Sentences with phrase «own whimsy»

Called «jellybean houses» due to their wild red, blue, yellow, and green hues, the houses fill St. John's with splashes of whimsy.

In other words, don't be afraid of adding a little whimsy to your messaging, but be genuine about it.

The story it has crafted for St. Elizabeth involves a mill owner founding the town many decades ago, lending some whimsy to what would otherwise be a group of homes and apartments on a patch of land just outside Hamilton.

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Business is dependent on the forces (and whimsy) of Mother Nature.

Users can bring their own whimsy to the party by manipulating the programmable host, Slackbot.

«Ultimately it's about letting the world visualize their dreams and live a magical life full of whimsy and wonder.»

That «whimsy and wonder» applies to everything from boring everyday stuff like emailing and word processing to more serious applications like surgery and architecture.

Yet the signal contribution of Porat, a Silicon Valley native who turned 60 this year, has nothing to do with whimsy.

When I ask him why he left angel investing (which he was doing after selling Red Swoosh) to run Uber, his rambling, five - minute answer includes two hyperbolic claims, a mixed metaphor («It's so complex all you can do is swim in uncertainty»), childish whimsy («that is my happy place»), and, believe it or not, an unironic Braveheart reference.

The playful whimsy of Johnson's designs provided a counterpoint to the Reagan - chic Wall Street style of the nascent «Me» decade.

The new name, as obvious a reference to ING Direct's iconic colour as it may be, is note - perfect for its modernistic whimsy.

Burning Man, like entrepreneurship, is an event that requires equal parts organization and whimsy.

The store, located in an old tattoo parlor, has traces of 826NYC: They teach kids writing in the back, and the space doesn't spare on the whimsy, with an artificial bird sanctuary, and a «bird adoption agency» near the checkout counter.

Our tools are science and whimsy.

If you don't set boundaries, filter, govern, and restrict how the world works with you, you will be at the whimsy of everyone else's (mostly irrational) demands.

Even though I generally don't like things attached to the word «whimsical,» I really like this painting, and would be the proud owner of something that carries with it an air of whimsy.

I'm sure they got all sorts of fun events: Pin the tail on the Presbyterian, The Catholic toss, A bracketfor the Angry nihilistic staring contest, the whimsy flows from those atheist folk like methane from a flower filled pasture.

Cannon, Karie G., et al., and the Mud Flower Collective, God's Fierce Whimsy: Christian Feminism and Theological Education, New York: Pilgrim Press, 1985.

Morgan Freeman and Morgan Freeman alone could convey Mr. Whitaker's deific blend of kindly wisdom, tough love and spritely whimsy.

For both Chesterton and Lewis, enchantment was not whimsy or sentimental optimism, willful escapism or hoping for the best.

I'm discovering, thanks to Dorothy Sayers and the ebullient Lord Peter, the efficacy of whimsy.

It's an old story and is not entirely respectful, of course, but the fact that it is told is reflective of a Catholic sensibility that is not devoid of a certain whimsy about the Church's leadership.

I was forced to linger and puzzle over details, details that were for the most part superfluous, pure whimsy.

If there is no interventionist God, in any directions, than its all focused on what we Do know, not what we struggle to make fit into the Real World — namely an Interventionist God who does so with a great deal of whimsy.

[6] Katie G. Cannon et al., God's Fierce Whimsy (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1985).

The centrality of the second issue is most passionately urged in God's Fierce Whimsy, [6] written by Katie Cannon and the Mud Flower Collective.

It seems to me that, absent this, any religious movement, regardless of its rhetoric and sentiment, substantively untethers itself from the intellectual discipline of religious tradition and easily becomes prey to whimsy, faddishness, or simply adopting the values of the greater society in which it finds itself.

