Sentences with phrase «outside ordinary life»

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Summing up the formal characteristics of play we might call it a free activity standing quite consciously outside «ordinary» life as being «not serious,» but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly.

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've found that most people — including many law professors — have a great deal of difficulty wrapping their minds around the idea that the Court would permit the intentional destruction of a healthy infant who was capable of living outside his or her mother's body, when the mother's health (in the ordinary meaning of that word) is not in serious danger.

Carter, a former U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, told reporters outside the court that the case involved «ordinary charges» related to his private life as a lawyer, not «official corruption.»

Bones from the animals people ate — or didn't — offer a glimpse into the daily lives of ordinary Maya outside the ruling class

The mercurial young director moves far outside genre to portray a world where terrorism criss - crosses with crime and ordinary lives.

Living ordinary lives in Raqqah when Islamic State took over the town in July 2014, they were incensed both at the terror group's depredations and the way no one in the outside world seem to know or care about the situation.

Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), the only one with superpowers in the literal sense, lives outside ordinary time and space, the forces of the universe seeming to coil beneath his skin.

If you live outside of the United States or too far to send refrigerated samples, tissues can be collected from the puppy with the instructions of a trained technician, preserved in formol and shipped by ordinary mail.

In this game in the genre Action, you can not only wander around the world, solve puzzles and fight with enemies, but also love, communicate with the outside world, grow up and simply lead the life of an ordinary person, living it as you see fit.

And it is no ordinary platform, but a platform from the London Necropolitan Railway, built in 1854 at Waterloo station, to see off the bereaved and those that had departed this life on a (in the latters» case) one - way journey to the London Necropolis, built outside the capital in Brookwood, Surrey, with the intention that it should provide a burial site large enough to accommodate Londoners for all of time to come.

If you can answer the health questions with a «No», ordinary life insurance might not be outside the realms of possibility.