Sentences with phrase «own kind of mean»

It's also challenging, because you have to assign some kind of meaning and experience to that name.

And they would say: «Oh for sexting,» which kind of meant that we had to do a better job teaching people.

Well, given that divorce rates are highest amongst evangelicals Christians, it kind of means that many relationships do not survive the God belief.

Re Ed's comment, ultimately I think we only make the cages ourselves, but those in «authority» are only to happy to «guide» us in by all kinds of means and are really happy to keep us there!

Wouldn't that kind of mean the opposite?

But nowhere are we forced to introduce a kind of meaning that is neither univocal nor equivocal.

Orthodoxy is being able not only to repeat the same teachings but also to show their relevance to the new context.2 Other individuals, on the other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions of the human community's search for some kind of meaning, an accumulated source of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its life and activities.

I know what he means... that the revelation of the divine encompasses Jesus, but that revelation is more than that and can be received through many kinds of means.

But it may depend also upon our ability to separate from the image some kinds of meanings that may have become attached to it and which conflict with meanings of other important images that we wish to retain.

(I) If we take seriously the «truth value» in myth, as Reinhold Niebuhr suggests, we are enabled to look for the same kind of meaning in a myth that we find in a parable.

I've always interpreted the story of the Tower of Babel as having the same kind of meaning as Percy Bysshe Shelley's famous poem «Ozymandias».

But this is to say that the kind of meaning most fully expressed by the statements of science and history is not the only kind of meaning there is.

Which kind of means I believe all gods are «real» and yet none of them are.

Still more, there is sometimes backbreaking and dangerous labor, or tedious and boring work, that must be done if we or our loved ones are to live, but the language of vocation imbues such work with a kind of meaning and significance that may seem unbelievable to those who must actually do it.

Martha had been seeking to give some new kind of meaning to her life.

They must be, mustn't they, if one gives the kind of meaning to the word «God» that I think all of us would want to give?

The question was pregnant with all kinds of meaning, as if to say: «Though I have been a Jew and have done everything required of me and have kept the commandments, I am not a full participant, I am not an equal.

I was about to leave you some kind of mean post on your blog for forsaking us... lol.

I am sure some of the victims family's who are left to grieve have found comfort in their belief's, so I think it's kind of mean to knock their beliefs in a time of tragedy.

Frye suggests that religious discourse invites both these kinds of meaning, that it encourages both a closed reading and an open horizon of broader meanings, and that it functions effectively only when these two forces are held in tension.

But I have to say I am kind of mean.

When he reveals their meat is sliced in Iowa instead of in the store, many viewers reportedly felt that the point was a little shaky and the overall effect of the ad kind of mean - spirited.

I like full sleeved fairies, I'm currently in a raging love affair with edamame and I just got nectarines in my vegetable subscription, so this recipe was kind of MEANT for me (also, that fairy was probably listening to a song like «Let Us Rap», if you catch my drift).

He said that this bread was as good as the worst real bread out there... but kind of meant it as a compliment.

Nothing like a little book release to make me completely nuts and insecure and self - doubting and depressed and generally kind of mean and bitchy (just ask my family).

And if that's code for no interventions beyond cinamon breath and whatever other useless nonsense birth hobbyists have to offer, then those who seek that kind of meaning can take their chances with having a dead or broken baby or mother.

It might be kind of mean, but parents just want to have fun.

Your child can make this with you and you can talk about his significant role in the holiday and what kind of meaning it gives family.

So did the etching have some kind of meaning for its maker?

The positive emotions that come with this kind of meaning - making were exquisitely displayed in a recent Modern Love column, written by beloved children's author Amy Krouse Rosenthal.

It's an awesome word and there is no way to translate it to English, but it kind of means «just right».

I think it kind of means that even though a problem looks big it can be solved.

It's cool that each piece has a kind of meaning and story.

Even though he's kind of mean he still has a soft side to him and shows that change is possible regardless of how small your heart used to be.

Although there is a political element to this movie, however, it works on a primal level — that of a person struggling to find not only a path forward but some kind of meaning in an act that lacks reason, compassion, or sense.

Kate Bosworth as Amy Sumner: This character is kind of meant to be like tearful fresh meat for Straw Dogs, and Bosworth is OK in this role.

A kind of filmmaking as sensitive to silence as to speech, and alert to the kind of meanings we prefer to hide away.

Does Gareth Edwards know that that kind of means something else these days?

Like David Robert Mitchell's impressive - looking but relatively immature «Under the Silver Lake,» which premiered the previous night, «Burning» grapples with class differences and envy through the eyes of a virtual nobody unable to process the disappearance of a young woman, grasping for any kind of meaning in — and raging against — a world in which he's made to feel subhuman.

A core assumption of developmentally oriented feedback, she says, is that every group will contain every kind of meaning - maker.

Bought this truck in the past year and she takes me anywhere, I use it as a daily driver and a racer, I have done many performance modifications to it, such as fuel injection ratio tuner, K&N cold air intake, champion spark plugs, tuned the camshaft a little, etc. and I did some cosmetic work on it as well such as painted rims, mesh grille, dipped my truck pearlescent, put neon lights in the cab hooked up to a toggle switch, put rain guards on the doors, new nerf bar, etc. it is all the kind of mean look you want it to be at night and a family vehicle during the day.

The face and personality of those types of vehicles, with their bumpers, accessories, headlights — those bits take on all kinds of meanings.»

Seems kind of mean, as I have now met several very talented writers who, either have not published, or self - published anything yet,... although some would very much like to.

You will rarely benefit when you get into this kind of mean - spirited activity.

Julian talked a little bit about what it was like working with Andy «Our jobs are kind of meant to be invisible.

But despite her fears, Ellie is also seeking some kind of meaning and purpose for her life.

I like to say, when I say a strategy works, I kind of mean six or seven out of 10 years.

If you don't, that's a powerful argument in favor of the kind of mean reversion we persistently see in our Persistence Scorecards.

I was originally taught the dominance model but it was kind of mean so I switched to positive reinforcement, only to find that it was mostly ineffective.

This game could have the same kind of meaning, but it's still new and different, which is why people don't know how to enjoy it.