Sentences with phrase «narrow ridge»

«In the case of Epsilon, just by chance, the system actually moved over a very narrow ridge of warmer sea last night and this morning which allowed it to build up to hurricane strength,» Feltgen said.

«We were pretty surprised by the results,» Cifelli told New Scientist The team found northern teeth had sharper peaks on the surface, while southern fossils had narrow ridges at the base.

The site itself is a long narrow ridge which rises from the ocean floor at a depth of approximately 65 meters and goes to its highest point of approximately 8 meters.

What they have in common with the modern Rhodesian is the «zipper,» or narrow ridge of hair running down the length of the spine, and their reddish - brown color.

On the narrow ridge of their togetherness the man of faith walks, avoiding the abyss of self - affirmation on the one hand and self - denial on the other.

In no other area of human experience is it more difficult to preserve the attitude of the «narrow ridge» than in one's encounter with evil, yet here too the metaphor of the «narrow ridge» expresses the central quality of Buber's thought.

Further evidence that Buber has not left the narrow ridge in his attitude toward evil is his discussion of «God's will to harden» in Two Types of Faith (1950).

This is especially so if one understands by the Single One not Kierkegaard's man, who finds truth by separating himself from the crowd, but Buber's man of the narrow ridge, who lives with others yet never gives up his personal responsibility nor allows his commitment to the group to stand in the way of his direct relationship to the Thou.

Here, too, one must walk the «narrow ridge» — between the temptation of considering Buber a thinker who reads his philosophy into his interpretations and that of considering him a thinker who derives his philosophy from his religious tradition.

Thus Buber walks the narrow ridge between the mystic and the non-mystic, between one who asserts unity with the ground of being and the other who either removes God into the transcendence beyond direct relation or limits Him to objective «personal» existence.

In defining philosophical anthropology as the problem of finding one essence of man in the constant flux of individuals and cultures, Buber has once again made visible the way of the «narrow ridge.»

J. E. Fison, under Buber's influence, also shows a clear grasp of the narrow ridge between transcendence and immanence:

Another product of the narrow ridge, one equally essential to the life of dialogue, is the realistic trust which recognizes the strength of the tendency toward appearance yet stands ready to deal with the other as a partner and to confirm him in becoming his real self.

He has sacrificed the simpler intensity of the «Single One,» the «God - man,» and the «Superman» for the tremendous spiritual tension of the «narrow ridge.»

The narrow ridge between the two is a freedom that means freedom to respond, and a responsibility that means both address from without and free response from within.

Perhaps no other phrase so aptly characterizes the quality and significance of Martin Buber's life and thought as the one of the «narrow ridge.»

The German Catholic theologian Karl Thieme sees Buber's impact as coming principally through his position of «an outspoken «between,»» the position that we have called «the narrow ridge.»

Buber's philosophy of dialogue not only finds the narrow ridge between the subjectivist identification and the objectivist sundering of the «is» and the «ought,» but it also radically shifts the whole ground of ethical discussion by moving from the universal to the concrete and from the past to the present — in other words, from I - It to I - Thou.

This problem of the immanence and transcendence of God is an especially vexatious one, and here too Buber walks the narrow ridge.

In these studies Buber leads us on a narrow ridge between the traditionalist's insistence on the literal truth of the biblical narrative and the modern critic's tendency to regard this narrative as of merely literary or symbolic significance.

We stand on the narrow ridge vomiting and slappingourselves like Bowery drunks killing imaginary spiders.

The pagoda is situated upon a narrow ridge, a few kilometers above the Phewa Tal.

The narrow ridge on the middle of the hood is instantly recognizable, while quad headlights up front recreate the shape of the A110's front face and rally lights.

For a dose of adventure, climb up the steep and narrow ridges of Mt. Igcuron in Valderama.

Situated just southeast of island # 3, Shark Fin reef is a narrow ridge of granite which is partially exposed at low tide.

The Great Valley is part of a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains known as the Ridge - and - Valley Appalachians, which is characterized by long, narrow ridges, flanked by broad valleys.

Passengers were deposited on the narrow ridge separating the Rhone valley, which was already greening with the first blush of spring, from the white, frozen domain of the Aletsch.