Sentences with phrase «of imagining»

Is it only me or do you also experience that circle of imagining every winter to become your most stylish winter ever but then end up with the same sweater and winter parka combo which you wear in a row for like 3 months?

We got tired of imagining a healthy breakfast pizza, so we created one.

In 2002, her spiritual teacher taught her the power of energy through hands on healing; by a process of imagining a white healing light pouring through the top of the head, coming out of the hands on to the area in need of healing.

Some experts say it is a consequence of imagining the action before you make a move.

«I think you're making the very common mistake of imagining that a science - fiction writer knows something about the future.»

It has workings and, I'm sure, intelligence of types we are incapable of imagining.

«Instead of imagining an emergent theoretical description to model the behavior of a nature - given material and validating it indirectly, we engineer materials of desired emergent properties that can be visualized directly.»

The study results revealed that participants of all ages reported less craving when they used the cognitive strategy of imagining the visual aspects of the food, amounting to a 16 % reduction in craving.

However, the perspective of leaving, of imagining the unknown and aspiring to a different life contributes to the understanding of migration and movement: a journey within oneself and as subject across state borders.

Avoid lecturing or trying to reason with your toddler: It's likely she isn't capable yet of imagining herself in another child's place or changing her behavior based on verbal reasoning.

Not only have they had those 12 - 20 weeks bonding to a baby whom they have created dreams, hopes and plans for — but they also have years prior of imagining what their family might look like.

The very concept that you would want to have anyone you didn't completely trust there while you're in labor is so far out of my imagining.)

I felt myself nodding along, sort of imagining what life of two would be like.

It's not like he was blindsided by their performance, though maybe living it instead of imagining it was too much.

However most of us here aren't capable of imagining the second round playoff scenario because we're too preoccupied with worrying about the closer - future butt - clenching, heart palpitation inducing that game 7 will bring of this series.

So, in the interest of imagining a competitive NBA Finals, let's give the Cavs one more superstar.

They are neither pictures of reality nor useful fictions; they are partial and inadequate ways of imagining what is not observable.

We are so habituated to conceiving of the imagination as a private act of the human spirit that we now find it almost impossible to conceive of a common act of imagining with.

Belief in the reality of One who interrelates empoweringly with every miniscule component of the cosmos is the conviction that I am not totally on my own in those acts of imagining.

At least it seems to be so when placed in an encounter with the promissory word that there is an ultimate companionship capable of dissolving out loneliness and of reminding us of an inherent significance that we had not been remotely capable of imagining on our own.

Despite these difficulties, some competent philosophers still defend dualism (notably Richard Swinburne), and others propose new ways of imagining personal survival of death, Yet every such attempt is followed by a counterattack.

Some fell more deeply into the trap of imagining that pluralism could be written out of the script of history than others; some remained mired in that trap longer than others.

For if revelation is so closely tied to our faculty of imagining, how do we know that It is true to reality?

For Whitehead, conceptual reversion is the «positive conceptual prehension of relevant alternatives» (PR 381)-- as in Hume's famous example of imagining the missing shade of blue — because there is a novel conceptual feeling whose data are different from, but relevant to, those extrapolated from feelings of causal efficacy by the operation of «conceptual reproduction» (PR 380f).

They are partial and inadequate ways of imagining what is not.

They are neither literal pictures of reality nor «useful fictions», but partial and provisional ways of imagining what is not observable; they are symbolic representation of aspects of the world which are not directly accessible to us.

The chimpanzee using a stick to get eggs from an anthill, a child figuring out how to tie her wagon to a tricycle, and the country politician developing a strategy to get elected to the legislature all illustrate the interweaving of imagining ends and inventing means.

Models are partial and inadequate ways of imagining what is not observable.

The picture of a king and his realm and of the world as God's body are ways of speaking, ways of imagining the God - world relationship.

To put the work about God in terms of believing is to shut off all sorts of imaginative ways of imagining God.

All of this imagining of what might happen in the future, like Whitehead's whole philosophy, is thoroughly speculative or hypothetical.

This doesn't mean that we're physically prepared for some cataclysmic event in terms of having a well - stocked fallout shelter, but rather that we enjoy the mental exercise of imagining the imminent peril and possible means of survival for humans as a species.

We are not capable of imagining what we will be like when we raise from the dead.

The faithful seem to fall short of imagining the power of a REAL God.

Yet despite the churchmen's concern, they stopped short of imagining the widows free from dependence and powerlessness.

Gay and lesbian persons respond by offering, from their experience, a variety of ways of imagining not only their own self - understanding, but the way we are called to be Church.

This way of imagining the redemptive difference that Jesus can make simply does not fit them.

In this way of imagining the redemptive difference Jesus makes, he takes on the punishment that our sins have deserved.

There is a I distinctly modern way of imagining the redemptive difference Jesus can make in his passion, and variations of it are omnipresent in late - 20th - century, pastorally enlightened, empathic Christian talk.

Clearly, this way of imagining redemption of the evil that Sam's family has experienced would erase the distinction between the redemption of evil the family undergoes and the redemption of the sin they commit.

This way of imagining the difference Jesus can make goes as follows: In his passion Jesus is the exemplar for Sam and his family of why God sends suffering.

There is something right about this way of imagining redemption.

According to this way of imagining redemption, Jesus as pioneer of salvation (read «redemption») is the example of someone becoming perfect through suffering.

At the very least the preacher can follow a long interpretive tradition of some form of communal study and present the sermon as a «common act of imagining with» so that a wider web of meanings and insights is available to the preacher's imagination (Troeger).

Instead of imagining atheists as a vanguard, legal secularism imagined them as a beleaguered, harmless minority, like Jews.

Catholics are exhorted to «take the final step of imagining Jews outside of a narrative dictated by Christianity.»

For just as we alone among the creatures are given the difficult gift of imagining our own death, we are also uniquely endowed with the ability to tell our stories to one another, to give ourselves away in narrative.

I have found one of the most valuable to be the exercise of imagining myself journeying up a mountain path to enjoy communicating with my higher Self at the summit.

In the full making present something of the character of what is imagined is joined to the act of imagining.

I began to look at where I was instead of imagining where I had hoped I was going.