Sentences with phrase «something of a paradox in»

Supermarkets present something of a paradox in this country.

Arctic researchers caution that there is something of a paradox in Arctic trends: while the long - term fate of the region may be mostly sealed, no one should presume that the recent sharp warming and seasonal ice retreats that have caught the world's attention will continue smoothly into the future.

Not exact matches

She recognizes the «paradox» involved in the thought that something is «always complete yet always growing» (p. 170), which she claims «results from the incapacity of the human mind to conceive non-temporal sequence» (p. 170).

The paradox of creativity can be seen in a peculiar character of the kind of process that culminates in something intelligible and novel that contributes substantively to a tradition of human endeavor.

In one of his more sarcastic moods, Hartshorne defines a «theological paradox» as «what a contradiction becomes when it is about God rather than something else...»!

Whoever affirms Jesus» thought accepts also the paradox that an event which from the observer's viewpoint must be regarded as a natural occurrence, as a part of the world process determined by law, is in reality something different, that is, a direct act of God.

The pastor's story also suggests something about the paradoxes of tradition in American culture.

That the whole constitution of many persons may be such that this paradox repels them is indeed true, but one ought not for this reason to make faith something different in order to be able to possess it, but ought rather to admit that one does not possess it, whereas those who possess faith should take care to set up certain criteria so that one might distinguish the paradox from a temptation (Anfechtung).

It is one of those balancing acts in football and something of a paradox that Arsenal and just about every other big club has to cope with every season, but hopefully this season Arsene Wenger has got the balance just right between having a talented squad with strength in depth and keeping the players reasonably happy with the chances they are getting on the pitch.

Rather than ratchet up the competition, the various players investigating the obesity paradox in kidney cancer did something unusual in the cutthroat world of scientific research: they decided to collaborate.

This paradox not only applies to the circumstance in which some ecological treasure gains value as it becomes rarer but to the inverse case as well, in that something endangered will lose value as it creeps back from the edge of extinction.

Whether paradox or irony, there's something so complete and whole in the minimalism of Scandinavian fashion.

A good of example of the paradox of choice in action occurred in a landmark study involving something that, on the surface, is fairly straightforward: jam.

Instead, Dreamworks did something quite smart and decided to go the time paradox route with Shrek accidentally wishing himself into an alternate reality where he was never born and consequently never rescued Fiona, leaving Rumplestiltskin to take control of the kingdom, resulting in an underground ogre army rising to fight the evil despot.

As I wrote earlier this year, «Because NAEP takes a representative sample, it's also vulnerable to something called Simpson's Paradox, a mathematical paradox in which the composition of a group can create a misleading overall trend.

This presents something of a paradox for publishers in that they have to grow the digital market without cannibalizing print sales.

The delicacy of the animal's position — limbs outstretched, head slightly tilted — speaks of the underlying fragility of life and, in Hirst's words, the age - old paradox «of trying so hard to do something that you destroy the thing that you're trying to preserve» (D. Hirst, quoted in D. Hirst and G. Burn, On the Way to Work, London, 2001, p. 219).

... recent works that explore form and process including drawings made through erasure, works on panel, and flat cast resin works... Yamaoka materializes a paradox by rubbing away at the surface of the world in order to make something from it.»

I agree with Alan Pocaro about is that my surmises about spatial shortcomings in abstract painting do leave it in something of, to quote Alan, «an insoluble paradox».

Actually, there is some interesting work being done by Matt Huber of Purdue, following up on some earlier ideas of Emanuel's, suggesting that the role of TCs in transporting heat from equator towards the poles may be more significant than previously thought — it also allows for some interesting, though admittedly somewhat exotic, mechanisms for explaining the «cool tropics paradox» and «equable climate problem» of the early Paleogene and Cretaceous periods, i.e. the problem of how to make the higher latitudes warm without warming the tropics much, something that appears to have happened during some past warm epochs in Earth's history.

They fall victim to something known as the paradox of wealth preservation by investing in supposedly safe assets that, well, actually destroy their wealth.