Sentences with phrase «own peculiar kind»

When we marry, we seldom realize that we will sporadically feel a peculiar kind of loneliness.

For the saving love of God to be present to human beings it would have to be so in a way different from how it is present to other aspects of the body of the world — in a way in keeping with the peculiar kind of creatures we are, namely, creatures with a special kind of freedom, able to participate self - consciously (as well as be influenced unconsciously) in an evolutionary process.

This peculiar kind of hope itself opens up the possibility of a particular stance in the world: one of concern for others even at the expense of concern for the survival of our way of life.

The combination of the understanding of the individual as the one addressed by God, and thereby placed in decision, and the awareness of the inwardness of the decision joined in producing that peculiar kind of responsible, self - conscious individuality which justifies the term «person.»

One can not afford to lose status on this peculiar kind of ladder, for the prevailing notion of American life seems to involve a kind of rung - by - rung ascension to some hideously desirable state.

Yet men have always somehow known that man is more than animal, and it is verily a peculiar kind of scientific method which can no longer see the differences that separate man and beast and machine.

Many of us who have written about Rawls» argument have noted that the people behind his famous «veil of ignorance» are a peculiar kind of people (i.e., people very much like John Rawls) and therefore can hardly serve as the normative deliberators producing universal moral principles.

He had no image; and while he certainly had a name, it was (as we shall see) a name of a peculiar kind.

For some time I've viewed Faulkner as a very peculiar kind of Calvinist.

Will not the bookseller say: My dear child, your toy is not worth anything; it is true that when you still had the money you could have bought the book instead of the toy, but a toy is a peculiar kind of thing, for once it is bought it loses all value.

Instead it has deepened, spreading a peculiar kind of confusion into our public discourse, political institutions, popular culture, the lives of religious believers, and entire communities of faith — including, at times, the Church herself.

There is a peculiar kind of loyalty at work here: very similar to the loyalty expected of the population of a nation to its armed forces.

While millions of Americans are trying to shed fat, in the past year three research teams announced that the adult body contains a peculiar kind of fat that we might prefer to hold on to.

And so the cheapening, even smearing, of a peculiar kind of romance is at its most rampant, and the want for proper dialogue and plot points has finally become make - believe.

At the press preview, it was as thrilling as ever to step inside this imposing structure with its grandiose spaces and peculiar kind of mid-sixties glamour.

Leaving these outer and imagined spaces a mystery, Glendening returns with a peculiar kind of document which reflects the voyage the arrival and the return.

Of all the types of drawings Nauman has done for different mediums, his drawings for installations are particularly interesting -LSB-... because] they reveal, perhaps more than any other type, how Nauman thinks his way not simply into sculpture but into the peculiar kind of space his installations present.

A peculiar kind of evidence is offered up in Sam Easterson's videos and photographs of birds — be they falcons or pheasants, turkeys or ducks — as well his videos of an astonishing range of other animals.

I think it ought to be read along with Spencer Weart's recent historical review and discovery of «a peculiar kind of science».

We may just be a peculiar kind of intelligent bacteria, able to be individually aware of what we're doing but collectively utterly incapable of doing a fart about it.

Not exact matches

Or maybe you solve a very specific kind of problem — a rare health issue, or a peculiar type of software malfunction.

Indeed the kind of Protestantism that fades into abstraction owes much to Lutheranism for its peculiar tendency to reduce the whole of the Christian faith to the doctrine of justification.

If we are to understand why Protestant thinkers today accept the peculiar difficulties that confront them when they reject the kind of natural theology that Thomism represents, we must understand the systematic difficulties that Thomism itself encounters.

Must there not be a kind of jurisdiction, jurisdicere, «laying down the law,» that is peculiar to the Church, even though the Church is not the Kingdom itself?

Human dignity is «to be found in the kind of life that honors and upholds the peculiar nature that is ours.»

Those who reflect insufficiently find it peculiar that people suffer the oppression of this kind of sovereign with docility and patience, that they do not open their eyes to the vices and excesses of the clergymen who degrade them, and that they endure from a head that is shorn what they wold not suffer from a head crowned with laurels.

