Truthiness, Merriam - Webster's 2006 word of the year, is «
the quality of seeming to be true according to one's intuition... without regard to logic [or] factual evidence.»
«I've interviewed and portrayed people who've withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one
quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning — even during our darkest nights,» Winfrey said.
Not exact matches
But fewer and fewer people
seem to feel that way, and it's gradually eroding our happiness and the
quality of our work.
Brewers in the city say they're 10 - 15 years behind Portland, but that
seems inaccurate for the
quality of beer coming out there.
Empathy might
seem like a nice - to - have extra, a touchy - feely
quality that's most important in personal relationships and being a nice person outside work, but expert after expert insists this most human
of attributes is actually a business essential.
What «value» means in a zip code that ranks amongst the most expensive in the country is a matter
of some debate, but generally, it
seems that brokers quantify it via three
qualities: location, construction
quality, and potential for flipping and turning a profit.
One
of them said, «This
seems like a second - or third - generation product» and «the
quality is Apple - like.»
In a situation which
seems alien to the world
of business, SAAS companies are effectively competing to see who can provide the most high -
quality and relevant material to their users for free, and with very little chance
of direct ROI in the immediate future.
«What the rest
of the bike industry doesn't
seem to consider — and I think it's the most important thing — is finding the perfect intersection
of affordability and
quality,» he said.
A realistic sense
of one's own strengths and weeknesses would
seem to be a desirable
quality in a job candidate, right?
But a costly switch
of T - 1 service providers and the addition
of new
quality controls
seem to have ended this company's electronic bloodbath.
For watching video in loud public places like planes, all three will do the trick, but Bose's offering
seems the best
of the bunch if you're the type who frets over audio
quality.
There is also an internal SCL email chain regarding a political targeting project that also appears to involve the Kogan modeled Facebook data, which is referred to as the «Bolton project» (which
seems to refer to work done for the now US national security advisor, John Bolton)-- with some back and forth over concerns about delays and problems with data matching in some
of the US states and overall data
quality.
It
seems that the market has failed to recognize Sally Beauty's exceptional earnings
quality and overrated the threat
of competition.
What does
seem clear, however, is that we may have already witnessed peak ICO season as the wild west
of financing makes a move towards
quality control.
Hence, although there may be no shortage
of quality issuers, there
seems to be a shortage
of quality sovereign securities.
With CMIT Impression, our new visual collaboration package, CMIT Solutions has done what until recently
seemed impossible: Construct a video conferencing system with the
quality and flexibility
of enterprise - level video conferencing systems but at a cost suited for small business — and open to all the varied video chat tools small businesses use.
Overall, the evidence from our site visit
seemed broadly consistent with the possibility that Living Goods is improving access to healthcare and
quality of healthcare in the areas where it works.
You know that low -
quality link building, or cheap link building will only hurt you in the long run, but the hundreds to thousands
of dollars a month it costs for an experienced link builder
seems excessive on the surface.
The site encourages shoppers to comparison shop, placing equivalent brands in tabs next to the Scout + Ro items, which are priced just low enough that they
seem of similar
quality, but clearly the better deal, an average
of about 35 percent cheaper.
But, as we've seen from Chipotle's troubles over the past 20 years, it
seems, now — I guess it hasn't been that long — it's just really difficult to actually marry the fast food side
of things with high
quality, locally sourced ingredients.
The testimonies they show on the sales page are obviously fake, and the whole story and approach
seem to be
of low
quality.
It
seems somewhat hypocritical on the part
of search engines to strive towards elimination
of fraudulent clicks and improvement
of the traffic
quality while offering such services as AdSense for Parked Domains.
Most people suddenly furrow their brows and purse their lips and declare their concerns about homeschooling, which
seem always to be less often about the
quality of the education as about the children's «socialization.»
In fact, it starts to
seem decidedly odd that we have elevated human life — i.e., pure biological continuation — so far above the
quality of the life in question for the person living it.
Eventually I got hold
of Christian Schwarz's book «Natural Church Development» which was developed based on his research with thousands
of churches across the world looked at the «
quality»
of churches because his findings
seemed to surprisingly indicate that the
quality of a church was the number one factor in the nemerical growth
of a church.
Jesus is arguably not so unkind or arrogant as that, but there
seems nonetheless a similar
quality of adolescent rudeness here, a confrontational style that appears almost instinctive, unbidden by the behavior or words
of elders.
Female education under the Mughals
seems to have been confined to rich and learned families, especially the ladies
of the royal house, some
of whom were famous for the high literary
quality of their writings.
And this
quality of gift
seems to be part
of what has happened at Christmas: the Word itself is made flesh, and so the flesh
of Jesus is the message now.
