Sentences with phrase «references to past events»

This is naturally less of an issue for newcomers, and yet several references to past events assume a level of knowledge they won't have.

Minus a couple references to past events sprinkled around the game, you don't need to play it in order to understand what's going on in the sequel.

Of course veterans will still take much more from the story as they'll already feel connected to certain characters or understand references to past events.

Bayard manages to make his new characters as captivating as those he borrows from Dickens, while carefully layering in references to past events — some portrayed in The Christmas Carol, others from the years since — to reveal what has happened to the Cratchit family over the decades.

A couple of reviewers caution newcomers from starting with Dry Ice due to the many references to past events and secondary characters.

The Qur» an is less interested in chronology than the Old Testament, so that its references to past events are in no particular order and are used as examples for the present.

If what justifies one's life and shows that it is indeed worth living is surviving a set of horrendous events, then everything that happens later and everything one does later must be interpreted and shaped by reference to those past events.

Not exact matches

For an elderly person who recollects an experience from childhood, for example, we have reference to an event in the remote past which is still able to exert influence upon this person's present experience (1:151).

The reference point of satisfaction is not necessarily tied to one past holy event pointing to human salvation.

For the text to be taken as testimony, as relevatory, judgment must be made about objective characteristics, above all what Ricoeur calls in Interpretation Theory its «self reference,» its claims to represent an «I» or a «we» engaged in a certain past «event of discourse.

Meaning is a matter of interpretation, of bringing one's present frame of reference to bear on the events of the past.

The reality of past events is partially preserved as newly synthesized elements in later events but fully and infallibly in the never - failing memory of God.51 Hartshorne explains further that a denial of the full reality of the past would entail the conclusion that no true statements could be made about the determinate character of past events («Lincoln was assassinated»), whereas acceptance of his doctrine of the nonactuality of the future entails the falsity of all statements that ascribe completely determinate character to future events.52 «Maybe» is the only correct mode of reference to the future.

And yet we continually make reference to events, lives and experiences of the past.

But as every motion in space is relative and can be transformed into a rest by an appropriate change of the frame of reference, it is permissible to regard the present moment as stationary and future events as moving toward the past with an equal and opposite velocity, to wit, opposite with respect to the velocity of the present moment in the first picture.

The language is selected to meet the exam criteria of detailed description, opinions and reasons, reference to past and future, narration of events.

I found his constant and pervasive allusions and references to just about every historic, somewhat - historic and yet - to - be-historic event over the past 20 years trite and disingenuous.

Dialogue has some new interesting twists due to your ability to reference past events based on your character's background from PoE I. It's fun to explore these branches of dialogue when speaking with NPCs.

Hyrule Warriors makes constant references to situations and events from past games without stopping to explain what is going on.

Being part of a trilogy, the game will confuse you with certain references to the past and you might miss the significance of certain events.

He forged a distinctive, at times thrilling, brand from references to the high culture of the past, only rarely referring to contemporary events or issues.

The show is not advertised as a joint event, but as the running times are exactly the same and the gallery divided into two where normally one whole exhibit is in place, one can't help but view them with reference to one another and the gap in - between the times of the artworks» creation, 1963 to 2013, which adds very interesting dimensions of pushing and pulling of the past and present throughout both exhibitions.

I was in favor of just loosely defining abrupt change by reference to a number of examples from the past record — and I would have included the 8.2 K event as one of that list.

I just go on steadily accumulating references to past weather events and sometimes cite them when the audience is likely to be receptive or interested.

To the extent that Apple's opening presentation references past events in which Steve Jobs was the protagonist, such as major product launches, there may be a factual basis for showing some of the pictures Samsung objects to, though the court might also agree with Samsung that» [t] he use of Mr. Jobs» image in these slides is not relevant to the specific intellectual property rights at issue in this case»To the extent that Apple's opening presentation references past events in which Steve Jobs was the protagonist, such as major product launches, there may be a factual basis for showing some of the pictures Samsung objects to, though the court might also agree with Samsung that» [t] he use of Mr. Jobs» image in these slides is not relevant to the specific intellectual property rights at issue in this case»to, though the court might also agree with Samsung that» [t] he use of Mr. Jobs» image in these slides is not relevant to the specific intellectual property rights at issue in this case»to the specific intellectual property rights at issue in this case».

Respondents were asked to identify a specific event endorsed on the SWE questionnaire as a reference point for completing the IES - R, and indicate how much it distressed them in the past month by rating each item on a 5 - point Likert scale from 0 (not at all) to 4 (extremely).