Sentences with phrase «so than the strange»

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Turns out, «Netflix and chill» has become so popular that many people would rather kick back, order takeout and binge watch Stranger Things than get dressed up and go out.

«There are so many more worthy causes than sending cookies to a stranger.»

His citations go back as far as Plato («You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation») and as recently as «Stranger Things» teen star Millie Bobby Brown («I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school.

I'm in decent shape, so I was fortunate to be in a position to help people who were having a more difficult time with the course than I. My help was useful for them, but being able to connect to other people, sometimes strangers, with open - heartedness and helpfulness made the entire experience much more rewarding for me too.

This blog is more than 10 years old, and I've been blogging for nearly 20 years now... so the break from writing and sharing my life has been strange, but good.

I have become fast friends with women who were strangers to me less than 6 months ago, and we have come to rely on each other for so much.»

So it's not really fair to say one is stranger than the other.

Such a way of worshiping god was so much easier than the strange way God had commanded.

even if he remains in his home, perhaps on the same spot — through the loss of the wish, indeed, it may be as if he were among strangers, so that to suffer the loss of the wish seems to him heavier and more critical than the loss of his mind.

So they burst uproariously into the chapel, straightway became quiet, stayed far longer than they had intended and, as they came out, one boy was heard saying to another, «Strange, isn't it?

This whole thing is so utterly bizarre - the truth is stranger than fiction once again.

This is particularly strange since it has so often been assumed, both by advocates of Eastern (South and East Asian) perspectives and by environmentalists and philosophers in the West, that Eastern religions are much more resourceful for ecological sensitivity than are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Given the strange restrictions under which their makers must work, the constructions already produced are marvels of ingenuity, although a creature so constituted is probably more plausible as a sensitive observer of sunsets than as the creative agent who, in a surprisingly short burst of intense activity, produced Process and Reality.

As a child I used to suffer tortures of shyness, and if my shoe - lace was untied would feel shamefacedly that every eye was fixed on the unlucky string; as a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full of eager gratitude to any one who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch it.

This idea that a particular region of space - time may be occupied by more than one entity without reducing the relation of those entities to that of part to whole is so strange to our common sense that further explanation is needed.

Nature, to be sure, encourages all of us to channel our caregiving more in the direction of blood relatives and reciprocating friends than in the direction of strangers and enemies, so perhaps there is a universally human epigenetic rule to this effect.

«when you argue with an idiot and a stranger passes by they wont know which one is the idiot» So no more comments other than this: not one word of profanity was necessary to make the point!

If your family is so easily breakable due to the choices of strangers and their personal lives, than i pity how weak and pathetic your family is.

Karl Barth understood this well when he wrote: «Strange as it may seem, it is still true, that those who fail to understand other churches than their own are not the people who care intensely about theology, but the theological dilettantes, eclectics, and historians of all sorts; while those very men who have found themselves forced to confront a clear, thoroughgoing, logical sic et non find themselves allied to each other in spite of all contradictions, by an underlying fellowship and understanding, even in the cause which they handle so differently and approach from such painfully different angles.

It must be said that it is a book whose rhetoric is flawed, and one finds it more than a little strange that the beautiful precision and economy that generally mark his prose in his work for The New Yorker and in his major books at so many points in his latest work give way to a profusion of jargon and a bloatedness of syntax that disfigure the whole.

So let's use these platforms to brighten our days and thrive as ourselves, rather than striving to emulate a stranger.

I followed ingredients to a «T,» but my maple cheesecake layer was more brown than white and did the strangest thing — it sunk into the loaf itself so that there pretty much was no cheesecake layer.

Now I've been called strange, weird, strangely weird so many times that I have come to take that as more of a compliment than «You look tired.»

I'm so curious how they became runny, such a strange thing to happen when there's no liquid involved other than a couple drops of extract or juice.

I'd rather ride a roller coaster over and over than speak in public in front of strangers — but so pumped for you that you love it!

