Sentences with phrase «novelty value of»

I think it's fair to say that early 3D shooters have aged about as well a pot of week - old yogurt in a greenhouse on a hot day, so the driving force behind sales is likely going to be nostalgia, alongside the novelty value of having it in your library.

We wouldn't claim a Kia Soul EV is fun to drive — once you're over the EV novelty value of course — but it's certainly reassuringly predictable.

Yes, it looks slightly better and there are minor improvements, and yes, STRAIGHT RIGHT have done a great job in converting the game to a traditional controller, but without the superb local multiplayer and the novelty value of the controller, I would suggest returning players think twice before jumping in.

It certainly has the novelty value of seeing a pre-James Bond Sean Connery (he also sings) as the romantic lead.

The novelty value of inexpensive, new (to him) toys and books can provide a good distraction.

Not exact matches

As long as you can preserve the novelty, value and legacy relevance of your data, you can feasibly cut costs and still see long - term benefits.

«By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

For value is not measured by the repetition of sameness, but by the adventure of novelty, even apart from its capacity for endurance.

«22 Man's valuing experience involves the intuition of permanence with novelty grounded in the presence of a transcendent source of order in the world.

Heidegger seems to me obviously correct in regarding modernity's nihilism as the fruition of seeds sown in pagan soil; and Nietzsche also correct to call attention to Christianity's shocking — and, for the antique order of noble values, irreparably catastrophic — novelty; but neither grasped why he was correct.

His reasons for speaking of God's causal presence in the world revolved primarily around the notions of order, novelty, values, and truth.

Obviously, these general characterizations must be nuanced with particular circumstances and qualifications, but the general orientation of value is between creativity, novelty, decision and repetition, sameness, conformity.

In contrast to the aesthetic order implicit in Kukai's view of nature and contemporary science and process thought, the «logical order» of mainline Christianity characterized by Ames assumes: (1) preassigned patterns of relatedness, a blueprint» wherein unity is prior to plurality, and plurality is a «fall» from unity; (2) values concrete particularity only to the degree it mirrors this preassigned pattern of relatedness; (3) reduces particulars to only those aspects needed to illustrate the given pattern, which necessarily entails moving away from concrete particulars toward the universal; (4) interprets nature as a closed system of predetermined specifications, and therefore reducible to quantitative description; (5) characterizes being as necessity, creativity as conformity, and novelty as defect; and (6) views «rightness» as the degree of conformity to preassigned patterns (NAT 116).

They have an intrinsic value that consists of their beauty.7 The value of life, then, does not consist in its precariousness, but in the fact that it is an instance of intensely ordered novelty, of harmonized contrast, that is, of beauty.

Yet, for process thinkers, an important value, the virtue of creativity, is the zest for novelty and adventure — characteristics of life itself, particularly in the more complex forms, such as animals with central nervous systems.

Oddly, and unfortunately, in various discussions Whitehead seems to suggest that any novelty is in itself desirable, as if, from the point of view of value, novelty were self - validating (whatever that may mean).

It is then the obligation of love to save the process from issuing into decay through introducing novelty which is additionally creative and alone can advance the value of experience.

Since part of the practical function of reason is to effect our survival, and since in employing the second survival strategy reason becomes «the emphasis upon novelty» (FR 20), it is easy to understand how someone in a basically conserving society would value up novelty and future - oriented behavior to the seeming exclusion of order and the preservation of the past via efficient causation (feelings of «causal efficacy»).

They are the avenues by which the principle of order and novelty lays hold of our consciousness so as to move it toward a deeper and more explicit sensitivity to value.

Aesthetically understood, value entails a synthesis of complexity with order, novelty with continuity, nuance with harmony, richness with stability.

In this way each person is immortalized everlastingly in God, retaining permanently his own uniqueness and individuality, and contributing that uniqueness as data to a fuller appreciation of value and novelty for the future.

Thus some may wish to argue that one can not assume that a certain set of spin - values would have been obtained no matter which of conditions a and conditions b are met — on the grounds that the provisions for novelty in Whitehead's system preclude such an assumption.

Aesthetically interpreted, value entails a synthesis of richness with harmony, complexity with order, novelty with continuity, and intensity with stability.

