Sentences with phrase «only by the senses»

We experience phenomena only by the senses in the things we see, hear, taste, touch, etc..

In her words, «I'm rapidly approaching 50» (Elle's deadpan is matched only by her sense of irony — Tomlin has around rounded her third quarter - century.)

The other is a bumbling defense attorney whose sense of justice is matched only by his sense of style.

With atmospheric CO2 levels reaching record highs right now, the sense of urgency being communicated by many scientists is matched only by the sense of complacency being communicated by so many politicians.

Not exact matches

«It was obvious to us growing up how incredibly exciting it was,» he said, «not just that you had a new device, but the sense that what you could do was limited only by your imagination.»

The U.K.'s Davis argues that it makes little sense to have a deal that covers only goods when 71 % of EU GDP, and 80 % of the U.K.'s, is generated by services.

«Third - party bundles (games developed by another developer) are more expensive, but in many cases [are] associated with one console over the other... Even third party bundles cost only around $ 40, and the perceived benefit is $ 50 or more... Thus, bundles always make more sense.»

However, by answering only 12 of these questions I can give you a fairly accurate sense for how your company compares to over 6000 respondents who have already taken the assessment.

«The edit is only detectable by a slight change in ambience around the one - minute mark — an effect which only adds to the song's sense of dislocation,» reports the BBC.

«The only people I've ever met who are really successful in their fields, regardless of what field that is, are people who are deeply passionate about the work they do every day and are motivated by a sense of purpose,» Trump says.

Yes, braggers and boasters get noticed by thrusting themselves into the spotlight, but the only thing their antics achieve is a growing sense of resentment from people who couldn't care less.

Investors had sensed something was awry a month earlier, when Tesla said it had only made 260 of the Model 3 last quarter, well below the nearly 2,000 it had forecasted; some reports said the bottleneck was due to the carmaker assembling the vehicle by hand.

If you're skeptical about an «innovation index» meaning much in a practical sense, then consider this: in terms of productivity (measured by GDP per hour worked), Canada ranks far below the G7 average — a staggering 12 per cent below, in fact — and only marginally above that of the broader OECD.

That argument might make sense if there were some consideration given to the fact most Canadian families divide their time between work and leisure, and that unpaid childcare by parents can only happen during non-work hours.

Sky - high paychecks and perks, supported by blind shareholders, re-enforce that sense of CEO exceptionalism, which only leads to more problems.

Not only do they make sense for a bustling, busy office by reducing sharp corners and providing closer body - to - keyboard comfort, they also offer a little more enclosed privacy when arranged the right way.

It has historically made sense to hedge against market fluctuations based on much less restrictive definitions of market conditions, but at present, the market is in a set of conditions that has almost invariably been followed by deep and abrupt losses, though often only after a further marginal advance over a small number of trading sessions.

The only way to get a sense of a card's value is by understanding how it stacks up against other available choices.

The economy in the United States is not only great but in a sense is perfect, as indicated by yesterday's data release.

One cold shower changed my life, which I could only have found by experiencing the sense of accomplishment, thrill, and excitement I felt after finishing it, but thirty days of them built a life - improvement skill I can use forever.

As the proponents have benefitted by holding through every dip, there is a sense of security among the buyers that no matter what, price of bitcoin can and will only go up.

While this only goes back to 1999, it would still be insightful to compare these two indexes on a year by year and aggregate basis for total return and volatility to get a true sense of the difference that treasury bond duration makes.

Only an Economist should be able to speak to this topic in a truly Professional sense — assuming that they are not encumbered by their masters who want to see the big wheels keep rolling, regardless.

Others say such spending makes sense only if it is accompanied by «a new and relevant promise» that could change the rules of the game.

Religious believers are likely to get further in discourse with the current generation of secular academics by 1) continually demonstrating, as Posner himself seems to intuit, that only a moral theory founded on God can actually «work,» in the sense of bridging the gap between «is» and «ought»; and 2) demonstrating the inherent self «contradictions of the moral theories advocated by the «secular liberals.»

Contently is company made by and for content marketers so it only makes sense that their blog would focus on content marketing.

But not only was the Reaganite touting of America's innate decency and common - sense revealed to be quite naïve by the developments of 2005 - 2013, the Reaganite free - market philosophy was revealed in a number of ways to be deficient.

