Sentences with phrase «seem more self»

They seem more self - reliant than other breeds, equally demanding of human attention but less demanding of human affection.

Although some breeds are sedate and seem more self reliant then others, no cat does well when left alone for long hours every day without companionship or stimulation.

However, it seems that libertarianism seems more self - consistent than the other two parties» philosophies.

Not exact matches

If you takes projects step - by - step, you start to build self - confidence and momentum for the business, because the projects seem more doable.

So can «getting feedback on how other people see you,» in order to «enhance your self - awareness... It generally involves being more other - focused than self - focused — or at least seeming that way.»

To close the median wage gaps, women need to earn more in comparison to men (or men need to earn less, but that would seem to be a self - defeating result for all).

But one of the most pernicious things about health - related stress is that it seems to become a self - perpetuating cycle: people who are stressed about their health end up experiencing worse health as result, which then stresses them out more.

When self - publishing was popularized more than a decade ago, it seemed to offer a way around all that.

«The Greek government — somewhat surprising for a self - professed reform and anti-austerity government — seems to have merely agreed to impose a lot more austerity through higher taxes, but offers relatively little commitment to genuine economic reform.»

This move to open source much of its self - driving tech seems like a move to gain a leg - up on more developed competitors such as Google and Tesla.

While Tesla's next update seems to be more of an advanced cruise control rather than an actual self - driving car, it's unclear if current regulations will allow for the technology.

So it seems more than likely that IKTHTMISOAIW has survived for so long not because it's self - evidently true but because at least some people want it to be true; or at the very least, want it to contain a germ of truth.

That was very interesting thing to read about and I respect every word it came with and Thank you for the guidance and encouragement therefore I find my self more attracted to read the old books after all they are the elder parts of our book what ever they say although each has his own belief and can figure which are similar to ours and which are not... after all verses seemed as ours although were put differently... Thank you again and wish all the Christians a Happy and Peaceful celebration for this occasion... our prayers and peace upon the soul and the spirit of the Prophet and Messenger of God Jesus the Son of Mary..

The self - absorbed and self - indulged baby - boomers of the media seem deeply to resent that, but their self - reflection now has lots of cracks and this will become evident in Holyrood Palace when we watch a man and a woman who have seen more of life than most people who have ever lived.

and elicited from below powerful visions of faith that seemed more authentic and self - evident.

To be honest, it's more than a little scary when the people who are supposed to be spiritual role models for the next generation are seemingly lost in a sea of self - righteous, politicized sin that seems to be so far removed from what Jesus represented.

The danger of individual or collective self - deception renders this dilemma especially treacherous, and reference to God or religion makes the problem seem even more unsolvable.

We are back to a more ancient struggle between a world vision based upon the satisfaction of self - centered desire and another kind of vision that may seem impossibly simple because it is conceptually a very simple matter.

It seems to be more self serving than humanity serving.

And even if there is generally an improved understanding of God, to say that this is because of a progressive divine revelation rather than because of our own increased understanding through the years is tantamount to saying that our earlier ignorance is God's fault for not revealing more sooner, It hardly seems necessary to blame human ignorance on a divine coyness, or to picture God rationing out carefully increased doses of self - revelation.

It seems to me that almost all of the alternative hermeneutics propose to do precisely what we have agreed can not and ought not to be done: provide a conceptuality into which to translate what the texts originally meant in such a way as to preserve that self - same essence of meaning but render it more intelligible today.

It seemed plain to me that the more I was forced to face up to this — my stubborn tendency to center everything on the self — the more likely it was that God could soften my heart.

There Joseph seems unaware of God and perhaps more than a little self - centered, but here he presents himself as a mature and pious young man.

The concept is interesting but it seems more to reaffirm the self - evident.

The ruling assumption seems to be that the human self is programmed in some paragenetic way to seek meaning by ever more appropriate adaptation to an ever - enlarging environment.

More specifically, I shall contend that Hartshorne's arguments against the Thomistic denials of internal relatedness, potentiality, complexity, and contingency (of some properties), arguments that I take to be wholly successful, do not, as Hartshorne seems to suppose, suffice also to dispose of the Thomistic doctrines of omnipotence, immutability, nontemporality, creation ex nihilo, and unsurpassibility even by self.

I can hardly bring my - self even to attend church any more, partly because of the all - male language and symbolism of the services, partly because women are expected to stay in the kitchen and the church school classroom and the pew, and partly because even the Bible seems to make women inferior.

It seems a much more decisive step in the formation of the modern identity, therefore, when Taylor suggests that in Descartes the turn inward is no longer for the sake of something outside the self.

Preachers try to prop up our self - esteem with optimistic blandishments, but more and more people seem to suffer from a deteriorating sense of self - worth.

