Sentences with phrase «old puzzle of»

The broader brush and the subtext make the old puzzle of art and illusion less about the faces behind the landscape than about landscape's cohering before one's eyes.

Learning more about the loners could help solve the decades - old puzzle of why some galaxies apparently possess far more clusters than expected for their size; these orphans could be adding to the count, West notes.

Yet Dr. Colletti seemed really to care to get the old puzzle of the unity of the deity and the humanity straight.

Not exact matches

«This puzzles people because they expect things to follow what mathematicians call the transitive rule: if A is better than B, and B is better than C, then A is better than C. For example, if you replace the phrase «better than» by any of the phrases longer than, heavier than, older than, more than, or larger than, then the rule is true.

Those looking back upon this curious period will likely be puzzled that the oldest of our national struggles, that for racial justice, should have been subsumed in the homosexualist cause.

some of the most puzzling difficulties which the later writers of the Old Testament faced grew out of the developing sense of personality's importance.

The final piece of the puzzle about how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament in light of life, ministry, and death of Jesus Christ is found in 2 Corinthians 5:21.

I have always been puzzled by Christianity's use of the Old Testament to justify supposedly «holy wars», which in our country has meant, at least for some people, every war in which we have been involved.

I have never ceased puzzling mightily over this old, old «problem of evil» until, to adapt a line from Dr. Seuss, my puzzler is chronically sore.

I have put together the puzzle so that God has the attributes of what was revealed in the New and Old Testament.

Readers of the old - fashioned detective story usually approached it as an intellectual puzzle — a «whodunit.»

But even when we understand why, for example, the New Testament writers went to great pains to confirm Jesus» birth in Old Testament predictions of a Savior, or to relate his biological lineage to King David, or to tie his betrayal and death to other Old Testament prophecies («so that the scriptures might be fulfilled»)-- we still are left with a fragmentary puzzle instead of a clear picture of the «real» Jesus.

So much has changed in the world, so many older beliefs and ideas have been abandoned or if not abandoned then gravely doubted, so much of our modern way of living appears to make prayer unintelligible, that they are puzzled about the whole enterprise.

Surely these words do not comprise mysterious conundrums or puzzles within puzzles that are incapable of being understood in this moment of the age - old struggle between the individual and constituted authority.

Moreover, these changes have not only set up tensions between the traditional and the new ways of thinking and doing, but they also seem to have robbed certain of our acts of their meaning or else have left us puzzled about how to relate the new to the old.

In the winter of 1965 - 66, the final piece of the championship puzzle fell into place when the O's acquired Frank Robinson (discarded by the Cincinnati Reds» general manager as an «old thirty») in exchange for Miltiades Pappastediodis, whom you will likely remember as «Milt Pappas.»

Welcoming him into the shack, Spencer informs a somewhat puzzled Mack — who always imagined the Lord as an «old friendly white man» — that God can adapt his appearance to suit the needs of his creatures.

Martin Buber tells the story of an old Hasidic master who asked a rabbi what puzzled him most about his neighbor.

Noll is puzzled: how can Olbricht include as primitive the impulse of New Englanders to collect European books, to write 6,000 pages of manuscript as Cotton Mather did, to study German as Moses Stuart did, or to undertake perilous voyages to the Old World to hear complex lectures on early Christianity?

The 26 - year - old out of Oklahoma is an important piece of the offensive puzzle for Washington as it tries to sort out its woes at quarterback.

The Blues have been linked with the Ecuador international in the past, though their pursuit of the 25 - year - old is somewhat puzzling after a less than amazing first season in England.

Then the manager will be the last and most difficult piece to remove from an old puzzle that been out of frame for 10 years.

So he will not cost too much and with the ability to play anywhere in midfield, the 24 - year old could well be one of the missing pieces Wenger is looking for to complete the Arsenal jigsaw puzzle.

Finally, loaning out 21 - year - old central defender Nikita Chernov to surprise package FC Ural was a puzzling decision, especially considering the age of CSKA's central defence and given that Chernov has featured regularly for Ural in their ascent to the upper echelons of the RFPL.

