Sentences with phrase «of complex feelings»

The initial data of a complex feeling constitute a single nexus that has a pattern.

The security was very tight and the U-shaped design of the complex felt very secluded.

Not exact matches

Inexperienced leaders commonly take control of projects that they feel are too complex for their team to manage.

Space critics such as the CBC's Wendy Mesley and Now are usually opposed to the billions spent on agencies, largely because of their ties to the military - industrial complex and because they feel it's money that could be spent on better things, such as education or social programs.

[T] hat's more complex programming, but we really felt we had to do that in order to have some more buffer to handle the number of orders they could possibly get.»

Research has shown that the consumption of glucose enhances complex brain activities, bolstering self - control and regulating prejudice and aggressive behaviors,» she writes, while also speculating that seeing and unconsciously mimicking your dining partner may engender more positive feelings towards them.

Dividend investing feels like an overly complex old - school way of investing that doesn't have a very strong intellectual basis compared to index investing.

I eventually put what I think was a good model together, but it was far more complex than I had been prepared for, I was left feeling like I wasted a lot of time.

The factors driving down the price of oil are complex, as are the repercussions, some of which are being felt now.

However, with the recent sell - off to some, it feels like the entire precious metals complex is similar to the Greek myth of Sisyphus where the sinner is condemned to an eternity of rolling a boulder uphill then watching it roll back down again.

It sort of feels an abundance of complex and to an extraordinary degree incredible for me.

Much of the investment industry is in the business of making things sound complex so that you feel inadequate enough to turn over control of your money to an «expert».

This strategy is not overly complex, so traders of all skill levels should feel confident in using it within their chosen trading platform.

To talk about odds of it happening and not happening are irrelevant, sorry if you think the odds are so astronomical that its impossible, keep in mind that you feel better with infinite regression, the most illogical fallacy there is (that god created this universe and then god had to have a creator, because lets get real, you're supposed to have me believe that a creator so complex that he can create the universe just appeared?

As each potential configuration is integrated into an emerging pattern, the feeling and form it symbolizes are combined with the feelings and forms of others, resulting in ever more complex and novel compositions.

Rather, she explores the complex of emotions that beset a woman seeking to navigate the unpredictable waters of contemporary relationships — sleeping with a married man who in turn has an unfaithful wife («Don't think of me»); longing for a lover who slipped away without saying good bye («My lover's gone»), vaunting one's independence whilst yearning for some permanent connection («My life»), feeling deeply uncomfortable with oneself: «I just want to feel safe in my own skin.»

Nonetheless, human beings are naturally religious when by that we mean that they possess, by virtue of their given ontological being, a complex set of innate features, capacities, powers, limitations, and tendencies that give them the capacity to think, perceive, feel, imagine, desire, and act religiously and that under the right conditions tend to predispose and direct them toward religion.

It sort of feels too complex and very broad for me.

Obviously the problem is a complex one, for relational power involves risk taking, and national leaders may legitimately feel that they have no right to take such risks with the life of the nation.

The value realized is a structure of feelings, and a more complex structure, inclusive of contrasting feelings, is richer than a simpler one.

So we feel guilty when there is no need for guilt, sometimes even adopting a martyr complex of all the things we are denying ourselves in service to our families.

For example, the idea that the brain is a complex non-linear dynamic system is mentioned only fleetingly - leaving me with the feeling that we had missed an opportunity for a useful discussion (such as perhaps making a connection with the ideas advocated by Polkinghorne regarding the possibility of chaotic systems «amplifying» quantum level uncertainties up to the macro-level).

«No one at Willow Creek has a messianic complex about this sort of thing,» he told CT. «We just felt we were uniquely positioned to pursue it because Tullian used to attend Willow Creek, one of his lifelong mentors attends there, and he has friends there.»

His typical pattern of writing is to take a hackneyed, obvious notion like the Romantic view of the corrupt city and the innocent country, and twist it into complex, awkward shapes in an attempt to make it express the far denser mood - thought he felt about the city.

As I understand it, the relevant features of a «proposition» are these: A «proposition» is a «concrete possibility; it is abstracted from some objective event in the actual world; it is proposed as a possibility that an entity may want to consider for itself in a future moment in its process of self - creation; it is apprehended by the entity in «feeling» and so is preconceptual and largely preconsciously apprehended; it stands in a complex of relationships with other «propositions,» and the set of propositions presupposes a systematic universe; its «interest» (as «lure») is more important than its «truth.»

However, whether people have actually been harmed by Christians or if it is merely a matter of what some might call a «persecution complex», should we not allow those who feel they have been mistreated a chance to tell their stories?

