Sentences with phrase «means grasping things»

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Yesterday, President Obama took to the podium and proclaimed, ``... we have always been and always will be a triple - A country,» and it sounded like empty sentimentalism from a man at a loss for words and for meaning» the kind of helpless, grasping - at - straws thing you say to a defeated friend you are trying to buck up, even as you know you lack the answers, or the resources, to offer either consolation or solutions.

By realism I mean two things: first, seeing the facts as they are and grasping them thoroughly, without evasion or illusion, without recoiling in fear or horror as it becomes evident what the result of some trend is likely to be.

The easiest thing to grasp about the City of God is that it is not the City of Man — that is to say, that all existing moral - political authority is all - too - human, and that every individual represents some promise, some meaning, some destiny far beyond anything that can be represented in the economy of an actual political - cultural world.

Jehu comes from Ramoth, which means «precious and exalted things that are difficult to grasp.»

God's natural order can still be grasped at by the common sense of men of good will, but the full truth and meaning of creation, the separation of the sexes and of human nature, will only ever be in part and obscurely viewed when the determined and determining purpose of the mind of God is recognised in creation, holding all things relative to Himself — and to His plan to enter creation as its Lord and King.

So Jesus is that One in whom the deepest and highest reality, divine Love, which is the mystery behind all things and the meaning of all things, is made decisively visible and tangible in a manhood that is our own and in terms that we can understand and grasp, and by which we can be grasped and thus directed on the path of right and true human development.

We can never look directly at them, for they are bodiless and featureless and footless, but we grasp all other things by their means, and in handling the real world we should be stricken with helplessness in just so far forth as we might lose these mental objects, these adjectives and adverbs and predicates and heads of classification and conception.

Of course, I am not a theologian or well read or educated in the Bible with all the pertinent historical, cultural, or grammatical facts required to understand and interpret the text in my intellectual grasp, so I may have misunderstood your meaning, missed a point, or maybe we're saying the same thing but each from a different perspective, like is said those who misread Paul's Roman epistle and James» epistle.

So far this year my favorite Christmas thing has been watching my kids really understand what it all means and grasp the concept of Santa and presents (and church), it's a lot of fun!

I feel Jackson already has a better grasp of the little things on film (meaning he does them in a real game situations) while Allen is currently learning them now (and even though he learns what he is suppossed to do he may not).

This week was fun for us because having a 16 month old means that dexterity and the pincer grasp are fairly developed and she is definitely wanting to truly get into things and explore.

I fail to grasp just why the film has the title it does, or why it is set in the era it is, but I'm willing to plead ignorance to these things if it means enjoying an interesting film with fine performances and an engaging plot.

By treating every performance as an experiment while still conveying a sense of fun, Brando grasped multiple meanings in the line,» The play's the thing.»

Multisensory learning helps students grasp the purpose, meaning, and application of the things they're being taught.

These travel encounters made me feel like the richest person in the world then, and I felt I fully grasped the meaning of another favorite travel quote: «Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.»

Whilst I was a bit wary of him receiving one, it does mean he's getting an early grasp on how things like the internet and connected devices work.

Looking at the bigger picture, however, will allow players to grasp the meaning of their adventure in the world of The Witness, which seems to mirror life: there's just no true meaning in solving these puzzles, just like in life there's no true meaning in many of the things we do.

You control a snake named Noodle and you traverse each level in serpentine fashion, by which I mean, you control Noodle by rocking the analogue stick back and forth to slither and grasp the trigger buttons to tightly coil Noodle around things.

No amount of websearching can make you American, CK, and that's not entirely a bad thing but it means you may never grasp how you sound over here.