Sentences with phrase «peculiar characteristic of»

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The sense of colour as opposed to knowledge or intellect is borne out in many of the other statements Batchelor has assembled: «Colour... is the peculiar characteristic of the lower forms of nature» (Charles Blanc, 1867); it «is suited to simple races, peasants and savages» (Le Corbusier, 1923); it «has nothing in common with the innermost essence of a thing» (Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner, 1920); it «has always been seen as belonging to the ontologically deficient categories of the ephemeral and the random» (Jacqueline Lichtenstein, 1989).

A somewhat peculiar characteristic of struggling / failing traders, is that their behavior in the market reflects an underlying belief that they know «for sure» what the market is going to do next.

Another peculiar characteristic of cancer cells is that they are immortal.

We have a very peculiar characteristic of our nation.

I can avoid doing so no longer, however, for a peculiar characteristic of the Bible itself is its concern to establish a community around that reality to which it bears witness.

Intuitive judgments are the «triumph of consciousness»; explicit negation is the «peculiar characteristic of consciousness» (PR 274/418).

But perhaps the most peculiar characteristic of nearly all biblical narratives is their «vernacular» nature.

«It should provide valuable insight into the peculiar characteristics of the deepest place on Earth.»

Not exact matches

The series also included the example of a modern banking model that combined characteristics of both the fragmented 19th century US and great resilience, thanks to its peculiar liability - sharing, funds transfer mechanism and cross-control structure: the German Sparkassen Finanzgruppe (saving banks group; see post here).

It is as a creature of wants that a human being has acquired, not only other characteristics that have been said to distinguish him (his disposition to make things, to fabricate, and his invention and use of tools), but also his peculiar attitude toward the world around him: both positive and intelligent.

Vorhanden, which Heidegger uses of the peculiar mode of being characteristic of inanimate objects, as contrasted with responsible human Dasein, I have translated by «tangible», as in Bultmann the antithesis is not so much between Vorhandensein and Dasein as between the tangible realities of the visible world and eternal realities, very much like the Pauline contrast of kata sarka and kata pneuma.

Propositions — which are not Entities in the primary sense — appear also to satisfy the characteristic, supposedly peculiar to Entities, of admitting contrary qualities, since the proposition that someone is sitting passes from true to false when the person stands up.

theological work does not merely begin with prayer and is not merely accompanied by it; in its totality it is peculiar and characteristic of theology that it can be performed only in the act of prayer.

I haven't discussed the peculiar propensity for religious conflict that seems to be characteristic of the Southern Crossroads or the enormous importance of the Middle Atlantic region to American Jewish life.

There was no example of Mormonism or «mormon» movement in general with the general (very peculiar) characteristics that Smith cooked up except for him.

As I see it, part of the problem with the approach characteristic of Deneen and company is not merely a romanticizing of halcyon days that are now surely, if not entirely, irrevocably lost and an underappreciation of its own peculiar obstacles to virtue.

He has received his life, his existence, his peculiar being from God, precisely as the thousands of animals have their characteristics from God.

In this way, a peculiar completeness of summing up would be accounted for and the question of common characteristics would be seen as entirely secondary.

[18] Such selective usage is not peculiar to those within the various Christian communities, but is also a characteristic of those who wrote to attack Christianity.

If some visitor from another planet, knowing nothing at all about this world of ours, should drop down upon us, he would surely find that the biped who was erect had a peculiar characteristic marking his behavior — he would observe this creature on his knees in what the creature called «the presence of the invisible God.»

These would apply not only to the analyzed occasion under discussion, but would also serve to define any number of occasions, hence would not allow us to recognize to what extent these characteristics are intrinsically peculiar to the given occasion.

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.

For its peculiar characteristic is the conviction that because of the formal authority of Scripture all the commands of the Law are equally binding.

Precisely as Christian worship, in its social sense, has its own peculiar characteristics and is marked by a special religious quality, so the private devotion of the Christian is different from the life in prayer of other religious people.

«The directiveness which is so characteristic of life processes that it was considered the very essence of life, explicable only in vitalistic terms, is a necessary result of the peculiar system - rate of living organisms, namely that they are open systems.»

Form for Leclerc is neither act taken as the static first act of the scholastics, nor even act taken as activity, the scholastic second act, but rather the specific character and structure of an activity — for example, the character of the activity which gives rise to the peculiar geometrical shapes characteristic of different molecules (PN 142 - 49).

At the very bottom of the tree there was also a peculiar mechanism at play — as the tree's diameter expanded the woody strands rolled out from the side of the trunk at the base of the tree, forming the characteristic flat base and bulbous shape synonymous with the cladoxylopsids.

Otherwise, HD110432 and gamma Cas share similarly peculiar X-ray and optical characteristics such as high X-ray temperature, erratic X-ray variability on timescales of a few hours, optical emission lines, and submigrating features in optical line profiles.

This is simply not the case, those with ringworm simply have a fungal type of skin problem that causes these peculiar round red lesions, they are quite characteristic of ringworm — look at the picture, do you recognize it if you look at your itchy skin lesion?

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In accordance with the fundamental characteristic of previous Lenovo Yoga products, this peculiar device can be used and propped in various practical positions.

These iguanas are peculiar with a mix of characteristics from the two species of iguanas.

Keeping in mind the peculiar conditions of production, distribution, and consumption of the images, Mapping Sitting also investigates how these photographic practices reveal characteristics of nascent national identities.

It focuses on the use value of the land which hinges on the resources and characteristics peculiar to its particular location.