Sentences with phrase «rather than a fantasy»

I would think most people would like their lives and foundations to be based on facts and truth rather than the fantasy of faith.

Arsene deals with real squad management and strengthening issues rather than the fantasies you are talking about here.

He told the crowd he would give them a «reality check» — and the reality was that crime is down — and speak to them from «a perspective of fact rather than fantasy or hyperbole.»

Perhaps that's the key: comparing ourselves to ourselves, rather than fantasy or photoshopped irreality.

But a crime drama starring Ryan Reynolds as Pikachu, rather than the fantasy adventures we saw in the games and animated series?

The advantage of this approach is that it is grounded in reality rather than the fantasies of policymakers or reformers.

But a crime drama starring Ryan Reynolds as Pikachu, rather than the fantasy adventures we saw in the games and animated series?

It has a sci - fi theme rather than a fantasy one, and develops the fighting mechanics further.

We did some calculations a while back showing the results if you did a CO2 adjustment according to Graybill and Idso — rather than the fantasy in MBH99.

Not exact matches

DraftKings and other daily fantasy sites, including FanDuel, are able to charge money to enter contests and skirt online gambling laws because they're considered games of skill rather than luck.

The FSTA is also disappointed that the New York Attorney General has chosen the path of hurried litigation after years of watching daily fantasy sports thrive and entertain in New York rather than pursuing the path of common sense regulation or legislation as Massachusetts, Illinois and Florida have done.

Do you entertain fantasies of crossing the hall to go to work rather than feeling cross with delays and traffic congestion?

This is one of the problems that often hinders dialogue with radical atheists (not sure you are one, but you did answer a question I posed to people who believe God is a fantasy)-- rather than offer a defense they will attack in such a way as to obfuscate the purpose of the original discussion.

It was heartening to learn that in the end, that most people chose to talk about what was was truly important to them... family, rather than wasting the last minutes of their lives discussing the comforting fantasies, but fantasies nonetheless, of god, jesus, heaven, etc..

Rather than being frightened by the terrors of a Darwinian universe, they embrace its abiding otherness by way of fantasy, creating imaginative worlds that are altogether as surreal as the elephantine and hippopotamic products of the natural process itself.

But the researchers» bizarre fiction is that they are witnessing an isolated mechanical process without any prior conditions, rather than a premeditated act prosecuted intentionally, so they produce the monstrous fantasy that they have proved that the whole act is reducible to a spontaneous physical urge.

Perhaps — many recent fantasies suggest — the fairies are bound more by honor than by empathy, in a hierarchical society (sociologically, a status society rather than a contract one, and moved by shame much more than guilt).

The reason is that without a willingness to go to war, rather than treat this like a Chicago homicide is complete fantasy.

And yes, it is a «dog - eat - dog» world out there, and I would rather my children be more prepared for that, than living in some fantasy world.

I'd rather be sober and (relatively) unhappy in the face of reality, living my life in this natural world, than to lie to myself and live in a fantasy world.

Thus it is not the literal mind of the religious zealot that prevents Muslims from seeing the difference between fact and fantasy or between dream and sanity, and we flatter ourselves if we think it is refined sensibility rather than cultural limitation that makes us strip dreams of any real significance.

Transhumanists, like other libertarians, make the mistake of thinking that the high - spirited few, who are enamored of ascetic self - overcoming and relentless power - accumulating work, will be welcomed as the model and standard for the security - oriented many, who prefer to live according to their appetites, and whose escape fantasy is giant cruise ships rather than silicone bodies.

If one were to assess sexual orientation by behavior rather than biology, one would be more inclined to Freud's view that our sexuality is polymorphous: heterosexual and homosexual and what all, through a fascinating range of fact and fantasy.

However, I'd much rather be unhappy and live in reality than have an unrealistic fantasy that everything is all right if I believe in the correct fable.

Love your thoughts, but until ignorance is no longer bliss you can expect those who back their good thoughts and feelings with fantasy rather than the realities we are confronted wth every day to rule our lives.

At a time of of such extreme tension and conflict, Star Trek got away with pushing the audience toward uncomfortable topics because the setting invoked fantasy rather than reality.

I'm not in favor of spending a lot to finance fantasies of Christmas perfection, nor do I endorse the sort of gluttony and the psychological overload of «special moments» that makes us feel as though Christmas is a celebratory marathon to recover from rather than savor.

But try to let your experiences of abundance point you toward the this - even - more approach of divine love rather than the that - as - well - as - this approach that feeds our fantasies of somehow enjoying an expansive universality.

Wouldn't you rather be dealing with reality than fantasy?

Rossing attempts to present a counterstory about God and his world to that told by dispensationalists, one that focuses on «Lamb power» rather than phantasmagoric fantasy, one marked by Jesus» eschatological proclamation of a kingdom of nonviolence, charity and peace.

You too, maybe its time for you to finally know it rather than dwelling on a fantasy fifa 15 where giroud is scoring 30 goals and walcott is scoring 20 goals and jack welsher is scoring 10 in the league.

(rather than responding to the multitude of transfer rumors which are 99.999 % pure fantasy)

That's the kind of thing that might actually happen at a competently managed club rather than seeming like a fantasy.

The idea Arsene can is fundamentally backwards and resignation to fantasy rather than reality.

Sometimes feels more like fantasy American football rather than football — «trade Sanchez for Sterling, cash, future considerations and a third round draft pick in 2022» Seriously when was the last time Arsenal made a player exchange?

I think it's better to just assume we're going to stay where we're at and pick the right guy then, rather than go off into a fantasy supposition on unlikely scenarios.

Let us talk out of reality rather than emotions or fantasy.

He's in the spare room tonight due to a sickness bug and actually it's nice be alone with my fantasies rather than wondering why he has zero interest in me sexually

We know that this isn't the case, but we are spending more time living in a fantasy world rather than the real one.

And yet it was received into a strange political silence, as if it were an administrative error that needed correcting, rather than a systematic crisis of a financial model within which greed, fantasy and recklessness had combined in lethal combination.

«It's reassuring to have a politician paying attention to reality rather than living in a fantasy world where the laws of physics don't apply,» says Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics.

Psychoanalysis offered a clearer rationale: Rather than face facts, these patients unconsciously chose to live out the fantasy that they are well.

Otherwise «professor» becomes — rather than a legitimate career possibility — another nonexistent madcap fantasy character, like leprechauns, unicorns, and political moderates.

A new King's College London study supports the notion that multiple personality disorder is rooted in traumatic experiences such as neglect or abuse in childhood, rather than being related to suggestibility or proneness to fantasy.

You may be subconsciously buying into beliefs, illusions, and fantasies that play off a «lack of» or fear mentality rather than love.

Rather than being a spectator, these sites bring the user's fantasies to life.

Being bisexual does not make a man sex - crazed, inherently more driven to cheat or more likely to want group sex or a polygamous relationship but if that does turn your crank, you're going to be more likely to fulfil your MMF threesome fantasy with a bisexual boyfriend rather than with a straight one.

But rather than violence and abandonment, he's offered the promise of Wakanda — what the fictional fantasy of Wakanda represents, and, by proxy, what America ought to represent at its best: hope, innovation, opportunity, aspiration for Black youth upon seeing Blackness excel.

Finally becomes a somber, sentimental and rather profound romantic fantasy that is more true to the spirit of the Golden Age of science - fiction writing than possibly any other movie of the»90s.

Garai's incarnation comes off as a silly, supercilious girl rather than an intelligent young woman stuck in her social stereotypes and shallow fantasies of romantic success through an advantageous marriage.