Sentences with phrase «something about century»

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Automation has been replacing people in the workplace for two centuries, of course, but there's something particularly unsettling about a humanoid machine being dropped in as a one - to - one substitute for a flesh - and - blood employee.

Ben Wa balls have been around for centuries, and if their extensive history doesn't convince that there's something special about these weighty little spheres, the results will.

Two centuries later, Jules Lequier in France, knowing something about the Socinians, agreed with them.

That you used «some centuries ago» regarding Adam and Eve implies something about you that is a HUGE red flag — and an indication that I probably shouldn't even have engaged you.

Let me tell you something: Here in the 21st Century, it isn't about treating your customers unfairly in front of their face.

We have said something about the place of the Bible in the living Christian tradition which preachers represent and for which they function; we have discussed a few of the problems or questions which are raised both for preachers and for people; and we have tried to sum up the theological and moral implications of the gospel as these have been worked out in the tradition down the centuries.

There may be something to learn from all this about the way in which pious men rebel against the idea of divine, incarnational authority and activity living on down the centuries in the Church.

Glass said the idea that someone could be essentially kicked out of their religion for thinking certain ideas was completely foreign — and fascinating — to him and thought there was something intriguing about «using the technology of the 14th century to solve a problem.»

About Tyler, Palahniuk will only say that «Tyler is something that maybe has been around for centuries and is not just this aberration that's popped into his mind,» saying that he plans on using the story to explore mid-life crises...

In the closing years of the 20th century we are being called to do something unprecedented: to think wholistically, to think about «everything that is,» because everything on this planet is interrelated and interdependent and hence the fate of each is tied to the fate of the whole.

There is something clincalizing and dehumanizing about clones, IVF, survival of the fittest, sleeping with everyone you have ever dated, genocide (last century — remember Adolf and Joe and the Chairman), and the scientific community and the tech community and the mature «brain lords» maybe need to address and look in the mirror why this is happening.

Every since mankind has been as the Apostle described us in his epistle (Again, 2 nd Timothy 3:1 - 5; see also what Jesus said in Mark 7:20 - 23), the only thing that has «advanced «at our hands is our architecture, our technology, and our search for medicinal cures for what ails us.No one is denying that we've done tremendous good with these various advances, but we've also done awful, vicious, horrendous atrocities and brutalities as well.I've heard it quoted that out of all the centuries, millennia that we've considered ourselves «civilized», we've had only a few hundred years where something approximating peace has held sway among us.So again, I'm all world seeking to «make the world a better place», as it were; I just believe that mankind in his present moral, ethical, and spiritual configuration is capable of doing so.We can always enhance out technological prowess, improve our architechural designs, and make our drugs more powerful, but what about our hearts?

The fact is that over the centuries we have learned and gained knowledge about how things work so just keep on saying that there is something else that created the whole shabang doesn't really explain anything either.

We are reading about something which had never happened before in the life of this world, and we can hardly expect the writers of the first century A.D. fully to grasp the significance of what they are describing.

At present, I am not a member of a «Church», and this is something that my upbringing and the late 20th century Christianity I experienced creates a continual insecurity about my faith and lifestyle.

Regardless of one's own beliefs, there is something undeniably satisfying about the fact that the world of classical music at the end of the twentieth century is dominated by three men who can say of tonality what G. K. Chesterton said of his rediscovery of religious faith: «I freely confess all the idiotic ambitions of the end of the nineteenth century.

It's a story about the Catholic Church in the second half of the twentieth century, and it goes something like this.

I share it, nonetheless, because I think the sight of a giant advertisement for a Smartphone on an iconic church in Rome captures something important about the state of Western culture at the start of the twenty - first century, and because it reminds me of a famous essay a more talented American traveler in Europe wrote at the start of the twentieth.

In so far as the early Christian gospel was addressed to Jews and / or gentiles of the first century, it can certainly be understood in a more specific way if we know something about the first - century world; on the other hand, it may be that we shall be tempted to make what was intended generally more specific than it actually was when we relate it too closely to the first century.

Until he took on the herculean task of combing through over a century's worth of menus from L.A. restaurants to see if he could learn something about the city's history.

Children will play games, use old - time objects for craft projects and learn something about 19th Century life, Bucksath said.

As Lord Kelvin put it more than a century ago, «When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.»

By analyzing the vivid colors in paintings by such artists as J.M.W. Turner, Claude Lorrain, Alexander Cozens, and Edgar Degas, some scientists hope to say something significant about volcano - related cooling — and possibly human - induced pollution — over the past few centuries.