Thank you so much ~ ~ finally know how to fry an egg after all these years ~ It is even better than a poached egg, the white vinegar always gives a strange taste.

I couldn't put my finger on why everyone was slightly stranger than normal and why my house looked so different.

They are no strangers to losing money, so when victory is closer than it's ever been before, I expected them to invest, but they haven't, they've done the opposite, which, fingers crossed, is a massive let off for us.

Football is a strange old game, things change so much more than a soap opera on telemundo.

So while Frank Lampard makes a convincing case that none of them would have approach Roman with such a strange request, it is undeniable that a bunch of senior players with less than charitable intentions towards an unpopular Chelsea manager can certainly influence the pace of his dismissal by dropping their shoulders.

It's so much stranger seeing him posing with an Arsenal shirt than it is to see Hernandez with a Real Madrid shirt.

But stranger things have been known to happen in football so just best to not lose by more than one goal today, should we lose that is.

it «strange my baby girl is 10 months old now but she herself is not interested in breastfeeding all together, she gets distracted so easily and never wants to stay on my breasts for longer than 5 minutes max.

Seventh, there is a big divide in parenting circles between the «co-sleepers» and the «crib - sleepers» so be aware that whichever choice you make will probably be challenged by more than one of your friends or relatives or even complete strangers who seem to have no issues with giving advice to someone they don't know!

BOSS TOLD ME THAT many people assume mothers who pump exclusively are doing so out of convenience, rather than necessity or utter desperation: «Moms frequently feel attacked and criticized by friends, family, Internet strangers, etc..

She thought it was strange, but less so than burying it in the backyard, and she said that if nothing else, the extra iron couldn't hurt.

It may seem strange to others who haven't experienced loss to hear me speak so fondly of grief, to personify it, to see it as my friend, my partner rather than as my enemy.

If your child is facing a hospital stay, you want to do all you can to make the hospital less strange and frightening.Fear of the unknown can be worse than fear of the known, so letting your child know what to expect will go a long way toward lowering fear and stress.

Are we so divorced from our own inner guidance that we must ask strangers with no better information than we have how to best conduct our lives?

So it was more than a little strange, said Katwala with tongue in cheek, that only now we have an Old Etonian as Tory leader is the question of class off the agenda.

«When I first met her I thought it was just going to be helping a stranger out with groceries and running some errands, but after time it's became so much more than that, and we've really grown such a friendship,» said Richter.

So even though the stick does not look like a beak — maybe not even to the chick — this strange object is more effective than a real beak at activating the bird's beak - detection system.

The computed entropy was so high, it almost defied the laws of physics, implying that strange metals were far more complicated than originally supposed.

The scientists have often created baryons containing two and even three strange quarks, but no one had ever detected a baryon containing more than one charm quark, at least no one thought so.

We might seem less hirsute than other beasts, but we're not, and this extract from New Scientist's book How to be Human reveals why our locks are so strange

What you hear and understand of a conversation is influenced by what you are used to hearing, so it will be easier to understand a familiar voice than that of a stranger.

This is why it's unlikely that anything alive is more likely to be swimming in the depths of a strange ocean than creeping around above water on frozen orbs, even though the complexity of that life (like the stromatolites and creepy blind life forms thriving around undersea hot - water vents) could be limited by how much light can reach so far into the abyss.

Scientists have uncovered a new key to understanding the strange workings of neutron stars — objects so dense they pack the mass of multiple suns into a space smaller than a city.

i am asking because i am much weaker than anybody at my school it's so strange cause i started working out and i am 6» 3» feet tall my weight is 95 kg that means i am much bigger than anyone at my school and my muscle mass is bigger i went to a doctor and he said that so why i am so weak.For me i think it's genetics my father and his ancestors never lift weights they are so weak and also my mother's family so if you know how pls tell me.THX

I kinda wish it had a name other than blood orange... but those strange little beauties are full of so much delicious flavor and vibrant color, and...