Sentences with phrase «sense use of the word»

Weather is fascinating, but I suspect will never be predictable in the common sense use of the word.

Not exact matches

With the exception of the first two, his words do not appear to cut cruel; indeed, one has a sense these are well - used lines he might employ in his other career: as a successful, in - demand motivational speaker, giving at least 30 speeches every year, here in Canada and around the world.

Everyone needs someone like her in their corner — she cheers me on, uses words like «genius» too generously, and leaves me with a sense of clarity.

The key point is that the blanket - damnation of «Masters of War» only did and only does makes sense if using a word like «empire» in the careless way of too many Porchers makes sense.

god (s): Hebrew word # 430 «elohiym (el - o - heem»); plural of OT: 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative: [usages of the word in the] KJV — angels, exceeding, God (gods)- dess, - ly), (very) great, judges, mighty.

This also goes for the Los testament as many of the words used ha moe than one interpretation and the one that was selected is not always the one that makes the most sense.

Given the common association of the word «indoctrinate» with totalitarian methods, there might be at least a «slight suspicion» that Justice Stevens did not use the term in its neutral sense, especially since he nowhere refers to public school indoctrination.

I shall also use the word «play» in a wide sense, to stand for an activity that, because it is not directed to the satisfaction of wants, entails an attitude to the world that is not concerned to use it, to get something out of it, or to make something of it, and offers satisfactions that are not at the same time frustrations.

Therefore, even if one has not (yet) been excommunicated, one can not both be at variance with the law of the land and, in good conscience, claim to be a Latter - day Saint (the prefered reference to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, «saint» being used by us in the Bibilical sense of the word, meaning «member» or «believer»).

What I said to Light (in different words) is that his / her comment made no sense, and that to accuse someone of not using a brain while not making sense yourself was certainly hypocritical.

For the sake of argument, if the article (which I didn't read) used only words that left no room for doubt (in a sense saying «We know with 100 % certainty that...), would you accept the conclusions?

I use it in a more acceptable sense, the original sense of the word as coined by Pope Urban VIII.

A little later, packing up his manuscripts, Ford happened to see «the page and the very commended phrase «old - eyed», and to notice that somehow in the rounds of fatigued retyping that used to precede a writer's final sign - off on a book in the days before word processors, the original and rather dully hybridised «cold - eyed» had somehow lost its «c» and become «old - eyed», only nobody'd noticed since they both made a kind of sense.»

There's a third word, aphiēmi which is the root for aphesis, and is sometimes translated forgive (like in first John 1:9), and yet it seems to be used more in the sense of cancellation of debt, than in the sense of release from bondage.

She has a wonderful sense of humor, which has a way of disarming us so that the Holy Spirit can use her words to put salve on the injured parts of our souls.

Erikson suggests that the word «character» which James uses in this letter means a sense of identity.

I am using the term «dialectic» in its ancient and etymological sense, and it seems appropriate to describe the process by this word; for instead of an aprioristic, deductive method of procedure, the process was one of answering questions and objections as they arose, not in anticipation, and not as the unfolding, more geometrico, of a system implicit within a body of axioms or first principles which one needed only accept and then all the rest followed logically to the final Q.E.D..

Our English words «tempt» and «temptation,» as a matter of fact, were used in that sense when the KJV was made, as in the repeated statement that the Israelites tempted God (e.g., Ex 17:7), or the story of the lawyer (Lk 10:25) who tempted Jesus (RSV «put him to the test»).

Thereby the decisive distinction is evident by which even for Aristotle a natural entity — entity in the full sense of the word — is regarded as a subject» and «superject» of its own process, to use Whitehead's language.

As we shall see, religion has been usefully defined as «a total mode of the interpreting and living of life».8 That is the sense in which the word will be used here.9

A certain awe is implied in the word's use, a sense of inviolable sanctity, (E.g., Hebrews 8:2 [marginal translation; II Corinthians 7:1]-RRB- but always the implications are ethical.

The word «nihilism» has a complex history in modern philosophy, but I use it in a sense largely determined by Nietzsche and Heidegger, both of whom not only diagnosed modernity as nihilism, but saw Christianity as complicit in its genesis; both it seems to me were penetratingly correct in some respects, if disastrously wrong in most, and both raised questions that we Christians ignore at our peril.

Bosch says that the word mission, in its modern sense, was first used in the sixteenth century by Jesuits in Northern Germany to refer to their work of reconverting Protestants to Catholicism.»

But the more logical meaning of this coined word is justice for nature, and Jenkins and the writers he cites use it, approvingly, in that sense.

