Sentences with phrase «mind as an image»

Leclerc assumes, as Whitehead does not, 1 that perception «is having ideas in the mind as images of what is without.

It may be unfolded in your mind as an image that appears to be actually happening, but it is not actually happening.

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As Ren tries to probe Rey's mind for an image of the map, he discovers something of interest and attempts to analyze it when he discovers that she is blocking him from her mind.

That image was cemented in the public mind, and in a not - so - positive light, by David Fincher's movie The Social Network, in which Parker was played by Justin Timberlake as a self - serving, callous playboy.

It's best if the emails are designed with mobile in mind every step of the way, so consider fonts, layout and even hyper - text as many mobile devices have images turned off.

True or not (and many advocates for women in tech spending their lives battling these stereotypes), in our unpolitically correct moments most of us would admit that we hold an image of programmers as shy but brilliant types who don't mind being holed away with their computers for hours or days on end.

Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands — the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual.

It gives someone an image in their mind and helps to store it as a memory.

As a mirror image of a legal commodities business, the Sinaloa cartel brings to mind that old line about Ginger Rogers doing all the same moves as Fred Astaire, only backward and in heelAs a mirror image of a legal commodities business, the Sinaloa cartel brings to mind that old line about Ginger Rogers doing all the same moves as Fred Astaire, only backward and in heelas Fred Astaire, only backward and in heels.

For that matter, the more consistent use of the term actual entity as opposed to actual occasion seems to betray a residual entitative image in Whitehead's mind.

These twin factors converge in passages that picture the church as a Body, and so in the minds of many, the Body is the main image for the church.

When Maine describes Noe's ordeal in traveling through a desert by saying, «Around him the land quivers and ripples as if still just an idea in God's mind,» he is making a decision to admit the Platonic image rather than impoverish the range of language available to him.

Such an image calls to mind such modern servants of humanity as Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Sister Teresa, Kagawa, Dorothy Day, Jean Vanier.

The images from the film are forever imprinted on my mind, and I still think of Moses as Charlton Heston and Pharaoh as Yul Brynner.

The Faith movement's push for such coherence involves affirming, in a neo-Augustinian manner, the dynamic relationship of spiritual mind (whether of the absolute God or of the human soul in his image) with the objects of its knowing, as a metaphysical first principle.

As the «matron of honor,» (a title that for some reason conjures in my mind the image of a large breasted woman in a peasant dress carrying an armful of babies), my duties for the week will keep me pretty busy.

The self appears as a mere image or object in our mind's eye, an abstraction.

You will most likely call me names or whatnot, just keep in mind that if you do all you will be doing is reinforcing your image as a hateful, idiotic, sad excuse for a human being.

As we sit at our desks or walk to class, the immediate faces and objects around us seem far more real than do the aspirations we have for ourselves in the future or even the fleeting images that may come to mind from last summer's vacation.

The doctrine of forgiveness, the doctrine of the Cross as a symbol of redemption, the myths and the mysteries surrounding the human body and human sexuality, the identification of sin and temptation with femaleness, the Image of God, the mind / body dualism that devalues female life, the depreciation of creation... these are some of the problems Christianity poses, giving subtle sanction to the violence women experience.

I suspect he may have in mind an image of overlapping, as a layer of cold air and a layer of warm air may both overlay the same geographic region.

Like Berger, Bellah has in mind the need for an overarching sense of meaning, but the symbols Bellah discusses seem not so exclusively to consist of «theoretical traditions,» as Berger describes them, but of anecdotes, images, pictures, connotatively rich names and places, rituals, and personal experiences.

For the medieval mind, perhaps, these images would not have been quite so jarring as they are to us today, for in the pre-modern era it was believed much more readily that the human being Jesus shared in the direct knowledge of the Father throughout the duration of his earthly life.

If we understand it as accurately telling what was in the mind and heart of God, then we have to deal with the issue of why did God create us in his image, knowing that he planned to destroy so many of us, and tell the rest of us that, at least in certain circumstances, it is fine with him if we destroy each other.

As Luther himself observed, «It is impossible for me to hear or bear it in mind [the passion of Christ] without forming mental images of it in my heart.»

He offers a series of snapshots, as it were — unforgettable word pictures that stamp an indelible image on the reader's mind.

