We may just be
a peculiar kind of intelligent bacteria, able to be individually aware of what we're doing but collectively utterly incapable of doing a fart about it.
I think it ought to be read along with Spencer Weart's recent historical review and discovery of «
a peculiar kind of science».
A peculiar kind of evidence is offered up in Sam Easterson's videos and photographs of birds — be they falcons or pheasants, turkeys or ducks — as well his videos of an astonishing range of other animals.
Of all the types of drawings Nauman has done for different mediums, his drawings for installations are particularly interesting -LSB-... because] they reveal, perhaps more than any other type, how Nauman thinks his way not simply into sculpture but into
the peculiar kind of space his installations present.
Leaving these outer and imagined spaces a mystery, Glendening returns with
a peculiar kind of document which reflects the voyage the arrival and the return.
At the press preview, it was as thrilling as ever to step inside this imposing structure with its grandiose spaces and
peculiar kind of mid-sixties glamour.
And so the cheapening, even smearing, of
a peculiar kind of romance is at its most rampant, and the want for proper dialogue and plot points has finally become make - believe.
While millions of Americans are trying to shed fat, in the past year three research teams announced that the adult body contains
a peculiar kind of fat that we might prefer to hold on to.
There is
a peculiar kind of loyalty at work here: very similar to the loyalty expected of the population of a nation to its armed forces.
Instead it has deepened, spreading
a peculiar kind of confusion into our public discourse, political institutions, popular culture, the lives of religious believers, and entire communities of faith — including, at times, the Church herself.
Will not the bookseller say: My dear child, your toy is not worth anything; it is true that when you still had the money you could have bought the book instead of the toy, but a toy is
a peculiar kind of thing, for once it is bought it loses all value.
For some time I've viewed Faulkner as a very
peculiar kind of Calvinist.
Many of us who have written about Rawls» argument have noted that the people behind his famous «veil of ignorance» are
a peculiar kind of people (i.e., people very much like John Rawls) and therefore can hardly serve as the normative deliberators producing universal moral principles.
Yet men have always somehow known that man is more than animal, and it is verily
a peculiar kind of scientific method which can no longer see the differences that separate man and beast and machine.
One can not afford to lose status on
this peculiar kind of ladder, for the prevailing notion of American life seems to involve a kind of rung - by - rung ascension to some hideously desirable state.
The combination of the understanding of the individual as the one addressed by God, and thereby placed in decision, and the awareness of the inwardness of the decision joined in producing
that peculiar kind of responsible, self - conscious individuality which justifies the term «person.»
This peculiar kind of hope itself opens up the possibility of a particular stance in the world: one of concern for others even at the expense of concern for the survival of our way of life.
For the saving love of God to be present to human beings it would have to be so in a way different from how it is present to other aspects of the body of the world — in a way in keeping with
the peculiar kind of creatures we are, namely, creatures with a special kind of freedom, able to participate self - consciously (as well as be influenced unconsciously) in an evolutionary process.
When we marry, we seldom realize that we will sporadically feel
a peculiar kind of loneliness.
Not exact matches
Or maybe you solve a very specific
kind of problem — a rare health issue, or a
peculiar type
of software malfunction.
Indeed the
kind of Protestantism that fades into abstraction owes much to Lutheranism for its
peculiar tendency to reduce the whole
of the Christian faith to the doctrine
of justification.
If we are to understand why Protestant thinkers today accept the
peculiar difficulties that confront them when they reject the
kind of natural theology that Thomism represents, we must understand the systematic difficulties that Thomism itself encounters.
Must there not be a
kind of jurisdiction, jurisdicere, «laying down the law,» that is
peculiar to the Church, even though the Church is not the Kingdom itself?
Human dignity is «to be found in the
kind of life that honors and upholds the
peculiar nature that is ours.»
