Sentences with phrase «most ordinary words»

At the edges of language, caught between here and elsewhere, there is hope that if we look out of the corners of our eyes, we can sometimes catch the metaphors lying round about, hidden in the most ordinary words, in wait for the possibility of surprise.

Not exact matches

The headset already can be used to control most ordinary functions in common software, such as word processing and spreadsheet programs, by taking the place of a mouse — the cursor simply follows your gaze, and you can think your way into triggering the equivalent of a left or right mouse click.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

I've found that most people — including many law professors — have a great deal of difficulty wrapping their minds around the idea that the Court would permit the intentional destruction of a healthy infant who was capable of living outside his or her mother's body, when the mother's health (in the ordinary meaning of that word) is not in serious danger.

It is here, in other words, that one becomes aware of the mystical in its most unencumbered form — not as something uncannily «other» to ordinary experience, but rather as something interwoven into all experiencing.

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»

«Simply put, my actions undermined the integrity of New York State's government, and, most importantly, have led ordinary people to questions their faith in the political system,» Morris said Thursday, «Words can not express the depth of my remorse.»

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.

In Kazakewich v. Kazakewich, [1936] A.J. No. 10 (C.A.), the Alberta Court of Appeal summed up the ratios in Lambe, Severn and Edwards in this way at paragraph 86: I take it then that in approaching the interpretation of the pertinent sections of The B.N.A. Act with respect to the administration of justice, a Court should keep in mind that these sections are embodied in an Imperial statute to which the ordinary rules for the interpretation of statutes apply, that therefore the intention of the framers of this Imperial statute must be ascertained as at the date of the enactment by having regard to the words employed without extraneous aids to interpretation where the language is unambiguous, and that having regard however to the nature of the statute, a great constitutional charter, the widest and most liberal construction of the words used should be adopted with a view to giving effect to the whole scheme of Canadian union [Emphasis Added].

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.»