Sentences with phrase «peculiar experiences of»

I just had the peculiar experience of watching a screening of «The Human Stain» in a theatre where I was the only person in the entire room.

In Nick Flynn's new book, «The Reenactments,» the memoirist and poet delivers a meditation on the peculiar experience of watching his life story become a movie.

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Eberstadt recounts her experience avidly perusing parenting manuals until, over time, they became «profoundly irritating» because of their «peculiar combination of joylessness and self - congratulation.»

A field, therefore, composed simply of inanimate actual occasions is not a subject of experience; but, in and through the interrelated agencies of its constituent occasions, it does exercise the collective agency necessary to preserve its own identity as this particular field, e.g., an atom or molecule of a peculiar shape or consistency.

It depends on a certain theory of how an experience is related to its objects; on the view that if two temporal events are nontemporally experienced, they must be simultaneous; on the contention that the possibility of alternatives and of freedom is inseparable from temporal transition; and on a peculiar theory of meaning as requiring contrast.

Surely it is a waste to toss my life away on the peculiar combination of my own experiences — unexpected conversations and mountain - top exhilaration, mixed with periodic headaches and a tablespoon of robin - song at dawn.

Wooldridge characterizes the reticular system as the establisher of an optimal signal - to - noise ratio, so to speak, upon which higher levels of experience are staged:» «Volume - control» signals are generated in the reticular system to reduce our sensitivity to uninteresting or irrelevant stimuli and thereby permit us to achieve the peculiar but highly useful phenomenon of mental concentration» (4:143).

This, of course, is not to say he is not rightly esteemed truly human, a man of flesh and blood with the peculiar Biblical force of that phrase; indeed it might be claimed that the very stress laid on the limited character of his experience makes us more vividly aware of the reality of his human nature.

These stories that are peculiar to Luke seem clearly (with the exception of the appearance to Peter) to embody in the form of myth the experience of the post-Easter Church.

That's the thing: midtown partially aside, Manhattan is a collection of neighborhoods, and, peculiar as it seems to non — New Yorkers, those so inclined can know in their neighborhood an experience of community available to relatively few people elsewhere in the nation.

Whereas Aristotle, as we have seen, took the first factor to be peculiar to conscious experience and the second to be the more general factor lying at the base of consciousness, Whitehead took the subject - object structure as general and fundamental and interpreted causal efficacy in terms of it.

An examination of other sacred writings would show their peculiar fitness for expressing and inspiring the fundamental experiences by which we defined universal religion.

That is to say, sociology of religion shares with the sociology of other activities of man certain problems and, in addition, has its own due to the peculiar nature of religious experience and its expression.

Some metaphors readily lend themselves to high development because they belong to a metaphor system, i.e. a group of metaphors linked together by their common origin in a single area of human observation, experience or activity, which has generated its own peculiar sublanguage or jargon.110

For example, a child may experience inner tranquility because of the presence of a parent apart from anything peculiar to the present experience of the parent.

He echoes George Washington's admonition: «Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.»

This strongly suggests, I believe, that any assertion that God is the subject of the experience of others is certain to create a peculiar problem for theology today.

I think what's exciting is that the peculiar folks that have taken many of God's commands around economics really seriously — like the Mennonites and the Amish — are experiencing huge revival right now.

I agree, of course, that the naïveté may arise less from the obsolete world view than from the peculiar character of Christian experience, but that is just what my existentialist interpretation is intended to show.

Insisting that the gospel has a «proof peculiar to itself» did not mean that Christian thinking ignored the claims of reason, dismissing questions that arose from history or experience or logic.

To understand what is peculiar to the Buddhist structure of existence, it was necessary to concentrate attention on the relation of each dominant occasion of human experience to the predecessor and successor occasion together with which it constituted a soul.

In the midst of all this, I can say I've experienced a peculiar grace.

Paul's own distinctive contributions to Christian thought are to be sharply distinguished from what he received by tradition; and it will be found, when these are segregated, that they point to several sources: (a) his own personal experience, that of an intense spiritual nature with a keen imagination and a desperately sensitive conscience; (b) a peculiar exegesis of the Old Testament, partly rabbinic, partly early Christian, but more probably derived from his own reading and pondering of the Greek version of the Jewish scriptures; (c).

In other words, an actual occasion experiences a peculiar sort of dying: it passes into God's memory as an immortal object for future experience.

The conceptions which the saints have of the loveliness of God, and that kind of delight which they experience in it, are quite peculiar, and entirely different from anything which a natural man can possess, or of which he can form any proper notion.»

