Sentences with phrase «of obscure words»

Writing long, indecipherable sentences full of obscure words doesn't make you clever.

Difficult scientific articles include a lot of obscure words and jargon.

Not exact matches

No, someone didn't randomly deposit some obscure token into your wallet address on accident; instead, the coin's team decided to send a small amount to a population of Ethereum wallets in order to spread the word.

Faulkner is dense with allusions and his language is among the most challenging of that period, as his mastery of minutia and regionalism combined to provide the text with pivotal moments that centered upon words that were obscure or ambiguous.

Further, the commitment to translational dynamism often involves the use of different English words for the same original word, which effaces many intratextual connections and thus obscures much theologically freighted literary brilliance.

The deeper I look into myself the more clearly I become aware of this psychological truth: that no man would lift his little finger to attempt the smallest task unless he were spurred on by a more or less obscure conviction that in some infinitesimally tiny way he is contributing, at least indirectly, to the building up of something permanent — in other words, to your own work, Lord.

This parallel has been obscured by the fact that the term «kerygma» can ambiguously refer both to fragments of primitive Christian preaching embedded in the New Testament text, and to the word of God I encounter from the pulpit or in my neighbour today.

But the Word of God, written at about the same time, recording the events of an obscure Jewish man and Jewish girl, has survived through time to give evidence to God's hand at work in the lives of His people.

Hopefully Rory doesn't talk in 25 - word - a-minute bursts of obscure pop culture references...

I may have a difference with Lewis here (one day, God willing, we will find out), but I wonder whether his relentless effort to open people to the truth - disclosing genre of myth did not, because of the connotations surrounding the word «myth,» obscure the truth he most wanted to be disclosed.

These contradictory perspectives show that before deciding whether to commit a few years of your life to reading obscure journals full of six - syllable words, the question has to be asked: Is grad school worth it?

Instead of introspection, goes the theologian's cry, let us rake over historical artifacts, dive into ancient lexicons, reframe cultural narratives, negotiate our way around words, vague and obscure, like so many corporate hacks rewriting the law.

But all of these texts are extremely difficult to interpret: crucial words remain obscure (e. g., authentein; exousia); the addressed situations are difficult to reconstruct; the «surface meaning» contradicts other Pauline material; and the methods of argument reflect cultural thought - forms no longer in use.

In the words of Allen Tate: «The abstraction of the modern mind has obscured their way into the natural order.

At a time when individualism was still, generally speaking, obscuring the fullness of traditional catholic teaching on this mystery, he wrote: «When Christ comes to one of his faithful it is not simply in order to commune with him as an individual;... when, through the mouth of the priest, he says Hoc est corpus meum, these words extend beyond the morsel of bread over which they are said: they give birth to the whole mystical body of Christ.

Consequently as regards the fundamental contention we are examining, it is not appropriate, in view of the historical associations that burden the word «material» to subsume under the term «matter» the subjectivity which is also met with within the primordial unity we have described, because to do so would at least obscure the equally fundamental difference encountered in that unity between the knowing subject and the object which is merely met with.

It does not matter if we say Gott in German or Deus in Latin, or El in the Semitic languages or teotl in Mexican and so forth, though it is, of course, a very obscure and difficult question how we can know that all these different words mean the same thing or person, for in this case we can not simply point to a common experience of what is meant, independent of the term.

Distressed by the obscuring of the clear word in the modern age, Goethe rephrased the first chapter of the Gospel of John as «In the beginning was the deed.»

One does not begin with the idea that we have in the New Testament verbal statements that are obscure into which we must introduce the light of understanding; rather, one listens to the word hopeful that it will shed light on our own situation which is obscure.

Since this point is quite crucial, I may be permitted to quote the words of St. Gregory of Nyssa about the purity of the souls of infants: «Whereas the innocent babe has no such plague before its soul's eyes obscuring its measure of light, it continues to exist in that natural life; it does not need the soundness that comes from purgation, because it never admitted the plague into its soul at all».

The question of revelation is a formidable question in the proper sense of the word, not only because it may be seen as the first and last question for faith, but also because it has been obscured by so many false debates that the recovery of a real question in itself constitutes an enormous task.

(See Genesis 24:43, Proverbs 30:19, Song of Solomon 1:3, 6:8) If you wish to retranslate that word, then you've got to first retranslate it in each of its other uses, and then reword the context so that the meaning is obscured... In other words, you can't do that and make the text say something that it isn't trying to say.

