Sentences with phrase «plain fact»

Everyone has an opinion and everyone will defend that opinion as plain fact.

The emotional and imaginative constriction of the American personality in a world of common sense and plain fact became ever more evident and ever more painful to that minority of Americans who sought a larger human ideal.

Christ sees plain fact, as Thomas would say, without illusion or desire.

The attempts of the early writers on the life of Jesus to unearth plain facts, and to reassure Christians that the facts were not really miraculous, went nowhere.

abuse, extortion, the inability to see truth when plain facts are presented, etc..

As I shall say, confronting that plain fact does not suggest that we should spend our time in the not very profitable exercise of meditating every day on its reality.

Sometimes, reading plain facts are good enough.

A persuasive kernel of common sense, in many cases, lay hidden inside Illich's wild - eyed notions: that students learn a great deal from their peers; that educated people teach themselves or otherwise discover, outside the classroom, many of their most important lessons; that advanced education indoctrinates individuals, teaching them a kind of professional code and knowledge for work that can be addressed in a frank manner using plain facts and everyday language.

Kelly's paintings go to the heart of abstract art's challenge precisely because they are, in plain fact, nice to look at.

I hate weaseling around plain facts.

I have heard this also a child developing a sweet tooth if given juice, but my daughter has been exclusively breastfed for 7 months now and I'm pretty positive that breastmilk is sweet because 1) I have tasted my breastmilk out of curiosity and 2) it is just plain fact that it's sweet so i agree with the fact that salt ingeneral isn't the best but I «salt tooth» really?

Science is generally reported as plain fact.

All argument against these plain facts is always argument in a circle.

The plain fact is that more and more contraception over the years has not meant fewer and fewer abortions.

The relation between Christian faith and the scientific way of understanding nature involves many complex and unresolved issues, but the plain fact is that scientific understanding had to grow largely under secular auspices, with too little encouragement and understanding from the religious tradition.

The existence of teleological dimensions of our world» not only at the biological level but at the physiochemical» is a plain fact.

For contrary to initial impressions, this interpretation now turns out to be plain fact.

But at the core of the matter is the plain fact that to name and recognize our lack of innocence is to describe ourselves as accountable for who we are and for what we know.

The plain fact is that some of the happiest people we have ever known have been in difficult circumstances, handicapped within and hard bestead without; but for all that, by the magic of selective attention, they lived radiant and victorious lives.

The plain fact seems to be that both the Personhood of God and the doctrine of God's creation of heaven and earth were accepted by the authors of the New Testament with little question because they were already accepted in Judaism.

Niebuhr's formulation was irresistibly appealing to many liberals willing to acknowledge the plain fact that their own experience was laced with sin, however full of grace it might also be.

The plain fact is that there are a number of people who have known immediately when a relative has died, or who were able to lead their families to their great - grandfather's grave in the dark in a cemetery they'd never been to before, or who have sensed approaching danger in a very specific way.

Furthermore, we need to recognize the plain fact that a good deal of physical and, even more obviously, of psychological suffering is made possible through exactly the same human (and other) conditioning that makes it possible to enjoy the sense of well - being, even of joy.

And again, I can be excused from proving technically that the transcendentalist reasonings fail to make religion universal, for I can point to the plain fact that a majority of scholars, even religiously disposed ones, stubbornly refuse to treat them as convincing.

For the plain fact is that God had actually revealed to those who had known Jesus a reality which no bare record of his words or life could convey.

The plain fact is no one likes decisions.

The plain fact is that the domestication of the Protestant community in the United States within the framework of the national culture has progressed as far as in any western land.

The plain fact is that not only is no world culture emerging but that the trend of events is in exactly the opposite direction.

The plain fact of the matter is that we are seeking to communicate with people whose experiences are concrete.

For our part, we recognize the plain fact — that man does worship.

And yet, he is not wholly obscure, either, to those who pass through the hardness of «plain fact.»

In everyday life it is the plain facts and natural happenings that conceal God and reveal him to us little by little under the mind's tooling.

Perhaps our best approach here will be to consider the plain fact that the world in which we live presents itself to us as a mystery.

And as usual, the Bible is twisted to avoid the plain fact that Jesus did not support military action, hardware, or soldiers, but directly commanded his followers to aid the poor and defend the weak.