The paradox of creativity can be seen in a peculiar character of the kind of process that culminates in something intelligible and novel that contributes substantively to a tradition of human endeavor.

It is one among the many values I have for a long time gained from the work of Joseph Conrad that he perceives and pictures this grey kind of damnation with peculiar clarity.

Tara Livesay is a mom seven unique and peculiar people, and wife to one of the world's very kindest men.

If all this added up to certain kinds of discomfort that would have seemed somewhat peculiar to our Eastern big - city cousins — childhood friendships, for example, that unspokenly and mysteriously evaporated in adolescence — in some respects we were also far more at ease than they.

The conceptions which the saints have of the loveliness of God, and that kind of delight which they experience in it, are quite peculiar, and entirely different from anything which a natural man can possess, or of which he can form any proper notion.»

At least, our experience of the animals with whom we live is that they exhibit behaviors similar to many of our own; that those behaviors clearly seem to be signs of emotional and mental qualities familiar to us from our own knowledge of ourselves; that animals possess distinctive individual traits, characteristics that are irreducibly personal (even if we feel obliged to recoil from that word on metaphysical principle), their own peculiar affections and aversions, expectations and fears; that many beasts command certain rational skills; and that all of this makes some kind of natural appeal to our moral sense.

This joke is better insofar as it identifies something more peculiar to the Presbyterian ethos: it relies on a more specific kind of shared knowledge.

In the tradition of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas worked out precisely how every appetition is directed by a form as by its determining principle, whether this form really belong to a [235] being or be acquired in the act of knowing.8 Thus the kind of appetition peculiar to cognizant beings could be explained as an effect of their cognition.

Rather than sweeping women's peculiar moral perspective — which is intimately tied to their reproductive capacity — under the rug, these feminists celebrate it as an equally valid or even superior kind of rationality.

But I do not think that this kind of Socialism is in any way peculiar to me.

In 1832 Pope Gregory XVI (followed by Pope Pius IX) declared that it was insane to teach that «the liberty of conscience and of worship is the peculiar right of every man... and that citizens have the right to all kinds of liberty... by which they may be enabled to manifest openly and publicly their ideas, by word of mouth, through the press or by any other means».4 In 1864 Pope Pius IX proceeded to draw up a list of the principal errors of the age which were to be condemned.

A «Gringo,» as they call all Americans or foreigners, would find great difficulty in making any kind of a meal out of the meat thus prepared; but the Mexicans, by their peculiar style of treating it, are able to make a very palatable dish, of which I have frequently partaken with great relish.

Liverpool missing out would also be kind of peculiar.

«It's obviously a question mark that we look at and say this is kind of peculiar,» Madden said.

He said: «What it seems happened, and we are investigating that at the moment, is somebody along the way put up what was essentially meant to be an example of the kind of advice we give and ended up going out as a quote which was quite peculiar and quite wrong.

«We analyzed the data of these most distant Kuiper Belt objects,» Malhotra said, «and noticed something peculiar, suggesting they were in some kind of resonances with an unseen planet.»

These failed stars, or brown dwarfs, inhabit a peculiar gray area between large planets and small stars, and their split personalities are providing scientists with new ways to learn about both kinds of objects.

«Many studies deserve praise for being the first of their kind, but if we actually began relying on the claims made by big data surveillance in public health, we would come to some peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health research professor and senior author of the study.

For example, 40 % of the problem gamblers at the National Problem Gambling Clinic report that the game they have a problem with is roulette on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals; this kind of gambling machine is peculiar to the British gambling landscape.»

It's excellent, though the coconut cream is a bit too strong for my taste — it smells very much like coconuts cream, and that peculiar taste kind of invades each bite.

I could say The Thousand and One Scarfs is a kind of story or rather a fashion movement peculiar to me!

The collection was another way station on the designer's peculiar progress to a kind of peace, where his clothes speak quietly to more and more people.

Each day God blesses us with different kinds of people but I only need a PECULIAR ONE to appreciate LIFE with a «LOVELIFE!»

Onslaught is a peculiar game: even if it looks like a First Person Shooter, the kind of the action and the enemy routines recall the scrolling shooter of the 80's.