Sentences with phrase «reminiscent of»

We may remark in chapter 14 the reflection of Joab's deep devotion to David (14:1); the implication of the king's accessibility to his subjects (v. 4); the stratagem which Joab and the wise woman of Tekoa employ, strongly reminiscent of Nathan's parable (vv.

The opening of «Follow Through» is reminiscent of Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# - minor.

The situation is somehow reminiscent of the law enacted immediately after the Crystal Night requiring the Jews to pay for the damage done to their businesses and homes.

But there were no pictures of the Mutlaa massacre: too reminiscent of Hiroshima or Dresden, too historical.

There he stressed that it is the coordination of spontaneities that constitutes life.24 His discussion is more reminiscent of what he said in Process and Reality about a living person than of what he said about a nonsocial nexus.

Reminiscent of Ted Turner's infamous comment that Christianity is a religion for losers, the Loser in this book is God.

In some ways, states where Islamic Shari'a law is rigidly enforced are reminiscent of mediaeval Christian society.

This is reminiscent of Brown's statement in Life Against Death that «competition between... [current psychoanalysis and current neo-orthodox Protestantism] to produce an eschatology for the twentieth century is the way to serve the life instinct and bring hope to distracted humanity» (p. 233).

The participants, each of them the parent of four children, were discussing their unease with contraception, and in terms very reminiscent of Luker's study:

Reminiscent of Ted Turner's infamous comment that Christianity is a religion for losers, the Loser in this book is....

What they have in common is that unity of religious and political certitude which, despite all the ideological differences, is uncomfortably reminiscent of the fanaticism unleashed by Muslim fundamentalists.

Scientific method, though, can not reconcile itself to teleological perspectives and, therefore, must reject any such facile covenants of man with a world that is alien to his longings for ultimate meaning.2 Monod's position is reminiscent of innumerable others that see the reading of purpose into nature as analogous to our subjectively superimposing colorful secondary qualities onto starkly colorless «objective» and neutral primary qualities.

Back in March, Hillary Clinton said that the tactics used in Crimea by Russia are reminiscent of those that were used in Europe by Nazi Germany.

Central in the Church's crosshairs has been «the Force», with some suggesting that the idea of a cohesive force that governs the entire universe, binding it all together, was reminiscent of New Age thinking.

Likewise with Orestes: the unobscure transcendence of Zeus / God and the creaturely impotence of Orestes are unmistakingly detailed in the whirlwind scene reminiscent of Job.

Strongly reminiscent of the metaphysical poets» discordia concors, the linking of opposites, «Expedition to the Pole» suggests a new direction for Dillard.

In certain respects, this portrait of Lewis is also reminiscent of Paul Tillich (sans eyeglasses), a similarly formidable, uncompromising, difficult, and highly original thinker.

You're sounding very «buddhist - y» these days... I sense some flavors reminiscent of the eightfold path in both terminology and ideas.

Wielding an electric guitar and one of rock and roll's most recognizable voices, Howard's energy was more reminiscent of arena - rockers from your parents» generations than any of her peers.

We speak of «the gays» in words reminiscent of the «savages» from those old missionary stories — foreign and different and far away, the ultimate conquest for the church to tame and colonize and save.

In a way reminiscent of his first letter to the Thessalonians (5:8), he summons believers to «put on the armor of light.»

In a manner reminiscent of T. S. Eliot in Four Quartets, Lowell invokes the strangeness and the power of the whaleroad:

Sometimes these are reminiscent of the tensions to be found in the relations of states and provinces to nation as a whole, sometimes to the more acerbic dissensions among the branches of the armed forces, all equally pledged to the defense of the country; sometimes they seem very similar to the tensions found among Roman Catholic religious orders; sometimes they seem like economic competition.

He pronounced decisive prophetic judgments on the organized religion of his day, reminiscent of an Amos or a Jeremiah.

which is reminiscent of the laying on of hands, an ancient healing practice in the Christian heritage.