There's something like 80 million people in the U.S. according the recent surveys that are interested in birds in one way or another, you know, feed birds or watch birds, take their kids to a wildlife refuge and yet we keep hearing about more and more reports of declines in birds, you know, doubling of the extinction rates in birds globally in the last 50 years and right now we are on the verge of what I call the third renaissance of bird conservation, first being the Audubon movement at the turn of the century, the second being the Rachel Carson movement of the»60s and third we are on the verge of it right now.

Graber: So you said that it told us something about what the world we, what we knew about the world in the 16th century, too?

While Emmons is intrigued by Oren's hunt, she says the chances of such a thing being anywhere in the Amazon are minuscule because naturalists have been poking around there for centuries: «I've never heard anyone mention anything that is something we don't know about, particularly a large animal.»

Something about that dim white light in the dark sky has for centuries inspired humans to compose sonatas, paint pictures, and explore the cosmos.

Any film that can make a story about a struggling 19th - century mining town look this sensual must be doing something right.»

There's something very old Hollywood about Jennifer's look, comprised of an off - the - shoulder, full - skirted LUBLU Kira Plastinina dress with a bow belt, plus a crown braid (of course), at the Twentieth Century Fox event during Comic - Con in San Diego.

Something about the elegance of each individual style trend from those specific decades... as if the new century brought with it a deeper sense of personal style.

There is something so fascinating, eeiry and fun about graveyards, especially the older ones from the 19th century.

Alternatively, make the most of the warmth and take a gentle walk through the lovely St. Boniface Park — there's something so romantic about wandering hand - in - hand through centuries old oak trees!

But there is something more distinctly «turn - of - the - century» about Kathy Nicolo's character and predicament in particular.

360 is a beautifully made film that oozes class and tells us something about where we are at as human beings in the 21st century.

Sexuality is something that everyone fears so much, and especially in the 17th century, when they didn't talk about it.

That's the promise of the movie — that something that seems relatively trivial in the grand scheme of things may tell us something a little different about the people, the culture, and the history of France in the late 17th century.

There's something wonderfully delicious about a large - budget Hollywood production of Vanity Fair — the 19th - century novel whose aim was to skewer a self - important class that reveled in its own preening excess and adhered to its own inverted version of morality.

That Lee was able to make a $ 100 million dollar movie about these themes at 20th Century Fox was impressive enough, that he turns it into something of a Rorschach test for the audience (I felt that the film was suggesting that belief in God is a comforting fiction, religious friends took it as an affirmation of their faith) even more so.

This alone isn't a detriment to the movie, as, again, a century's worth of similar fare that can also at times feel the same way proves, but there's something incomplete about the whole affair.

Assuming the quote is right, Kubrick's speaking about the Holocaust in the present tense and about a movie made half a century later in the past tense suggests something about his priorities.

20th Century Fox has announced that «BIG» starring Tom Hanks and «There's Something About Mary» starring Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller will...

o doubt jazzed that Katherine Heigl tied the knot only a few weeks before the release of her wedding - themed comedy «27 Dresses,» the executives over at 20th Century Fox have something to be even happier about.

Plenty of schools adapt to new requirements, more and more educators make use of edtech in their classrooms, and the needs of the 21st Century learner is something that almost every conversation about education gravitates towards.

But love is something about which human beings have been talking for centuries.

«For our three districts to be included in this out of 20 from across the country is significant, and I believe it says something about our commitment to student achievement and preparing students for the 21st century here in Pennsylvania,» Ziegenfuss said.

If Galileo Galilei had lived to see his once controversial 17th - century theory about the Earth's rotation around the sun proven true, I expect he would know something like the joy I'm experiencing today.

Karen Cushman's voice is something to be reckoned with, whatever century she happens to be writing about.

That, in turn, means locking down the device to prevent transactions outside of Amazon; otherwise, the business model falls apart and Amazon begins selling easily - rooted tablets which bring the company little (if any) after - sale revenue.Sorry you're so short - changed on such fundamental business strategy, something King Gillette championed about a century ago.

This issue is set in the 13th century, so there's nothing particularly anachronistic about hooded monks gathered around a burning «witch,» but Sean Phillips» cover is so delightfully pulpy, like something that might've appeared on a pre-Code horror comic about the evil deeds a Satanic cult.

It's the realization that something is truly unique about this ancient, centuries old technology.»