Sentences with phrase «many discordant»

Your marketing could well end up discordant with your intended audience — out of touch with their true wants, needs, likes and behaviors.

When the U.S. tone strikes a discordant note however, there are opportunities to look to Canada and Mexico as platforms for North American trade, in the event the U.S. pulls out of NAFTA and decides to go it alone.

Yet the approach seems discordant in an era in which people crave fresh foods and artificial anything is under attack.

Praise for an avowed supporter of the Tamil Tigers seems discordant coming Tony the Tory.

Though he remained largely unchallenged, Lee's combative character began to strike an increasingly discordant note among a growing number of Singaporeans.

«It is one of these issues that seems discordant with what our country stands for.»

The strong rise of the gold price amidst liberal doses of QE post-2008 through 2011 would have been a note discordant with an otherwise happy fable.

It is, in essence, the perfect discordant «non-argument.»

These terms represent two continua rather than discrete categories: a contrast of discordant disparity, for instance, is identified only in relation to other contrasts in the particular event under scrutiny.

Discordant contrasts represent mistakes in the process of symbolic transformation.

No scheme of analysis could account for all gradations of relative scale, so I have begun with a simple division into contrasts of relative parity or disparity and contrasts that are discordant or concordant.

The mistakes may be only apparent and with a more sophisticated view may be seen as relatively concordant instead; that is why the identification of discordant contrasts is a useful procedure.

The two prophecies sit side by side, but sound discordant when heard together.

Thus, because the ultimate objective, the totality to which my nature is attuned has been made manifest to me, the powers of my being begin spontaneously to vibrate in accord with a single note of incredible richness wherein I can distinguish the most discordant tendencies effortlessly resolved: the excitement of action and the delight of passivity: the joy of possessing and the thrill of reaching out beyond what one possesses; the pride in growing and the happiness of being lost in what is greater than oneself.

«Desiring, then, that all things should be good and, so far as might be, nothing imperfect, the god [Demiurge] took over all that is visible — not at rest, but in discordant and unordered motion — and brought it from disorder into order.»

Discordant and hostile persons are to be treated in a different way than pacific and intimacy - seeking persons.

As you enter this sacred library you discover that like all libraries, it contains various, sometimes harmonious, sometimes discordant and sometimes even contradictory, voices.

Discordant quotations from Process and Reality about the order of concrescence reflect unresolved tension between Whitehead the metricalist and Whitehead the ordinalist.

The Timaeus states: «there were no days and nights, months and years [i.e., there were no time measurements] before the Heaven came into being» (37E); before the Heaven came into being, the contents of the Receptacle were in» discordant and unordered motion» (30A); nonetheless, «the different kinds [i.e., earth, water, air, and fire] came to have different regions, even before the ordered whole consisting of them came to be» (53A).7 Of course, the terms «before,» «motion,» and «came to have» could be construed as metaphors.

It belongs to the goodness of the world, that its settled order should deal tenderly with the faint discordant light of the dawn of another age.

Therefore, to the qualities already mentioned, I would add the following generic qualities: (a) an expansive quality associated with the feelings of subjectivity; (b) a retrogressive or inertial quality inherent in the conformal feature of simple causal feelings; and (c) a discordant quality present within the communal character of transmuted physical feelings.

Despite their differences, none of the undergraduates seemed interested in challenging, supporting, or even mentioning Houellebecq's characterization of Islam as fundamentally discordant with French culture.

In the Christian sense our discordant, confused, sinful lives are given a new wholeness and sense of direction.

Into this evolution enter all the expansive, retrogressive, and discordant qualities which account for the perennial struggle present in the religious response to life.

If the basic situation of human life is set originally in complexity, any realization of harmony will be a precarious venture along the razor's edge between inclusion of discordant data as effective contrasts and their dismissal as incompatible values.

When this occurs, the inherently self - surpassing quality of the feelings of subjectivity, which may either overreach themselves in an expansive quality that knows no bounds or else become blocked by retrogressive and discordant tendencies, instead forms the basis for the religious mode of experience «at the width where the «self» has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality» (AI 368).

The array of analyses of time in response to these difficulties in turn suggests an additional difficulty: the existence of a plurality of sometimes discordant temporal concepts.

The more extreme, bizarre, fragmented, conflicting and discordant these ideologues become, the weaker their influence on politics.

Alone on the hill, with the dark sky and the stars above and the discordant world below, the narrator sinks more deeply into a contemplative state and, much like Stapledon's description of the Whiteheadian explorer, proceeds on a panoramic exploration, leaving his mountain top in a flight of imagination while staring at the stars.

The string of discordant communities along the Atlantic coast has grown into a mighty people, joined in a union which the earthquake of civil war only served to compact and consolidate.

A sense of discordant searching, but never settling or finding the right tempo and beat.

Seen in this perspective, historical Christianity must be judged to be a discordant synthesis between a religious movement of recollection and an eschatological or non-religious movement of repetition.

An accepted comprehensive theory is overthrown not primarily by discordant data but by an alternative theory; we should visualize not a two - way confrontation of theory and experiment, but a complex confrontation of rival theories and a body of data of varying degrees of susceptibility to reinterpretation.

It may be resistant to falsification, but an accumulation of discordant data can not be dismissed if empirical testing is to be maintained.25

Discordant data do not always falsify a theory.

The painting might seem rather discordant but for its one unifying element: the lamp, with its warm glow piercing the isolation.

He says, «Progress is founded upon the experience of discordant feeling.»

Andre Gide grants all this, but claims that Dostoevsky's submission to Christ held the discordant elements in his personality together.

The discordant multiplicity of free creations of actualities in the temporal world are brought into complete adjustment in the harmony of God's own actualization.

The clash of different prehensions of the actual occasions cause destructiveness and discordant feelings.

dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.15

(Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 257) These discordant feelings, in themselves destructive and evil, make a contribution by producing «the positive feeling of a quick shift of aim from the tameness of outworn perfection to some other ideal with its freshness still upon it.»

It was threatened by internal decay and by the still aggressive Ottoman Turks, loyal Moslems, who were more powerful than any single European state and against whom, in spite of the frantic efforts of the Popes, discordant Western Europe would not unite.

The time for tension in our soul is over, and that of happy relaxation, of calm deep breathing, of an eternal present, with no discordant future to be anxious about, has arrived.

Discordant voices are being raised about the Year of Faith announced by Pope Benedict.

To make a deal with the SSPX and the Lefebvrist movement on Archbishop Pozzo's premise — that this new personal prelature would be conceded a right to reject certain teachings of the Second Vatican Council — would be to make the symphony of Catholic truth discordant rather than melodic.

Often they have led a discordant inner life, and had melancholy during a part of their career.

To begin with, the mosaic model is discordant with the theory of societies that Whitehead outlines in PR.

The Guardian: Ding dang... Notre Dame moves to scrap out - of - tune bells Their names sound pretty enough — Angélique - Françoise, Antoinette - Charlotte, Hyacinthe - Jeanne and Denise - David — but the noise they make together has been described as «discordant» and enough to drive Quasimodo deaf all over again.

Traditional worship is giving way to twitching, moaning, raising of hands, and swaying back and forth to discordant music.