The Christian will affirm that at any given moment the natural world as a whole is gathered into the experience of a single ongoing Life, a divine Self, who feels the whole, «declaring it good,» or at least potentially so, both in its particulars and in its complex unity.

To answer this question we need to consult the descriptions of nonsocial nexus which Whitehead gives: «The characteristic of a living society is that a complex structure of inorganic societies is woven together for the production of a non-social nexus characterized by the intense physical feelings of its members» (PR 161).

The reading pleasure that results from this conversation — different for different readers — is not merely the simple pleasure of hearing a good story, but the complex pleasures of strong feelings — sometimes violent disagreement, sometimes frustration and sometimes a euphoric recognition, produced by Augustine's text, of the «beauty so ancient and so new,» to which Augustine points through the beauty of his prose.

Such intensity is in consequence of the concrescing of an actual occasion toward satisfaction, which is the arrangement of its many feelings into a complex and novel unity.

Concretely, then, the integration of simple physical feelings into a complex transmuted feeling provides for the various actual entities of the nexus being felt as separate entities requiring each other.

Complex physical feelings deal with the perceptual events of human beings (PW 123f / 132f).

By taking on complex characters who don't easily fit any predetermined bubble, Plaza is helping the rest of us feel better about our own lack of labels.

I know that I am «the same person» now as the person who started writing this paper; and I also know that I have undergone a complex variety of changes in sensation, feeling, emotion, ideas, bodily processes and so on between then and now.

Feeling overwhelms repetition; and there remains the immediate, first - handed fact, which is the actual world in an immediate complex unity of feeling» (PFeeling overwhelms repetition; and there remains the immediate, first - handed fact, which is the actual world in an immediate complex unity of feeling» (Pfeeling» (PR 206).

Gazing into the depths of the immense complex of which he is a part, whose roots extend far below him to be lost in the obscurity of the past, he again fortifies his spirit with the contemplation and the feeling of a universal, stubborn movement depicted in the successive layers of dead matter and the present spread of the living.

It is the function of a particular kind of complex integration of physical and conceptual feelings which yields the higher intellectual feelings with the subjective form of consciousness.

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

The interplay of the various qualities I have been considering yields, at a more complex comparative level of feeling, the generic contrasts which serve as the data of religious experience.

Nobel Prize - winning chemist Harold Urey, famous for his role in recreating the building blocks of life from inor - ganic matter, has been widely quoted that «all of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel that it is too complex to have evolved anywhere.»

The problem is the much more complex one of relating religious language to empirical categories, to bodily feelings, and to concrete social energies and relations.

This relates to the telos which is inherent within physical feelings of complex value and which moves toward a generality usually associated with conceptual thought alone.

It corresponds to Whitehead's category of subjective intensity which states that the subject's «anticipatory feeling respecting provision for its grade of intensity» is an element «affecting the immediate complex of feeling» (PR 41).

Each experience in this series is a subjective process of feeling many data and synthesizing them into a complex experiential whole.

One could point out, quite accurately, that Whitehead talks about God and the world in such a way that it is very clear that while God proffers a subjective aim which, if accepted, would result in the greatest good possible under the circumstances, actual entities sophisticated enough to entertain complex contrasts of feeling also thereby have genuine freedom of choice with the result that they are free to reject the aim proffered by God, free to turn their backs on God's lure toward the best possible tomorrow.

Church workers in the South face the complex challenge of empowering peasants in the countryside or urban barrio dwellers to host an encounter in a way that allows them to feel equal to the northerners.

These statements give something of the flavor of this early theory: «the first stage of the process of feeling is the reception into the responsive conformity of feeling whereby the datum, which is mere potentiality, becomes the individualized basis for a complex unity of realization» (PR 113C).3 Or, later, «The objectified particular occasions together have the unity of a datum for the creative concrescence» (PR 210C).

This is fitting, for the temporal purpose of personality was primarily suited to the greater intensity of feeling made possible by the complex structures of personality.

All these are integrated and reintegrated with each other until at the end of the concrescence we have but one complex, integral feeling — «the «satisfaction» of the creative urge.»

But whoever wants, on the other hand, really to behold and receive all truth, and would have the truth - world overhang him as an empyrean of stars, complex, multitudinous, striving antagonistically, yet comprehended, height above height, and deep under deep, in a boundless score of harmony; what man soever, content with no small rote of logic and catechism, reaches with true hunger after this, and will offer himself to the many - sided forms of the scripture with a perfectly ingenuous and receptive spirit; he shall find his nature flooded with senses, vastnesses, and powers of truth, such as it is even greatness to feel.