Sentences with phrase «pale reflection»

Nonetheless, the art is impressive enough that even a somewhat pale reflection of greatness is still worth seeing.

They are pale reflections of what well - designed accountability systems would actually do.

In his stories the church exists on the edge of the common life of the people as only a fading, pale reflection of the larger community.

Transcendence now became the transcendence of the love of Christ, a love of which human and earthly love is but a pale reflection.

Every schoolyard pile - on and childhood act of coordinated cruelty, every lynching, every swarm of decent people caught up in the madness of the mob is a pale reflection of the crowd crying «Crucify him!»

Too much theologizing is based merely upon the pale reflection of itself which it sees in philosophy, and needs a more thorough grounding in biblical studies.

Clearly, the God of the 1990s in America is a distant and pale reflection of the God of our forefathers.

All the loving that we receive from each other is a pale reflection of what he can offer us.

When winter is at last over we'd come peeping out our doors, squinting in the sunlight, blinded by our pale reflections and inhaling the scents of new life.

Toward the end of their history the Maya built Mayapan, a pale reflection of earlier glories.

That exploitation is something that they must swallow as their dignity fades leaving only constant fear and the pale reflection of the dream that brought them to London in the first place.

For being one of the rare summer sequels that was not a pale reflection of its predecessors, it deserves a decent bit of credit.

The truth is, today's accountability systems are pale reflections of the real thing.

Now, in a culture where women are little more than the playthings of powerful men, in a castle honeycombed with secret passages and clever traps, in a kingdom threatened from without and within by enemies able to appear and vanish out of thin air, Terisa must become more than the pale reflection of a person.

Other Hubs - Music and Reader - are a pale reflection of pre-loaded Google and Amazon apps for streaming tunes and downloading ebooks.