2 This seems more adequate and convincing than Whitehead's theory of a biological organism's being a society of epochal subjects, where ongoing integrity, physical or personal, is the task of many actualities, not of an enduring, self - constituting subject.

It seems the more God breakes me of my pride / low self esteem, the more Im being accused & shut off.

On the face of it, these points seem as relevant to America's current travails as they were to Rome's fall and certainly more so than either the utopianism of much modern political theory, or its opposite: a frankly self - interested perspective concerned only with national interests and national security.

This postulate of invariability seems at first sight to be admissible in the «Darwinian» zones of Life, where the instinct of self - preservation predominates (this seeming by its nature to be more or less constant among organized beings), but it certainly loses all value in the «Lamarckian» or human zone, where biological evolution, from being passive, becomes active in the pursuit of its purpose.

Again, his activity as participant love can make him seem to us our «enemy», which once more is Whitehead's word; God's supreme goodness makes our lives look shoddy and cheap and we are brought to a self - imposed judgement by the love which is ultimately sovereign over all things.

Let us follow his example, for after all it is his Church and his Grace, and the principle is self - evident: the more seeds you sow, the more plants will grow especially, it seems to me, in time of famine.

Ford described himself during these meetings as invariably wedded to some single «correct» or self - evident interpretation of a line of Whitehead's text, whereupon John would gently, dialectically, raise questions about possible alternatives that, as Ford would subsequently admit, seemed more in keeping with interpretations of other passages to which Ford himself had, in preceding weeks, assented.

Informed by contemporary experience of the apparent eclipse of mystery, by the sorrow and oppression in much social existence, by the horrors of genocide, and by the modern threat of meaninglessness to the individual's existence, we now seem to be noticing more explicitly than ever before the image of God's self - emptying, or kenosis, that has always been present in Christian tradition.

Altizer's literal interpretation of the Incarnation in this third argument seems ultimately even more self - destructive than Origen's well - intentioned but much too literal interpretation of Christ's words to his disciples about those who have courage to make themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven (Matt.

At a time when delegates from all over the world are coming together in a variety of bodies for the purpose of attempting to sketch a first outline of future society, it seems to me essential to set forth the main constructive axes without which it is mere self - delusion to suppose that we can conceive or undertake any re-ordering or development of the Earth: general tendencies of advance and growth, that is to say, which in certain conditions — despite our freedom of choice, or better still, because of it — Mankind can not in any circumstances ignore, and must heed more and more as time goes on.

They seem to believe that if states in their practice are often self - consciously defensive and militaristic, the new international machinery will rid them of this archaism of an earlier, more evil age.

As necessary as its analysis of the self as existence still seems to me to be to any anthropological reflection, the value of this analysis as well as its limitations are more likely to be justly appreciated when it is viewed together with the other post-Hegelian philosophies of human activity that Richard J. Bernstein has so ably discussed in his book, Praxis and Action.

In any case, we want to be able to describe the self - directedness of a whole macro-organism, which seems to be more unified than an association in a society of individually self - directed micro-organisms, even with a «president.»

Their religion was like a dried flower pressed in a Bible, and often seemed to consist of nothing more than a desire for peaceful feelings, a vague longing to be connected with something that transcends the self and a sense of obligation to be decent to their fellows — all positive stirrings, but hardly the vigorous plant that could flourish in a nurturing religious community.

We seem to have more immediate evidence of a self - conscience rational being in a dolphin than in any alleged spirit.

Moreover, the results seem compatible with the hypothesis that religious values serve more as standards for condemning others or as standards to rationalize one's own self pursuits than as standards to judge oneself by or to guide one's own conduct.

In several ways it seems the rising generation is more self «disciplined, moral, and responsible than we Boomers, and I put a lot of hope in them as well.

In a society hungry for ever more affluence, where resources will seem permanently scarce, the decision not to abort might in time seem a willful act of self - indulgence whose costs should be borne only by the self - indulgent woman herself.

Nothing could appear more qualitative than the Bergsonian self; nothing could seem more out of place with regard to it than metaphors taken from the calculus.

Or to put it more strongly, what could still be said when to that believer much if not all such conventional talk seemed ill - founded, often highly self - centered, and lacking any serious religious value?

Next you head into the supermarket (remembering that you had to actually dress up, do your hair, fix makeup etc. to do this) and wander the aisles wasting time looking at ingredient lists and trying to remember if the gums, preservatives and additives have dairy / eggs in them... taking the rolls to the counter, working out whether or not you want to go through the self checkout or keep a checkout operator employed for a few more years... pay... get back in the car... find somewhere to buy bottled water for the dogs... drive 50 km home... unpack dogs and buns and suddenly getting up, stretching... wearing whatever the heck you like with your hair in the air, no makeup, dogs within a hard stares range in case they feel like eating the furniture while you are working and that slow measuring out, baking etc. doesn't seem so time consuming any more.