Sentences with phrase «seems peculiar»

It seems peculiar that people who have the equivalent of doctorates in applied physics (which is what climate science is) would somehow be perfectly happy to do something they know is wrong.

Sven: «What seems peculiar to me (apart from the fact that 3 out of 4 have a decline for May and one has a rise?)

What seems peculiar to me (apart from the fact that 3 out of 4 have a decline for May and one has a rise?)

It seems peculiar at first, but then sunset arrives — and then you'll understand why.

We are often told how important it is to walk dogs, socialize them and exercise them that it seems peculiar when a dog doesn't respond enthusiastically when it's time to walk.

It seems peculiar to me now that I should have been so obedient well into my teens, while the rest of my generation was experimenting with drugs and protesting the imperialist war in Vietnam, but I had been raised in a world so sheltered that it makes my adult life in academia look positively adventurous.

It seems peculiar that the earlier happenings in the home wouldn't have resulted in a reputation known far and wide.

Now it seems the peculiar event clashes with the leading theory for how such blasts of radiation form, and may instead involve the grisly demise of a comet.

A general election campaign seems a peculiar time to discuss a non-vacant position, but ambitious Liberal Democrat MPs are clearly just as uncertain about their party's fortunes as the pollsters.

Giving extra power to the people that finish last seems a peculiar way to run any election.

Seems peculiar that we don't have a receiving back on the roster as of right now, besides a declining» Quizz.

If the latter, it seems peculiar for Hartshorne to hold that some aspects of events (the noncategorial) require an explanation (in terms of final and efficient causality and categorial structuring), while others (the categories) require none; perhaps that conclusion is true, but such appeals to inexplicability should always be a last resort.

But extensive abstraction seems peculiar to Bergson and Whitehead, and a moment's pause ought to convince the reader that the only sort of metaphysician who needs something like extensive abstraction as a method is one who wants to retain the operations of the intellect in the extended (i.e., concrete) world.

At first blush, it may seem peculiar that there is a difference between feeling happy and finding life meaningful.

One thing does seem peculiar though, and I may be mistaken here, why would an organization that doesn't really buy into the miracles of Jesus, e.g. healings and resurrection, and by extension the divinity or prophetic nature of Jesus, e.g. Jesus as an «itinerant... sage», really be all that interested in determining exactly what Jesus said?

Alliances have been forged between representatives of religious traditionalism and segments of the technical intelligentsia in a way that would have seemed peculiar up until recently.

In light of the clear moral failings of contemporary capitalism, it might seem peculiar to suggest that the independence of companies should be strengthened rather than weakened.

The animal behaviors that seem peculiar to us humans actually make a lot of sense for survival.

Pushing a coffin around some mines might seem a peculiar idea for a video game but this is another great co-op title for Nintendo Switch.

It may seem peculiar that part of your role as an administrator of federal programs is to ensure that private schools receive their proper share of public funds, but such is the case.

Their familiarity with sharing responsibility, i.e. working together with others to accomplish tasks, makes the emphasis on individual accountability seem peculiar.

Battles usually feature some sort of fast - moving digital background with strange patterns and flashes of various colors that seem peculiar but still help round out the game into something that is uniquely Earthbound.

The funny thing about mobile homes is that you see them parked more often than you see them on the move, which perversely makes it seem peculiar when you do see a mobile home being hauled along a highway.

It might seem peculiar to be proposing that all of this, apocalypse too, be projected backward but in fact the conditions of bourgeois culture have not changed all that much in the past two hundred years.

Such is the case with the SPE Bias Multi-Color Lighting Kit for HDTVs, which might seem peculiar to you at first.

Not exact matches

«Buying the yen because of a trade war in which Japan was going to be hit pretty badly, and Japan hasn't been exempted from the steel tariffs by the way, that seems to me pretty peculiar,» Giles Keating, managing director at wealth manager Werthstein Institute, told CNBC.

With so many internet entrepreneurs publishing books, Koch reminds readers how much fun it was to start a business back in the»80s, when doing so seemed «eccentric, and a little peculiar.»

Even to him, taking a part - time position to pay down more of his debt seemed like a peculiar thing to do as a Harvard MBA with a six - figure management job at a Fortune 50 company.

Even more peculiar, Somalia doesn't have currency reserves, and its central bank, which doesn't seem to have any consistent monetary policy, is only three years old.

The truth seems to be that medicine is merely the most obvious point of collision between forces set in motion by the peculiar development of Jewish life in America.

But even at the time he seemed a little peculiar.

Peculiar Christendom, whose most pressing problem seems to consist in this, that God's grace in this direction should be too free, that hell, instead of being amply populated, might one day perhaps be found empty.

So it seems like anyone who is a Christian should be doing exactly those things, and I am utterly at a loss for why Quakers are peculiar in enacting this strong Christian witness in the world.

These stories that are peculiar to Luke seem clearly (with the exception of the appearance to Peter) to embody in the form of myth the experience of the post-Easter Church.

That's the thing: midtown partially aside, Manhattan is a collection of neighborhoods, and, peculiar as it seems to non — New Yorkers, those so inclined can know in their neighborhood an experience of community available to relatively few people elsewhere in the nation.

Brightman seems to recognize that this is a stretch for him, for when he asks of himself the same question after his correspondence with Hartshorne has ceased, Brightman expresses epistemological diffidence, counterbalanced only by a peculiar attitude of Scriptural faith:

It seems to be her peculiar genius to do things that way.

It includes several sayings found also in Luke and one in both Mark and Luke, but so much of it is peculiar to Matthew and distinctive in content and language that the use of a special written source seems probable if not certain.

The executive order seemed especially peculiar when juxtaposed with other stories on nature's inherent «unfairness,» such as a winter of record snowfall and the January earthquake in Los Angeles.

One can not afford to lose status on this peculiar kind of ladder, for the prevailing notion of American life seems to involve a kind of rung - by - rung ascension to some hideously desirable state.

I haven't discussed the peculiar propensity for religious conflict that seems to be characteristic of the Southern Crossroads or the enormous importance of the Middle Atlantic region to American Jewish life.

But in its initial definition of the «point» and the «line,» it seems immediately to postulate certain ultimate physical things of a very peculiar character.

Peculiar temptations are also present in government contracts with industry, since the public which may be defrauded seems so remotely affected.

Most of the seminaries seem to function within the specific context of that peculiar American order of church organization, the denomination.

Although it seems to me unlikely that Jesus could have thought of himself as actually being the heavenly Son of Man, it does seem clear that he regarded himself as sustaining a connection of peculiar responsibility with the coming Judgment and as standing in some close relation with the advent of the Son of Man.

No need to set our faces sternly against the massive cultural power of the academic and media establishment if we qualify any peculiar practices we retain by the qualification: We're open to change, that is, you progressives may be right» in fact it seems you are, so please excuse our very temporary clinging to old ways here, we're just waiting for the right (that is left) revelation to come along, let's hope sooner rather than later...

If all this added up to certain kinds of discomfort that would have seemed somewhat peculiar to our Eastern big - city cousins — childhood friendships, for example, that unspokenly and mysteriously evaporated in adolescence — in some respects we were also far more at ease than they.

Here's the problem in a nutshell: there seems to be no immediately obvious scientific explanation for how electrical firings inside the brain can give rise to these peculiar qualia.

What little I accomplish seems to get accomplished through a peculiar dialectic of laziness, malice, and self - centeredness.

Our subject is one of those peculiar phenomena taken for granted in the contemporary world but which from an historical perspective seem anomalous.