Sentences with phrase «popular wisdom of»

Unfortunately, the popular wisdom of the past 40 years — that we would all be better off doing 45 minutes to an hour a day of intense aerobic activity — has created a generation of overtrained, underfit, immune - compromised exerholics.

When breastfeeding rates doubled between 1972 and 1982, mothers were looking for ways to reconcile the needs of their babies with the popular wisdom of the day.

Not exact matches

In a LinkedIn post last year, Deepak Chopra, popular author and founder of The Chopra Foundation, said that he wished he embraced the wisdom of uncertainty at a younger age.

So, contrary to popular wisdom, social media, blogs, personal brands and online personas only give the illusion of uniqueness and differentiation.

Accompanied by a troupe of dancers with gongs, drums, and banners, and by Australian aborigines in paint and loincloths, she invoked ancestor spirits and indicated that the best «image of the Holy Spirit comes from the image of Kwan In... [who] is venerated as Goddess of compassion and wisdom in East Asian women's popular religion.»

There follows an excursus on the wisdom of the neglected popular piety associated with «offering up» daily hardships.

Their works have remained popular with Christians throughout the generations because of the pearls wisdom found within.

There are elements of good sense in folk wisdom and popular religion, and what health remains in the body politic depends on this.

Especially in a country in which folk wisdom and popular religion have diverse cultural sources, the appeal to these is often highly divisive, as today over issues of abortion and homosexuality and religious practices in the schools.

Rather than deploying inherited wisdom as a means of associating itself with traditional elites, the university has been disparaging tradition, in order to become one with popular taste.

The next saying, about giving what is holy to dogs and casting pearls before swine (Mt 7:6), has the same tone of popular wisdom and the same crisp, concise quality.

This investigation is so thorough, the emerging history of tradition so convincing and the application of what we have called the criterion of dissimilarity so careful, that we feel no need to do more than quote Bultmann's conclusion: «All these sayings contain something characteristic, new, reaching out beyond popular wisdom and piety and yet (they) are in no sense scribal or rabbinic, nor yet Jewish apocalyptic.

This massive cultural transformation, called by some the rise of the postmodern era, has transformed everything: travel and tourism, reading, the «high arts,» popular arts, health care, gender roles, the places where «wisdom» is deposited and sought, the relation of religion to the state, family continuity, sexuality, patterns of physical activity.

Appropriately to this build - up of Solomon, there follows at once that popular tale of the two harlots, intended to illustrate not only the great wisdom of the king, but also his accessibility to the meanest of the population.

While scientists like Brian Cox give popular and compelling accounts of the wonders of the universe (see his BBC2 TV series of that name), and atheists like Dawkins and Hawking claim it all disproves God, we need to show how science and religion come from one Wisdom and lead to the One Wisdom Incarnate, Jesus Christ.

Such authoritative structures, even though they might be popular and have the appearance of wisdom, they are ineffective in changing anyone.

It is not too surprising that many of Jesus» early followers could see the feminine dimension of divinity in their teacher when one remembers that some Jesus sayings depicted him as the voice of Wisdom, a personified female aspect of God popular among Jews at the turn of the era.

[4] The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes popular piety as «a storehouse of values that offers answers of Christian wisdom to the great questions oflife».

The atmosphere of James is close to that of the Old Testament wisdom - literature, and the Hellenistic aspects of the letter are essentially due to the effort to express this atmosphere in good rhetorical language; they are not necessarily based on «popular philosophy».

Football and the transfer activity in the game is notoriously hard to predict, especially when you are dealing with a club like Arsenal and a manager like Arsene Wenger who seems to take a special pleasure in doing things his own way and flying in the face of popular and recognised wisdom.

Popular parenting wisdom advises dealing with toddler tantrums in one of two ways.

Flexibility to address the unique needs of a large and growing population of well - informed women who want to make decisions based on facts, not popular wisdom.

From the bestselling author of such popular gift books as «Life's Little Instruction Book, A Father's Book of Wisdom», and «A Hero in Every Heart» comes a new small - format book of wisdom featuring a collection of heartwarming thoughts all aboutWisdom», and «A Hero in Every Heart» comes a new small - format book of wisdom featuring a collection of heartwarming thoughts all aboutwisdom featuring a collection of heartwarming thoughts all about dads.

