Sentences with phrase «own superfluity»

Like art, and one might almost say like thought itself science seemed at its birth to be but superfluity and fantasy, the product of an exuberant overflow of inward activity beyond the sphere of the material necessities of life, the fruit of the curiosity of dreamers and idlers.

For it can recover its certainty only if it is prepared to think through to the bitter end the possibility of its own impossibility or superfluity.

Nor is God an unnecessary ornament added as a beautiful but superfluous extra onto the complete and subtle explanations offered by science, any more than Shakespeare is a superfluity to the play Hamlet.

For this end, wee must be knitt together in this worke as one man, wee must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion, wee must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities, wee must uphold a familiar Commerce together in all meeknes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity, wee must delight in each other, make others Condicions our owne, rejoyce together, mourne together, labour and suffer together, allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community in the worke, our Community as members of the same body, soe shall wee keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us as his owne people and will commaund a blessing upon us in all our wayes, soe that wee shall see much more of his wisdome, power, goodnes and truthe than formerly wee have beene acquainted with.

The «brotherly affection,» the willingness to «abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities,» that Winthrop spoke of in the early Puritan covenant seemed again to live in the revolutionary ranks.

Giving alms is meaningless, if there is no sharing in superfluity.

I gave up the life of the conventional world, recognizing it to be no life, but a parody on life, which its superfluities simply keep us from comprehending,» — and Tolstoy thereupon embraced the life of the peasants, and has felt right and happy, or at least relatively so, ever since.

Although a literary artist, Tolstoy was one of those primitive oaks of men to whom the superfluities and insincerities, the cupidities, complications, and cruelties of our polite civilization are profoundly unsatisfying, and for whom the eternal veracities lie with more natural and animal things.

She had borne children, nursed, fed and washed them, sewn, cooked and swept, eaten little, traveled not at all in her years, suffered much pain, never known the ease of superfluity; but her back had been straight, her ways straight, her eyes quiet and her manners gentle.

And life, when full of disorder and slackness and vague superfluity, can no more have what we call character than literature can have it under similar conditions.

«As particularly those fruits and effects of pride that discover themselves in the vanity and superfluity of apparel; which I took too much delight in.

We must entertain each other in brotherly affection; we must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others» necessities; we must uphold a familiar commerce together.

If our models are to lead us to ask, and seek answers for, new questions about the world, we must regard them as something more than «logical superfluities», «illicit attempts at explanation», «convenient fictions», or the like.

If a system is wrong which maintains an idle man in bare necessaries, a system is much more wrong which maintains an idle man in great superfluity, and any system which allows the inheritance of wealth on the great scale is open to criticism on this score.

Once again the superfluity of hospitals was deplored.

You do not have to go complete the superfluity of becoming down someone if the feeling do not appeal to you, and back off in a refined subtle way.

When, as a guest on «Inside The Actors Studio,» Gabriel Byrne was prompted for his favorite phrases, he chose prolix, an adjective connoting a superfluity of words, and bollocks, the Hibernian slang for testicles that can mean claptrap, rubbish, a series of lies, an idiotic person, or, in active form, the feat of fouling something up.

This kind of stylistic, self - conscious excess could be glorious, as in his underappreciated film «Domino» (2005), about a gorgeous bounty hunter (Keira Knightley), in which the superfluity of the visuals matches that of Richard Kelly's screenplay.

He is played in the movie by Josh Brolin and a superfluity of CGI chin dimples.

Imagine that on Blu - ray for an idea of the superfluity of this direct - from - tape 1.78:1, 1080p transfer.

Sadly, with Popeye acting the ugly American in the City of Lights, the object proves its own superfluity.

Never mind the fact that the movie stops dead in its tracks just to explain such superfluity.

To put it simply, any degree of redundancy, superfluity, repetition, or information overload may result in persuasion and distraction, and the essence of learning being lost.

From Madden NFL 12's jerky post-play animations to the clunky artificial intelligence in NHL 12's Be A GM mode, often the superfluities haven't always matched the quality of the core game.

Inexplicably, scoring a touchdown against a group of hot dogs, zombies, or robots is even more thrilling that trumping Bear, Lions, and Panthers, especially once players are rewarded with codes which can modify the main game with superfluities like big - head mode.

Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, «Radical Consumption and the New Poverty: A Discourse on Irony and Superfluity,» New Observations, n. 51 (Oct 1987): 2 — 23.

All of them were well - known and eminent citizens, burdened with the duties of active business; and the time they gave so freely to the management of the Cooper Union was not the superfluity of leisure.

Artists Kader Attia and Jean - Jacques Lebel's transcultural and transgenerational collaborative exhibition attempts to face down and recover from human evil through the superfluity of artistic imagination.