Let not the celebrated literary power of the stories themselves obscure this truth: «The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.»

And like the functioning of the body, that of words and paintings remains obscure to me.

«Primordium» is the most obscure and thus the easiest to define of the three words.

We do not doubt the prophetic authenticity of the historical Elisha, but again, the historical person as well as the prophetic Word are largely obscured in the present cycle of Elisha Stories.

The sacerdotal aspect of the ministry was not in express words disallowed, but it was so effectually obscured as to fall out of general acceptance.

The answer is not obscure: traditional Christianity awaits them, complete with adoration of Christ as God, obedience to Christ as Lord, dependence on Christ as Savior, humble confession of sin and a serious effort to live Christ's life of self - sacrifice, detachment from the world, righteousness, holiness and purity of thought, word and deed.

Some of the words used to describe them are: nowhere, boring, dreary, obscure, anonymous, deadly, dull, hideous, ugly, nonentity, godforsaken, depressing, derelict.

In this model, in other words, the arrangement of points would be fractal (a term also tossed out as an answer to the shape - of - the - world question), meaning that the distribution is the same whether you're talking about the macro level (the top online publishers) or the micro level (the handful of blogs and Twitter feeds about some obscure film genre).

He has been a disaster, supporting legislation against our interests and obscuring the facts with his torrent of words.

I was distracted by zippy marketing words that obscured the core attributes of a good sunscreen.

In other words, a single head can obscure your entire view of a movie screen if the head is close enough to you.

To investigate, Matthew Leonard at the University of California, San Francisco, and his team played volunteers words that were partially obscured or inaudible to see how their brains responded.

Erik Conway, co-author of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, noted that there's even a word (which he did not coin) for manufacturing of fake knowledge — «agnogenesis.»

It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these it is like wandering in vain in an obscure labyrinth.

The home page content is minimally useful: The site's mascot, a wing - flapping owl that dishes up «wise words,» is a little «whimsical» and sometimes actually obscures part of a true - false question on the home page.

Unfortunately, lazy colloquial usage tens to obscure the correct meaning of the word.

of the word is obscure and has been variously explainednot, to date, convincingly.

List of obscure dating sites puns or Plays on Words.

Though it's refreshing to see Langdon out of his element for once (even if the idea that he can remember obscure facts and not the word for «coffee» is as ridiculous as some of the film's major plot turns), it also defeats the purpose of going to see a Robert Langdon adventure.

Two birthday marathons on TCM this week — Akira Kurosawa on Tuesday (one of a multiple mini-marathons leading up to his centennial birthday on the 23rd) with heavy hitters The Bad Sleep Well, High and Low and Red Beard and some lesser - known ones; then Ginger Rogers on Wednesday, mostly concentrating on her pre-code stuff, including 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933, as well as a bunch of other obscure ones that probably aren't quite «good» in the strictest sense of the word.

As they are filmed from the head down to obscure their identity, all we can do is listen to their words during counseling sessions: to the numerous, heartbreaking facets of their decision, stripped of any political rhetoric but clearly forced into agony by the issue's unending debate.

I'd heard a bit about the movie — it would have been difficult, as a working film reviewer to not have — but not orally, so I thought that the title was pronounced with a long «o» or even a sort of «u,» so it rhymed with «Luke,» or, more pertinently, an obscure Italian - American slang word that Robert De Niro uses in «Raging Bull,» that word being «mamaluke.»

But putting that alarming number in the spotlight obscures a more critical component of the research, says Harvard Graduate School of Education literacy expert Meredith Rowe: it's not so much the quantity of words but the quality of the talk that matters most to a child's development.

«No longer will students use flashcards to memorize obscure words, only to forget them the minute they put their test pencils down,» The College Board, creator of the test, said on its website....

Ostensibly «obscure» words give us powers of description that can inform our surroundings, and they can bring clarity and insight to our understanding or the world.

The word autumn comes from the French word autompne, a word of Latin origins with an obscure meaning.

I do all of my reading on my 3G Kindle 2, even though the corner of the screen is dead and obscures a part of the last word on every first line.

Glose (n.): from the latin glosa or glossa, designates a handwritten annotation made in the margins or between the lines of a book, intended to clarify for the reader an obscure word or passage.