Sentences with phrase «most ordinary sense»

Hasidic prayer, however, was not always prayer in its most ordinary sense.

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In a small volume intended to help ordinary people, who most certainly are hardly likely to become «mystics» in the technical sense, it would only be troubling and confusing to deal with such matters.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

That most such feelings are not conscious in any ordinary sense of «conscious» is no argument against this position.

«Most dazzling human achievements are, in fact, the aggregate of countless individual elements, each of which is, in a sense, ordinary.»

But in a larger sense, Ms. Murphy was also teaching about the differences in language, and the importance of paying attention to words that are being used even in the most ordinary circumstances.

Looking at the «grammatical and ordinary sense» of the word «modern,» the Oxford Dictionary, the go - to text for the Supreme Court of Canada (CanLii search found 147 SCC cases referencing the Oxford Dictionary as opposed to a paltry 11 cases for Merriam - Webster), the definition is «relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past» or «characterized by or using the most up - to - date techniques, ideas, or equipment.»