Sentences with phrase «own cocoon»

Having seen the interior of the new X-Class, it's one that's definitely geared more toward surviving wear and tear than the cosseting leather - lined cocoons we are used to seeing in Mercedes» passenger cars.

Instead, you lounge in the back, where you can interact with the entertainment system using voice prompts and gestures, while you're driven around town; its heavily tinted windows create a cocooning effect.

It's a grand tourer designed to eat up large amounts of real estate at very high speeds while cocooning its occupants in absolute luxury.

It will remind you that no matter how black things seem, humanity and connection are a better, happier response that cocooning yourself in sadness and anger.

I think there's a huge danger that every CEO can get cocooned and people just tell them what they think they might want to hear.

He notes that our late twenties is the first time many of us are truly cut free from the educational ties and family environments that previously cocooned us.

After all, for most of us the winter months are ideal reading season - outdoor activities are less appealing, the urge to cocoon at home is upon us, and often we're blessed with some good long breaks from work to unwind and feed our minds.

«People are cocooning in their backyards.»

Scientists believe that's because Norwegian culture views winter not as an a nasty period to get through by cocooning yourself at home, but as an exciting opportunity for winter sports and enjoying the coziness and beauty of the season.

Inside the cocoon, keep everything you need as you strategize.

Step 2: Build a cocoon.

Some people you'll probably want inside the cocoon with you: web designers, branding and marketing partners and, of course, the front stabbers.

Keep calling on them for their opinions so you can make all adjustments to the brand inside the cocoon before going live.

To adapt to the financial strains, they've seen a growth of co-work spaces like Cocoon and are predicting significant increases in venture capitalist firms.

This book will give you the inspiration and tools to break out of your cocoon of mediocrity and achieve your craziest dreams.

One of them is Trump National Doral Miami, where the spa menu includes a 35 - minute beard shave, an 80 - minute hydrating cocoon, a 100 - minute antigravity face - lift, and a two - hour foot and hand treatment with salt exfoliation.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been rather scarce lately, despite a host of woes besetting his company — but Wednesday he emerged from his cocoon to offer a limp apology, admit they had no control

, a cozy cocoon, a spring rider, a zip line, tic tac toe and other interactive panels, and pods for climbing.

It felt great to stay in the cocoon, but at the expense of actively living.

The financial whizzes cocooned in the serene offices of the Sequoia Fund atop one of New York's iconic office buildings seem far removed from the noise of the city far below.

Zuckerberg denied Facebook's policies are a product of its liberal cocoon in Silicon Valley but conceded that Facebook doesn't always make the right call when removing conservative content.

In the meantime, however, it may make sense for operators to have a few work lounges available for those workers who crave a quiet cocoon of their own.

Wherever possible, we maximise the benefit of having both European and Asian deal - flow and co-investors for the benefit of Avonmore and Cocoon portfolio companies.

We recognised, however that there was growing investment appetite from international investors to access the early - stage Asian investment market and this lead to the launch of Cocoon Capital in 2016, which manages 3rd party funds.

Coaching digital founders since 2000 — Cocoon Capital invests in digital, fast - growing, scalable startups across Southeast Asia and India

The lead designer on the project, Markus McKenna, worked with Steelcase to construct what McKenna refers to as a «cocoon - like space»; a three sided set of privacy screens that work together to obstruct peripheral vision and help block out the sound and vision of people traffic around it.

Cocoon Capital held its first Portfolio Day in October 2017 on a topic that should concern both small and large companies: How to scale better?

The biggest difficulty is belief creates a blind spot, the nature of which is to cocoon us in darkness while convincing us we are dwelling in total light.

I think of that experience now as a caterpillar entering into it's cocoon and while I can appreciate the transformation that took place in that cocoon — now that I have developed wings — I don't want to go back.

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Here is a consistency to which I bear witness: Jesus as the exact representation of God, Jesus as the same, yesterday, today and forever and so I am always changing in response to the unchanging Christ, always evolving, always curling into cocoons and being reborn over and over again to a new and distilled beauty, smelling of the wind.

Everything in the world feels a bit far away in these cocooning early days.

Poverty research also tends to isolate policy deliberations from politics by wrapping them in a cocoon of statistical methods that only trained social scientists can fathom.

I want to take this opportunity to thank Paul Walker over at Out of the Cocoon for a very generous REVIEW OF MY CHAPTER, «Virtuality and the Practice of Authenticity» in the Wikiklesia project...

In our industrialized society all kinds of professions and vocations, all kinds of skilled and unskilled occupations, tend to become wrapped in their own cocoon of specialized knowledge, and to have little more than superficial contacts outside their own mystiques.

G. K. Chesterton defined tradition as «democracy extended through time,» and for Eliot, tradition offered the advantages of democracy — diverse viewpoints and a protection against tyranny — nestled in the cocoon of time.

Given the «cocooning» tendencies of congregations in these postmodern times and given the theological amnesia in most modern Protestant churches that I know, I am not so reassured by Volf's defense of the kind of catholicity that he believes is attainable in local churches.

For as the Christian religion emerges out of the constantinian cocoon in which, throughout most of its history, it has been so tightly enclosed, Christians find themselves relieved of the burden of assuming, as the raison d'être of their movement, custodianship of the random religious sentiments and moral codes that have clustered about the corpus Christianum.

But almost no mainline Protestant congregations exist in a denominationally insulated cocoon anymore.

And, in my deepest hurts from the Body of Christ, it helped to cocoon away in the in - between - space.

We've cocooned in many ways, I think.

There can be no spiritual cocooning.

A Polyphemous moth hatching from its cocoon is maimed before Dillard's eyes simply because the mason jar enclosing it is too small for its wingspread.

Just as metaphors about shepherds and mustard seeds require some mental agility in a post-agrarian society, Scriptural references to «the least among us» and «feeding the hungry» fail to resonate when we live in suburban cocoons.

Be like butterflies that have broken out of their cocoon.

Thus freedom has nothing to do with yielding to external duress but rather has everything to do with the process of a butterfly getting rid of its cocoon in order to soar upwards.

With early Romanticism gradually fading away into the petit - bourgeois aesthetic cocoon known as Biedermeier (c. 1815 — 1848), German culture increasingly acquiesces to Romanticism's most worrisome features: its strident nationalist undertow; its messianic aspirations, which mutated into delusions of racial superiority; its Rousseauian attempt at recovering authentic, immediate Life (Leben); the variously violent and sexualized mythology in which its major representatives (Friedrich Schlegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Novalis) ground their longing for human - engineered salvation.

By the early 1980s the secular and religious press had awakened to the fact that somewhere along the way a Christian statesman had emerged from the cocoon of southern evangelicalism.

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Of course, as you probably know from experience, our cocoons aren't all that safe or secure, at least not permanently so.