Sentences with phrase «of the adjective as»

(37) In the conventional use of the adjective as the modifier of a noun, the carefully selected adjective can strengthen (or reduce) the world view called forth by the noun, as is «The Lord is a very great God, a God above all gods.»
The device is straightforward and customizable, and now it can add «colorful» to its roster of adjectives as well.

Not exact matches

I must say it was easy to dismiss the survey as a load of hooey — and glancing down the list of adjectives did little to allay my skepticism.
«Trump tried to get as much newspaper coverage as possible [early in his career], always pushing his Trump [brand] and the adjective «billionaire» attached to his name or «successful real estate developer» and «rich,»» says Gwenda Blair, author of «The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President.»
Edwards added that he believes the recession is now here (hence his «ultimate» adjective), «just as it was in the fall of 2011 until global coordinated easing injected trillions and masked its impact, and will manifest itself unless the global central banks step up far more aggressively and tune out reality once again.»
As a side note, the word «intrepid» (adjective: resolutely fearless; dauntless) in the context of fertilizer is strangely reminiscent of the late - 1960's «Go - Go» market, when dull little companies gave themselves exciting names to divert investors attention from the fact that they were, in fact, dull little companies - as when Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken renamed itself «Performance Systems.&raquAs a side note, the word «intrepid» (adjective: resolutely fearless; dauntless) in the context of fertilizer is strangely reminiscent of the late - 1960's «Go - Go» market, when dull little companies gave themselves exciting names to divert investors attention from the fact that they were, in fact, dull little companies - as when Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken renamed itself «Performance Systems.&raquas when Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken renamed itself «Performance Systems.»
Lots of adjectives whose meaning is incomprehensibly subjective, such as «wetter» bass.
(Was «vintage» even used as an adjective before the advent of Martha's enterprise?)
The degree to which the U.S. press has become complicit in this deadly war of images is revealed by how frequently articles or news reports in the mainstream television and print media describe Nicaragua by using adjectives such as «Marxist,» «Cuban - backed,» «Marxist - Leninist,» «leftist,» «Soviet - backed,» and «totalitarian.»
What those adjectives point to is utter devastation — of the natural world in which we live, of the ties that bind us to others, of the innerness of spiritually sensitive personality, as we have seen in earlier chapters.
It would seem that the nontemporalist ignores the adjective «physical» in the quotation, and reads it as saying that the phases of concrescence are not in time.
I can't count the number of times I repeated «objective» and «subjective» as adjectives to «correctness» or «wrong» when arguing with truthfollower recently.
Nor is it «rational,» strictly speaking, an adjective Artigas frequently attaches to it, as though it were a deliverance of natural science.
Instead, they should be treated as adjectives describing the character of how God as a whole functions in relation to the world and to the eternal objects.
Using an orderly arrangement, it has all the crucial paradigms for nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and participles, as well as helpful lists of prepositions, irregular verbs, and other details frequently needed for Greek translation.
He is also fond of stereotyped expressions such as «a great voice» (twenty times), «the kings of the earth» (ten times), the Lord God, the Almighty» (nine times), the adjective «true» («alethinos») with «faithful», «holy», or «righteous» (nine times), «tribe and language and people and nation» (six times; cf. Dan.
Many scholars (see the WBC and NIGNT for example) see the adjective as being a description of the origin or source of Scripture.
In a later chapter we shall have occasion to point out that all preaching worthy of the name must be theological, by which I mean that it must be, as the very adjective indicates, «a word about God» and hence about God's decisive action for humankind in the event we name when we say «Jesus Christ.»
Overhearing conversations, while walking the streets of New York, it struck me a few years ago that I couldn't get to the office or back without hearing, usually several times, the F - word used as noun, adjective, adverb, and ways grammatically unspecifiable.
This concept can not mean anything close to «unique coherence» which would undermine his pluralism, though he occasionally sneaks in other adjectives like «simplicity», «elegance», and «most satisfying» (p. 79) as well as implying a uniqueness to the «meaningfulness» of Christian living (p. 204).
And then my friend might hear the adjective «Catholic» as a form of respect rather than dismissal.
The Leibnizian view stumbles in viewing self - identity as merely numerical oneness, with at most a plurality of qualities, a single noun with many adjectives (LP 120).
The word comes from the Greek adjective eschatos, meaning «last,» frequently used in the New Testament (as in II Timothy3: 1,»... in the last days there will come times of stress,» but also in such familiar usage as Matthew 19:30: «But many that are first will be last, and the last first»).
For your information Arabic, written as Arabi is not a noun but an adjective, it means 20/20 according to the will of deity, Holy Quran is in language of truth and it is none other than Latin, language of Adam and eve and corrupted by hindu's, pagans as Sanskrit to hind, fool humanity.