«Therefore, the Church, with a renewed sense of responsibility, continues to propose marriage in its essentials - offspring, good of the couple, unity, indissolubility, sacramentality - not as ideal only for a few... but as a reality that, in the grace of Christ, can be experienced by all the baptized faithful.»

By this he meant that the human brain, along with its senses, and with is learned cultural bias, and even with the extension our scientific instruments gives us, has only made a rough map in our minds of the REAL world (the territory).

And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.

I began with a quotation from the preface of the first edition of Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, and it is worth recalling now a quotation from the preface of the second edition: «Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.»

«Standing by itself, it doesn't make any sense,» Donohue said, «I would agree with that, if that were the only issue on the table, then who would really care?

When the attempt was made to apply it to individual destiny (which was scarcely in the minds of the earlier prophets), in the sense that the wicked are punished by misfortune and the good rewarded by prosperity, it appeared palpably untrue, not only to the sceptical author of Ecclesiastes, but also to the far profounder poet of the Book of Job.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

In this sense it is like the act of creation - it is a free act prompted only by love.

We can only know what we have been equipped to detect via our senses or by extensions our machines and measuring devices.

When this is done, no argument is needed against the real presence of a past figure, for a past figure by definition is not the present subjectivity, is not contemporary, and is precisely one no longer subject to being presented through the senses.7 The presence of a past figure can be made intelligible and justified only by a quite different notion of presence specifically appropriate to the relation of the past to the present.

Ryan is an okay guy with a grandiose sense of self only outmatched by a desire to stay current.

Wright notes that «we need to note carefully that to invoke «the literal meaning of scripture,» hoping thereby to settle a point by echoing the phraseology of the Reformers, could be valid only if we meant, not «literal» as opposed to metaphorical, but «literal» (which might include metaphorical if that, arguable, was the original sense) as opposed to the three other medieval senses...»

Only with that religious and social sense can we erect a safety barrier, for example, between someone who is terminally ill and the pessimism that would be induced by the laws of natural causation.

Choices of profound importance had to be made, not only by clans and tribes as a whole, but by minority groups and individuals, and nothing more imperiously calls out the sense of personal worth and dignity than the exercise of moral choice.

«Supernaturalism,» in the sense of God's making known the divine only by divine intrusions from outside in occasional miraculous acts, is rejected; a picture of deity as remote and inaccessible is refuted; and the condemnation of secular activities as a blasphemous denial of the divine prerogative is entirely ruled out.

I am using the term «dialectic» in its ancient and etymological sense, and it seems appropriate to describe the process by this word; for instead of an aprioristic, deductive method of procedure, the process was one of answering questions and objections as they arose, not in anticipation, and not as the unfolding, more geometrico, of a system implicit within a body of axioms or first principles which one needed only accept and then all the rest followed logically to the final Q.E.D..

What the Jew as Jew apparently has, and what the Christian has lost if he ever had it, is a sense of the world as creation and only creation, and thereby untouched by the announcement or gospel of total vision or total liberation.

I've often been told that the reason I have a problem with the idea of people suffering eternally without the chance to be saved is because my sense of justice has been perverted by my sin nature, that it only seems unfair to me because «God's ways are higher than our ways.»

While it is true that none of the Apostles needed a formal education for their position, we can not say they were not educated by Jesus and others; even Paul not only was educated in the worldly and in religious sense, but he taught «school» every day for two years in Ephesus after being rejected by the synagogue.

The particular mechanisms employed depend on circumstances of history, geography, and culture, and decisions about them can be made responsibly only by taking account of man's acquisitive propensities, his need for rational order, his longing for freedom, and his sense of justice — in short, by relying on an integral rather than a truncated conception of human nature.

Evidently when a man is constrained by the inevitable coming of death to make the decision, this decision can have only a negative sense, that is, to live his present life as a dying man, as an alien.

Simply by noting the overwhelming power and the comprehensive expression of the modern Christian experience of the death of God, we can sense the effect of the ever fuller movement of the Word or Spirit into history, a movement whose full meaning only dawns with the collapse of Christendom, and in the wake of the historical realization of the death of God.

When I realize that the particular conclusions generated by the serious reflection that arises from such assumptions have only the authority of those assumptions, then I feel free to turn to another philosophy that includes among its data human persons and their interactions; for my perception of reality is such that these seem to me at least as real and ultimate as sense data and mechanical relations.