiment of that character.

I see no harm in its being believed, if that belief has the good Consequence, as probably it has, of making his Doctrines more respected and better observed; especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the Unbelievers in his Government of the world with any peculiar Marks of his Displeasure.»

In consequence, that class of person who were recognized as learned in the Law, and made it their business to expound it, acquired a position of peculiar influence and prestige.

It is not necessary for us to make a detailed examination of the various sorts of ritual associated with these meals; it will suffice if we see that the Jew worshiped God not only in the synagogue and in the Temple, but also in his home, where families or groups of friends met regularly for a holy supper, often held in connection with great festivals of the Jewish religious year, in which bread and wine, eaten and drunk, were believed to have a peculiar significance in establishing anew a sense of the covenant which God had made with his chosen people.

It is our faith that in that Man it did not «fail», not because it had peculiar privileges or unique divine prerogatives, but because it held fast to its «initial aim», making that its own «subjective aim» and thus through «the travail» which mortal existence imposed upon it finding the «satisfaction» or fulfilment which was its destiny.

It is true that «in the historical Jesus, God's will - to - value - and - fellowship «22 met a special fulfillment in a peculiar, reciprocal intensification of mutual involvement, but this in itself is not the way God became human, although from a human perspective it may make accessible to us the richness of God's concern for us.

This sense of the world's presence, appealing as it does to our peculiar individual temperament, makes us either strenuous or careless, devout or blasphemous, gloomy or exultant, about life at large; and our reaction, involuntary and inarticulate and often half unconscious as it is, is the completest of all our answers to the question, «What is the character of this universe in which we dwell?»

Where, then, does this order come from, this teeming life I see from my window: urgent spider making her living with her pre-nylon web, coyote crafty across the ridge - top, muddy Rio Grande as warm with no - see - ems (an invisible insect peculiar to early evenings)?

The imagination is at home in the sphere of change as well as in the sphere of changeless ideas; it is rooted as much in the visible as in the invisible world; indeed, its peculiar excellency consists exactly in its capacity of making visible what is invisible and of detecting the invisible element in the visible situation.

We shall be studying, in a later chapter, the peculiar genius of Christian worship, that makes it genuinely Christian.

«When,» says Mrs. Edwards, continuing the narrative from which I made quotation a moment ago, «I arose on the morning of the Sabbath, I felt a love to all mankind, wholly peculiar in its strength and sweetness, far beyond all that I had ever felt before.

What makes moral feelings peculiar is the logical point behind Kant's thrust — we owe dignity and respect to other persons as persons regardless of our other feelings about them, and in a moral crisis we may feel urgently the not always so gentle persuasion of God in the form of conscience.

At least, our experience of the animals with whom we live is that they exhibit behaviors similar to many of our own; that those behaviors clearly seem to be signs of emotional and mental qualities familiar to us from our own knowledge of ourselves; that animals possess distinctive individual traits, characteristics that are irreducibly personal (even if we feel obliged to recoil from that word on metaphysical principle), their own peculiar affections and aversions, expectations and fears; that many beasts command certain rational skills; and that all of this makes some kind of natural appeal to our moral sense.

They followed the same ideal, they conformed their life to that of Christ, and they adhered to the ways of his church, yet all this conforming made them freer than most to be their own peculiar selves.

There is a peculiar notion today that what makes a university Christian is what goes on in the classroom.

And as one does with many peculiar greens they're unsure of what do with, I made a pesto.

I find it very peculiar that sometimes it can take 8 - 9 minutes of whirling to make it drippy, and others it can take less than 2 minutes.

Baked them last night, and had one this morning along with my fruit breakfast... and i have to say, they were quite peculiar the taste... can't really decide what to make of it,....

A «Gringo,» as they call all Americans or foreigners, would find great difficulty in making any kind of a meal out of the meat thus prepared; but the Mexicans, by their peculiar style of treating it, are able to make a very palatable dish, of which I have frequently partaken with great relish.

«I know it is peculiar circumstances... but I'm going to try the very best job I possibly can and make sure that Seb has the very best dad he can possibly get.»

This one was inspired by Japanese parfaits, in which the most peculiar colours and foods are combined to make insane edible creations.

An Asian version known as kopi luwak undergoes a peculiar thing made from berries eaten by the Asian palm civet, passing through its digestive tract, with the beans eventually harvested from feces.

It makes people do very peculiar things.

Do we really think that there is something peculiar or unique in the English psyche that makes our league stronger than tougher than the rest of the world?

But all (b) actually tells us is that Liverpool suddenly had loads of money floating around, a hole up front and a really peculiar group of people making their decisions.