This word was also used in the sense of overlapping of the night and day and vice versa.

But this immediately raises the question of the relationship between these two uses, necessary uses, as I see it, of the word «I.» It certainly does not seem to me that I have any empirical evidence whatsoever for holding that the «I» writing these words now, at this precise 1 / 10th of a second, is in any sense a different «I» from the «I» which started writing this paper some time ago.

Evolution is a scientific theory, not a theory in the sense of the everyday use of the word.

Consequently, the word «society,» we believe, ought to be understood in the sense that Whitehead uses the phrase «organism» in Science and The Modern World, which is as a whole not reducible to the sum of its parts, an organic unity (SMW Ch.

There is two words used in the New Testament to describe eating, fago and trogo (OK, it's a little more complicated than that, look up esthio as far as the verb action of «eating» in the «fago» sense goes).

But it is clear, when one takes account of the different senses in which the word «agent,» «agency,» is used, that there is no inconsistency here.

Keeping «to the general sense of the words that were actually used» sounds like at least a rough paraphrase.

Instead, the variety creates an important sense of estrangement — or, to use a different word, homelessness.

The title has also proved highly provocative, for while the writers are using the word «myth» in its various technical senses of something that conveys a deep truth in a nonhistoric form, this word means in everyday speech something that is not true in any sense.

Closely related to this etymologically and in philosophical usage is the word «efficacy,» which in its primary sense refers to the power of acting of the kind of entity I am discussing, but which also is used derivatively of other entities.

You know, I spent a lot of time listening to Lawrence Krauss explain his «A Universe from Nothing,» but I stopped taking him seriously when both he, and Richard Dawkins said «You can't use common sense to understand this because it doesn't make sense,» and then when he redefined what the word «nothing» means, I placed him fully into the category of one who can not be trusted...

Then too, while the word «act» as a philosophical technical term refers primarily, as I have indicated, to the «doing,» «moving,» «working,» of an entity which has the inherent power and is the spring or source of that «doing» or «moving,» the word is readily used in an abstract sense, and also derivatively as pertaining to other than these entities.

If we must speak of the authority of these «things,» we need also to be conscious that we are using the word «authority» in a derivative sense.

In The Word Incarnate (Harper and Row, and Nisbet, 1959) I sought to give an account of this development and make sense out of it, but in a contemporary process idiom; and in Christology Reconsidered (SCM, 1970) I worked it over with a more extended and consistent use of that process conceptuality.

In the Jewish literature of that time the common Hebrew and Aramaic word for righteousness was coming to be used in the special sense of charity.

The word meaning «single» was sometimes used at that time in the sense of «generous, and an evil eye signified stinginess (cf. James 1:5).

[16] My use of the word «shadow» in this paper is in a sense an echo of Jung, but unlike him I do not see the «shadow» as one among various elements which make up the psyche.

Some of Barr's criticisms are quite plausible, such as his point that Childs uses the word «canon» in several discrete and not self - evidently compatible senses.

The Pythagorean traditions of four kinds of harmony: musical harmony the root metaphor «Harmony» is a word now used only in metaphorical senses.1 In the long and complicated history of this word, which we can not here trace, the literal sense has been forgotten.

In every case Jesus is concerned with a cross-section of what we call «nature», a word He could have never used, for to Him this world was alive with God, and wherever His Father was at work, there was nothing that was not supernatural in the sense that we may know that it happened, but how it happened no one can tell us.

G. B. Caird classifies comparison into one of four classes: perceptual that appeal to any of the five senses, synaesthesia «is the use of connection with one of the senses of terms which are proper to another, as when we speak of sharp words (Is.

It would require us to use a sense of the word «exist» we can not at all imagine or define to assert that they do «exist» apart.

The Relevance of Cosmic Unity In the lead letter of the same issue of Philosophy Now the prominent anti-reductionist philosopher of ethics and of science Mary Midgely makes a point often made by Edward Holloway (though he might not have used the word «choice»), namely that «simple logic surely shows that natural selection can not be the universal explanation because «selection» only makes sense a clearly specified range of choices — an idea to which far too little attention has been given.»

(I reserve the word theophany, as is customary, for the visible appearance of God, and not in the larger sense used by Beauchamp, who speaks of a visible or spoken theophany.

Our hymns have used «splendor,» but the word can also mean «weighty,» in the sense of something being really important, and thus being worthy of «honor.»

The word «Pagan» (which can translate as «common» or «provincial») was originally used (in the religious sense) to refer to the practices of peasents or commoners that were not supported by the early catholic church.