Sentences with phrase «reflect upon the things»

With one having many things to do, many people won't take the time to reflect upon the things a family did once do together.

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«It would depend and — and I'm just a witness in this case, not the investigator or prosecutor, it would depend upon other things that reflected on his intent,» he added.

The prolific Jesuit scholar, Fr James Schall, now in his eighties, has given us this book about the pleasure of knowing the truth of things, in particular the delight of discovering coherence from reflecting upon diverse aspects of existence, of realising that all sorts of «scraps of evidence» point to the fact that only Christianity provides an adequate account of our existence.

Among other things, he gets in the habit of saying much that he has not properly reflected upon.

In Brightman's view, that is always knowledge of the given; for Hartshorne only God can know the given with complete clarity, and the rest of us can not be certain (due to the vagueness of the given to our consciousness) what we know when we reflect upon, imagine, and infer things from the given.

if nature is a thing that depends for its existence on something else, this dependence is a thing that must be taken into account when we try to understand what nature is; and if natural science is a form of thought that depends for its existence upon some other form of thought, we can not adequately reflect upon what natural science tells us without taking into account the form of thought upon which it depends (italics mine).

But it was more than a philosophical shift, reflecting the reliance upon facts, things that occur to the senses.

What feeling, knowledge, or will a man has, depends in the last resort upon what imagination he has, that is to say, upon how these things are reflected, i.e. it depends upon imagination.

It was while reflecting upon that point I realised that her faith and my Paganism (a non-faith) were one and the same thing...

The body, as was indicated, reflects excitations in order to reveal its possible action on things and the possible action of external objects upon itself.

The fourth is a continuation of the third, an effort to reflect upon and reenact the delicate process whereby the mind and the imagination move from the place of hearing to the public celebration of the thing heard.

An effort to reflect upon and reenact the delicate process whereby the mind and the imagination move from the place of hearing to the public celebration of the thing heard.

For better or worse, we find ourselves at a moment when considerable national attention is being given to the morality of capital punishment, and readers of First Things in recent months have also been invited to reflect upon the issue in an essay by Avery Cardinal Dulles (April) and in a later exchange between Dulles and his critics (August / September).

Reflecting, even briefly, on the state of affairs which might evoke this universal love in the human heart, a love so often vainly dreamed of, but which now leaves the fields of Utopia to reveal itself as both possible and necessary, we are brought to the following conclusion: that for men upon earth, all the earth, to learn to love one another, it is not enough that they should know themselves to be members of one and the same thing; in «planetizing» themselves they must acquire the consciousness, without losing themselves, of becoming one and the same person.

One thing you all need to understand is the mental strength of a coach is reflected upon the team.

Gareth Bale and Marek Hamšik would be able to reflect upon the many things they have in common were they not lining up against each other for Wales and Slovakia in tomorrow's Euro 2016 opener in Bordeaux.

... But one thing that's also becoming more and more universally agreed upon is that cheating is complicated, and it reflects all sorts of private realities that anyone outside the relationship can never truly understand.

And the story we tell about ourselves reflects the ancient tradition of «once upon a time things were bad, and now they're good thanks to our party» or «once upon a time things were good, but now they're bad thanks to the other party.»

Beyond that, the report adds,» [i] t is equally important that time be taken after the work is completed to reflect upon lessons learned — what went as predicted or designed, as well as those things that did not.»

Sometime, you forget or overlook all the (great) things that happened until you look back and reflect upon them.

Dr. Vanessa Huse gave me a journal with a note inside telling me to use it for reflecting daily on three things that I could improve upon, as well as three things that had gone great.

Therefore, the exhibitors we spoke to relished the opportunity to reflect upon some of their favourite things about education in the UK.

So many things can happen in a classroom in any one minute — have you ever thought of freeze - framing one instant in a classroom and going back to reflect upon how many teachable moments are present within this moment?

I mean just to be clear, this is the Salon, where Orna and I basically talk about the things that we found interesting in the indie author world in the last month and reflect upon those experiences.

Most recently he was co-curator of the 2014 Sao Paulo Biennial How to -LRB-...) things that don't exist with its poetic invocation of art's capacities and abilities to reflect and act upon life, power and belief.

Holberton reflects upon the smart - phoned classes compulsively and carefully arranging, digitally displaying, and sharing their personal ephemera at incredible speed with both still images (Just This One Thing) and animations (The Drone is not Distracted by the Perfume of Flowers).

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

I don't see any reason you have to be consistent, but it is an interesting thing to reflect upon, that your paintings are completely freshly - painted sort of things; you don't go in for the kind of surface which certain painters do which seems to repeat old walls or things like that, cracks and seams and discolorations.

«The interesting thing is, that painting itself seems to offer a stage to reflect upon latest changes in technology and media, maybe as a result of all the debates and challenges it survived.

This work draws upon the patterns and motifs used by Persian rug makers, especially the way Afghani weavers use the rug to record their experiences more literally with vivid images of the war torn land that surrounds them.This collision between the old and the new, fact and fiction, surveillance and invisibility, is part of a strategy to reflect on the global order of things.

Sometimes, pausing to reflect upon moments of connection is worth the reminder that it's possible, and sometimes gazing at contemporary yet ethereal landscapes is exactly the thing to do on a Friday.

Reviewing things such as limits, and beneficiaries ensures these policies reflect and pay out in a way which honours one's personal wishes upon passing.

Another thing to note is that the actual speaker under the grille is off - centered as you can see in the image below, thus placing it on the table will not muffle the audio, but actually allow the sound to reflect off the surface it is laid upon towards you.

So the next time you and your beloved are caught in a heated argument, try to cool things down and reflect upon each others» good aspects: generating warm and fuzzy feelings might be the key to keeping your relationship ablaze for years to come.

As it's often the first thing people see when they walk through your front door, your staircase's visual impact can reflect upon the entire property.