Sentences with phrase «on ordinary things»

I simply get to work on ordinary things.

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There is just one thing out of the ordinary: high on the wall above the microwave oven sits a red, electronic message board, quietly flashing the words, «FUEL INJECTION LABOR UTILIZATION 98 %.»

A close observer of mid-Manhattan's changing commercial geography, he saw «a new society» rising on Park and Fifth Avenues after the completion of Grand Central Terminal, «a society made up of women who willing to pay well for things a cut or town above the ordinary,» as a 1938 Fortune article observed.

Even those who are interested in the ordinary form are getting fed up with the kinds of things that are going on in the Church.

The reason, though offered as much by faith as by sight, is that in Jesus Christ, as the apostle put it to the Colossians, «all things hold together,» even the well - publicized actions of well - known figures and the day - to - day activities of ordinary people carried on with never a thought about the scrutiny of history.

Further, the language used in these descriptions seems to be dependent on language used to directly describe ordinary things.

In «Passion,» on the other hand, De Palma has taken an ordinary but well - done French thriller, «Crime d'amour» by Alain Corneau, and added his typical doubts about the true meaning of things with a focus on the surface of things.

In the words of the First Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, the «divine deposit» includes «all those things are to be believed by divine and Catholic faith which are contained in the Word of God as founding Scripture or Tradition, and which are proposed by the Church as matters to be believed as divinely revealed, whether by her solemn judgment or in her ordinary and universal magisterium.»

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

[11] Vowsare very different in kind from the sort of ordinary undertakings we give to do things - «I'll come to see you tomorrow», «I'll write to you», and so on.

Things like this don't take away the terrible and horrible things of this world but these normal, gorgeous, ordinary joys are perhaps even more powerful once you've woke up to the real world thumping along beside us — these moments are filling us up, they're what makes life worth living, they're a glimpse of who we are at our best and that is sometimes everything we need to carThings like this don't take away the terrible and horrible things of this world but these normal, gorgeous, ordinary joys are perhaps even more powerful once you've woke up to the real world thumping along beside us — these moments are filling us up, they're what makes life worth living, they're a glimpse of who we are at our best and that is sometimes everything we need to carthings of this world but these normal, gorgeous, ordinary joys are perhaps even more powerful once you've woke up to the real world thumping along beside us — these moments are filling us up, they're what makes life worth living, they're a glimpse of who we are at our best and that is sometimes everything we need to carry on.

James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe disagreed fiercely over the reach and power of the culture wars, but they agreed on one thing: These wars are fought by politicians and pundits far more than by ordinary Americans.

Sometimes, especially when he is speaking pre-systematically and citing examples from ordinary experience, Whitehead seems to claim that causal efficacy merely discloses relations among the data of presentational immediacy and to indicate that «something is going on in nature and some things are affecting other things.»

Jesus, pondering how best to describe the depth of God's love, surveyed the crowd before him, fixed on the ordinary objects held in their hands, and told a pair of stories about how we look for things that are lost.

While polls should never have an undue effect on someone's political or moral positions — as Robert Wuthnow convincingly argues in the most recent issue of First Things — this new poll does seem to reveal that an artificial consensus created by the elite of this country, and the relatively quiet response among the opposition, has not taken dramatic hold of the hearts and minds of ordinary people in this nation.

On the contrary, it can become difficult during the experience to concentrate on just the ordinary range of things: attention may even narrow to a single objecOn the contrary, it can become difficult during the experience to concentrate on just the ordinary range of things: attention may even narrow to a single objecon just the ordinary range of things: attention may even narrow to a single object.

This whole out of the ordinary posting on a Wednesday thing, it's all that little purple - flecked cupcake's fault.

I've been on the mission to create some less than ordinary Christmas desserts this year — I've made Raw Vegan Snowball Teacakes and a luscious Cranberry and Orange Meringue Pie that's just the best thing I've ever made... not even lying!

I think one of my favorite things to do is to get my hands on something that was once ordinary and discovering ways to make it useful in my own way.

One thing I don't have is cornmeal — but presumably ordinary flour will also do on the base of the dutch oven.

With the advent of the Internet and how it has (a) naturally opened things up and (b) given ordinary people a megaphone — along with (c) advances in DNA testing — closedness in adoption is on its last legs.