Whitehead sees the ground or source of purpose, value, order, and novelty — and in human beings of moral and religious feeling — as divine.

If you have issues with getting your infant to sleep because of your toddler's noisy interruptions, try putting together a basket of quiet time toys that only comes out when it's your baby's bedtime to keep their novelty value for your toddler.

Parent educator Sarah MacLaughlin recommends these fun shoe mops, to give mopping the floor a bit of novelty value.

A reality check is exactly what Dee is bringing to the political debate, along with an element of novelty value.

And being in power still seems to have a kind of novelty value which holds them in thrall.

The so - called top journals value novelty and unexpected findings, but other journals may be more interested in careful, extensive analyses of critical (e.g., biological) processes.

Indeed, Longino suggests that instead of the traditional trio of values in science (currently accepted theories, ontological simplicity, and hierarchical interaction) we consider using an alternative set: novelty, ontological heterogeneity, and mutuality of interaction.

Directed by «Pirates of the Caribbean's» Gore Verbinski, this over-the-top oater delivers all the energy and spectacle audiences have come to expect from a Jerry Bruckheimer production, but sucks out the fun in the process, ensuring sizable returns but denying the novelty value required to support an equivalent franchise.

Patrick is just one of the many amusing casting touches, along with Hayek, Janssen, Laurie (from Carrie and Twin Peaks), Neuwirth, Jon Stewart, Susan Willis (known to viewers of All My Children as malevolent maid Helga), and even — to a certain novelty value extent — Knowles.

Anyway, this film works on sheer novelty value alone today, and because of a couple of great performances by Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo.

For sheer novelty value the movie gets high marks, but it's tight plotting and generous exploiting of the whole idea of backwards storytelling (check out just how Natalie got those scars) and Leonard's own «condition» of short - term memory loss (Can't remember if you're chasing someone or being chased)?

And while the Veloster has four seats, a bigger boot and the perception of more practicality than a regular coupe, those six foot or over will be very cramped in the back and the 2 +1 door layout's novelty value subsides rather quickly when you're travelling along and want to put stuff in the back.

The awesomeness of running the Nook app on the Kindle is partially a novelty, sure, but it actually adds quite a bit of value to the device.

That in itself is a novelty; I tend to stay away from technology related businesses because I can never really get my head around the products and services they offer, I don't feel I can fully evaluate their competitive advantages, the potential impact of obsolescence and the level capital expenditures necessary to maintain market position, not to speak of the fact that they rarely fit into my value profile for potential investments.

As a result, many such animals suffer immediately from lack of proper care, while others suffer as their short - lived novelty value diminishes.

«Fruits covered with fancy gems are reflections of the ambiguity, which is what one wants in the immediacy of the moment or quality of novelty, compared to its real value and perishable condition,» she explains in his artist statement.

The ground being contested was not merely that of cultural value, but of how value was to be defined: as contingent upon historical tradition, and therefore concentric and centripetal, or as linear, directional, conforming to measure; invested in the dynamic of supercession by what Eliot called «the supervention of novelty».

Some of it is just the search for novelty and new markets but it also reflects changing values and the increasing recognition that artists beyond Western Europe and North America have produced important work, and that we need to better understand the rest of the world.

This experience affirmed his belief in the timeless value of abstract forms, which he contrasted with the desire for novelty that characterized the New York art scene in the 1960s.

The artistic and technical value of his photographs, together with the novelty of the male nude, gives him a great reputation all over Europe.

Lawyers controlled every aspect of legal delivery: its providers — lawyers; the structure from which services were delivered — firms; the economic model — billable hours; the resources required — lots of lawyers; the delivery timetable and cost — unpredictable; the novelty of the case — «every matter has unique aspects;» and the value of the matter — from the lawyer's perspective, not the client's.

A recent decision of the Alberta Court of Appeal, Beaverford v Thorhild (County No. 7), 2013 ABCA 6, is a more traditional application of the common law rule against bias, although the presence of Facebook in the facts of the case gives it a certain novelty value.

The premium build materials and inviting sound quality are each excellent in their own right, but the heavy focus on novelty over value means that you aren't getting much in the way of features for the price.

Of course, they will have novelty value, but if enough people start using them, it may just be more work for a busy recruiter?