Sentences with phrase «ordinary world of»

Instead of wielding innately destructive powers, Ruth's gifts — manifested in stunning bursts of mesmerizing visuals in the purposefully ordinary world of «Fast Color» — are forceful and yet uniquely feminine in nature.

The ritual act withdraws us from the ordinary world of mortality and limitation into a special space, time and action in which the mundane and finite is transformed into something of eternal quality.

As mere personalities, they might be perfectly insufferable; but, as the fabulous psychological chimaeras they are, their grand absurdity and pathos often casts a new (if somewhat lurid) light back upon the ordinary world of our experience.

The defining criterion of mental illness is that an individual lives only in his solitary delusional world, unable to participate in the ordinary world of those around him.

A Christian theologian, Frei explained, will therefore «do ethics to indicate that this narrated, narratable world is at the same time the ordinary world of our experience, and he will do ad hoc apologetics, in order to throw into relief particular features of this world by distancing them from or approximating them to other descriptions....

Not exact matches

A breakthrough study of over 2,600 leaders found the No. 1 behavior that transforms ordinary people into world class leaders.

Are «ordinary» people capable of coming up with ideas for products and services that will change the world?

«Now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician, utterly forgotten by the world, or as a famous kapellmeister, or whom posterity will read... whether, captured by some woman, you die bedded on straw in an attic full of starving children, or whether, after a Christian life spent in contentment, honor, and renown, you leave this world with your family well provided for and your name respected by all.»

Heath defines moments as brief experiences that lift people out of the ordinary; change how they view the world; inspire and capture up - swells of pride; or deepen bonds with others.

«We are doing what journalists throughout said mainstream media are supposed to do: challenge the conventional wisdom, hold politicians» feet to the fire, ask tough questions, report facts that are in many cases inconvenient truths for career politicians, and give a voice to the millions of people worldwide who have had theirs taken away from them by world elites who consider the ordinary person beneath them,» Boyle said, pointing to Breitbart's record July traffic as evidence Americans «hunger for something different.»

Jay and Shel put legs on the ideals and give examples of how ordinary business owners around the world are discovering just how effective the Golden Rule really is in their business and personal life.»

But if your 1996 investment thesis had been that ordinary people would adopt Linux en masse over the next decade — which would not have seemed at all crazy — then you would have been in for a giant world of hurt.

Early Monday, Allergan plc Ordinary Shares (NYSE: AGN)-- one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies that produces branded and generic drugs, and performs pharmaceutical research and development — announced its recent acquisition of Zeltiq Aesthetics.

In a stock world, if I get a cash dividend because I own the stock, that money is not treated as a «treasure trove» and subject to ordinary income rates — in most cases, it is a qualified dividend and subject to capital gain rates; in some cases, some types of stock dividends are completely non-taxable.

But when I took the opportunity to re-read these books in the light of my later findings about the depth of financial difficulty out there, it was obvious that — whilst from my own perspective those statements were true — for possibly the majority of ordinary individuals, my efforts to open up and explain the mysterious world of personal finance had failed.

What's more, it's not just ordinary lenders that are seeking to utilise blockchain; central banks around the world are also undertaking trials to see how the technology can enhance their monetary - policy capabilities, with the Bank of Papua New Guinea the latest to report such research.

They have the capacity to become enormously valuable — like Titanic lifeboats — in a world where the ordinary saver despairs of keeping his nest egg safe.

One should add that, while he is filled with ambition to be the leader of the USA and all that that entails, he doesn't appear to have grandiose weirdo expectations of his own world historical significance, nor does he (as do most of the professing Mormons I have I known) have any of the minor peccadilloes of ordinary vice that cause embarrassment for candidates and elected officials alike.

Stay around until 8, and you can be stunned by the eloquence of the world's greatest neurosurgeon and profund commentator on the spiritual dimension of ordinary life, Ben Carson.

For a first possibility, it can be taken as a revisionist reading of the theology of Karl Rahner in certain of its more formal aspects, particularly as Rahner construes the relation between involvement in the ordinary world and the specific life of faith.

Anyway, what I was trying to say is that Mr. Chopra said about Jesus «Son of God» and for Muhammad «ordinary human» not is not accepted scholary or spiritualy and in Islamic world.