Our cube puzzles and wooden puzzles (lots of new puzzles from England and Germany coming in the next months inspired by our avid 3 year old puzzle - tester).

I have two rooms full of toys and musical things, like electric keyboard, older computer to learn things on «ABC.com», (a subscription service for 2 + yrs old children), and battery operated toys that are musical, or talk, or walk, or beep, or run, blocks and puzzles, plush toys and soft rubber balls, and when no babies around, I blow up lots of balloons which they throw up in the air and try to catch, or I bring out all the «kitchen stuff» (a collection of plastic dish sets, plastic fake food and utensils, and a big tablecloth I lay it all on and then pick it all up with until next time).

Younger siblings love to have the attention of older ones, utilize it with flashcards games, Math games for preschoolers, puzzles, or pictures of shapes.

On a recent afternoon, 3 - year - old boys and girls assembled paper puzzles, strung beads, built sand castles and played with large wooden blocks in Room B of the Deerfield Park District Nursery School.

Stephanie Rach, author and founder of Let's Go Chipper, a nature - inspired play - based learning program, tells parents, «It's so easy to let your child go off on their own and play on their phone, but the time you give to playing with your child, with an old puzzle or game from the closet, comes back to you so much more, later.»

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As parents and nerds when it comes to research, we've carefully compiled a list of the best toys, games and puzzles for 6 year old girls.

I suppose the biggest hurdle to overcome, is the fact that she can now get out of bed and come out of the room or play in her room (in fact, I have a friend whose four year old boy used to get up at 3 am and do puzzles and play games in his room!)

(Studying old or recurring problems at leisure can improve one's puzzling speed, but there's always a frontier of new problems...)

In a city weaved together by more than two dozen subway lines, no train comes within walking distance of the 75 - year - old airport, a gap in the system which has frustrated and puzzled generations of New Yorkers.

From establishing a one - stop shop for economic development in Erie County, to opening up for development the old Bethlehem Steel site, to creating a new task force to find ways to adequately fund Visit Buffalo Niagara, to building upon our successes of attracting Canadian businesses to this side of the Niagara River, each Initiative represents just one piece of a puzzle, or a gear in the overall machine that is our economy.

«The phenotype, the symptoms and size of this girl were extremely unusual, and analyzing these kinds of really puzzling, old samples teaches us better how to analyze the DNA of kids today under current conditions.»

Solving a 25 - year - old puzzle meant tearing up and rebuilding the basic elements of number theory — that result could prise open other enigmas

However, my father's keen interest in machines, mechanical tools, and puzzles of all sorts — and my older siblings» strong interest in books, music, and higher education — maintained an academic type of environment in the household, compared to the other business families in town.

A puzzling quirk of memory is that as we get older our early life comes sharply into focus.

Fossils are just one piece of the puzzle at the oldest hominid site outside Africa.

The two - faced puzzle regarding the role of bacteria is as old as the study of microbiology itself.

One of the rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves that have puzzled astronomers since they were first detected nearly 10 years ago has finally been tied to a source: an older dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light years from Earth.

Greaves cautions that more data is still needed to tackle this quarter of a century old puzzle: «Our image is quite fuzzy, so we've applied for time on the international Atacama Large Millimetre Array — ALMA — to get more detail.

«We successfully replicated our previous findings that 4 - 6 year old children can apply knowledge of this puzzle from practice using a touchscreen device, to the physical version of the puzzle,» says Tarasuik.

In fact, it was just such a hassle experienced by a 29 - year - old Swiss woman at the U.S. border (waiting for hours as puzzled officers tried to make sense of her missing prints) that first brought this condition to Sprecher's attention.

THE puzzle «Handshakes», by Henry P. Dart III, as printed in the 3 September issue of New Scientist, lacks a key statement, namely, «That the age of the oldest person in the room was the same as the number of people in the room».

This has enabled astronomers to trace the radio emissions to a very small region at the heart of the quasars, and helped to solve a 50 - year - old puzzle about their source.

Lacking written records of his people, researchers have long puzzled over how the complex 1000 - year - old Chacoan society was organized.

Thus, a decline of reproduction in older women constitutes an evolutionary puzzle.