Sentences with phrase «peculiar phenomenon of»

Agne Gintalaite is someone who has always been fascinated by a «peculiar phenomenon of late socialism», that is — huge «garage towns» in her home country, Lithuania.

It is a peculiar phenomenon of statistical chance.

Not exact matches

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).

P.S. I do think my Songbook deserves to eventually win for itself a significant place among the works seeking to interpret the overall rock phenomena, but for now it remains a peculiar feature of Postmodern Conservative, and unknown to those who would most benefit from it, the handful of sane pop - culture theorists, and the more general class of intellectually open rock hipsters.

In the seventeenth century, phenomena such as the environment and the humors became substitutes for original sin in explaining the peculiar tendency to perversity within humankind, but with the loss of corporate corruption and corporate culpability, the focus on sin began its slow shift to sins, individually committed and individually suffered.

It is also shown by the peculiar phenomena which accompanied every revelation of the Qur» an, according to the testimony of the true tradition.

Our subject is one of those peculiar phenomena taken for granted in the contemporary world but which from an historical perspective seem anomalous.

At the heart of the problem of consciousness, in other words, is the problem of qualia: to show how «brain processes, which are publicly observable, objective phenomena, could cause anything as peculiar as inner qualitative states of awareness or sentience, states which are in some sense «private» to the possessor of the state (MC 60).6 Searle thus prompts an even more basic question: whether it is possible to distinguish clearly and distinctly between private and public aspects of perception.

In his book The Hills Beyond, Thomas Wolfe declared: «The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.»

Puzzling as the straightness of the lines undoubtedly is, still more puzzling is their peculiar habit of doubling, a phenomenon also discovered by Schiaparelli.

A Leicester mathematician has developed a theory to explain a peculiar phenomenon which can be observed both on Earth and in space — «heating by cooling», where the temperature of a granular gas increases while the total energy drops down.

«I was sitting behind the apartment that we had in Atlanta, and I was looking at this tree that was sitting [in] this apartment complex, and it was a very peculiar sort of weather [condition] where it was sunny but there were clouds in the sky, and the clouds were moving, and I sat and watched this tree change color — the sky was exactly the same but the colors changed, it went from a bright greenish yellow to a dark brown, and it was just an epiphany: dynamic visual phenomenon, black visual intonation....

It's a peculiar, postmodern phenomenon, that environmentalists — in the broadest sense of the word — epitomise, even if it isn't particular to them.