And he became boxing champ of his school as his way to deal with that image of me which kept popping us in his mind.

He doesn't quite manage theunfashionable affrmation of the spiritual soul or mind in the image of the transcendent creator, which idea can complete the vision of man as having a privileged place in creation.

So long as the mind is captivated by memory, and really feels itself to be that past image which is «I» it can do nothing to save itself; it's sacrifices are of no avail, and it's Law gives no life.

With regard to the mind or mentality, however, the «observable properties,» such as conscious thoughts, images, and decisions, are not outwardly observable through our physical senses.

Much as most English Catholics love Her Majesty the Queen, many of us felt just a little uneasywhen it became known that she referred to the late Cardinal Hume as «my Cardinal», and not entirely enthused by television images of Her Majesty attending Vespers at Westminster Cathedral, for all the world as if it was Choral Evensong at Westminster Abbey: not because such ecumenical gestures are in themselves a bad thing, but because this one seemed all too likely to be have been a reward to the English Church for no longer making so much of a nuisance of itself, as it could have done, for instance, by criticising the supposedly Catholic - minded Tony Blair for his wholehearted support for abortion (including abortion up to term)- a stance which, north of the border, had led the late Cardinal Winning to utter a series of blistering denunciations of the Prime Minister even during NewLabour's honeymoon years.

Just saying that we should keep in mind about how Jesus has been portrayed in images as publicly appealing when scripture says He was not.

The quote may also point to a transformation by awakening directly, where the mind becomes the servant of the self and not the creator of a self - image (the concept of the ego) as a replacement for the true self.

This is partly because, as Castoriadis emphasizes, immaterial «things» like conscious images are not «in the mind.»

Thus it is better to think in terms of an ongoing unconscious activity of representing; that is to say, an activity of minding, where images (and intuitions, ideas, phenomena, etc.) emerge as the results of acts of representing.8

I had an image in mind, but your cartoon is much more fitting and, as usual, balances the gravity of the situation with some much needed laughter.

Neil Postman explained how the «Typographic Mind» utilized concepts, universals, and ideas in a way that images could not, for pictures present the concrete particular and can not «argue» so much as offer «testimony.»

But as I asked God to reveal Himself to me I found I was unable to pray the Hail Mary without disturbing images entering my mind.

It calls for an end to all authoritarian models of truth, including, in my mind, the model of the ordained minister or priest, who inevitably stands in the same relationship to the laity as does the divine image of God in Jesus to the followers of God.

I use the word narrative as a synonym for «god,» with a small «g.» I know it is risky to do so, not only because the word «god,» having an aura of sacredness, is not to be used lightly, but also because it calls to mind a fixed figure or image.

Here, in a strange fashion, the original fusion of supposed fact and faith - image, after an interim period of being dismissed by the religious mind as purely symbolic and crudely so, becomes in our day once again the vivid symbol for a faith - interpretation of literal fact.

What had initiated that conversation was an image that flashed across my mind one night as I was going to sleep.

As I share in my book, after a couple of minutes of praying the image of the Lion on the Wizard of Oz suddenly popped into my mind and I saw him saying, «I do believe, I do believe, I do, I do, I DO believe!»

However, I think that as evangelicals we must keep in mind how often we create the Bible in our own image.

No image calls Christianity to mind as a cross or crucifix does.

The piece left such an indelible image in the minds of the media and the public as it led network newscasts and became a staple of Jay Leno monologues and Saturday Night Live skits that it would be possible in the future to say and write and broadcast any crazy thing about the first couple and get away with it.

I couldn't force from my mind the haunting images of beautiful brown - skinned widows crying in agony as they clung to framed photos of their husbands and children, or the video footage of village after village lying in ruins from the unstoppable floods.

Man, created in God's image, has spiritual existence, not as something added to his bodily substance, but as the expression of that concrete body - mind unity which he is as a person.

They reacted in a manner that calls to mind the image from network television when people, similarly enraged, turned dogs loose on Martin Luther King, Jr., and his followers as they knelt in prayer.

Yellow orchids trail in the river, similarly colored butterflies dance over it, and as the mind wanders in the noonday heat, the ululations of the howler monkeys make it no great imaginative feat to conjure up the towering image of King Kong ripping down the 200 - foot - high, mist - wreathed cedars that stand all around.