Sentences with phrase «so much a reflection»

«This is not so much a reflection on bad management but due to the size of the event being too large,» said Cripe.

The wailing and gnashing of teeth that has accompanied the nomination process is not so much a reflection on the lack of diversity amongst the candidates, as indicative of the chronic lack of self - confidence and insularity of the party itself.

Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate, fell from last year's number one to number five this time, which Rappolt said was not so much a reflection on him as an individual but on the organisation as a whole, which, after changes of director at both Tate Britain and Tate Modern this year, was in more of a «state of flux than it was 12 months ago».

Perhaps this stat is not so much a reflection of dissatisfaction on the job, but rather the lack of stability in the industry.

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«Inventory data, which is at a fairly high level historically speaking, supports the view that clearly we're building too many homes, and the fact that new sales have slumped so much is I think a reflection that investors have lost interest.»

Types of Moral Argumentation Regarding Homosexuality by Pim Pronk Eerdmans, 350 pages, $ 24.99 paper An interesting book not so much for the position it advances (approval of homosexual relations) as for the claim that any position on homosexuality (or anything else) must be reached on the basis of moral reflection independent of nature, science, or theology.

The second recent book to advance the response of process theology to liberation theology significantly is Delwin Brown's To Set at Liberty.7 This is not so much a critical response to the challenge of the liberation theologies as a reflection on freedom stimulated by this literature.

As I increasingly realized the incompleteness of much Western theological reflection, I first turned to, then became disillusioned with, the exclusively materialistic, behavioristic bias so dominant in much of secular psychotherapy.

He understands that the thing of letting the self go is a pretty serious business after all, he is not so apoplectically muddled by the blow as the immediate man is, he understands by the aid of reflection that there is much he may lose without losing the self; he makes admissions, is capable of doing so — and why?

The Christian claim is a problematical one to me, as it is to many Christians, and the years of reflection that lie behind the present formulation might, so far as I am consciously aware, have led to much more relativistic conclusions.

«A theology of liberation», writes Gustavo Gutierrez, «offers us not so much a new theme for reflections as a new way to do theology».

Third, scientific reflection (in the form of observation and much speculation) on the nature of time itself also has profound implications on how man conceives of his reality as a succession of events (how man connects events in his reality)- interpreted as the passage of time - and whether those events are intrinsically connected, and, if so, whether or not such a connection is changeable.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

It's not so much of a movement as it is a reflection of how sick and tired people are of being controlled by man - made religion.

At its heart, the movement that undergirds these written reflections arose out of the gatherings and shared reflections of the oppressed poor themselves, in groups called comunidades eclesiales de base — communities of the Christian wretched who met together to study scripture in light of their own impoverished situations and reflect on how each one informs the other (praxis).15 But our access to their groundbreaking work is through the printed page, and so I proceed with a full awareness that the persons under consideration here are as much reporters as originators.

So much for an attempt to interpret several important strains in early Christian reflection upon the significance of Jesus.

The true explanation is much more beautiful: the angle of refraction and reflection depend on wavelength; so waterdrops act like little prisms and spread the colors out for us.

(And yet Hans Urs von Balthasar, who in many respects appears more cautious in his theology than either Rahner or Schillebeeckx, has endorsed, through his reflections on Trinitarian theology, the notion of a suffering and dying God much more strongly than most other Catholic theologians: «the death, and the dying away into silence, of the Logos so become the centre of what he has to say of himself that we have to understand precisely his non-speaking as his final revelation, his utmost word: and this because in the humility of his obedient self - lowering to the death of the Cross he is identical with the exalted Lord.»

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

The concreteness, fullness, and irreversibility of God's Incarnation and death in Jesus of Nazareth is one of the most striking elements of Altizer's Christology and an important departure from the merely moral rendition of the Incarnation's meaning that one seems to encounter in so much of modern Protestant systematic reflection on the Incarnation.

One of the most remarkable features of much of so - called «neo-orthodox» theological thought is its explicit or implicit attitude that the fact (or the theory) of evolution is not relevant to religious reflection about the nature of God or the meaning of Christian faith.

In what follows my aim is not so much to provide as to provoke that kind of reflection.

Paul teaches us much about what moral reflection and teaching is, and about what a human moral agent is, avoiding a narrow legalism or a concentration on natural law that each ignore the need for grace and so run the risk of being closer to Pelagian ethics than to Catholic moral theology.

If so, we need to be perpetually on guard against it, and George Mosse's intelligent reflections are of much more than historical interest.

I am super privileged in countless ways (including being in university at all), so this isn't so much a complaint as it is a reflection of the different ways in which we push ourselves and the different kinds of stress we face.

