Sentences with phrase «of a paradox»

A good of example of the paradox of choice in action occurred in a landmark study involving something that, on the surface, is fairly straightforward: jam.
It all starts with a little bit of a paradox.
The nuclear industry is well aware of this paradox in considering the risk and safety of reactors, but not politicians and the general public.
So we have something of a paradox here — a hot real estate market with limited inventory where home prices are expected to remain relatively flat over the coming months.
Becoming a mother is an experience full of paradox.
Maybe that, too, is part of the paradox of an alternative space, caught between bringing people together and taking a stand.
Be aware of a paradox: Top talent want to know they're top talent but they also want your leadership.
Without the sense of paradox, we end up missing the delight and the disturbance of the gospel.
Now, it seems to me that the only way to explain this event is by means of a paradox.
That sort of paradox in art doesn't always work and can come across as forced, so it's a tricky balancing act.
As it happens, the most famous example of the paradox concerned academic gender bias as well.
But it's worth trying to do well, if that's not too much of a paradox.
Awareness of this paradox may do little to alter the way things will turn out.
But we try to explain and this leads to the use of paradox, sometimes in very helpful ways.
Stories, which have been the center of most of versions of «How to talk about this» will usually fail because of this paradox.
How important is the idea of paradox and contradiction?
Yet the cause of the paradox has long been a mystery.
The sermon dealt with the first half of this paradox, but not with the second.
The ability to grasp the notion of the paradox and to intend to be comfortable at the edge of your comfort zone.
The consequences of this paradox are reflected in Figures 1 and 2.
This raises another important implication of the paradox of skill.
However, we should not understand this as an expression of a love of paradox and mystery on his part.
The artworks continue his process - based investigation of the paradox between chance and control, the industrial and organic.
Our intuitive understanding of the flow of our conscious lives shows the error of the paradox — the flow of consciousness is a continuity and not a mathematical succession of points.
These freedoms, however, present their own type of paradox.
She is currently exploring systems of belief and the search for meaning through the creation of a paradox that poses as a religious concept.
Yes, they can have a successful career and a thriving family, but it's a bit of a paradox that involves simultaneous frustration and joy.
When it comes to some important values, then, teachers seem to present something of a paradox: they are both progressive and conservative.
That's part of the paradox of being a human being.
Yes, this is kind of paradox to see two different fabrics paired together, but it does look awesome.
It may well be that, given our particular theological heritage and the weaknesses that it has, the first side of the paradox is helpful.
Again, there is that sense of paradox: an object can only «talk» through implied movement.
However, the true meaning of the paradox is not yet recognized by this external estimate.
Finally pupils are given some interesting examples of paradox to discuss with the group and are invited to do their own independent research regarding this famous historical figure and report back to the group.
For instance, the Passion themes in Isaiah 52 - 58 about the obedient servant of God who suffers willfully and willingly for our healing and salvation present Christians with a series of paradoxes which are difficult to grasp: the honored one is despised and rejected, the innocent is charged with guilt, the healer is wounded, and the one who offers life is killed.
In somewhat of a paradox, the more promising the Nintendo mobile apps are, the more damaging they will be for the sales of current — or future — dedicated portable hardware like the 3DS or its eventual successor.
I am, therefore, sympathetic to the attempt to see his divinity in his humanity and find most helpful an influential book written in 1947 by the Scottish theologian, Donald Baillie (1887 - 1954) called God Was in Christ Baillie tried to explain the incarnation in terms of the paradox of grace.
The first third of the work — a series of aphoristic reflections on man's «vanity» and «wretchedness,» as well as his «greatness» — culminates in a series of paradoxes under the chapter heading «Contradictions,» in which Pascal attempts a religious synthesis of these two contrasting themes.
We asked Ray King, CEO of Top Level Design, what he makes of this paradox.
It is from this simple recognition of paradox that Luhmann develops his views of the functions of religion.
This lies at the heart of a paradox — the Inuit paradox, if you will.
To be honest, it was a bit of a paradox as it did feel more fluid than the two - door Coupe model and more fun than the lighter 5 Series.

Phrases with «of a paradox»

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