Noah
seems to work as a film because
of a plot that is paced to move along, convincing special effects, and
quality performances from name brand actors like Russell Crowe and Anthony Hopkins.
The reality
of human sexuality is a patent fact; and it would
seem to be intimately tied in with man's total organic movement, which as we have seen includes his physiology, biology, and psychology, as well as his appreciative (and hence his aesthetic), valuational, and feeling
qualities.
Men have often been fearful
of becoming, or
seeming to become, weak and effeminate through the development
of their
qualities of sensitivity and nurture.
What thinking and feeling person would want to share the name
of those who
seem to fight tooth and nail for the sanctity
of life by protecting the unborn but refuse to help better our education system or
quality of life for those not as well off.
What Neville does not
seem to recognize sufficiently is that theistic faith demands an understanding
of God who is the object
of its faith and worship (for the believer can not relate himself to what is unknown to him) and, furthermore, that it generally demands a coherent concept
of God who is not only the ontologically, valuatively, and rationally other but also an individual reality who instantiates these
qualities in a personal mode
of being.
It
seems reasonable to hold that if there is a God, «necessity» is a
quality of his mode
of being.
To reject this idol may often involve falling back upon skepticism, but sometimes one
seems fleetingly to be enabled to reject the idol in the name
of a Being who really is Another, who requires one to stop putting words into His mouth, who has the predictable disconcerting
quality of the God
of the New Testament, who directs one's attention away from oneself, who is relaxed where the idol is grim and immensely awe - inspiring where the idol is puny.
Say what one will about the dubious
quality of Heidegger's judgment here, the problem for his interpreters
seems to remain one
of demonstrating that his later philosophical views are any less dubious than his earlier ones — especially as they are rooted in the manner in which he lived.
Throughout the film vacillating between the legalistic and the spontaneous, Marianne
seems to place the finer human
qualities outside the realm
of formula.
Parents — and indeed all
of us — would do well to question our
seeming inability to ensure minimum standards
of quality in a field so significant and basic as care for our children.
Short
of reading the entire encyclopdia» a herculean task from which it
seems even the editors have recoiled» choice,
quality, and length can be judged only by sampling.
If by power we intend to signify, as most often is intended, the use
of coercive measures whether these be overt or subtle and hidden, then it would
seem that to ascribe such a
quality to God as His chief characteristic — as in fact, if not in word, is suggested when people talk as did my questioner — is a denial
of the point
of Christ's disclosure
of God.
But, I question what the fuss is about that we have no new Flannery O'Connors, when the old O'Connors, the Catholic writers
of an earlier day,
seem to have gained popular attention largely by giving a slightly Catholic accent to the conventions
of existentialism rather than offering a vision
of the world that really captured its intelligible and lovable
quality — one that prepares us, as Beatrice prepared Dante, to enter into the presence
of grace.
Science has that built - in
quality of being self - correcting — some people find that frustrating (to them it
seems like scientists keep changing their minds), but it is one
of the fundamental strengths
of science.
The diet produced by mass production and mass marketing, our civic and commercial architecture, our consumer goods, our style
of dress, our popular entertainments, and so forth — it all
seems to have a kind
of premeditated aesthetic squalor about it, an almost militant indifference to the distinction between quantity and
quality.
Strange though it may
seem, we are here confronted, if we seek to define our Universe in relation to other imaginable kinds
of universe, with the necessity and importance
of determining what may be called its «coefficient
of activation», that is to say, the degree in which it possesses the
quality of stimulating the centers
of reflective activity contained within it.
The equipment is very modern and the
quality of work
seems to be better.
It would
seem then that the only way to purify our concepts
of God
of the false authoritarianism which can only sanction a suppression
of our natural love
of personal freedom, is to accept without reservation the image
of the defenseless (but by virtue
of that
quality, radically powerful and creative) God who withdraws any intrusive presence and thereby opens up the future in which alone human freedom can dwell and find nourishment.
If later selves have content in them that resembles the content in earlier selves, then by an argument made familiar by Bertrand Russell, this resemblance would
seem to require grounding in a monadic or dyadic universal which is a multiply exemplifiable entity in each, perhaps the relation
of resemblance itself.4 In order to be veridical, my present memory
of a past experience must have identical
qualities instanced in it as were instanced in the past experience when it was present.
Gellman
seems to think that translating the notion
of «greater love» into unique love and decoupling God's choice from any superior
quality prevents the doctrine
of Jewish chosenness from demeaning non-Jews.
Self - defense implies abstaining from unjust acts
of violence against others: unfortunately this requires both honest self - awareness and empathy (
qualities that
seem to be short supply).