Sentences with phrase «obscure reasons of»

With vague plans to glom onto his notoriety, these thirtysomething lowlifes offer their drummer slot to the novelist, Dries (played by Dries Van Hagen), and Dries, for obscure reasons of his own, accepts.

Not exact matches

For no explainable reason, the show ended with a young comic named Steve Fessler reciting aloud the script of an obscure Bela Lugosi movie, Bowery at Midnight.

The reason is that the lines obscure the small amount of useful information that can be gleaned from a chart.

Modifications and foreclosures force a restatement of the asset on the balance sheet, and in the current environment, the ability to obscure valuations appears to be a primary reason for the growing gap between delinquencies and foreclosures, as well as the reluctance of banks to modify mortgages.

For that reason, Democrats say that they are also considering using the Congressional Review Act of 1996, an obscure and rarely used process that sets up fast - track procedures to overturn regulations.

Its experience of the extent to which human brutality can go, of the fury that can be unleashed when the human animal is attacked, its acceptance in wry cynicism of the venality of great and small; its acceptance, too, of a psychological analysis that tends to show how slight the power of reason, how great the strength of obscure passions; how corrupting of children the possible love of mothers and the wrath of fathers; its portrayal of men and mankind in bitterly disillusioned novels and in shuddering chronicles of man's inhumanity to man — in all this the 20th century has perhaps gone beyond anything that Edwards said in dispraise of men, individually and in the collective.

For this reason the ancient writings often tend to obscure rather than to illuminate the religious dimensions of experience.

DO the math, more people have been killed or died in the name of some obscure god or religion than any other single reason in the recorded history of mankind.

It's good for all to learn both the reasons for certain Christians» questioning of Obama's faith as well as the idea that Obama's faith is tied to a larger tradition that has been obscured by the recent popularity of evangelical fundamentalism.

The same flawed reasoning led the authors of Dabru Emet to obscure the central theological differences between the two faiths, by asserting that Jews and Christians «worship the same God» and find religious authority «in the same book.»

It is neither merely an object of thought nor subject, and for the same reasons «its opacity and envelopment it is an obscure principle» (N 162).

As the divine right monarchy came increasingly in the eighteenth century to defend its positions on the grounds of administrative reason and enlightened reform, the discourse of those resisting its rule also relied less on traditional religious appeals and more on secular ones, but the religious roots of all sides of the political and social debate were only obscured, never severed.

Is it not incontestable, a matter of everyday experience, that each of these, to the extent that he believes (and sees the other believe) in the future of the world, feels a basic human sympathy for the other — not for any sentimental reason, but arising out of the obscure recognition that both are going the same way, and that despite all ideological differences they will eventually, in some manner, come together on the same summit?

Reason the fourth: Comprised of a range of players, from the famous to the obscure.

Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt was due to travel with Mr Miliband but was denied entry for reasons he described as obscure and the Swedish have withdrawn their ambassador in protest of the decision.

For more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special election.

The human rights activist accused President Buhari of gender injustice, saying: «For obscure reasons, President Buhari ceded only 15 per cent to women in his cabinet, without remorse or apologies.

But the craziness shouldn't obscure the greatness of the city or the reasons that so many younger people, in particular, are being drawn to it, which include the character and quirkiness of its architecture and residents, the proximity to natural beauty, and the possibilities of all that potential.

One of the pragmatic reasons the union officials who play such a big role in the WFP's operation wanted to give him its nomination rather than backing an obscure law professor whose lack of name recognition at the time was equaled only by her paucity of funding was that they felt more confident he could produce the 50,000 votes on the WFP line necessary to preserve its spot on the state ballot four years from now.

WASHINGTON — There is «a substantial reason to believe» that Rep. Chris Collins violated federal law by touting the stock of an obscure Australian biotech firm based on inside information, while also possibly breaking House ethics rules by persuading National Institutes of Health officials to meet with a staffer from that company.

Nevertheless, Cox and his colleagues press on, for the same reasons that researchers flocked to Guam in the 1950s: If BMAA exposure accounts for at least some of the most devastating neurological disorders, learning more about this obscure compound could have huge implications for understanding the underlying disease.

Yesterday we ran a story about calculations that confirmed earlier news that physicists may be on the verge of discovering the existence of the Higgs boson, which, if it turns out to be true, would be one of the biggest science stories of all time.What concerns me here, though, is not science so much as popular song.For reasons that are obscure to me, the article triggered a memory of the old Johnny Cash tune, Folsom Prison Blues, which began rolling through my head.

And yet, having lived through past pandemics, Mulembakani also believes that even a flicker of a chance to control an onrushing infection is reason enough for him and his dogged colleagues to push on, visiting obscure villages, unsanitary markets, and overcrowded hospitals, testing for the signature of worrisome pathogens.

The reason: an obscure loophole in federal food labeling regulations that allows food processors to round off less than half a gram of trans fat per serving to zero.

