Sentences with phrase «ordinary experiences like»

According to new research from Harvard University and the University of Virginia, when people seek out extraordinary experiences like vacationing in exotic locales, those who had the experience enjoyed that their adventures were superior to ones their peers had, but during subsequent social interactions the adventurer ultimately felt excluded and worse off than they would have felt if they had an ordinary experience like everyone else.

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Our normal, ordinary bodily experience is like that of, say, feeling tired, which we might describe as a general feeling of tension and strain broadly diffused throughout the whole body.

21 In his James Lectures at Harvard in 1940, he abandoned the term «particulars» for «universals» or «qualities» that, based on the examples he cites, functioned somewhat like Whiteheadian «eternal objects»: that is, ordinary macroscopic objects or experiences are to be conceived as a particular togetherness of these qualia at a given locus in spacetime.22

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

The subliminal region, whatever else it may be, is at any rate a place now admitted by psychologists to exist for the accumulation of vestiges of sensible experience [whether inattentively or attentively registered], and for their elaboration according to ordinary psychological or logical laws into results that end by attaining such a «tension» that they may at times enter consciousness with something like a burst.

It would therefore seem like a dubious retrogression to discredited ideas if we were now suddenly to postulate such a supernatural «intervention» for the miracle of the resurrection: this would contradict all scientific thinking as well as all ordinary convictions and experiences.

The world of submicroscopic physics is so utterly different from the one that we observe in our ordinary experience that words and pictures fail us when we try to imagine what it is like in its inner constituency.

Whether the persons be renowned — like former Union Seminary president Henry Pitney Van Dusen and his wife, Elizabeth, whose «suicide pact» made headlines — or just common ordinary folk, we experience strangely mixed emotions.

«Our music is about more than just being memorable — we aim to make music that transcends and takes you to another dimension, creating an experience beyond the earth and out of the ordinary that sticks with you long after the night is over, much like Absolut Nights», said Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore of Empire of the Sun.

What I think Nigerians must cudgel themselves with is how the likes of this strange character emerge to have seats in what is supposed to be reserved for the most accomplished, responsible and patriotic senior citizens whose wealth of experience the country requires to change the conditions of the ordinary people.

Ordinary human skin behaves like a memristor, a device that «remembers» the last current it experienced and varies its resistance accordingly.

Besides learning about that technique, however, I wanted to experience an atmosphere in which atoms were ordinary, everyday objects, like cups and saucers and grains of sand.

Mrs. Lincoln says that her experience would help ordinary people, presumably like herself, to understand what means to live with an extraordinary man during extraordinary times.

Bob, I'm sorry to hear about this experience you had here, it is certainly out of the ordinary for us, so I'd like to get some more details from you i...

They will squirm a little with the 1963 late adolescents talking and experiencing life like late adolescents; they will come to appreciate the underside of Soviet / Russian life as experienced by more - or-less ordinary people, who also tell bad Russian jokes; they will learn perhaps more than they ever knew of the way advertising works in international contexts; and will come to see how they, too, are bounced along the edges of history.

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Like the runners at Tate Britain, the idea is lightly put across: an ordinary experience made surprising.

From a distance (say, from a car), they look like ordinary signs, but up close, they reveal funny, enigmatic images reminiscent of old soda cap rebus puzzles and indeed enliven the experience of walking downtown.

While the basics of moving to your off campus housing apartment in Akron will follow most ordinary steps involved in moving, there are a few things that will make it a unique experience, like searching for Ohio renters insurance companies.

The Steam Controller's trackpad was originally meant to give PC gamers mouse - like precision on a console - style controller, but on the Vive controllers, it could easily be replaced by an ordinary d - pad for most of the experiences I've tried.

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«For tentative buyers, first - hand experience like test drives, short - term leasing or daily rentals will be crucial when making future purchasing decisions,» says Brauer, who notes that ordinary consumers were more open to the idea of handing control over to a computer once they'd had experience with cars that have some level of autonomy.

Review the purchase agreement as most have provisions addressing damages that occur to the property prior to closing, and whether such damage occurs «in the ordinary course» or due to dramatic events like those you are now experiencing.