Sentences with phrase «of intensity of feelings»

Spanning circa 140 emotional words it is divided into three sections: - ranges of emotions (offering a visual spectrum to be referred to by writers unsure of the intensity of feelings)- synonyms (each image has similar images and words underneath it along with a sentence to help a new writer see how it can be embedded into a story)- antonyms — opposite pairs of feelings that are useful when wishing to create contrast in a storyline The Blob Visual Emotional Thesaurus will be a vital reference for every classroom and can be used individually or in whole class activities.

Then there would be no loss except in terms of intensity of feelings.

«The ultimate creative purpose» is «that each unification shall achieve some maximum depth of intensity of feeling, subject to the conditions of its concrescence» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 381).

The courage to accept the restlessness and loss in the cosmic adventure is given in a genuinely religious faith that all achievement of intensity of feeling as well as all perishing is finally salvaged and creatively transformed by God's own experience.

Not exact matches

Researchers at the University of Georgia found that previously sedentary adults who started doing 20 minutes of low - to moderate intensity aerobic exercise three times a week for six weeks reported feeling less fatigued and more energized.

Whether they were feeling something strongly positive, like joy, or strongly negative, like anxiety, the volunteers reported that their time in the chair reduced the intensity of these feelings.

The findings suggest that solitude «changes the intensity of our inner experience, both positive and negative: accentuating low - key emotions, while dialing down our stronger feelings,» Jarrett writes.

We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort - level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it.»

An occasion exercises its freedom, he says, toward «intensity of feeling (a) in the immediate subject and (/ 3) in the relevant future.»

In the Whiteheadian system, God directs the development of an actual entity in the sense of luring it towards a form of self - realization productive of the greatest possible future intensity of feeling.

This intensity of feeling lies precisely in the act itself whereby God loves particular actual occasions.

And in different temporal circumstances the intensity of God's feelings may vary: «I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.»

Further, it is this intensity of the divine propositional feelings which most contributes to their effectiveness in achieving the divine purpose in the world.

Similarly, I have observed far more intensity of feeling in debates among Buddhists than in their discussion with Christians.

At this one point history was felt to disclose once again something of the compelling spiritual significance which it had possessed for the prophets, though at a lower level of intensity.

In both situations, we are supposing that the dominant thread of occasions has become a thread of the «nonsocial» nexus which is experiencing heightened intensity of feeling.

At the same time, as members of a living person, they experience their predecessors with particular intensity and also are capable of high anticipatory feeling.

The old dominance should be transformed into the firm foundations, upon which new feelings arise, drawing their intensities from delicacies of contrast between system and freshness» (PR 515).

Whitehead speaks of God as having, like all actual entities, an aim at intensity of feeling..

What kind of satisfaction the initial aim is directed toward is determined by the relevant possibility for its actualization, as established by its past, that will give it the greatest intensity of feeling and also contribute maximally to the future of the nexus of which it is a part.

He was always going to grow up in north Omaha; he was always going to feel called and special and heroic; he was always going to show up in Tulsa with the aura of leadership conferred by the trifecta of sports and academic scholarships and youth group intensity.

The major form of beauty presupposes this but aims beyond the mere achievement of actuality toward greater richness and intensity of feelings.

At any moment of his life - project a man can know that he must choose among values which aim at intensity of feeling.

In the project of self - creation throughout his life, man must strive to bring these values into aesthetic harmony aiming at intensity of feeling both in its subjective immediacy and in the relevant occasions beyond itself to achieve objective immortality.63 And man realizes that to achieve his individual destiny he must create civilizations which embody truth and beauty.

The old dominance should be transformed into the firm foundations, upon which new feelings arise, drawing their intensities from delicacies of contrast between system and freshness.

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.

To be sure, the «harmony and intensity» of feeling or satisfaction is a vision of richness and inclusiveness.

It goes without saying that the Psalms must be understood according to the canons of poetry, in which the point is often not to convey information or to argue grammatically and logically, but rather to express feelings of longing or anguish, adoration or revulsion through imagery, the juxtaposition of images and ideas, crescendos and climaxes of intensity.

Or it may take on the expansive qualities of insatiable demands, frantic intensity, and encroaching suffocation of others, in which case solitariness is resisted and the inevitable restraints imposed by the totality are felt with the inimical and threatening qualities of an enemy.

In some cases, coercion is the only responsible alternative in order to maintain the ideal of maximum intensity and harmony of feeling and satisfaction.

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).

The fusion of physical and conceptual feelings in religious experience both presupposes a range and depth of relationships in the data of the feelings and also effects a greater intensity or relational extensionality in the physical feelings of the individual.

There is secondary origination of conceptual feelings with data which are partially identical with, and partially diverse from, the eternal objects forming the data in the primary phase of the mental pole; the determination of identity and diversity depending on the subjective aim at attaining depth of intensity by reason of contrast.

Such actual entities are organisms that undergo growth; they are subjects and have feelings with more or less subjective intensity; they engage in a self - creation that is an integration; they make decisions; they have aims; they may or may not accept persuasions; they may entertain propositions; they form societies; they enjoy satisfactions; and some of them are even conscious.

Its strength combines two elements, the diversity of ingredients and the intensity with which they are individually felt.

They want to make it plain (they are demonstrably often hard put to do so because of the intensity of their own feelings and emotions) that it is judgment in the full sense — justice, the setting right of the woefully wrong.

By an actual entity with a strong intensity of conceptual feeling, the qualities common to many individual occasions in its immediate environment can be «fused into one dominating impression» which masks the differences between those occasions.

For according to the category of subjective intensity, the subjective aim of an occasion is directed not merely at intensity of feeling in the present subject, but also in its relevant future.

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.

There is, to be sure, a vivid display of passion and intensity of feeling as he fends off Bultmann's critics.

An alternative view would hold that elimination does not mean sheer obliteration but rather that an individual feels all of his past with greater or less intensity or vividness.

The intensity of religious feeling and the urgency of the religious concern differ greatly from group to group.

«What is inexorable in God, is valuation as an aim towards order»; and «order» means «society» permissive of actualities with patterned intensity of feeling arising from adjusted contrasts.

Because the vision of thought is held in common, the issues involved in these differences that arise are felt with equal keenness and intensity.

As long as the group is small and intimate enough for each member to know the other — a condition that rarely survives the early stages — great intensity of feeling, great solidarity, and great activity will characterize the members.

This sorting, modifying, and reorganizing is goal - directed activity carried out under the aegis of an aim of arriving at an intensity and quality of feeling which will be maximal given that past and the real potentialities available to that particular actual entity.

I come from «shameless» caretakers, abandonment, ridicule, abuse, neglect — perfectionistic systems I am empowered by the shocking intensity of a parent's rage The cruel remarks of siblings The jeering humiliation of other children The awkward reflection in the mirrors The touch that feels icky and frightening The slap, the pinch, the jerk that ruptures trust I am intensified by A racist, sexist culture The righteous condemnation of religious bigots The fears and pressures of schooling The hypocrisy of politicians The multigenerational shame of dysfunctional family systems MY NAME IS TOXIC SHAME

No doubt, the depth and the sheer intensity of the ambivalence that the West has felt about art come from the confluence of the Hebrew and Hellenic elements.

But it is new, a new type of individual, and not merely a new intensity of individual feeling.»

Secondly, occasions may either contribute to the intensity of feeling or lead to denigration of intensity, hence toward monotony by simple repetition.