The ordinary things parents must do, like feeding little brother, cooking dinner, or talking to a friend on the phone, can eat away at a child's sense that he's connected and cared about.

I also buy (or want to buy) lots of things on Etsy from stores like Little Sapling Toys, Friendly Fairies, Ordinary Mommy, and so many others.

Lots of people have spoken at EU events I've attended have said they want to have a conversation about how we can try and have get a Europe that look like it works a bit better for ordinary citizens — not the rich guys in suits zooming about doing the deals but on things that make a difference to their lives like better rights at work.

What they often don't like listening to are ordinary people on the street as ordinary people tend to tell them things they don't want to hear.

So this system works really well and it gets that dirty fuel from the oil well, on to the tanker to the refinery, to your neighbor and into your car, and it's a system; and what that system allows is for ordinary people to do pretty extraordinary things; to get personal mobility at what for many years, was a very cheap price.

On a hot summer day, only one thing seems out of the ordinary: The rooms are oddly quiet because Night Breeze eliminates the normal background noise of an air conditioner.

Winning money from Congress depends on two things: showing that the spending will bring investment and jobs to the districts and states represented by influential members of Congress, or exciting the interest of ordinary voters.

They used software linked to an ordinary webcam to read information about heart rate, blood pressure and skin temperature based on, among other things, colour changes in the subject's face (Optics Express, vol 18, p 10762).

As it turns out, being well doesn't have to be complicated; the ordinary things we take for granted — like reggae music, gratitude, and sunshine — can have extraordinary effects on our health.

I don't know about you guys, but one of my all time favorite things is detail on an otherwise ordinary item of clothing.

There is nothing special about jeans, boots and a sweater, but add details like a ruffle, a gorgeous suede jacket and even the lace up detail on the boots and things become anything but ordinary.

I find great satisfaction from the most ordinary things: a first cup of steaming coffee on the deck in the quiet early morning... good manners on the freeway... a brisk walk with the dog... and having great conversations in any setting.

I'm just an ordinary guy lookin for an extraordinary woman 25 year old aspiring musician ready to take this social network dating thing on a test drive

Some of the things on this list might be a little out of the ordinary.

None of the features on offer are particularly out of the ordinary, but the main thing is that everything is catered for and works well.

The best things to do when you're on a budget Beijing hutong tour: Rickshaw and Walking Tours of Old Hutong, Siheyuan, Folk Arts, Houhai and Family Visits to get a sense of how the ordinary Beijingers

The first thing you need to understand, when approaching Frostpunk, is that it is not an ordinary city builder, but a survival experience that uses management mechanics as a means to support, on a playful level, the elements of social engineering and nihilism that define it.

Following on the success of E.T., there were quite a few clones involving a being that changes the lives of ordinary families for the better, only to have scary government agents out to destroy the alien / robot / sentient spaceship / mythical creature / furry animal lest things be revealed that the public dare not know.

My god it looks like the most ordinary thing in the world based on this trailer.

Things acclaimed British director Mike Leigh is known for: wry comedy - drama poking at ordinary lives and the class system, a compassionate yet sharp take on the human condition, his almost unique working method that involves workshopping and improvising for months with his cast before a frame of film is shot.

Once again he eavesdrops on the lives or ordinary people doing ordinary things — not in an ordinary way, but expressed through a heightened and gentle sensibility.

It keeps the users on their feet and a couple of things out of the ordinary burn into the memory quite well.

With all the insurance and medical hassles of the accident on top of the stress of ordinary life, the last thing I needed was to battle a car dealership on a new vehicle.

The things we touch often, such as the stereo, climate control and phone, are still accessible via ordinary pushbuttons, and the seat controls are on the doors, just below the windowsills.

Our guides to this free - market hell are a dispossessed, not yet demoralized family of four; Richie, a divorced father and writer who finds that every ordinary thing he does is now a crime; Gemma, the estranged wife of a young, inept variation on Bernie Madoff; a megarich petro - televangelist; and Sargam, a beautiful and mysterious woman with possibly messianic powers, who turns a tentative squatter's community into a self - sustaining settlement that isn't «sub» anything.

Having studied gerontology in my graduate work I always focused on the ordinary people I saw doing what I thought were extraordinary things.

The occasional unusual instructional piece is almost one of those things you can't imagine until one goes bombing by on your Twitter stream and you realize you've seen something out of the ordinary.