Sentences with phrase «much of a mystery to»

Faraday Future, the electric - car startup that has been pegged over the last year as a «potential Tesla killer,» still remains much of a mystery to the public.

When a novel becomes a bestseller it is sometimes as much of a mystery to the publisher as it is to the author.

I am also willing to concede that pups from an unknown background may be too much of a mystery to want to invest the time and energy into rearing and training for service if there is a good possibility that they will turn out too small / big / prey driven / sensitive / independent etc..

Doesn't seem that much of a mystery to me.

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So seek out opportunities to feel dwarfed by something much bigger than yourself and your problems, such as gazing at the night sky, hiking through inspiring landscapes, reading up on the mysteries and grandeurs of physics, or even checking out an awe - inspiring YouTube video if you're stuck at your desk.

So, while it not only solved the mystery of how a new mining pool could command so much hash rate, it also lent instant credibility and one hell of a reference to ViaBTC.

But unlike that trip, which remained a mystery to much of the world until just last week, his maiden trip as secretary of state was replete with televised welcome ceremonies, live - streamed photo ops and well - attended media events.

James Nuechterlein's medley of reviews of the three new Lincoln studies is particularly artful in weaving together so much that we have come to know about the mature Lincoln who led the Union through the war years, as well as pointing out those areas in which Lincoln will perhaps always be clothed in mystery or contradiction.

Nor does it help much to give an accounting of one's debt to particular thinkers, since such an attention to one's relation to other minds in the intellectual community, whose life is continuous in time and beyond discrete place through the mystery of sign itself, violates the reality necessary to that community.

I do believe what Jesus taught and claimed and He does still leave some things a mystery for us even though He has revealed much of Himself to us.

In Turin, Benedict observed that «humanity has become particularly sensitive to the mystery of Holy Saturday,» because the «hiddenness of God» has become so much a part of our contemporary experience of Christ that it functions existentially, almost subconsciously, in our spirituality.

Therefore much mystery to be had and it being folly to think of one perspective in human rational terms as being superior to the other.

The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)

In place of one individual's interpretation of Christ we have a tradition which shines like a shaft of light through the refracting, expanding prism of a rich and varied religious experience, and by its many - splendored radiance begins to prove how much was contained in the apparently simple and single, but really complex and manifold, manifestation of the divine mystery — the revelation of the mystery hid from past ages, the message of God through Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lord.

Established a few years earlier by Bruno Hussar, a Dominican monk of Jewish origin, Isaiah House was intended to be a center for Christian — Jewish dialogue, a much - needed sanctuary for Israeli converts to Catholicism, and a retreat for Christian contemplation of the «mystery of Israel.»

While much of it remains a mystery and I do not know how it will all work out in God's economy or in eternity, we know from Scripture that each person on earth is given enough revelation from God to respond positively to Him, even if this revelation is only through creation and conscience.

Rather the paper looks at one aspect only, that of symbolising mystery, though one might want to argue that it is too much neglected.

When understood this way, prayer become much less of a mystery about how to pray and what to pray for and who can pray and where to pray, and much more like a conversation we have in everyday life.

My atheist friends who are emotional and highly sensitive react in awe to the beauty, mystery and complexity of nature, whereas my atheist friends who are cerebral dissect «nature» in a much more detached and analytical way.

This accounts for Jacob's destiny as much as for the mystery of the act in which God reveals his name to Moses — YHWH: the one who is (Ex.

What counts is not so much the name and the form as the response in the heart to the hidden mystery, which is present to each one of us in one way or another and awaits our response in faith and hope and love.»

The way in which death gave rise to life was essentially too much of a mystery simply to be described in terms of resuscitation.

In contrast, other scientists experience a sense of awe and mystery in relation to the known as much as to the unknown.

Honest recognition of this, along with our admission that much pettiness and silliness sadly disfigures the ecclesiastical world, need not rule out loyalty to the mystery of the Body of Christ, although it makes it imperative that such loyalty lead to action that will purify and reform the community as we know it.

For instance, Job is not interested in the problem of suffering as such but in answering the mystery of his experience; he does not ask so much for an explanation of evil as for an opportunity to take his case directly to God (Job 12:122, 23:1 - 17, 30:19 - 23).

As we shall see later, it is too much to expect that the biblical word of revelation will itself bring this sense of mystery along with it, as though we were encountering it there for the first time.

I'll take the side that leads to mystery with the hope of answering the unknown, instead of purporting to already have all the answers... life is much more interesting this way - I tried yours and it only lead to being like you, not a good thing.

Indeed, mystery was so much a part of life's presuppositions that there was no need to make revelation the explicit notion it has become today.

Informed by contemporary experience of the apparent eclipse of mystery, by the sorrow and oppression in much social existence, by the horrors of genocide, and by the modern threat of meaninglessness to the individual's existence, we now seem to be noticing more explicitly than ever before the image of God's self - emptying, or kenosis, that has always been present in Christian tradition.

