Sentences with phrase «most narrow forms»

The most absurd, the most laughable, the most narrow forms of religious culture can nevertheless be — or so Keillor's voice is able to convince us — effective channels of real grace.

Not exact matches

«If the moon broke apart at 1.2 Mars radii, about 680 kilometers above the surface, it would form a really narrow ring comparable in density to that of one of Saturn's most massive rings,» Mittal said.

Coronary artery disease — which occurs when the blood vessels to the heart narrow or harden — is the most common form of heart disease.

The zircons record this period in the form of a narrow, 2 - micron - thick zone that most likely formed during a brief exposure to very high temperature.

Saturday Night Fever, for example, is a bleak tale of youthful fecklessness, blue - collar dissatisfaction, unwanted pregnancy and date rape, where the American Dream is exposed in its most narcissistic and narrow - minded form.

The NRC, instead of considering these actual costs, suggests that implicit costs in the form of narrowed curricula are the most important, but it provides no evidence for its view.

Had Mirel extended his story into the last few decades, I am sure he would also have corrected today's overly narrow view of «assimilation,» which does not require the loss of all distinctive identity, and of «multiculturalism,» which, except in its most excessive forms, also teaches appreciation of American freedoms.

The scales focus on language narrowed the definition of intelligence, which has been to some extent broadened in the most recent form, the SB5.

The narrowest measure, M1, is restricted to the most liquid forms of money; it consists of currency in the hands of the public; travelers checks; demand deposits, and other deposits against which checks can be written.

Breeding for form rather than function made rapid conformational changes in the breed; the shoulders straightened, the jaw became long and narrow, and the chest deepened to the point of preventing most modern day Fox Terriers from ever entering an earth, assuming they would have an owner would desire them to do so, and that their instinct would remain after years of breeding only for show.

Talking Walls Throughout San Francisco, public art enlivens plazas and buildings, but perhaps the most remarkable display of the city's creative pulse can be found on Balmy Street, a narrow cobblestone alley leading off 24th Street, where dozens of murals form an outdoor gallery.

The ravine or poort is a combination of some of the most beautiful vertical rock folds in the country that combine to form a narrow little pass through which a road winds.

First, the coral formations form a narrow rim at the edge of the wall which, in most places, is only 100 - 200 ft wide.

In the late 1970s California and several other states adopted a form of statutory guidelines, narrowing judicial discretion and, in most of these states, replacing broad parole - release discretion with good - time credits and a fixed period of post-prison supervision.