Sentences with phrase «peculiar sense of»

The universe has a peculiar sense of humour, of course, and so I emerged as a pretty decent first tenor, which meant I actually had to use this high singing voice — and make the first of a number of emendations in my definition of masculinity.

And so Gillick often emphasizes the gaps within systems, or what he has described as «the peculiar sense of disorder that accompanies any visit to an apparently well - ordered bureaucratic setup.»

Mud is a small picture smeared with brown and grey that creates a peculiar sense of miasma and vanishing.

Terror and death are constant companions, reviving a peculiar sense of vulnerability that we haven't really felt since the first Resident Evil titles.

This is the best Dungeon Keeper type of game available in a long time, an interesting take in monster movie clichés with a peculiar sense of humor and a ton of charm, even if its art department looks a bit cheap at times.

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.

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

This can often come along with such a peculiar sense of entitlement, too — the idea that yes, you have shelves so their books should be on them.

Despite showing early signs of Dante's peculiar sense of humor (the ululating sound made by the piranhas is a hilarious example), this spoof of Jaws (or as Roger Corman put it, his «homage» to that classic) did not resist well the effect of time, looking pretty trashy and silly today.

The initial aim of a human occasion might be that the occasion prehend wider purposes of God or enjoy a peculiar sense of intimacy or oneness.

Not exact matches

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.

Each sense has its peculiar object, but the sense of being affected by the object is an integral and basic part of sensing in general — at least in its more basic forms.

It is from this peculiar perspective that the monk should be able to get a sense of the deepest meaning of life itself; he also «will be in some sense critical of the world, of its routines, its confusions.

It is not necessary for us to make a detailed examination of the various sorts of ritual associated with these meals; it will suffice if we see that the Jew worshiped God not only in the synagogue and in the Temple, but also in his home, where families or groups of friends met regularly for a holy supper, often held in connection with great festivals of the Jewish religious year, in which bread and wine, eaten and drunk, were believed to have a peculiar significance in establishing anew a sense of the covenant which God had made with his chosen people.

But, for the contemporary world, it was heresy of the first order, such, in fact, as to set the Hebrews off as a peculiar people in a sense quite different from what their own thinkers boasted.

In a peculiar sense Israel was the Great Divide of human history.

Like the ancient dybbuk separated from its body and consigned to wander the world, modern man senses his detachment from life as the peculiar curse of his modernity, the price paid to Satan in return for distance.

This sense of the world's presence, appealing as it does to our peculiar individual temperament, makes us either strenuous or careless, devout or blasphemous, gloomy or exultant, about life at large; and our reaction, involuntary and inarticulate and often half unconscious as it is, is the completest of all our answers to the question, «What is the character of this universe in which we dwell?»

As far as the actual senses are concerned, ours is in many ways a culture of peculiar poverty, evident even — perhaps especially — in its excesses.

This systematization of the holy betrays, if nothing worse, a peculiar atrophy of a Protestant sense of humor.

The sense of being what Churches of Christ historian David E. Harrell has called «a peculiar people» has often lapsed into intolerant exclusivism.

Now it is the peculiar claim of Christianity that the life of Jesus Christ, in its complete sense, is the special revelation» of God.

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.

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.

From my own peculiar point of vantage I sense that many Christians may be missing something — a message hidden in Scripture, in the words of the church fathers, and in the deliberations at Vatican II — without which our attempts at interfaith dialogue will be of little or no avail.

But the ordinary production - theory of consciousness is knit up with a peculiar notion of how brain - action can occur, — that notion being that all brain - action, without exception, is due to a prioraction, immediate or remote, of the bodily sense - organs on the brain.

Jürgen Moltmann has pointed out that one amazing ramification of Christianity's peculiar doctrine of the Trinity is the way it transcends the patriarchalism implicit in Jewish monotheism as well as the matriarchalism implicit in pagan pantheism.49 Using sexual terms in a metasexual rather than a literal, genital, and bodily sense, the feminine dimension of personality refers to the receptive, passive, self - effacing, care - receiving capacity in us all that contrasts with the initiating, aggressive, self - assertive, self - sufficient traits we associate with the masculine dimension.

