Sentences with phrase «peculiar things as»

From the book jacket: Kate Martinelli has seen her share of peculiar things as a San Francisco cop, but never anything quite like this: an ornate Victorian sitting room straight out of a Sherlock Holmes story — complete with violin, tobacco - filled Persian slipper, and gunshots in the wallpaper that spell out the initials of the late queen.

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Even to him, taking a part - time position to pay down more of his debt seemed like a peculiar thing to do as a Harvard MBA with a six - figure management job at a Fortune 50 company.

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.

The consideration of these general limitations at the base of actual things, as distinct from the limitations peculiar to each actual occasion will be more fully resumed in the chapter on «God.»»

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.

This is a peculiar epistemological stance, but Hartshorne insists that it is empirical; it is merely abstract, which is not the same thing as a priori.

One thing does seem peculiar though, and I may be mistaken here, why would an organization that doesn't really buy into the miracles of Jesus, e.g. healings and resurrection, and by extension the divinity or prophetic nature of Jesus, e.g. Jesus as an «itinerant... sage», really be all that interested in determining exactly what Jesus said?

We are easily misled here by the following sort of reasoning: «If x can do A, B, and C, and nothing else can do C, but other things can do A and B, we might describe x's peculiar function either as «doing A, B, and C» or as «doing C»» (EAE 49).

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

Besides, to treat a civilized society as purely the same as any other type of event in nature would be to downgrade the significance of one of those things Whitehead finds most peculiar to the human species, namely, civilization.

Perhaps the most direct prophetic reference involving these things was the peculiar warning of our Lord Jesus Himself: And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

There was, however, one thing the secular media thought peculiar, and definitely promising as a source of anti-papal copy, and they dived in, as some Christian observers — not necessarily Catholics — noted with some annoyance.

The things that we regard as virtues, as the highest achievements of man's peculiar and separate greatness, he would condemn as vices and defects; and contrariwise, vices and defects are exalted by him into high moral commandments....

Israel did regard herself as the peculiar trustee of a unique faith and conceived the protection of that faith from contamination and the propagation of it to the world as her duty, and so, thinking of her religion as a greenhouse in which to grow priceless things for later transplanting to the larger field of the world, she endured indescribable suffering on behalf of her heritage.

«A family, no less than a State, is, as We have said, a true society, governed by an authority peculiar to itself... provided, therefore, the limits which are prescribed by the very purposes for which it exists be not transgressed, the family has at least equal rights with the State in the choice and pursuit of the things needful to its preservation and its just liberty.

An Asian version known as kopi luwak undergoes a peculiar thing made from berries eaten by the Asian palm civet, passing through its digestive tract, with the beans eventually harvested from feces.

Because of his peculiar talent for doing the right thing as often, or more often, than the wrong thing, Paul Larson gets enough rope to hang himself.

It's a small thing, yes, but such oddities are pleasing to the eye, suggesting as they do that something peculiar is going on somewhere.

The thing that strikes me as a little peculiar about these comments is that both Diaby and Wenger appear to be steering clear of complaining about the tackle by Robinson, praising the physical nature of English football and in the process accepting it as part of the game.

Although cryovolcanoes probably exist on Pluto, and there are hints as well on Titan, this peculiar, 4 - kilometer - tall mountain on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, is the real thing, say researchers with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in one of six papers published today in Science.

Sit with it (as you would with a child who was hurting) and a peculiar thing will happen: You'll feel loved.

Though interracial relationships have their benefits as well, there are certain things about interracial dating that make it peculiar.

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.

Though dating within your race has its perks as well, there are certain things that make interracial relationships peculiar.

It's a peculiar thing, as I found Outlast 2 to be much scarier than its predecessor, but more playable due to more open areas and less claustrophobia than found in the Mount Massive Asylum.

In this peculiar place where stacking things on one's head is perfectly normal, the young monster tamers will encounter new friends and familiar FINAL FANTASY heroes as they learn the truth about their pasts.

This blog is an attempt to get a bead on art as a living thing, as an entity with its own peculiar and independent prerogatives.

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).

I believe in the end people will associate CAGW hysteria as a peculiar thing, something that will be studied by the sociologists and anthropologists and politics scientist, of the future.

You'll notice other peculiar things too, such as the chamfered edges, which feature four strategically placed breaks at the top of the handset and on the sides near the modular attachment.

The peculiar thing with Apple is that even when it goes into a hardcore proprietary mode, as it has done with the HomePod, there are still hundreds of millions of Apple users out there with the budget and interest to purchase its latest product.