Sentences with phrase «of older expressions»

(That's a reworking of the old expression «the whole is greater than the sum of the parts».)

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There's an old Haitian expression that translates roughly to: «beyond the mountains, more mountains,» which I think should be the everyday motto of all good entrepreneurs because it's a spot - on description of the basic fact of life in a startup.

Strikes and riots in Greece, Spain and Portugal have found a new political expression in one - fourth of the vote obtained by a three - year - old Italian party that wants to tear down the political system.

Case in point: I happen to be a proud member of the rearguard of the Victorian Age, imbued with both reverence for women and old - fashioned romance, sentiments that find expression in kissing the hands of dates and women friends.

Presumably pulling the same expression as my nine - year - old does when I try to tell him about the cassette version of the Walkman, my friend simply could not comprehend the idea.

Some of the older churches that are works of art themselves I can look past, but this was a purely modern building with very little artistic expression.

This prophetism in its Canaanite expression first appears in the Old Testament in the old narrative of I SOld Testament in the old narrative of I Sold narrative of I Sam.

The old expression, «mercy killing,» had the merit of appealing to good intention (mercy) while candidly denoting the deed (killing).

«To watch a mostly Cuban - American crowd at a Miami Heat basketball game or at an event at the Orange Bowl or at the new Joe Robbie stadium in North Miami belting out «The Star - Spangled Banner» was to witness what appeared on the surface like the most old - fashioned, fervent expression of immigrant patriotism,» writes Rieff.

(Isaiah 63:10 - 11) What thus barely began in the Old Testament, however, became one of the early church's most characteristic modes of thought and expression.

Nostalgia for the old, monuments of spiritual aspiration, the worldwide revival of ancient religious forms, the power of orgiastic political movements of destruction, and the protest impulse that has driven artistic expression for more that a century all testify to the profound ambivalence with which the success of instrumental rationality has been greeted.»

Today we still speak of the cross only in the explicit language of the Church and religion; perhaps some pious old Christians may still use the expression for the experience of their own life.

The Old Testament was created to give expression to a people's self - understanding, to convey the meaning of their existence.

Others exhibit an old Pentecostal style, including the wailing and crying that often accompany manifestations of the gifts in these settings (and that more sedate groups find embarrassing) Still others have assumed the style of middle - class charismatic churches that openly demonstrate some of the gifts without some of the older - style expressions.

(For instance, on the very day on which I write this page, the post brings me some aphorisms from a worldly-wise old friend in Heidelberg which may serve as a good contemporaneous expression of Epicureanism: «By the word «happiness» every human being understands something different.

The behavior appropriate to self - will is self - expression: doing what one wants to do, being emancipated from the restraints and represssions of old - fashioned times, acting the way one feels.

By inserting new passages into the text as expansions of the old ones, while leaving much of the earlier writing intact, he invited us to read the earlier expressions in light of the later ones.

The expression of such a little old man — perhaps without he himself being conscious of it — is unspeakably touching when he sits so quietly in his chimney corner.

Or, to put it in other terms, the boundary between the ancient world and the modern is to be traced, not in the Aegean or the middle Mediterranean, but in the pages of the Old Testament, where we find revealed attainments in the realms of thought, facility in literary expression, profound religious insights, and standards of individual and social ethics, all of which are intimately of the modern world because, indeed, they have been of the vital motivating forces which made our world of the human spirit.

A church's prophetic ministry is a contemporary expression of the passion for social justice of the Old Testament prophets.

The Old Testament prophets present God's expression of justice, you and Jeremy have your own idea of what «love» is and that it precludes that expression of God's justice explained by the prophets.

ARCHBISHOP RANJITH: When you look at the Old Testament, you see that the people of Israel were born as the expression of the Covenant and the Sacrifice on Mount Sinai and the resultant experience of faith.

32 In regard to the Israelites of the Old Testament, «where the events were expressions of liberating efficacy «in spite of», there was their God.»

Its eagerness to ordain old men or widowers and married men into the diaconate appear as desperate avoidance mechanisms and an expression of fear and loathing toward normal sexual beings and above all toward women's bodies.

These two will to all eternity remain in agreement with one another, with a well - timed harmonia praestabilita, so that if ever the moment were to come, the moment which does not, however, concern them finitely (for then they would be growing older), if ever the moment were to come which offered to give love its expression in time, then they will be capable of beginning precisely at the point where they would have begun if originally they had been united.

But Abraham believed precisely for this life, that he was to grow old in the land, honored by the people, blessed in his generation, remembered forever in Isaac, his dearest thing in life, whom he embraced with a love for which it would be a poor expression to say that he loyally fulfilled the father's duty of loving the son, as indeed is evinced in the words of the summons, «the son whom thou lovest.»

