Sentences with phrase «objects have long»

Found photographs and objects have long played an important role in Piontek's work, but until recently, their arrangement has always resulted in a photographed image.

Art objects have long been the centerpiece of many a tale of intrigue.

Jan 04,2016... America's fascination with the automobile as a culture object has long been a matter of interest to...

This transcendence of organic, inorganic matter, and manufactured objects has long preoccupied artists, particularly those drawn to landscape painting; think of Ruisdael's Wheat Fields (c. 1670), with its ever - shifting cloud formations, or Monet's translucent reflections of sailboats in Regatta at Argenteuil (1872).

Not exact matches

«Plus, getting some fresh air will not only help wake you up, but if you've been working on a computer, focusing your eyes on longer distance objects can help minimize eyestrain — and getting some sunlight can help reset your clock,» Kerr adds.

Even more puzzling is that we tend to show loyalty to things long after the object of our affection has changed into something completely different (or has even died).

In addition, Waymo said it has now developed short and long range LIDAR sensors that allow its vehicles to «see small people and objects close to the car, and spot tiny objects far away, too,» the CEO said.

Instead of putting objects in a blender, the video would show a Windows 7 phone, an iPhone 4, and an Android phone being grilled, to see which one would last longest.

Anthropologists have long explored how inanimate objects and nonhuman entities - like «data» - can take on fantastic, fetishistic, or even magical properties.

I do not object to paying 25 per cent of any short - term (one - year) capital gain, but when it comes to gains that include a tax on inflation that occurred over long periods of time, it means severe injury to whatever real gain has been earned.

Asserting that all innocence has been lost, Zizek claims that an object is no longer considered art «simply [on] its direct material properties, but [by] the place it occupies, the (sacred) Place of the Void of the Thing.»

Yet having encountered this fantastic tree with human features, readers can no longer look upon real trees as mere objects meant only for our manipulation.

I have produced this analogy to prove that so long as the book remains a palpable object, i.e. so long as it is not replaced by auto - vocalizing and kino - vocalizing representations, we must look to the field of the manufacture of books for basic innovations in the near future.

The long strip of linen cloth known as the Turin Shroud, which bears the faint image of a crucified and beaten man, has been an enigma and an object of reverence for centuries.

How long before you would object?

Once when, as an adult, I defended myself mildly in answer to Father's letter objecting to my behavior in delaying repayment of a loan from him, no date of repayment having been specified, he replied, referring to his letter, «It was a fault of long - standing: that of overarguing a good case.

I do not object to the terms «act - teleology» and «rule - teleology» as long as we allow that the latter may have differing meanings.

The enduring objects that have given rise to our thinking of substances can be understood as complex societies of such events that maintain a constant pattern over a long period of time.

In this presentness it is no longer true (as it obviously is in the «having become» world of active subject and passive object) that the existing beings over against us can not in some sense move to meet us as we them.

In other words, if humans exist, then it is necessary that V - class objects do not exist since they would have wiped us out long ago.

He had long explored the complexities of human nature in history and society, but in this book he turned the problem around and looked at the subject which was involved, turning from the objective self which most analysts look at to the subjective self behind the object.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

God chose to have the Israelites to carry out His judgment, rather than instantly, to achieve two goals: 1) punish sin and 2) provide a real and long lasting object lesson.

In fact, he still does — though it has already been transformed and resurrected and is therefore no longer subject to the ordinary laws of our physics, which govern only mortal bodies and material objects.

We learn to speak of objects or societies with these familiar properties as having mass long before we ever appreciate mass as a physical parameter.

We boys of a later day found lost objects sometimes by catching a daddy long - legs, saying over him a formula which unfortunately can no longer be recalled, when the great insect would solemnly point one of his long legs in the supposed direction of the lost object.

It voices precisely that sense of difference in which anti-Semitism through its whole long course has found its real origin and provocation and which to this day continues, among the ignorant or bigoted, to make the Jewish people an object of suspicion and persecution.