It gives me so much hope to see your reflection here because we all have to think and talk about it if anything is going to change.

Couldn't agree more with you regards the negative postings however I think it's more a reflection on how divided our fans are, bad results and wenger out posts get thumbs up, a win of any kind and wenger out posts get thumbs down.me personally a wins a win and I actually thought we did ol but I'm very much in the wenger out brigade, the wins really do cloud the reality in my opinion which is wenger has built a squad so unbalanced its scary, miss managed it and not focused at all on the defensive side of the game, I do however feel that some though not all on both sides are guilty of stepping over the edge as regards personal abuse and it's all getting a bit ott

The film itself is a bit scattered — in trying to cover so much ground, it sometimes feels as though the story itself is all over the place, and some of the points it makes (like the societal pressure on men to eat meat as a reflection of their manhood) are much stronger than others.

So, on reflection, Arsenal's form is considerably stronger, it's just that we expect so much better from theSo, on reflection, Arsenal's form is considerably stronger, it's just that we expect so much better from theso much better from them.

Most babies also enjoy looking at themselves in the mirror 9they won't actually realise it is them in the mirror until much later on) so put them in a rocker chair and sit them in front of the mirror; they will look at their reflection and they may try to reach out and touch the mirror.

The light and reflections bouncing off mirrors instantly make a room feel so much larger!

and finding names i have never heard of before consumed so much of my alleged free time - after my daughter is in bed at night, that, i actually wondered if i had some type of spectrum disorder, but you know what, i really agree with Angela Dawn's reflection of us «crediting the internet for bringing people with obscure, nerdy interests together» right on Angela!

Her blog is very much so a reflection of that same passion, where Lori often shares stories from every side of the adoption triad.

I have learned so much along this parenting journey so far and really enjoy sharing reflections on new positive parenting strategies and approaches that I have discovered.

By: Meika Rouda I didn't think much about getting older, all the cliches about midlife crises and affairs and sports cars and a deep reflection on how happy one is and whether life would be better if (fill in the blank)... So I was blindsided last weekend when one of my closest friends called me in -LSB-...]

So apart from the timescale — previously a six - month window between October 2018 and March 2019 — nothing much has changed, Sturgeon's «reflection» having resulted in little beyond a minor change to her previous strategy.

That President Xi has accumulated so much personal power is partly a reflection of his political acumen, and partly a recognition by the Party that China needs a single strong leader at the moment as it transitions from a weak local power recovering from the disasters of Japanese occupation in the early 20th century followed the cultural revolution and the great leap forwards, and instead becomes a global power.

«So after much reflection I have made the very personal decision not to run for Congress in 2018 and instead to remain focused locally on doing everything in my power to directly help the great people of Ulster County.»

How Brown's premiership might have been so much more successful had he preceded it with a year or two of rest and reflection.

Who gets academic jobs, he writes, usually depends much more on departmental politics and personalities than on the relative merits of the various candidates, so not being chosen is generally not a reflection on an applicant.

So much mating occurred over such a long time that «geneticists can no longer assume that living people across Europe are a precise reflection of European genetic history,» he says.

«By covering the mirrors, we're encouraging our members to take a stand with us and sign the mirror cover showing their support that exercise is about so much more than what we see in our reflection.

Negative self - reflection can lead to very negative consequences, so you want to avoid that as much as possible.

It's truly the best, and during the day we shot these images — clearly it wasn't that cold yet — it was so much fun finding reflections on window glass to just catch the right light.

I'm always surprised to see people posting grainy photos, or shots with so much glare you can't make out the person's face, or pictures taken while staring at a reflection in the bathroom mirror.

You know, if you purchased the Premium Membership you can have a professional do this write - up for you... seems like cheating, right?!? Well, this isn't one of those... So, here is how I view myself, though much has been validated in the reflections of what I see in other's eyes.

This modest film falls into the category of «character study», which generally means there there isn't a real plot or story follow, so much as a brief peek into a life of someone for a while, perhaps in the hope of learning a thing or two about a different mode of life, or as a reflection of our own.

Perhaps when the boy looks into Pete's eyes, and contemplates the poor creature's bleak prospects, he doesn't see a friend so much as a reflection of himself.

Structurally, it's ambitious, but emotionally the movie never quite connects, spending so much time laboring over its parallel storytelling and its cosmic connections that the characters remain at arm's length, as intangible as reflections in glass.

This film could have been so much more, but Cleveland, as it is portrayed here, is the same as any other American city, there are no comments or reflections about how Danny DeVito succeeds where the dashing Paul Rudd fails, and... well, Jack just moves into the garage, rather spontaneously and without much attention paid to the failure of the film's principal marriage.