Sentences with phrase «most arbitrary way»

Willed by dead Susie, fate inevitably catches up with him but in the most arbitrary way.

Not exact matches

don't you see the trouble that most people are in and that they just want you for their own advantage but I swear to you we're different from all of them come join us I can tell you are lookin» for a way to live where truth is determined by consensus full of codified arbitrary directives come join us all we want to have is your small mind turn it into one of our own kind you can go through life adrift and alone desperate, desolate, on your own but we're lookin» for a few more stalwart clones come join us come join us come join us

Everybody knows that tax systems are somewhat arbitrary, few people willingly pay their taxes, and most would probably go out of their way to avoid them.

We live in a society that celebrates and rewards the most ridiculous and arbitrary traits, thinness being way up there on the list.

Despite the supposed focus on stealth, it's only utilized in the most arbitrary and frustrating ways.

If the choice of showing only her stripe paintings sounds in any way arbitrary (excluding her most famous «wave paintings,» for instance), the show is an occasion to focus on a particular selection of works with the same features.

The experiments have at times been extreme — wearing a uniform for months on end, exploring limitations of living space, and living without measured time — yet one of the most important goals of this work is to illuminate how we attribute significance to chosen structures or ways of life and how arbitrary such a choice can be.

Framed in this way, total emissions of a trillion tonnes of carbon will lead to a most likely warming of 2 °C, a somewhat arbitrary, but widely accepted limit on the amount of warming that the world can endure without a high risk of catastrophic consequences.

I thought the fact that there is kind of a pending issue in our state about what it means to be a lawyer, to practice law, whether full time practice is what's required for you to consider yourself practicing law, and it's pretty clear to me, and I think to most of the people engaged in the bar association in Minnesota that where our society is headed probably means that arbitrary numerical thresholds of how many hours you bill or work is probably the wrong way to think about whether people are professionally lawyers or not.

(There's no right way up on this; simply arbitrary; though it's helpful to put a person's most well - developed function at the top.)

While this may seem like an efficient way to save for home repairs, critics of this rule of thumb argue that the amount set aside is somewhat arbitrary, and doesn't account for a wide variety of factors, such as the age of your home, whether most of the value of your home is in the land itself, whether your home is attached or single family, etc..

Most start by learning the hard way, by trial and terror and making lots of arbitrary mistakes.