Though Gellman's partiality in his selection of sources and his consequent lack of interest in engaging the full range of Jewish tradition and its interpreters keep him from leading us deeper into the mystery of Jewish particularity, this concise, sincere book does much to advance our confrontation of its source: divine election.

Despite much confusion nowadays concerning the theologian's true task, anyone sensitive to the root meaning of «theo - logy» knows that the word always implies the clarification and conceptualization of the mystery of theos by the logos of rational discourse.

All of this lies underneath the Hebrew attitude toward the name of God, the God who was mystery, the God who was ultimate, the God who was depth beyond penetration, height beyond perception, the God who was finally unknowable except that he chose to reveal as much of himself as his people could perceive.

The path of contextual theology is not so much one from faith to the clarity of knowledge about it, but rather a movement from life to the faith - experience of its mystery through the process of dialogue.

It is akin to Barthian fideism in as much as such revelation leaves shrouded in mystery the resolution of apparent fundamental paradox within the immanent dynamic of human knowing andloving.

For him the goal of universal knowledge is truth, which he defines as «facts and their relations, which stand towards each other pretty much as subjects and predicates in logic,... [from] internal mysteries of the Divine Essence down to our own sensations and consciousness,... from the most glorious seraph to the vilest and most noxious of reptiles.»

There is so much for all of us that hides Jesus from us — the church itself hides him, all the hoopla of church with ministers as lost in the thick of it as everybody else so that the holiness of it somehow vanishes away to the point where services of worship run the risk of becoming only a kind of performance — on some Sundays better, on some Sundays worse — and only on the rarest occasions does anything strike to the quick the way that little girl's cry did with every last person who heard her realizing that Jesus didn't show for any of them — the mystery and miracle of Jesus with all his extraordinary demands upon us, all his extraordinary promises.

Updike presents the reader of his novels and stories with the pseudo — wise men of today's society — with Jimmy, the big Mouseketeer who quotes Socrates; with the neon owl that advertises pretzels; with Ken Whitman, the scientist living in Tarbox who is considered intelligent in his field but who lacks a basic understanding of life; with Bech the writer, honored in direct proportion to the decline of his literary production; with Connor, the efficient, well - trained administrator of the old people's home who fails to comprehend as much of life's mystery as his simple and sometimes senile wards do.

To this day, much Jewish faith requires a specific homeland as the indispensable sacrament of its encounter with the mystery known as God.

It is much more probable to imagine generations of Muslims agitated by the same mysteries, moved by the same yearnings, troubled by the same questionings and doubts, and aspiring to the same peace as had generations of their ancestors who lived in the same environment.

That the phrase «separation of church and state» does not appear in the text of the Constitution assumes much importance, it seems, to some who may have once labored under the misimpression it was there and, upon learning they were mistaken, reckon they've discovered a key to solving a Constitutional mystery.

Why this little round creation brings so much joy has always been a bit of a mystery to me.

It is a mystery as to why it has not become much more wide spread, although the dominance of the Capsicum annuum lineage throughout the world at an early date may be responsible.

When faced with the option of low - fat peanut butter made with mono - xxx and poly - yyy, both mysteries to me, I decided that the natural, unprocessed, full fat option was much better.

Undertaker still hasn't answered John Cena's challenge, and I love that they're leaving this as a mystery because there is so much more going on at Mania 34 that they don't exactly need to openly sell Taker vs. Cena, one of the most anticipated possible matches at Mania for either in their careers, in order to succeed.

The sad truth is that we are just a couple of players away from having a very strong starting 11... Wenger's fixation with Walcott and mertesakher as starting players remains a mystery to me... neither have the quality of a top team like arsenal... I am not a giroud hater but he is still too inconsistent and the big question is whether welbeck can push him in a way Walcott won't... Campbell has done well and has moved ahead of Walcott and, ox for sure but there is still a question about how much more he can improve... Elneny is certainly an upgrade over arteta and flamini whether he will make it I don't know just hope that he does but arguably wenger could have been more ambitious... That leaves a top quality striking option... There is no doubt that wenger deluded himself over the summer and that needs to be corrected ASAP... Draxler dybala aube and even griezman with a big enough big could have been prized in summer... january not a good time for this but it is not difficult to find better options than Walcott ox or Campbell... All a question of whether wenger wants to win EPL on his terms or wants to win this for the club

Team Kluever (Sunset Foods)-- Currently tied for 12th with 0 points (Last Week: NR)-- This Squad still remains somewhat of a mystery to me as I have not been able to take in too much of their games.

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And they're all probably right to some extent, but with the network stretching far and wide across multiple continents, much of it remains shrouded in mystery.

We can get incredibly hurt by it, not just emotionally but also physically — in fact, love can kill us — but so much of what we are told through rom - coms, Hallmark cards, relationships «experts» and a lot of other societal messages is that love is a big, beautiful mystery and there's no way to explain it, nor should we.

According to espn.com, the size of the black market is as much a mystery as the number of athletes using the drugs.