In an attack reminiscent of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, a lone gunman killed nine people Wednesday night at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, a historic congregation in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.

Though of far smaller scale and import, the war on «values» is reminiscent of the heated dispute between the great apologists during the first centuries over Greek «inculturation.»

The problem is the uncertainty that has emerged (disquietingly reminiscent of pre-Ratzingerian times) about the objective content of the Catholic religion: that's what some faithful Catholics would like to be, shall we say, «clarified».

There is little in their message about «dialogue,» a key theme of Pope Francis; but there is a lot of hot rhetoric about impeding the enforcement of the laws, in terms weirdly reminiscent of the states - rights or «nullification» theory of John C. Calhoun, recently disowned by Yale University for his defense of slavery.

We approach a natural inference here reminiscent of Russell's attack on Kantian metaphysics.

The fifth trumpet brings a plague of locusts, reminiscent of Joel (9:1 - 11).

It is quite reminiscent of the Sermon on the Mount.

Moreover the entire account is reminiscent of the stories pervasive through the ancient Orient of intellectual and magical contest in the presence of a monarch.

It is reminiscent of that justly famous couplet in the Book of Job: When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy (Job 38:7).

The seemingly innocent story of Abishag, who was to warm the aged David (I Kings 1:1 - 4), is suspiciously reminiscent of widespread practices in which the ebbing virility of the old monarch was put to the test, since in his person he embodied the vital forces of the nation.

The first five bowls of God's wrath bring five plagues reminiscent of the plagues of Egypt in Exodus (16:1 - 10).

Reminiscent of Kierkegaard's development of the individual before God, Niebuhr sets the self as caught between finitude and freedom, seeking to escape vulnerability and anxiety.

But the good news is it's for a buddy comedy reminiscent of City Slickers or Wild Hogs.

While I gather he is not taking sides in the current debate, Prof. Hittinger, keen constitutional historian that he is, apparently discerns in the anti-ban rhetoric sentiments reminiscent of the American founding.

The struggle for recognition of the rights of mentally handicapped people is reminiscent of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

This has led Arthur H. Robinson, professor emeritus of cartography at the University of Wisconsin and author of the most widely used textbook on cartography, Elements of Cartography (John Wiley, 1984), to describe the Gall - Peters land - masses as «somewhat reminiscent of wet, ragged, long winter - underwear hung out to dry on the Arctic Circle» («Arno Peters and His New Cartography,» The American Cartographer, October 1985)

Instead, Russell came to the conclusion that the ultimate constituents of our universe are «particulars,» of which he gave an account that, even midway through his long career, was already remarkably reminiscent of Hume and Whitehead:

It is reminiscent of the Queen in Alice: Verdict first, trial later.

One of her letters of 1940 is somewhat reminiscent of her tribute to Péguy: «Yet even war, it seems, isn't spiritually sterile.

This is reminiscent of Jesus» earlier statement that only thieves and robbers enter a sheepfold by coming over a wall (John 10:1).

Generally speaking, Daniel Dennett's method in all his books is too often reminiscent of the forensic technique employed by the Snark, in the Barrister's dream, to defend a pig charged with abandoning its sty: The Snark admits the desertion but then immediately claims this as proof of the pig's alibi (for the creature was obviously absent from the scene of the crime at the time of its commission).

In a manner reminiscent of the early 20th - century Baptist theologian E.Y. Mullins, Grenz emphasises experience over supernaturally revealed propositional truth as the heart of Christian theology.

While the general position seems more reminiscent of the «organic mechanism» of Science and the Modern World, Russell's discussion of minds and the entities of physics bears an interesting resemblance to the more technical Whiteheadian discussion of personally ordered societies and corpuscular societies of actual occasions in Process and Reality.

He himself finds it in a «federalist» position that is eerily reminiscent of Dworkin's (or Nozick's) neutral state.

The finished work is reviewed by Moses and the conclusion of the matter is set in language strongly reminiscent of the account of Creation, where «God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good» (Gen. 1:31).