Sentences with word «purposefulness»

In Modes of Thought, Whitehead also observes that «importance» is a «generic notion» and, therefore, has a fundamental role in the philosophy of organism; it is an intrinsic aspect of the central theme of purposefulness in Whitehead's metaphysics (MT 11).

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the ethos of these classrooms is similar to what one might find at an athletic practice or theater rehearsal — an ethos that combines playfulness with purposefulness, drawing together the warm virtue of passion and interest with the cooler virtues of intellectual demand.

It may, and too often does, diminish the idea of purposefulness by proclaiming an array of inexplicable dogmas.

What's more, physical activity develops lots of great personality traits like purposefulness, courage and self - confidence.

The very subtle curve around the edges of the glass, the grooves all around the metal frame and the textured notification profile switch all help add purposefulness to the aesthetics.

It makes no sense to acknowledge organisation and purposefulness at the level of the individual unit but then to deny it to the vast ordered and dynamic unity they form together.

Previous studies have been done on purposefulness and its role on health and self - esteem, but most have looked at it as a buffer against negative or stressful events.

Fortunately, Violet is played by indie film girl of the moment Greta Gerwig (pictured below, second from right), whose level gaze, swimmer's shoulders, and grave purposefulness help ground what could have been her character's stratospheric twee factor.

They have all played their part in contributing to the ultimate goal of the Star Maker and have therefore achieved purposefulness

On the other hand, he does not take the further step of showing how the concept of purposefulness implied by the discoveries of modern science has profound ramifications for scholastic metaphysics, especially the concepts of formality, finality and universality.

If there is a divine scheme of purposefulness enveloping and grounding the multiple levels and fields of influence in an emergent universe, then we should not expect or demand that its presence be obvious to us either.

The transparent purposefulness of the approach also sidesteps the phenomenon of spending much time and effort to look as if you have not spent much time and effort, though this too is compelling in a bizarre way.

We can sense in her walk a modest pride in her own purposefulness and efficiency.

The presidents of our early liberal arts colleges generally gave their students a summing - up course, whose very purpose was to instill purposefulness.

Damon is astute in noting how little our schools encourage purposefulness.

A day spent meandering through backroads conveys an overall impression biased toward purposefulness, not plushness, though the three - mode Bilstein dampers offer a noticeably more forgiving ride in their softer settings.

At the same time, it achieves the modern purposefulness required for drivers in the near - future era of connected, autonomous crossover vehicles.»

Pushed hard, the C63 reveals a multifaceted purposefulness we can't wait to measure against the new M3.

This small number of super operators will deliver the dedication and purposefulness necessary to ensure an ownership experience for the 12C that is as good as the car itself.

Appreciate its subtle purposefulness.

Presenting more curves than Sophia Vergara and with a low - slung profile, brawny rear haunches and gaping side air intakes that make it unmistakably mid-engined and rear - wheel drive, the compact Italian coupe oozes purposefulness, exclusivity and road presence.

Referencing middle class purposefulness Wondergem's work balances between traditional craft and abstract assemblage.

They aren't bad, they just lack the same purposefulness.

While I love to read about strengths and positive emotions, I see training the brain as what gives positive psychology its raison d'etre and what gives us practitioners purposefulness.

Rather, sheetmetal seems to hug, stretch, and bulge over its underpinnings and wheel edges with purposefulness: think Frank Gehry, not Frank Lloyd Wright.

This third film, The Bourne Ultimatum, directed again by Paul Greengrass and welcoming several key players (Joan Allen, Julia Stiles, Damon, screenwriter Tony Gilroy, DP Oliver Wood) back into the fold, ties both strings together: Bourne inhabiting his potential as something of an unparalleled killing machine while, simultaneously, becoming more human in his machine - like purposefulness.

«From every standpoint — my independence, my sense of purposefulness, my self - esteem, my life planning — this is just not what I was planning.»

The premoderns said that without the purposefulness of final causation, all things would be equally valueless, and the postmoderns say there is no purpose and no value.

It may have rules of its own, and it may be played with energy and require effort, but it is emancipated from the seriousness, the purposefulness, and the alleged «importance» of «work» and the satisfaction of wants.

It has been part of the modern program to empty the world of any purposefulness.

Although these worlds also eventually perish, they do so with a sense of joy and peace as they realize that they have reached the highest level of spiritual and social development of which they are capable and perish with a sense of purposefulness.

«This continually unfolding emergence of new and intricately organised systems and organisms strongly suggests a directionality in the history of the universe, and in the history of the Earth and of life on it... many recent interdisciplinary pundits postulate an overarching finality or teleology - a purposefulness - to the unfolding universe, and to nature itself as it evolves on Earth...

If it is asserted that God acts in history, then the claim is being made that God is caught up in the structures of purposefulness.

It is characteristic of Christianity, and even more so of the Hebraic heritage in which it is grounded, to assert that one of the few qualities shared by men and God is purposefulness.

In the following weeks they spent every waking moment with the visitors from Williamston, catching the infection of their self - respect and purposefulness.

It is true that purposefulness is much harder to see in lifeless than in living things, since the element of appetite, of striving for a good as a goal, seems absent from the former, whereas it becomes increasingly important and evident in the latter in proportion to their complexity, their rank in the hierarchy of living forms.

Or shall we take the best we know, personality — consciousness, intelligence, purposefulness, goodwill — and say that up that road, infinitely beyond our understanding, lies the truth about God?

Rather, «interest» is «importance» taken at a certain level of purposefulness, and «unity» is the ideal purposefulness seeks at its highest level of intensity.

This means that I have faith in the reasonableness and purposefulness of creation and its Creator.

Undoubtedly a major factor in Paul's ability to triumph in his troubles was his faith in life's abiding meaning and purposefulness, reaching beyond death into life eternal.

A person, a group, an historical event, a word or a set of words, an animal, a rock, a dream etc. — any of these is capable of functioning symbolically, of mediating to us a purposefulness that transcends us and gives significance to our lives.

(2) Mission as sending refers to the outreach of God from the lovingkindness and purposefulness of his nature.