For some obscure reason, people who failed at their first attempt to find a bride at a dating site begin to feel it's time to give up on that way of searching for their perfect match.

George Kirby was permitted to ascend to the Choir Invisible, but for obscure reasons the spirit of Marion was left behind.

Prey for Rock & Roll never gets much more clever than the homonym of its title: you want it, it eats you up — and through it all there's glaring musical evidence that Clam Dandy is obscure and unsuccessful for a reason.

The conversations that Hedwig has are mostly with Casey (Anya Taylor - Joy of «The Witch»), who along with two other teenage girls (Haley Lu Richardson and Jessica Sula) has been abducted by Kevin — or, rather, by Dennis — and locked in a windowless bunker, for reasons that remain obscure until the film's modestly suspenseful, surprisingly gruesome and extravagantly ludicrous climax.

And we haven't even gotten to the most credulity - stretching part of the plot yet: not only has Cass been kept alive in captivity long past the time that Mika has lost sexual interest in her, she's been put to work luring in other children over the Internet, while also recording stories and reminiscences from her life for an obscure reason never fully explained.

We haven't even gotten to the most credulity - stretching part of the plot yet: not only has Cass been kept alive in captivity long past the time that Mika has lost sexual interest in her, she's been put to work luring in other children over the Internet, while also recording stories and reminiscences from her life for an obscure reason never fully explained.

Prothero's point, aided by cogent summaries of the world's major diaspora religions, is that while there is some overlap about goodness and an ideal world, there are specific reasons why religions emerged the way they did for very different purposes (his sports analogy is a good one — most sports have a score - keeping system, but runs are very different than goals or crossing a finish line), obscuring the real and often hostile fissures between them.

Now, that being said, if you're writing about an extremely obscure subject that you don't know much about and that there is much information available for, than having lots of words means you'll have a lot more «fluff» in the content than valuable content, which is another reason your word count is so important.

Amazed, and disappointed, I would go so far as to say appalled, for reasons that are obscure to me, since why should I desire change, I who have come back to live amidst the rubble of the past?

OK, so in short the main specs for the HP Slate 7 VoiceTab Ultra 3900 - series are Android 4.2 (at shipping anyway), a 7 - inch display with Full HD 1920 x 1200 resolution, a 1.6 GHz quad - core HiSilicon Balong V9R1 processor, 2 GB DDR3 RAM, a 5MP front camera, a 13MP rear camera from Sony, and a weight of 239 gram, but for some obscure reason a short 6 hour battery life.

However, after that, for reasons beyond her control and related to the occasionally obscure world of publishing, she lost her French publisher, and almost stopped writing altogether.

I'm less than enthusiastic about stock investing for essentially the same reasons I'm less than enthusiastic about casino gambling: in both cases «the «game's» rules are totally out of my control, a super-powered marketing machine successfully obscures reality and drives play and players, and the game exists solely to enrich its owners at the game's participants» expense.

So even if an agent allows it you might find UA telling you the ticket won't issue for some reason, and then quote a million obscure reasons why (most of which they just made up).

The story isn't especially coherent for a game of its series, but it is incredibly hammy, ridiculous and obscure, which are exactly the reasons why I had a lot of fun with it.

Here are just a few of the reasons, with some obvious and others a bit more obscure.

Deponia also features a neat trick that I've been wanting for point and click games since the dawn of freaking time, but that for some obscure reason developers never implemented: a button that shows interactable objects in the environment.

There is 21:9 support but for some reason about an inch of the bottom gets cut off, obscuring the menus.

Its the reason why I don't tout the PS4's supposedly massive list of exclusives that include some of the most obscure games that most wont even have heard of let alone played.

It'll zoom into tight low angles for absolutely no reason while you're attacking an enemy, leaving your vision obscured and open to attacks from where you can't see and it's constantly swerving around to keep enemies out of your sight.

The problem is, while many obscure adventure games are diamonds in the rough, most 3D platformers of the last decade tend to be obscure for a reason — they're terrible.

Mr. Pumhösl's reasons for drawing inspiration from such an unlikely artifact remain obscure, but it's interesting to ponder the connections between two myth - saturated realms: that of the Holy Land and that of high art.

The archaic and obscure symbols found throughout his paintings are the tools by which he reaches into this surreal space, utilizing Jung's theory that by contemplating symbols one can explore «ideas beyond the grasp of reason.»

This obscures the climate basics that provide one of the many reasons to push hard and long on advancing non-fossil energy sources.

If only the forces of reason cut through the «money pollution» (Bill McKibben's phrase) obscuring the crisis, then the public would accept and embrace this task.

The reason progressives constantly obscure the meaning of terms like skeptic, «global warming,» «AGW» (when you mean CAGW), is so you can convert your political opinions into «science,» and then falsely label your political opponents as anti-science.

This isn't proof one way or the other, of course, but it does sound like he may be pursuing the right path for the wrong reason, allowing confirmation bias to obscure the larger picture.