Sentences with phrase «ordinary a thing as»

A voice is about as ordinary a thing as exists.

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As these examples show, little things can make a huge difference and make your customer service out of the ordinary.

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.

There is no such thing as an «ordinary Christian» vs. a «born again Christian.»

Any small differences in their divorce rates and divorce rates in the general population can easily be explained by ordinary things such as Christians encouraging behaviors that increase the chances a marriage will be successful.

When we think of the ordinary things that make up the world, we are most likely to give such examples as sticks and stones and tables and chairs.

As Whitehead points out, this concept of substance mirrors the ordinary concept of a thing, according to which reality consists in «things» that are «simply located,» are isolated from one another, and manifest an unchanged, enduring essence, their very «substance,» that underlies their fixed or changeable determining conditions or «accidents.

He saw eschatology (the announcement that ordinary things were ending) as the heart of the gospel, but his eschatology was not a description of the world's history to come, and its preaching was not a visible exhibition.

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.

man's special place in the cosmos, his connexion with destiny, his relation to the world of things, his understanding of his fellowmen, his existence as a being that knows it must die, his attitude in the ordinary and extraordinary encounters with the mystery with which his life is shot through.

The objects of our ordinary experience, things such as rocks, trees, animals and persons are composites or groupings of what we have been calling occasions of experience.

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.»

Faith is not, in the ordinary sense, knowledge, and it is futile and dishonest for moderns to act as if things were otherwise.

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.

All time is always sanctified: there is no such thing as «ordinary time».

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??

But the ordinary things they long for, and the things that they find funny, and the infinite variety of things they dream of, and the games they play, and animals they wish they could have, and things they like to eat, and clothes they wish they could afford to buy, are not as different as the world seems to believe from what most other children in this land enjoy, or dream of, or desire.

Is this not the sole certainty: that one's so - called conviction is not altered from moment to moment as a result of the different things that happen to one, things that momentarily alter a person and alter everything for a person so that today he has faith, and tomorrow he has lost it, and he gets it again day after tomorrow until something completely out of the ordinary happens, at which time he almost inevitably loses it, assuming that he has ever had it!

The result foretold is a thing which any ordinary man will be just as well able as the hero to understand, and there is no secret writing which is legible to the hero only.

Whitehead believes that in this way he can escape thinking in terms of substance, a concept he has rejected and that he thinks would predominate as long as one continues to think in terms of the things of, and the categories flowing from, ordinary experience, practically oriented as it is.

Yet God is not only the supreme irrationality (as Whitehead said) in that deity can not be «explained» in terms of ordinary concepts — although deity can be seen as what Whitehead styled the «chief exemplification» of the principles required to interpret things.

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.

Understanding the ordinary as a mask of the holy, therefore, is a way of maintaining a metaphorical tension between similar and dissimilar things.

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»

Whole Wheat Mixed Berry Loaf Cake — Quick breads seem like such an ordinary thing that wouldn't usually make it to my list of absolute favorites from the year, but this loaf cake still stands out in my mind months later as one of the very best things I whipped up this year.

In hindsight, a win over Leicester and draw against Chelsea could have made all the difference to Arsenal's season so far but, as things stand, it's been ordinary stuff from Wenger's wizards.

And those players that achieved greatness under the Scot - Van Nistelrooy, Keane, Scholes, Ronaldo - are or were, to a certain extent, extraordinary by virtue of their capacity to do the ordinary things of football almost as well as they could possibly be done.

Your preschooler's imagination is taking off: Playing make - believe is a hallmark of this age, along with fears about imaginary monsters and more ordinary things such as the dark or the vacuum cleaner.

As with a lot of parenting things, when your baby's diapers are way out of the ordinary, follow your gut, and double - check any alarming things you see with your pediatrician.

In Lamaze class I learned things that you wouldn't find in an ordinary pregnancy book, such as pain relief isn't a guarantee and it's normal to puff up like a blowfish due to IV fluids administered during labor.

As things improve it will become increasingly harder for the military - industrial elite to try to roll back new freedoms without incurring the wrath of huge numbers of ordinary Burmese.

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.

The feud could have passed as child's play and considered as such had it not been involved with not just any ordinary person than a prominent legislator who among other things serves as the mouthpiece of a whole constituency including women.

Engineers wanted blue and true green because with those colors, along with the red they already had, they could build fabulous things, such as a a white - light - emitting device as much as 12 times more efficient and 12 times longer - lasting than an ordinary lightbulb.

Physicists around the world are building rudimentary quantum computers that exploit this and other quantum effects to do things that are provably impossible for ordinary computers, such as finding a target record in a database with too few queries.

As long as many of the ingredients of ordinary things were too scarce to be identified by any known method, the notion of a universe composed of atoms was still an abstractioAs long as many of the ingredients of ordinary things were too scarce to be identified by any known method, the notion of a universe composed of atoms was still an abstractioas many of the ingredients of ordinary things were too scarce to be identified by any known method, the notion of a universe composed of atoms was still an abstraction.

Although many questions remain as to how the Post and his two lab technicians will manage to mass - produce the meat at a cost that would give ordinary consumers a reasonable alternative to farm - raised beef, one thing is certain: the meat he is producing is not geared toward vegetarians.

There was no such thing as an ordinary day for those who cared for Cody.

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.

Now, I didn't do anything crazy out of the ordinary, but as I have gotten older, I notice myself gravitating towards having a few things planned, but also scheduling / leaving time to relax and re-charge.

Presently, how about we proceed onward to things that aren't exactly as basic when contrasted with customary dating sites, yet are really a truly ordinary event with regards to dating websites for seniors.

the cool thing was that they weren't the lame, ordinary questions that other sites use, such as «Do you want children in the future?»

As practice shows, funny things always happen to ordinary folks, featuring lots of jokes, and online dating is an especially great resource for finding humorous stories.

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.

Many viewers will be turned off by the film altogether, as it is surreal and stylized, with even ordinary conversations about ordinary things getting the Wes Anderson treatment.

As ordinary as this plot sounds, How To Be a Gentleman has a couple of things going for it, namely, Hornsby and DilloAs ordinary as this plot sounds, How To Be a Gentleman has a couple of things going for it, namely, Hornsby and Dilloas this plot sounds, How To Be a Gentleman has a couple of things going for it, namely, Hornsby and Dillon.

Knowledge may have got a bit carried away with us being ashamed (personally im just disappointed) and e baying it, but so far the system has been pretty ordinary and the last thing any of us should be doing is praising the system as it is still damn slow at loading, continues to freeze and has an pretty crappy selection of games.

Many of our greatest action movies are about ordinary characters doing extraordinary things, but off - beat casting choices can add a whole other meta - dimension to this idea, showing us actors we'd previously not thought of as action heroes stepping up to play big parts.

It's the only time we ever get to see things from Myers» point of view as we then spend the rest of the film trying to evade the unrelenting nature of him.Carpenter has a knack for delivering genuine chills but his real skill is in making the ordinary, «safer» moments just as scary.