It manipulates the whimsy of fan - boy power that Jared Hess explicated in his fine but critically reviled Gentlemen Bronchos (a comedy about young, would - be sci - fi novelists) and that David Gordon Green's 2000 George Washington, with its poor Southern boy wearing an old football helmet, basketball jersey, and kitchen - curtain - cape made poignant.

What replaced this flame in the 1970s was the artificial light of skepticism, whimsy, and irony.

«The language of love is laced with whimsy,» writes Goff.

I get the invitation every morning when I wake up to actually live a life of completely engagement, a life of whimsy, a life where love does.

It's an invitation to live with a little more playfulness, a little more whimsy, and to actually go out and do something with the teachings of Jesus.

Of course, these gravimetric oscillations can only be observed indirectly, but by noting their influence on the sub-atomic quantum flanging, the ferfanational matrices of gestalt knoncleotides proves, beyond a doubt, that the entire fabric of reality as we perceive it is nothing more than the passing whimsy of quantum midichlorians.

And we will publish articles that can claim no virtue other than whimsy, which is no little virtue.

However, with one exception (the feminist Mud Flower Collective's God's Fierce Whimsy, discussed in Chapter 4), book - length essays about the nature and purpose of theological education written from any of their perspectives have not yet been published.

I identify five voices in this debate that I take to be the most completely developed and importantly contrasting «positions» in the conversation: Edward Farley's Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education and his The Fragility of Knowledge: Theological Education in the Church and the University; 2 the Mud Flower Collective's God s Fierce Whimsy; 3 Joseph C. Hough, Jr., and John B. Cobb, Jr.'s Christian Identity and Theological Education; 4 Max L. Stackhouse's Apologia: Contextualization, Globalization, and Mission in Theological Education; 5 and Charles M. Wood's Vision and Discernment.6 Although each of these voices makes important claims in its own right, which I hope to summarize as briefly as clarity and fairness permit, what is most important, I think, is the largely implicit interplay among them of contrasting insights and themes.

Author and illustrator Tetsu Saiwai brings whimsy to life in «The 14th Dalai: a Manga biography.»

This «stuff» about which the minister develops and exercises intentions — the moods and motives, the whimsies and wiles of people, their responsibilities and irresponsibilities, the structures and clashes of groups, their forms and formalism, commitments and inceptions, ideas and ideals — this «stuff» is active, reactive, insistent, and sooner or later must have the final word.69

Since the various facets of our policy — economic, psychological, military and political — are all grounded in the same objective considerations of national interest and seldom susceptible for long to the whimsy or good will of a President or Secretary of State, this distinction is likewise defective.

At best, such rallying seeks to outwardly justify one's faith commitments and, at worst, relegates those same commitments to the whimsy of outside governing committees.

He wrote short (the best and most prayerful way), and I have frequently taken five or seven minutes out of a spare part of the day to commune with his forward - tumbling paragraphs and cascading sentences, admiring their intricate construction, delighting in their whimsy, astonished by their unlikely sturdiness while carrying all that weight all that distance with all those commas.

You are whimsy.

But if one needs a final image to describe women coming together to shape the enterprise, Bess B. Johnson in God's Fierce Whimsy offers an appropriate one.

But I'm not immune to the charms, and whimsy, and sometimes profound insight of American popular culture.

Theirs is a whimsy - driven epicurean experience that not only boasts crave - worthy fare, but also the ever - elusive, highly coveted kind of flair that's attracting the entertainment industry's elite — along with L.A. power players, movers and shakers — in droves.

Inspired by the vibrant colors of the poppy flower and lush grape vines, the linens are available in pretty designs that follow suit and add a pop of color and whimsy to any kitchen!

And, whimsy did surface with the dessert course when we ordered «The Cloud» — a flaming cotton candy dessert comprised of Angel food cake topped with white chocolate cremeux, strawberry ice cream, strawberry compote, and whipped cream all ensconced within a cloud of cotton candy.

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Pizza with a lot of ingredients is generally called pizza a la capricciosa - sort of as my whimsy takes me.