She is the author of 15 books, including the best - selling Understanding Management, Managing with the Wisdom of Love, Love Lift Me Higher, and RESPECT: Women and Popular Music, which was based on her qualitative content - analysis research of how women are depicted in the lyrics of Top - 40 music.

Unfortunately, popular wisdom and misconceptions about how to raise responsible kids can lead to ineffective communication and power struggles Some parents use authoritarian parenting strategies that do not allow the child an independent voice or sense of efficacy.

This cautioned wisdom runs counter to the popular notion that the media ought to operate on an honours system of self - regulation, the proponents of which tend to hide behind arguments against the «risks» posed by censorship.

Contrary to popular wisdom, four western European countries (as well as most of eastern Europe) have higher rates of homeownership than the UK: Greece, Ireland, Italy and Spain — hardly economies to copy.

Hurling itself robustly into the face of popular wisdom.

Diane, along with Lisa Breckenridge of Fox 11 News and Good Day LA, are regularly featured together in their popular «bite - size bit of wisdom» interviews, covering ways to gain clarity on today's toughest issues — at home and in the world.

If you're a believer in the 5 - second rule, you've accepted the popular wisdom that it takes longer than that for germs to transfer from the floor to a dropped piece of food.

Get off the hamster wheel by avoiding automatic «yes» responses to requests that catch you off guard, says Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project, a book chronicling the year that Rubin spent test - driving scientific research and popular wisdom about how to be happy.

These pocket collections of wisdom from one of the world's most popular Buddhist teachers help bring mindfulness into everyday life.

This means that — contrary to popular wisdom — vegetables like carrots and red peppers are not adequate food sources of vitamin A.

At our online dating summit, Angela P., Daily Operations Manager of a popular Malaysian women dating website, has contributed her wisdom to the community.

Dating wisdom and advice; the Jewish way in finding one's spouse Here are the top 15 Most Popular Dating Sites ranked by a combination of continually updated traffic statistics.

Beginning in 1953, he was a principal writer / director of the popular Norman Wisdom film farces.

That highly - quantitative theory ignores conventional baseball wisdom, scouting reports and popular stats like batting averages and RBIs in favor of lesser - appreciated indicators like slugging and on - base percentages which apparently have a higher correlation to wins and losses.

«Contrary to popular wisdom,» Page said, «surrounding a low - ability student with a homogeneous group of students seems to have no effect.»

Finally, we test the wisdom of relying on an experimental evaluation of popular charter schools to make inferences about all other charter schools.

One of the most popular pieces of conventional wisdom in the national debate over education is that teachers lose the capacity to further improve student achievement after only a few years in the classroom — their effectiveness plateaus early in their careers.

That is why metaphors of teaching as coaching and mentoring are popular today; they emphasize how teachers design and scaffold experiences that lead students to emulate the wisdom of teachers.

She just released the second edition of Dojo Wisdom for Writers, the second book in her popular Dojo Wisdom series.

A release date and price point have not yet been revealed, but conventional wisdom seems to suggest that it will be available sometime during the summer of 2011 and be priced competitively against the popular iPad 2.

On the opposite end of teen experience is that of Maya Van Wagenen, the bookish 15 - year - old whose eighth - grade social experiement is the subject of an utterly charming new memoir, Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek.

The popular wisdom is that e-readers allow their owners to read whatever they like privately, without displaying the covers of the books.

All the people who got new Kindles for Christmas could have contributed a bit to that surge, and perhaps Amazon in all its wisdom threw my book into one of its popular mailers.

The members communicate with each other via a number of popular membership - only forums, a growing repository of the Society's collective wisdom and experience, and the Society publishes the bi-monthly magazine Editing Matters.

- The winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults is POPULAR: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek written by Maya Van Wagenen.

We recently covered the top 10 investing myths in a prior post, the ten biggest mistakes that even experienced investors make because of errors in the «popular» wisdom.

Popular wisdom seemed to be that, at that time, the FTSE100 companies total market cap comprised 80 % of the FTSEAllShare total market cap, so an FTAS tracker perhaps doesn't get you as much diversification away from the FTSE100's companies as you'd like to think.