Those who reflect insufficiently find it
peculiar that people suffer the oppression
of this
kind of sovereign with docility and patience, that they do not open their eyes to the vices and excesses
of the clergymen who degrade them, and that they endure from a head that is shorn what they wold not suffer from a head crowned with laurels.
The paradox
of creativity can be seen in a
peculiar character
of the
kind of process that culminates in something intelligible and novel that contributes substantively to a tradition
of human endeavor.
It is one among the many values I have for a long time gained from the work
of Joseph Conrad that he perceives and pictures this grey
kind of damnation with
peculiar clarity.
Tara Livesay is a mom seven unique and
peculiar people, and wife to one
of the world's very
kindest men.
If all this added up to certain
kinds of discomfort that would have seemed somewhat
peculiar to our Eastern big - city cousins — childhood friendships, for example, that unspokenly and mysteriously evaporated in adolescence — in some respects we were also far more at ease than they.
He had no image; and while he certainly had a name, it was (as we shall see) a name
of a
peculiar kind.
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.
This joke is better insofar as it identifies something more
peculiar to the Presbyterian ethos: it relies on a more specific
kind of shared knowledge.
In the tradition
of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas worked out precisely how every appetition is directed by a form as by its determining principle, whether this form really belong to a [235] being or be acquired in the act
of knowing.8 Thus the
kind of appetition
peculiar to cognizant beings could be explained as an effect
of their cognition.
Rather than sweeping women's
peculiar moral perspective — which is intimately tied to their reproductive capacity — under the rug, these feminists celebrate it as an equally valid or even superior
kind of rationality.
But I do not think that this
kind of Socialism is in any way
peculiar to me.
In 1832 Pope Gregory XVI (followed by Pope Pius IX) declared that it was insane to teach that «the liberty
of conscience and
of worship is the
peculiar right
of every man... and that citizens have the right to all
kinds of liberty... by which they may be enabled to manifest openly and publicly their ideas, by word
of mouth, through the press or by any other means».4 In 1864 Pope Pius IX proceeded to draw up a list
of the principal errors
of the age which were to be condemned.
A «Gringo,» as they call all Americans or foreigners, would find great difficulty in making any
kind of a meal out
of the meat thus prepared; but the Mexicans, by their
peculiar style
of treating it, are able to make a very palatable dish,
of which I have frequently partaken with great relish.
Liverpool missing out would also be
kind of peculiar.
«It's obviously a question mark that we look at and say this is
kind of peculiar,» Madden said.
He said: «What it seems happened, and we are investigating that at the moment, is somebody along the way put up what was essentially meant to be an example
of the
kind of advice we give and ended up going out as a quote which was quite
peculiar and quite wrong.
«We analyzed the data
of these most distant Kuiper Belt objects,» Malhotra said, «and noticed something
peculiar, suggesting they were in some
kind of resonances with an unseen planet.»
These failed stars, or brown dwarfs, inhabit a
peculiar gray area between large planets and small stars, and their split personalities are providing scientists with new ways to learn about both
kinds of objects.
«Many studies deserve praise for being the first
of their
kind, but if we actually began relying on the claims made by big data surveillance in public health, we would come to some
peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School
of Public Health research professor and senior author
of the study.
For example, 40 %
of the problem gamblers at the National Problem Gambling Clinic report that the game they have a problem with is roulette on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals; this
kind of gambling machine is
peculiar to the British gambling landscape.»
It's excellent, though the coconut cream is a bit too strong for my taste — it smells very much like coconuts cream, and that
peculiar taste
kind of invades each bite.
I could say The Thousand and One Scarfs is a
kind of story or rather a fashion movement
peculiar to me!
The collection was another way station on the designer's
peculiar progress to a
kind of peace, where his clothes speak quietly to more and more people.
Each day God blesses us with different
kinds of people but I only need a
PECULIAR ONE to appreciate LIFE with a «LOVELIFE!»
Onslaught is a
peculiar game: even if it looks like a First Person Shooter, the
kind of the action and the enemy routines recall the scrolling shooter
of the 80's.