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 peculiar character of Deuteronomy and its post-Amos-Isaiah status is equally revealed in regulations that are new, at least in the sense that they do not appear in the Covenant Code.

The word nowadays means sometimes the mere natural animal man without a sense of sin; sometimes it means a Greek or Roman with his own peculiar religious consciousness.

We had been led, because of our peculiar history, to associate manliness, sport and economic individualism with a system that had failed us as individuals, a system that was in every identifiable sense bankrupt.

You think that your weird sense of humor is not something that would be a good example for your kids, so you hold back on making the funny, peculiar observations that your friends and family consider your trademark.

But something peculiar and fascinating happens to the patient: When the therapy is over everything about the person — memories, priorities, the sense of self — comes back.

The animal behaviors that seem peculiar to us humans actually make a lot of sense for survival.

Perhaps in the hundred or so pages of a book styled in this peculiar genre, may a reader gain some sense of understanding about the person's life contained therein.

Mature dating sites such as SeniorFriendFinder and OurTime are peculiar services in the sense that they broaden the meaning of matchmaking.

The peculiar quality of «Vanity Fair,» which sets it aside from the Austen adaptations such as «Sense and Sensibility» and «Pride and Prejudice,» is that it's not about very nice people.

From sharing its Paris backdrop to its quirky, light - on - its - feet narration to its protagonist's breezy but sanctimonious matter of manipulating the world, this feels like a spiritual sequel in many senses and those who fawned for Jean - Pierre Jeunet's textured cinescapes and peculiar characters will find much to love here.

These are important to establish not only the storyline but to immerse you in the world of MGS which is uniquely intense and alternately peculiar with its sense of humor.

In «Toni Erdmann,» a very good and peculiar comedy from Germany's Maren Ade, a father subjects his high - strung adult daughter to a kind of unexpected — and clearly unwanted — shock therapy, using joke - shop fake teeth, a fright wig and a freakish sense of humor as tools of enlightenment.

You feel the front start to ease into understeer and then bite again if you lift the throttle to restore balance; you sense the peculiar weight distribution through the small of your back and by way the R slips into mild oversteer on the brakes but then squats hard as soon as you accelerate, smearing its 305 - section Michelin Cup 2 tires into the road.

It is the peculiar constellation of her age, gender and the particular nature of The Luminaries that has, she believes, provoked «a sense of irritation from some critics — that I have been so audacious to have taken up people's time by writing a long book.

The superpowered characters all trying their hardest to look cool, the jutsus, peculiar, colorful clothes, the whole ninja faggotry and everything about the Naruto world fuels their escapist fantasies, while the pity - party character backgrounds, emphasis on revenge, and overall preachiness of the series make it fit just right with the mary - sueish drives of your average preteen and his sense of unwarranted self - importance towards the world.

Cohen writes that in Bradford's work «there is the peculiar poetic charm of provisional painting — a sense of blah, of nonchalance, of not quite caring about the slapdash, scruffy, Brooklyn-esque «work in progress» look.

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.

Mark Prince reflects on the Edinburgh - born, Bengal - raised painter's works as parables of the limits of information Naufus Ramírez - Figueroa Ramírez - Figueroa's work is queer in the widest possible sense of that word - dissolving binary oppositions while embracing the strange, the odd, the peculiar and the confounding.

By exploring the dichotomies of abjection / beauty, abandonment / care, and destruction / creation, each painting gives the viewer a sense that these peculiar objects were found in their decayed but colorful state rather than made, allowing them to fluctuate anachronistically between the historical and the contemporary.

Jockum Nordström simultaneously evokes a sense of nostalgia and unfamiliarity in Back to the Land (2008), which features three peculiar characters in a rural scene of underbrush, trees, and cloud formations.

None of it quite adds up in introduction but makes sense in the peculiar taxonomy of Jones's work, to be expanded on in a panel discussion with the artist, along with Eleanor Ford and Matt Carlson on May 29.

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).