What is their deduction of metaphysical attributes but a shuffling and matching of pedantic dictionary - adjectives, aloof from morals, aloof from human needs, something that might be worked out from the mere word «God» by one of those logical machines of wood and brass which recent ingenuity has contrived as well as by a man of flesh and blood.
Doubtless he can find isolated phrases somewhere in the Old Testament to justify each of these adjectives, but can this tirade, in any honestly objective way, summarise the Old Testament as a whole?
Kent — the term religious is being used as a noun, not an adjective, and represents people who have taken orders (orders meaning having joined a specific religeous organization in order to live in that organization for the rest of their lives).
I don't know how you get «ineffective» or «useless» as a definition for «dead» http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/greek/kjv/nekros.html nek - ros» Adjective Definition properly one that has breathed his last, lifeless deceased, departed, one whose soul is in heaven or hell destitute of life, without life, inanimate metaph.
We can never look directly at them, for they are bodiless and featureless and footless, but we grasp all other things by their means, and in handling the real world we should be stricken with helplessness in just so far forth as we might lose these mental objects, these adjectives and adverbs and predicates and heads of classification and conception.
In knowing my past (or present) objects I never include or embrace them; they are, insofar as they are objects of my experience, «adjectives» without the word «merely» attached (cf. quotation from Hartshorne, above).
As you probably know form English, there are numerous ways of using adjectives.
This presupposition is strengthened by the adjective «elementary,» for an «element» means a final, not further divisible constituent, it being not further divisible not because it is impossible to divide it but because further division would result in its ceasing to be a «part,» that is, of the same kind as, that of which it is a part.
Those bothered by reckless as an adjective for God seem to take the word out of context.
The media has consistently characterized his approach to a variety of issues as «nuanced,» a description that employs the adjective form of «nuance» — a word which, according to Webster, means «a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, responses, etc.» Synonyms include «subtlety,» «hint,» and «refinement.»
The reason for this is that it is usual, even natural (to use here the question - begging adjective), for human sexual expression to be with others precisely because (as I have argued) human existence is a social existence, where sociality is the correlative of personality.
When one's view of God is developed from reading scripture this way, he has to contend with many incongruous statements about God, and the only way to make sense of these is to view them as adjectives.
I would be happier to push him in the other direction, which is suggested when he talks of objects as «Aristotelian adjectives» of events.
This meaningfulness to the observer is at the root of all descriptions of an object, including adjectives such as objective, publicly compelling, predictable, etc..
Even so, the use of the adjective sustainable as a modifier of growth has had some effect.
In unfolding it, in order to show his own cleverness and reading, and satisfy itching ears, he proceeded with a new method, expounding letters, syllables and proposition, the harmony of noun and verb, and that of noun substantive, and noun adjective... At last he... demonstrated the whole Trinity to be represented by these first rudiments of grammar, as clearly and plainly as it was possible for a mathematician to draw a triangle in the sand.»
To talk of substance is to suggest (however different may have been the meaning of that word in the classical and medieval period) something that exists in and for and of itself alone, without any necessary dependence upon that which is not itself: while to put the adjective individual before substance is to talk as if this substance could be seen primarily as a particular instance of a more general class.
It is fruitful to think of the closeness of Whitehead to Aristotle in thinking of categories as adverbial interrogatives, accompanying verbs, rather than as nouns and adjectives.
I'm still as much of a planner as ever, but when life hands you beautiful brown eyes and a smile belonging to someone who is smart, witty, caring, and a continuation of adjectives that will never do the real person justice, you embrace the welcome detour that takes you from Point A, to B, to C, rather than the original journey from Point A to C, and never look back.
But then I thought of this and realized that it's just as Fourth - of - July - y (that's a real adjective, I just made it up) as any RWB food you got.
I don't have a waffle maker, but I'm gonna have to try this as a pancake GiselleR @ Diary of an ExSloth recently posted... 5 Adjectives to Avoid when Eating Out
I like to think of amazeballs as just an adjective!
We mentioned it earlier on Sunday, and many were calling it the shot of the 2010 Masters as soon as the ball bounced down on the green, but it's worth directing our attention to it once more: Phil Mickelson's shot on the 13th truly was remarkable, amazing, gutsy, and about a 17 other adjectives.
The adjectives to describe SportStars Magazine's NorCal Football Player of the Year Mason Hurst are as plentiful as the skills that he possesses on and off the football field.
You must take yourself very seriously when you throw adjectives such as «despicable» around after we lose a game of football.
He is one of those defenders often referred to as uncompromising, although I could think of other adjectives to describe his methods.
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