Sentences with phrase «something peculiar like»

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But extensive abstraction seems peculiar to Bergson and Whitehead, and a moment's pause ought to convince the reader that the only sort of metaphysician who needs something like extensive abstraction as a method is one who wants to retain the operations of the intellect in the extended (i.e., concrete) world.

To understand what he is talking about, one needs to know something of the issue at stake in the whole letter, the problems in the Galatian churches to which it is sent, the peculiar meanings words like «law» have for Paul, and similar matters of historical understanding.

When we begin to apply these principles to the task before all men of good will, we get something like the following: We need a world - shaking movement to offset the planetary dangers that a peculiar combination of factors has now produced.

When Olympian Earl Young, competing in his 400 - yard specialty, wobbled across the finish line like a man carrying a piano up a flight of stairs, spectators at the Will Rogers Indoor Games at Fort Worth thought something was peculiar.

Watling: It will sort of, possibly, there are some sort of frameworks out there that make it very easy to write a program that links against [a] particular, if you've got an RSS feed, for example, that like, you have a news service that might provide headlines and stories; you can set up an application that — a custom application — that might do something peculiar.

There is something especially armour - like about heavily polished, curated looks, however, something impersonal and impenetrable that has its own peculiar appeal (though it runs the danger of being completely charmless, even if technically well executed).

You have to be in a specific sort of mood, and in a peculiar frame of mind, to fully immerse yourself into a film like «The Fits» and walk away feeling like you've just seen something special.

As for the film, while the exact plot is not quite known just yet, as it is based on the video game of a similar name, it could be something like a «peculiar talking Pikachu who, despite not being as powerful and nimble as other Pikachu of his kind, is rather intelligent and claims to be a great detective,» who one encounters a boy named Tim Goodman, who is able to understand what Pikachu is saying.

Another thing that separates something great like John Wick from something like Kingsman is that the action sequences in Kingsman, while undeniably kinetic and occasionally fun, are computer - engineered into a peculiar surreality.

I worked in book publishing (technical nonfiction) for 20 + years, and noticed something peculiar: Corporate culture was radically different for presses based in NYC, as opposed to presses based almost everywhere else, even major cities like Chicago.

Some people complain that Saints Row has sort of breached the thin line between absurd and tedium: that Saints Row 2, was a great illustration of the limits of this very peculiar genre, because it was anchored just enough by a story line that seemed to try to take itself seriously, but everything surrounding it was so off the wall that it transcended the trappings of games like Grand Theft Auto... and that Saints Row 3 lost something but just running with that entirely...

Those are all things you can do at home — tasks like sweeping or ironing — it's just that in this case they're done to black canvases, paying tribute to grief and mourning, but not to something specific... It's a manifestation of an attitude, which is larger than one's own self... Right now it seems that in many parts of the world — or everywhere, even — there is a shroud of darkness... There is always a story under the surface, and those stories are often quite peculiar; they have a strange way of manifesting themselves.»