Sentences with phrase «of temporal distance»

Broadly speaking, these books are written by white women, center on a white female protagonist — who usually guides the story through first - person narrative — and involve a trauma of some sort, often narrated from some sort of temporal distance.

Not exact matches

The concept of temporal order is fundamental to his metaphysics, whereas space - time distances are logical constructs.

Is the concept of space - time distance essential to the concept of temporal order?

In other words, the relationship of earlier to later can be described in terms of the temporal modalities and the concept of comparative temporal distances.

An actual entity is a substance or set of properties located at a point of intersection of a spatial distance scheme and a temporal causal sequence.

Trinitarian images ground Christian faith, love and hope by providing for the experiences of separation and distance in Christian life, while insisting on a unity with God that transcends all temporal and spatial boundaries.

Or one might declare that (E) and (E1) are necessarily independent if the distance between their spatial coordinates divided by the difference between their temporal coordinates, in some common frame, exceeds the speed of light.

This distance, of course, is not only spatial; it is above all a temporal one.

As Whitehead observed, since the advent of relativity, «spatial relations must stretch through time» (Whitehead 1925, p. 6); in other words, there are only spatio - temporal, but no merely spatial distances.

Dr Adam Swift focussed on questions of temporal and relationship distance in the practical application of notions of justice.

If this forebrain - midbrain threat circuit is mediated by both geographical - temporal and psychological distance, as predicted by theorists (4, 5), we would then expect subject - specific differences in psychological indices of threat to be correlated with PAG activity.

Depp's antihero is appealing and different; though he relies on a single joke of temporal relocation, it's a good one, which repeatedly yields amusement out of the cultural and lingual distance.

The three books listed below provide the perspective of these survivors, now grown, looking back from a temporal and physical distance on the lives they once had and the ways in which the war changed them.

Through these and other concerns, this exhibition explores and expands on the limits and significance of distance itself, stretching physical and temporal limits to match artistic desires and inclinations.

In her catalog essay, the Whitney Museum of American Art's film curator, Chrissie Iles, distinguishes Ms. Collier from the Pictures Generation artists: «Collier's relationship with her subject matter takes place at one remove, and at a greater historical distance, within a social culture transformed by the Internet, in which the linear trajectory of history has collapsed into a flat matrix of information, influence and temporal fluidity.»

His multi-faceted installations often reconstitute the perception of physical and temporal distance.

What underlies the exhibition and its works is the combination of proximity and distance that is the overcoming of temporal and spatial restrictions.

Its title corresponds to the geographic distance between Pakistan and Greece, the two locations that constitute the start and end point (even if temporal) of the networks that smuggle economic migrants from the subcontinent into Europe.

Surely it is not beyond the wit of man to devise some sort rating system whereby points are awarded for distance from board, and closeness to bullseye, reflecting advance prediction and spatio - temporal accuracy?

Spence — my point about long - distance correlation such as ENSO was not regarding chaotic systems per se — obviously temporal chaos often involves spatially extended attractors, which is very likely a good description of ENSO.

IIRC that's about the temporal distance to Milankovitch peaking in favor of glacier building then NH summer and winter insolation disparity starts to increase again.

Maybe climate is so abstract and nonlinear, spread over such huge geographical and temporal distances, that the intellectual and emotional work required to fully apprehend it is simply out of reach for most ordinary people, living lives in the present, surrounded by people and problems that affect them directly.

As enthusiasm for deliberative democracy in liberal societies is «driven by a perceived distance between the drives and motivations of citizens and the political decisions made in their name,» live - blogging in all its informational immediacy may be able to narrow the temporal distance between lawmaker and subject, as the latter is able to instantly respond to the actions of the former.

In this case the use of the car had not ended when the injuries occurred and there was no temporal distance because the insured had not left the car and the engine was still running when he was assaulted.