Sentences with phrase «only as the novelty»

It's only as the novelty of the movie's off - kilter locale wears off that its deficiencies start to become clear, with the three leads» ill - fated efforts at stepping into the shoes of their respective characters certainly standing as the most obvious example of this.

Not exact matches

We start in that honeymoon phase, but as the novelty wears off and the responsibilities grow, we can start to go through the motions and see only the negatives.

Someone might try a gay - produced beer as a novelty or out of community loyalty, he says, but that only opens the door.

In contrast to the aesthetic order implicit in Kukai's view of nature and contemporary science and process thought, the «logical order» of mainline Christianity characterized by Ames assumes: (1) preassigned patterns of relatedness, a blueprint» wherein unity is prior to plurality, and plurality is a «fall» from unity; (2) values concrete particularity only to the degree it mirrors this preassigned pattern of relatedness; (3) reduces particulars to only those aspects needed to illustrate the given pattern, which necessarily entails moving away from concrete particulars toward the universal; (4) interprets nature as a closed system of predetermined specifications, and therefore reducible to quantitative description; (5) characterizes being as necessity, creativity as conformity, and novelty as defect; and (6) views «rightness» as the degree of conformity to preassigned patterns (NAT 116).

There is in fact nothing more to be said about the novelty of these uniquely occurring occasions than that each occasion is novel, that it happens only once and is unrepeatable in relation to all other occasions to which, as such, it can stand in a real relation of connectedness.

The only novelty may come in breaking away from the clichés that have come to pervade our discussion of law and in recovering what judges used to understand as the axioms of reason that supplied the grounds of their judgments.

Once the primordial nature of God and its timeless ordering of eternal objects is envisioned as the ground of novelty, then not only can there he no fundamental or ontological change of reality, but potentiality as such must be limited to a primordial envisagement of possibility.

For the emergence of new forms not only requires the «mental pole» as the «organ of novelty.»

Thus even in driving towards goodness and even as the organ of novelty, God shapes the world as only one of many agents; and (d) this brings us back to the concrescing entity itself.

For the most part the experiential occasions (such as those in the inorganic world) are only minimally affected by the reservoir of novelty.

It seems to me that it is only when God is understood as source of order and novelty that God is «justifiable» in terms of the problem of suffering.

When God is understood as principle not only of order but also of novelty, the idea of God is compatible with the fact of chance.9

But such congruity is possible only if this principle of order is at the same time understood as a constant source of novelty as well.5 For it is in the influx of novelty into our universe that those deviations from order, regularity and tranquillity that we loosely refer to as «chance» occurrences take place.

«23 The aim toward beauty may be frustrated not only by the collapse into disorder as the result of too much novelty, but also by acquiescence in triviality when the appropriation of novelty is relevant.

Whereas in relation to other actual occasions their causal efficacy for the new occasion functions only in the initial phase, this interpretation of the rise of novelty requires that God's causal efficacy function also in subsequent phases since «conceptual reversion» occurs after the initial phase of the occasion.51 Second, if the prehension of the novel eternal object is, in fact, a hybrid prehension of God, then the new occasion should deal with it as it does with other hybrid prehensions.

Yes we did but against easy teams, but his inability to consistently overcome hurdles like Manchester United and Chelsea (just look at our head to head record for the last 3 seasons, its deplorable) leads me to the conclusion that the only silverware under him we could muster is a novelty competition famed for its giant killings as opposed to a title that establishes your credentials as one of Europe's elite...

«The work not only provides insight into how turtles evolved, but also gives hints as to how the vertebrate developmental programs can be changed to produce major evolutionary novelties.»

More importantly, I only ever wanted to continue so long as I enjoyed research, and sadly even the novelty of purifying DNA wore off.

Anyone sending off for the gadget also has to sign a written declaration that they are «purchasing this unit as a novelty only» and will not connect it to a telephone.

This more finessed approach to investing in clothes is only something I've truly started to master in recent years as I near thirty, whereas in my past id find myself over buying and hoarding (the novelty of a pay check and my own space I expect).

Even with as popular as magnetic polishes were, I've still only worn like three of them ever, and that's why the novelty hasn't completely worn off for me.

Seem only recently came up such novelty as online dating expanding the possibilities of singles to find their match with the help of Internet.

No man wants to think you are «seeking only a white man», because he's not a novelty and 9 times out of 10 a good guy is only looking at women as individuals not a race.

Conversely, the seeds of Carangi's singular impact on an industry that had become a glorified assembly line are sown in haste: The film puts forth a few poignant images — Gia's colleagues mistaking her for a loiterer, Gia the only brunette in a pool of blondes (a tableau that really shows the novelty of her ethnicity)-- but mostly treats Gia not as a model with a drug habit, but as a junkie who models, one of Paul Schrader's born addicts.

It desperately wants to have its novelty erotic cake and eat it, but all the time the film spends gleefully asserting itself as rule - breaking, boundary - pushing outlier only serves to reinforce the suspicion that it is categorically neither of those things.

Ultimately, Porto may only be remembered as a sad novelty: it contains one of Anton Yelchin's final performances, and one of his least memorable roles.

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They say that employees that learn on a gamified Learning Management System will not be truly engaged, at least not in the long term, because they are only working hard to gain badges, points and achievements — and as soon as the novelty wears off, so will their engagement and good work ethic.

E-ink readers, which I remember reading about a mere 15 years ago as being novelties presented at some Japanese tech convention, are not only common, but relatively cheap.

The growth in demand for ebooks has cooled during the past four years, although as the report notes, this «is only because [ebooks] have become less of a novelty and more mainstream.»

I don't think Robinhood is going away - they may have started as a novelty but they are only increasing their ability to compete with other brokerages.

That's the paradox that I have to talk about with this game: We tell the history of video games as a series of leaps from one novelty to another; how, then, can we find a proper place for a game that was exceptional simply because it did everything its predecessors did, only better?

After many generations of brushing aside peripheral - driven games as pure novelty, Harmonix proved to us all that not only could a game bundled with a plastic guitar become a killer app, but that we also would gladly pay $ 169.99 for a virtual band in a box.

As I played Super Mario Maker one day, another one of my friends could only stare until it was her turn — and even then the novelty of «let's see if you can beat my score, dot dot dot» wore severely thin even to me from the start.

The only notable thing they have achieved is to promote the word «meme» as it applies to the transmission of novelty web content, which is however, more easily explained by the desire to overcome the boredom experienced by people working in office environments, than by the idea of mindless «meme - machines» reproducing content.

iPhone X, as it is called, brings many novelties — they include not only the (some say) prohibitive price tag, but also the feature of wireless charging.

It's as simple as that, but only until this novelty wears off, and then all hell will break loose.