It was in a period of philosophical and religious ferment, when the pagan gods failed to offer answers to the problems of ordinary life, that Christ came into the world and revealed God's salvific plan to all of mankind.

We're transported out of this ordinary world into another realm, legally and without drugs.

It seemed to me that the truly sovereign God could not be regarded as absent or superfluous in ordinary human experience and philosophical reflection, but that every single reality should prove incomprehensible (at least in its depth) without recourse to God, if he actually was the Creator of the world as Barth thought him to be.

On a lonely two - hour walk home from my piano lesson, seeing an otherwise ordinary sunset, I was suddenly flooded by light and absorbed in a sea of light which, although it did not extinguish the humble awareness of my finite existence, overflowed the barriers that normally separate us from the surrounding world.

Unlike the more «spiritual» and heroic religious literatures of the world, the Bible gives attention to a host of ordinary people, doing rather ordinary things.

So we learn that Jesus Christ gives an ordinary man His own identity, as Head of His Body the Church.This makes the man's soul a reflection of Himself so that He - Jesus - can continuously minister His redeeming love to the world.

«We are still confused, including ordinary Muslims, and ask why this is happening,» said the woman, who was interviewed by ENI during a meeting of the executive committee of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, in Bangalore, India.

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.

This biblical inversion of our ordinary perceptions and expectations, shaped as they are by the world's priorities, cures our astigmatism.

He or she must turn aside from the confinements of ordinary concerns, the tensions of the workaday world, and affirm a different order of existence.

Reminiscent of Hannah's song in 1 Samuel, the Magnificat proceeds from the inversion of ordinary physical processes in Mary's miraculous conception to the inversion of the natural political and social world:

Even if the global government is far more subject to the will of the world's people than are transnational corporations, it is very far removed from ordinary people.

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

I believe ordinary men and women would be amazed if they could see how often, in the black spots of the world's superstition, ignorance, disease and fear, the Christians were the first to arrive.

Does the New Testament, in asserting that Jesus is risen from the dead, mean that his death is not just an ordinary human death, but the judgment and salvation of the world, depriving death of its power?

Stories that somehow, in their ordinary profundity, «proclaim what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.»

This is not simply because its daunting length and complexity resist entry by ordinary readers, but because Jewett's relentless application of current preoccupations flattens one of the world's most powerful religious writings to the level of the banal and reveals how little theological passion and insight are to be found among contemporary New Testament interpreters.

To say that there is a process in the world which operates to increase the structure of value, and to that degree is the embodiment of this structure, does not necessarily imply that the process is teleological in the ordinary human sense of the word.

Then our eyes are opened, and we see that at the core of the ordinary world there is a world struggling to be free, that this is the world that is worthy of our love:

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 expected Messiah was to have heralded an era of world peace, rebuilt the temple, and do a few other things all within an ordinary human lifetime.

The story begins in the world of ordinary experience.

In my own journey, I have been led from supernatural theism to seeing God as the encompassing Spirit, from seeing God as another being out there, to seeing God, or the Sacred, or the Spirit (terms which I use synonymously and interchangeably) as a nonmaterial layer or level of reality all around us, more real than the world of our ordinary, visible experience.

It seems impossible, yet to deny that it happens involves a denial of our basic, indubitable, ordinary world.

A long time for a great evil — the religion of Paul which has spread across the world encouraging persecution of dissenters, slavery, an inferior societal role for women, persecution of homosexuals and criminalization of ordinary sexual behaviors of both gay and straight people, quite a few wars, poverty and ignorance.

He reserved his deepest faith not for America but for the world as he saw it, on the theological assumption that the ordinary and everyday — the most mundane elements of human existence — are a gift from God.

How do we interpret and manipulate images of the ordinary world?

In a time when most everyone concedes, as if it were nothing out of the ordinary, that America's role in the world constitutes some variation of empire, it is useful to note, as Bacevich does, how rapidly this transformation has occurred and how radically it breaks from the nation's previous self «understanding.

Indeed, fundamentalist leaders frequently gave themselves the title of» «Dr.,» effectively saying that the institutions of the secular elite did not own the title, and that proven ability in the rough - and - tumble world of ordinary affairs — putting up radio stations and running colleges in remote mission outposts — was credential enough.