Sentences with phrase «so peculiar»

And, as luck would have it, there's no word (via TechCrunch) that Facebook — likely in an effort to make its actions with respect to Zuckerberg's own messages not seem so peculiar — will soon allow any Facebook user to delete sent messages made via Messenger.

This is why I find the «so what» in Hans's posting so peculiar.

Energy is so peculiar that way.

Every so often a game will come along that is so peculiar that you just can't look away.

Lanzarote is one of the seven islands that emerge from the Atlantic Ocean to form the archipel called the Canary Islands and because it is so peculiar it is the most special of them all.

It was so dark and he was so peculiar looking.

This is what makes the German case so peculiar.

Not that tornados are so unusual in Nebraska, but the circumstances of this particular one are so peculiar and interesting.

However, driving it at a quick pace is perplexing because the CVT gearbox is so peculiar.

You might say matching t - shirts, what's so peculiar about that?

Since you are clearly extremely intelligent and know exactly what you're writing about only one reason can exist for so peculiar a disconnect between reader questions and «your» reply: you have helper elves in your office who handle many of the responses.

The facts of schizophrenia are so peculiar, in fact, that they have led Torrey and a growing number of other scientists to abandon the traditional explanations of the disease and embrace a startling alternative.

Perhaps that wild history also explains why Pluto looks so peculiar today.

It is a controversial claim that, if true, would revolutionise our view of the solar system and go some way to explaining why it looks so peculiar when compared with other solar systems.

Dark matter is so peculiar and puzzling that it has inspired far - grasping speculations even from sober - minded researchers.

These discoveries posed an even bigger conundrum for astronomers than the original sighting of the HH objects because the geometry of the jets was so peculiar.

The result was so peculiar that the CERN physicists encouraged other scientists to look for design errors in their experiment.

And so the peculiar situation we now have — trail hunting in which the odd fox might semi-inadvertently get mangled — is likely to continue.

It is so peculiar to chess that it serves as a shibboleth by which one may determine whether a board game is, or is not, a descendant of chaturanga.»

But over the past year or so a peculiar calm has come over him.

They're so peculiar looking!

Not exact matches

We should expect alien visitors, were they not so frequently featured in such films, to be deeply puzzled at this peculiar human ritual.

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.»

The reason Wes engages in this peculiar behavior is explained in a quote often attributed to Mark Twain, «It ain't what we don; t know that causes us problems; its what we know for sure that simply ain't so.»

Amy Mandelker has drawn attention to the term «reverse perspective» as used by Russian Orthodox theologians to describe the unusual dimensions of icon paintings, with the gaze of the viewer drawn to the level of earthly events and yet given a peculiar perspective, as from a heavenly seat, so that people and objects do not have their expected everyday appearance.

Finally, the brain is coordinated so that a peculiar richness of inheritance is enjoyed now by this and now by that part; and thus there is produced the presiding personality at that moment in the body....

Wooldridge characterizes the reticular system as the establisher of an optimal signal - to - noise ratio, so to speak, upon which higher levels of experience are staged:» «Volume - control» signals are generated in the reticular system to reduce our sensitivity to uninteresting or irrelevant stimuli and thereby permit us to achieve the peculiar but highly useful phenomenon of mental concentration» (4:143).

For the saving love of God to be present to human beings it would have to be so in a way different from how it is present to other aspects of the body of the world — in a way in keeping with the peculiar kind of creatures we are, namely, creatures with a special kind of freedom, able to participate self - consciously (as well as be influenced unconsciously) in an evolutionary process.

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.

Vorhanden, which Heidegger uses of the peculiar mode of being characteristic of inanimate objects, as contrasted with responsible human Dasein, I have translated by «tangible», as in Bultmann the antithesis is not so much between Vorhandensein and Dasein as between the tangible realities of the visible world and eternal realities, very much like the Pauline contrast of kata sarka and kata pneuma.

If what we are trying to understand here were only a peculiar intellectual difficulty in conceiving how time and eternity can be related, the problem would be an abstract one hardly worthy of special attention so far as the meaning of love is concerned.

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.

Biblical metaphysics deals with persons, that peculiar mix of body and mind and soul that relates so intriguingly both to matter and to Spirit.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

To do so is possible because the brain holds a peculiar place in the universe — and, more specifically, in our universe.

Instants and time - intervals are peculiar sorts of particulars, and so they can not be eternal objects (or universals).

I had to infer the growth of a peculiar intellectual and spiritual fatigue in this generation which is so proud of what it has accomplished.

It is the peculiar mark of Entity that it should be capable of admitting contrary qualities; for it is by itself changing -LSB--RSB- that it does so.

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.

This at last becomes so firmly fixed in his head that for a very peculiar reason he is afraid of eternity — for the reason, namely, that it might rid him of his (demoniacally understood) infinite advantage over other men, his (demoniacally understood) justification for being what he is.

The expansion of the universe, its experimentation with so many peculiar patterns, and above all its hospitality to the evolution of life and the birth of consciousness persuade us that it may be a story with great consequence.

Also it may be said that just as in Christianity and Judaism different elements emphasize some books of the Bible more than others, naturally the ones that support their own peculiar views, so it is within Islam.

The Hebrews» achievement in their own peculiar sphere was so notable that the most ardent Judeophile need not hesitate to concede the vast areas where Israel accepted a status of secondhand scholarship.

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

I can avoid doing so no longer, however, for a peculiar characteristic of the Bible itself is its concern to establish a community around that reality to which it bears witness.

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...

Perhaps the most direct prophetic reference involving these things was the peculiar warning of our Lord Jesus Himself: And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

«We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook.

The strange power of this peculiar sickness was so strong that all people could do was recommend that they be warned when it was near.

Only when the minister gets very «radical» about either doctrine or social issues does serious protest arise, and even then there is a tendency to let the minister think his own peculiar ideas so long as not many people are influenced by him.