Sentences with phrase «own predilections»

There is so much of great interest on Facebook, but an algorithm, combined with one's own predilections, drive what you'll see.

Then there is the average viewer's natural predilection to choose only that which is of interest.

Add a predilection for copious amounts of alcohol to be consumed at these events, and you have a boon for food companies like Food Lion.

Nonprofits typically live on tight budgets, their priorities determined each year by the predilections of funders.

The first daughter spoke about her three children's predilection for sweets in response to a question from Earhardt about whether they understand that their grandfather is the American President.

These labels — inventor, genius — are essentially made up of expectations, and these predilections sway our behavior towards fulfilling these assumptions, making them true.

Shouldn't that be a reason to cheer companies» predilection for profits rather than pan them?

(His quirks and predilections are such common knowledge that they were knowingly parodied on an episode of The Simpsons.)

«The basic elements of this story are repeated in the lives of all of the great Masters in history: a youthful passion or predilection, a chance encounter that allows them to discover how to apply it, an apprenticeship in which they come alive with energy and focus.

He applied to Harvard Law School and was accepted, although he chalked it up to a predilection for accepting students at the law school from Harvard undergrad.

A walk about the castle - like structure is part history lesson, part business seminar and part guided tour of other people's predilections.

I prefer to wait and buy AFTER the collapse of a big bank or two, given my predilection for sound sleep

Some of us post here because of the religulous predilection for s.exual repression and hypocrisy, which I never get tired of pointing out to people.

Contact with reality» which is to say, the actual operation of the legal system and its impact on society» is more likely to confront academics with the immutable truths of human nature than endless theorizing restrained only by the politically correct predilections of one's colleagues.

Even my desire to get back to my novel during the sermon spoke to my predilection for the Truth.

Whether the Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity is the most useful treatment to own and read is a matter that will depend upon the predilections, patience, and tolerance of the reader.

The spark was likely an irrelevant prophet, the fuel he ignited (our astonishing predilection toward theism) is a fascinating mystery.

We have seen that at one period a rigid scheme of interpretation tended to blanket the direct impact of the Bible upon the mind; and at another period the license of private interpretation threatened to befog it in a cloud of individual predilections.

As Christians, we might try to deny our theological predilections for the sake of our sanity, but we can not escape them.

After that religious minds put their various spins on just about anything to suit unique doctrines and personal predilections.

In all three Gospels Jesus speaks of the scribes» predilection for public attention and respect.

Moltmann's hermeneutical predilections for promise over fulfillment, for ethics over aesthetics, and for mission over rest also cause him to ignore play's self - contained meaning and instead to explore the function of play in contemporary society.

These are to be distinguished from fraudulent pretenders to the title such as Colonel Qaddafi's Popular Democratic Republic, the so - called Democratic Republics of the old USSR, etc.) The sociologist Peter Berger, against his own earlier predilections, has shown in The Capitalist Revolution that among all existing nations capitalism is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for democracy.

When teachers of biblical prophecy ignore the New Testament's sense of apocalyptic immediacy and imperative to readiness, they distort the scriptural witness to serve their own historical and theological predilections.

And, as it happens, my verdict on the material collected here is distinctly mixed; but I do not think it a verdict dictated solely by personal predilections.

Like Ahaz, who refused to ask God for a sign, we deny God's predilection, his mercy in granting us a concrete path in His Son.

It lies close enough to us even though they wish to keep away from any such unfortunate ones and to avoid all sober reminders not alone from the careless judgment of the storyteller's art, but also from the church and from the edifying insight that must certainly know that the Holy Scriptures have almost a predilection for the halt and the lame, the blind and the lepers.

It is not just my personal predilection, however, that makes me think attention should be paid.

The tone of these remarks so far may appear to be realistic almost to the point of cynicism and exaggerated almost to the point of caricature; and I freely admit, on points like this, a certain initial predilection for excess.

Solzhenitsyn's work takes such sweeping dialectics to task as symptomatic of the modern predilection to reduction through abstraction.

My statement about trolling refers to the poster's predilection of putting questions out and then refusing to respond to the answer provided, or responding with ad hominems.

Should these gentlemen persuade judges that natural law is their domain, the theorists will find that they have merely given judges rein to lay down their own moral and political predilections as the law of the Constitution.

23 With a predilection for exaggeration, he isolated liberalism's confidence in moral progress and directed his polemics against this feature.

We have taken many things for granted, especially the idea of Hindu tolerance and the Indian peoples predilection for harmony and non-violence.

For some it may be easy to explain this predilection for daring as the result of high - spirited, indulgent parents and the cushion of inherited wealth.

Sun Myung Moon's revelation calls forth real commitment, but commitment to a messiah without a cross who confirms us in our cultural predilections.

«Z,» replying to Benjamin Franklin in Boston, did argue that there had to be an express reservation of «inherent unalienable rights,» for example, «in case the government should have in their heads a predilection for any one sect in religion?

But more seriously, he seems to suffer from the Western predilection that religion is about beliefs, and maybe morals, alone.

Responding to the deterministic predilection of substantialist understandings of the self, he attempts to demonstrate that he does not share the substantialist position.

These leaders wielded their people's predilection for faith like a weapon.

My opposition to traditional metaphysics is not its predilection for transcendence, which in fact is its lasting value, so much as its identification of transcendence with the timeless.

«Truth Prevails Robert: Is it really predilection if it is a taught thing?

Evangelicals have always placed emphasis on dramatic change and interventions of God, making their message more adaptable to television's predilections towards sensationalism.

If so, this use of «Son of man» may have to be ascribed to a predilection for this title in some part of the early church, which gave these sayings their present form.

Each of these leaders wielded their people's predilection for faith like a weapon.

My own predilections lead me to side with the more cautious among the futurists with respect to the success man can have in controlling his destiny and remaking the world according to some chosen end.

From this point of view, the baffling predilection for the word «religion» which seems to characterize most contemporary preachers, discloses a significant element in the modern mind.

Different kinds of Christians do Christmas in their different ways, and fights naturally break out among opposing predilection groups.

George Orwell once notoriously criticized Shakespeare for his bourgeois «Tory predilection for hierarchy and aristocracy, holding that the views of the playwright came through only in the voice of kings or nobles.

Furthermore, the fact that the worshipper himself is involved in all this, that he has his own «liturgy» or expected part to play within the great liturgy of the Church as a whole — his own work to do as a member of the company — and that he is well acquainted with what is going to happen next in the course of the service, delivers him from the vagaries of the minister, who in such worship is not able to obtrude his personality and his personal predilections in any offensive sense.