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.

But the electromagnetic society as such would provide «no adequate order for the production of individual occasions realizing peculiar «intensities» of experience unless it were pervaded by more special societies» (PR 150).

The difference from Rensch's position is subtle: it is agreed that the peculiar experiential qualities of cells are dependent upon the systemic relations among the parts, and it is agreed that the higher - level experiences are integrations of the data provided by these parts.

Xhaka, who excelled at the heart of the Swiss midfield - especially following Albania captain Lorik Cana's red card - felt both he and his brother delivered strong displays during what was a wholly peculiar experience.

With nineteen years of school nutrition experience, Chellberg is a recent arrival in Raymore - Peculiar, having taken on the director position just eighteen months ago.

Mr. Nkanga, however, said that although the state was experiencing shortage of the product, the situation was not peculiar to the area.

Experience the peculiar sensation of having three arms, just like Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — all you need are two rubber hands...

Patients in the studies they cite emerge from their hallucinogenic experience believing that «all is One,» that «God asks nothing of us except to receive love,» and having a «peculiar disregard for... their impending death.»

While searching for dating partners in the comfort of your home as peculiar with online dating, many things could be done wrong which possibly could make your search stressful and boring or worse, exposes you to awful online dating experience.

But the small hairs on your neck tingle anyway and you smile with recognition, regardless of whether you've ever experienced that most peculiar sensation of love at first sight.

Always at his best as a character involved in the process of defining his place in a broken family dynamic (a plight closest to his own peculiar family experience), Nicholson's turn as Schmidt is as affecting an everyman for the aging new millennium as his disaffected Robert Dupea was for roughly the same generation about thirty - two years ago.

As the rains pour down and the water rises, Bryant and May must rely on instinct, experience, and their own very peculiar methods to stem a tide of evil that threatens to drown them all.

As with separation anxiety, dogs leery of children experience real fear, and the erratic movements, high voices and peculiar (pre-pubescent) odors represent a menace to survival.

Such a spark imbues the entire experience with a peculiar sense of character seldom seen in games — let alone mecha titles or shooters in general — one that cheekily accentuates its Japanophilic charm with the wanton gore and destruction emblematic of old - school, arcade - style shooters like

Such a spark imbues the entire experience with a peculiar sense of character seldom seen in games — let alone mecha titles or shooters in general — one that cheekily accentuates its Japanophilic charm with the wanton gore and destruction emblematic of old - school, arcade - style shooters like Doom and Quake, which in turn fuels the pilot / robot bond already made conspicuous by Shogo's first - person perspective.

It was somewhat of a peculiar experience.

All main Zelda games share the same basic structure - start out as a wee elf boy named Link, build an arsenal of peculiar items to both increase your strength and ability to traverse a fantasy landscape, defeat monsters - but where the 3D games tend to draw the experience out for a more filmic story, the 2D games tend to be faster, more compact impressionistic experiences.

You'll experience the trials and tribulations of women as they live on the island of Bhikkhuni, a sanctuary for those afflicted by a peculiar condition called the V - virus.

It deals with collecting the multiple narratives of artists difficult to classify because they have a very personal speech often linked to topics such as subjective memory, identity play autobiography, poetic senses... His themes of artistic settings are linked to individual symbols and a peculiar structure of their experiences, which has a very significant role in the works of contemporary artists in the IVAM collection as Robert Frank, Bruce Nauman, Christian Boltanski, Cindy Sherman, James Lee Byars, Juan Muñoz or Cristina Iglesias.

A peculiar approach to dynamism and harmony is of great importance to the artist so the whole agenda is a plunge in the hidden realms of painterly experience.

To attend to the works in this exhibition, you have to be on your toes, at the top of your game, attentive to details, alive to subtlety, and in touch with the peculiar poetry of visual experience...

In this historic and symbolic landmark of Milan, between la Scala Theatre and Palazzo Reale, the artist delves into her peculiar irony, determination, and candour, another perspective, another way of observing and experiencing the world, by - passing conventional thought systems and references.

The show focused on a subgenre of this practice, «drawings for installations,» in which, as Michael Auping observes in his catalogue essay, «we can seemingly experience Nauman contemplating the peculiar types of space his installations explore.»

«That Rothko's images possess a distopian air during a post-utopian era of economic decline does require us to account for them in relation to the desolate culture of the urban scene, a conception of the city that is often expressed in turn as the experience of a peculiar space.

A peculiar characteristic of this new body of work of Tim Plamper is the exploration of physical experience and of... Read more»