A common sense approach would have been to say that now that we understood that human thought and feeling are part of nature, we should no longer suppose that nature consists only of material objects in relative motion.

It was, to be sure, written by persons, but it can no longer be treated as an immediate Thou, since it has passed into the world of objects by virtue of the act of writing.

Specific notions of deity, and of divine action, that have figured in theistic conceptual systems of long - past civilizations have certainly been influenced by then - prevailing technology — the ways in which people made their living.5 In our own time, recent developments in technology and in science have had major influence on how the object of religion is conceived, at least for some theists.6 Whitehead wrote:

I can not here investigate why language in our time has become flat, nonallusive, and impoverished, but simply to observe that it has and ask what this means for our churches as they seek to recover ways of worship which shall be more adequate to the object of worship, and more fully reflective of the long history of the people of God in their life of worship.

As the American poet and essayist Mark Signorelli has written: «Once it became common to doubt or to deny that man had any essential inclination toward beauty or truth, the purpose of making objects intended to unite beauty and truth in various ways was no longer evident.»

The works they perform might turn out to be helpful» though it would not be beyond the pale of reason to have one's doubts about that» but the effect on them, which is after all the object of the exercise, will only be to reconfirm the message society has for so long and so damagingly been giving them.

Then under the threat of heresy and schism this reflection crystallized into dogma, becoming no longer the object and goal of reflection, but a bit of permanent cultural baggage whose continued presence had to be explained and rationalized.

but i have a new idea for what believers think god is... and it may actually exist and funny enough is only tested thru its effect on other objects — kinda like a black hole — the collective conscienceness of every living thing... since we all are part of the same energies and have in some form or another a conscienciness, i believe that collective is what the believers claim is god — the collective being felt and moved like any conscienceness but with the power to effect us all as we all play into it — as long as we are open to it... your thoughts?

If love as normal human concern dominates our lives, all too often it will be ourselves who are its object, and the long and tortuous process, whereby ethical thought and feeling have led us beyond preoccupation with ourselves, may be undone.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

I'd like to suggest that, inter alia, it comes down to Ockham's Triumph: the de facto «establishment» in American public life of the notion that freedom is willfulness, and that willfulness can attach itself to any object, «so long as no one gets hurt» (which «no one» obviously does not include the aborted unborn and the euthanized, simply underscoring the confusions of the age).

On the contrary, it has long seemed to me that faith is meaningful only in a situation in which its object is not taken for granted.

No person is ever merely object as long as still living, 9 yet each moment of a person's series perishes and another begins, prehending the satisfaction / superject of the previous moment of the series, together with other contemporaries.10 God's actual entities also perish, yet God is always a concrescing subject (though not the same momentary subject), since God's personal series could never have a first nor last moment.

I think we must sign him up long term (if we haven't done so already) or he can have his head turned by someone like Man City where money is no object.

As she addresses the ball with one waggle, takes her customary one practice swing and then launches a Titleist nearly 310 yards (about 20 longer than her normal drive), you realize that this is perhaps the most efficient transfer of energy from a moving object (her clubhead) to a stationary one (the ball) that you have ever beheld.

Ernest Edwards, then sports editor of the Liverpool Daily Post and Liverpool Echo, had long talks with players of both teams and finally succeeded in convincing them that the object of the game was not to maim one another, but to score goals.

You would have to look a long while to find a clearer example of an immovable force colliding with an irresistible object.

Not to say many some would object to getting something special from their partner — as long as being naked was involved.

I've been quilting for a very long time and still find it fascinating that a few simple scraps of fabric can make such beautiful objects.

Toddlers at this age also have an increasing longing to explore objects that are new and people who are new as well.

Long before babies have the coordination to stroke, poke, or prod an object with their fingers, they can use their mouth and tongue to explore it.

Moreover, I've long objected to the notion that artificial sweeteners are some sort of a panacea with respect to childhood obesity.

Have them experiment with drawing long lines, tracing around objects (or each other), dipping the chalk in water or painting in a puddle.