His declared purpose from of old is to bless, through Abraham and Israel, all the families of the earth (see Gen. 12:3, an expression, probably of the faith of the J writer in the tenth century B.C.) It is his purpose in history to redeem, to reconcile rebellious man with himself.

In the Old Testament's treatment of the problem of suffering are some of the most notable expressions in literature of ethical insight into the meaning of retribution, profound faith in the ultimate justice of God, personal courage in accepting trouble as self - discipline, spiritual understanding of vicarious sacrifice, and religious experience of a trustworthy God; and, accompanying all these, the refrain of the disillusioned also, «Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.»

The entire story is given to us in the Old Testament material, including as it does much genuine history as well as a good deal of legend and myth, not to speak of poetic expressions of the relationship between Jahweh and humankind but with reference also to non-Jewish races and nations.

For if the theological task can be defined in terms of facing the tension between the old and the new, then it is only to be expected that both the speed and the extent of the change, in which we are at present all caught up, will inevitably bring changes in theological expression greater than at any earlier period in Christian history.

But with the widespread failure of the field to come to any agreement about the Bible's own categories of discourse, its special modes of literary expression and intentionality, and especially those social and religious factors that handed the Old Testament over to us, we have simply been thrown back on ourselves and the deeply felt convictions with which we began the process of interpretation.

Definition of PLATITUDE an idea or expression that has been used by many people Synonyms banality, bromide, chestnut, cliché (also cliche), groaner, homily, platitude, shibboleth, trope, truism Related Words conventional wisdom, party line, routine; inanity; generality, generalization, simplification; adage, proverb, idiom, saw, saying; old wives» tale, stereotype Near Antonyms profundity

Yet strange as it seems, though a new religious expression of some rather old verities has sprung up in our midst, no Christian theologian of any real merit has made any significant effort to make of football — and the wisdom it seeks to transmit — a metaphor for the faith.

If the Old Testament lacks a technical term for the idea of revelation, the expression «Word of Yahweh» remains a favorite expression, the most frequent and the most significant to express the divine communication.

Darling and Juliet of the Spirits, originally rated A - «morally unobjectionable for adults, with reservations,» by the old Legion of Decency, were cited by the National Catholic Office on the Motion Picture for their «artistic vision» and «expression of authentic human values.»

But most of these religious developments continued the older mythic habit of «abolishing time,» to use Mircea Eliade's expression.

Young skeptics like me long to deconstruct old notions of truth, salvation, faith, and doubt, and in doing so, we have developed ideas that can easily be described as «subtle differences or distinctions in expression, meaning, or response,» or «very slight differences or variation in color or tone.»

This concern found expression in the late Old Testament books of Ruth and Jonah, though there were seeds of it in Israel's earliest traditions, such as the divine words spoken to Abraham, «By you all the families of the earth will bless themselves».

In my more honest moments I admit that my most basic objection to many of the weddings I get caught in is not that they are theologically unsound but that they are, to use a good old southern expression, tacky.

Furthermore, most Jewish scholars have not participated in Old Testament theology, choosing instead to live with the tensions of traditions that have shaped different expressions of Judaism.

We have noted the fresh surges of life in Christianity, with the emergence and proliferation of Protestantism; in the Roman Catholic Church the much - needed moral reforms and the expression of Christian devotion through revitalization of old monastic orders and the creation of new kinds of monasticism; and lesser although important developments in the Orthodox Church in Russia.

The older concept of Yahweh as a nature - god, specifically his association, as at Sinai, with an active volcano, persisted to lend force and literary expression to many devout utterances; also it took on, with the course of time, a new relevance.

It is perhaps not accidental that the clearest expression in the Old Testament of a future resurrection of the dead is found in the book purporting to be the visions of a certain Daniel, reputed to be an official in the court of «Darius the Mede».

The Psalms, the old Jewish poems and hymns which were and are a staple prayer diet of many Christians often have expressions not much less expressive of common human emotions.

And all that which in the old days was regarded with horror as the expression of impious insubordination has now become spirited, the sign of a deep nature.

This unique expression is used in the Old Testament of the Tent of Meeting or Tabernacle in the desert, where Moses and Aaron went to speak with God, the place where God lived among them and beside them.

It is scarcely necessary to mention that the Old Testament, particularly in its later expressions, was much concerned with this problem of the justice of God's rule of the world.

Eschatology... while sometimes signifying (in the Old Testament) the abandonment of any hope for justice in this world, is essentially an expression of the sense of injustice in the world as it is, and tile conviction that God is good and his justice must somewhere and somehow ultimately triumph.12

I think there is, and that it is being found in the return to a more corporate understanding of the place of the Christian priesthood in the Church, in which we will both go back of the Middle Ages to the days of the early Christian community and forward into the future with new expressions of ancient life, bringing out of God's treasure things new and old.

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