Sentences with phrase «many contortions»

The brain encourages these contortions, activating reward circuits in response to biased reasoning that gives a high akin to a junkie's.

But at some point, we have to stop putting ourselves through mental contortions to come up with reasons why women somehow deserve less than men.

In some quarters «over-the-top» verbal contortions to avoid offending people have been mocked as humourless, ever - changing guidelines that are overly indulgent of people's unwarranted sensitivities.

For one, you claim to have knowledge what the financial contortion is doing an you have this conspiracy theory that you clearly just repeated from cultists on reddit.

Seriously, give that some thought instead of doing your painful contortions.

What contortions you have to go through to justify your belief system.

Christianity will allow you justify any issues you may have with enough mental contortions.

It's always fun to see the contortions that result from human decency overlapping with magical thinking.

I refer not so much to bruising contortions of expression, which any sensitive pastor would seek to avoid, but to those language substitutions and accommodations that depersonalize God and hence make God less accessible.

After years of placing this question before those of faith, I have yet to receive an answer that does not involve semantic acrobatics and mental contortions.

I'm more astonished every day by the mental contortions some people engage in for the sake of religion.

One place to begin is with the anti-Catholic, and anti-evangelical, prejudices entrenched among those who, in a moment of partisan contortion, expressed such touching concern about the alleged anti-Catholicism in the current presidential race.

Pastors and other Bible teachers have noticed this connection, and many have gone into great hermeneutical contortions trying to explain how it would be a good think to light your enemy's head on fire.

These contortions distort the way the UN addresses reproductive health services and the efforts of the reproductive rights community, and have resulted in a column that is a disservice to the readers of First Things.

• The him / her she / he contortions of inclusive language get weirder all the time.

Indeed, interpreting Trent was never his strong point as the logical gymnastics and painful historical contortions of his pre-Roman Tract XC demonstrate.

A tight - knit circle of techno enthusiasts forms close to the speakers, urging on the timed contortions of those blessed with agile grace.

From this point of view there developed the further attitude that this «call» to «supernatural life» was actually «unnatural,» i.e. some kind of contortion of human life which should be rejected.

Through all the contortions of causes and ideologies that hijacked the civil rights movement, we have, after more than thirty years, moved from talking about «colored people» to talking about «people of color.»

This from his review of James Davison Hunter's Culture Wars: «What I find so remarkable about the history of American Protestantism in the twentieth century is that, despite all of the institutional contortions and the ebb and flow of ideology, the center has held.

But after a while, the gymnastic contortions we put the Bible through no longer satisfied my curiosity for the truth.

I remember quite clearly what mental gymnastics, semantic acrobatics and moral contortions I had to go through as a Christian to reconcile what I read in the Bible with what I knew to be good and right.

As I gripped the phone, I heard my mother scuffling, ready to leave the room, not wanting her final memory of my grandmother to be the sight of an agonized contortion or a blank, uncomprehending stare.

Theologians have had to go through a dizzying series of contortions in an often futile effort to implant a vital theology of incarnation into imaginations shaped in the context of Western classical philosophies of God.

The contortions to which people go to avoid saying, «In Jesus» name,» in order to try to be PC are ridiculous.

Paul was one of the few of his time, perhaps the first (after Jesus), to experience that, but he (or his writers) presented that as «Jesus within» — a totally different concept, leading to all sorts of incredible theological contortions.

Instead, they went through theological contortions to stress and promote their preferred concepts of original sin and messianic redemption, and to fit literal interpretations of scriptures that were in large part allegorical.

If Willard had become a Democrat and kept to his beliefs, he would not have issues with his political contortions and twisting the truth.

Integrity — wholeness rather than dis - integration, honesty rather than the most fervently desired «will to believe», and peace rather than spiritual, emotional, and mental gymnastics and contortions finally won out.

His hero is Salvador Dalí, who explicitly renounced surrealist images of sexual fantasy and contortion, and went on to recreate the Christian iconographic tradition for his own day.

The logical and moral contortions are fascinating to watcy.

This is my second completed 100 day contortion challenge!

The 100 day contortion challenge has been the most incredible body enlightenment experience and will continue well beyond the intended 100 days.

I went to contortion class at 11:30 am with Shelly Gu...

He seems to get along with them all, an extraordinary contortion on a confused and confusing continent.

Being able to conceive of doing something like that, in the heat of the moment, is in its own way just as impressive as actually doing it; a contortion of the imagination rather than the legs.

It is brilliant because it is an astounding act of physical excellence — most humans couldn't even get the leg around there; most footballers couldn't hope to control the resultant contact enough to send the ball arcing precisely beyond the keeper — but also the achievement of that act of physical excellence requires a mental contortion of similar audacity.

Elway performed an impromptu contortion to gather the wayward snap, then gunned a 20 - yard completion to Jackson, and the roar in Municipal Stadium was reduced to a concerned muttering.

There were no wild contortions like we got on some of the recovery shots at Riviera.

Before he was known as Megatron, Calvin Johnson was nicknamed Neo by his Georgia Tech teammates, who likened his gravity - defying contortions to those of Keanu Reeves's character in The Matrix.

In July, she became the seventh woman to win four different majors when she captured the Women's British Open, generating all manner of confusion and linguistic contortions about whether she had compiled the career slam.

Takes quite some body contortion.

This one has to be nursed sitting up due to his reflux, which requires a bizarre contortion of my breast and his head, all tacked together by clenching everything in my arms at odd angles.

May's increasingly frenzied bid to find a form of words on the Irish question that will keep all sides on board for a bit longer is similar to Blair's desperate contortions to secure UN resolutions in advance of Iraq.

And Ol' Bocephus truly gives it his all, pulling off some rap - worthy verbal contortions to get the lines to rhyme and the syllables to fit.

The PM's frenzied behaviour this week is reminiscent of Blair's desperate contortions around the Iraq invasion.

Actually, a mental switch works just as well in the face of vacuous political discourse as it does for media contortions.

In the debate following his statement, Alan blasted the «weird and wonderful» contortions of his opposite number.

There's humor, a few exaggerations and basic politicking mixed with some contortions around the fact that Klein and his IDC have kept the Senate Republicans in shared power and the fact that governor has embraced many of those same Republicans.

Among the contortions, Dinowitz's statement that «Jeff Klein has never supported a Republican.