Sentences with phrase «splendid isolation»

Or should they have maintained their sovereignty and spirituality in splendid isolation from world history?

And in 1994 she launched the series of experiments that would overturn long - held assumptions about the brain's splendid isolation from the immune system.

So splendid isolation may be most productive for a limited time.

Companies do not thrive when employees are all working in splendid isolation.

The cottages are separated by the island's natural vegetation, so you get a sense of splendid isolation as you lounge on your veranda.

For these reasons active programs of evangelism flourish most in those churches in which the provincial consciousness is still in vogue, while in the mainline churches evangelism tends to reside in splendid isolation as a special interest of a limited group who are more subjective in their approach to God.

Domnhall Gleeson stars as Caleb, a programmer asked to take part in a unique experiment by Nathan, a reclusive, suitably eccentric computer genius, played by Oscar Isaac, who lives in splendid isolation on a remote estate / research facility.

(3:56 am Millwood Ave. and Eye # 1 (Flood)(Diptych), Alex Prager) plunge x splendid isolation x aesthetics as a way of survival x in the holocene

Australia's most luxurious new hotel, Wrotham Park Lodge, sits in splendid isolation north of Cairns on a 1.5 million - acre ranch — that is, if you don't... Read More

Perhaps you want splendid isolation and the intimacy of your own barefoot honeymoons private villa in the idyllic Maldives or a safari adventure in the National Parks of Sri Lanka.

The Mabely Grand sits in splendid isolation close to one of the smallest villages on the island of Zante (also known as Zakynthos).

Cloud 19 Beach Retreat is a four - star property located at Cape Panwa along Phuket Island east coast.With splendid isolation its main selling point, the moniker beach retreat is a correct one (children under 12 are not allowed from November to April during Phuket high season).

The painting, from the Menil Collection in Houston, is displayed in what seems like splendid isolation despite the presence of 10 large related collages, some of which incorporate cardboard and plywood.

But occasionally you can get the whole nine yards, such as with the Stones» Gim me Shelter, where you can hear in splendid isolation vocals, guitar, second guitar, drums, and bass.

Others mourn the outcome, believing it to represent a lurch towards splendid isolation and irrelevance.

«If we allow Mr Bloom and Mr Farage to lead us off into some land of splendid isolation I must say I weep for England.

But I very much doubt that in this day, save among the very few people who manage to live in splendid isolation from the world in some kind of private ivory tower, people are really as self - satisfied as that.

On 44 minutes, Luke Wilkshere, in splendid isolation on the Australian right, advanced with the ball.

The American artist Agnes Martin was best known for her pared down, subtly coloured abstract paintings, mostly done when she was living in splendid isolation in New Mexico.

In the old days, the professors were serene in their splendid isolation.

Certainly, in so far as he confesses his faith in God he is committed to a belief in the One who may properly be called supernatural and superhistorical — for God is not to be located in the spheres of what, by the use of certain limited and limiting frames of reference, we call nature and history — but such a belief does not relegate God to some alien sphere of splendid isolation and inaccessibility.

And «Splendid Isolation» is as memorable a tribute to independence as John Lennon's superb «Watching the Wheels.»

God becomes an indispensable aspect of the ever - advancing process and ceases to exist above or beyond the process in splendid isolation.

The days are over when religions could take refuge in splendid isolation.

The situation can not go on like that without serious long - term repercussions — without Western theology, in its splendid isolation, risking those vital connections through which old forms are renewed and fresh vitality released.

The overall result of withdrawing theology from the world has been to accord theology its autonomy by putting it in splendid isolation.

They should also learn that the truth of the individual does not triumph when it breaks off the dialogue and withdraws into the splendid isolation of its subjectivity, but when it refuses to stop the dialogue with the truth of society, In this case of the Church) and freely lets itself be integrated into this truth.

It stands in splendid isolation, and so does whatever else we may be able to ascertain.

The Writer's Junction is described on their website as a place «where you can work in splendid isolation, within a supportive community.»

Adrift for millennia in splendid isolation in the blue of the South Pacific it has escaped the evils of industrial progress, the incursions of dangerous animals, poisonous snakes, spiders and pestilent diseases such as malaria.

His strongly worded resignation letter accuses the prime minister of becoming the voice of Ukip and pursuing policies that would leave Britain in splendid isolation.

He added: «If we allow Mr Bloom and Mr Farage to lead us off into some land of splendid isolation I must say I weep for England.

Nothing seems more romantic and productive than finishing your masterpiece in splendid isolation.

As continental plates collided, a chain of islands between the two rose up, forming the Isthmus of Panama and ending what preeminent 20th - century paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson famously described as South America's «splendid isolation.»

Whatever our feelings are about the humans who have created these molecules, the life - saving properties of the molecules themselves stand proudly in splendid isolation.

We like to boast of our splendid isolation, of the steel throated monsters that guard the entrances to our harbors.

It is a vision of splendid isolation, of mountains floating on the horizon, of deep, shadow haunted virgin forests, of seemingly endless plains too large for the mind to contemplate.

Anderson initially seems to revel in this splendid isolation, matching Woodcock's precision in fine details.

That might sound like a terrible prize, but not in this case, because Caleb works for the world's most successful search engine, and its creator is a seldom - seen recluse who lives in splendid isolation in the wilds of the Arctic tundra.

«We live more and more of our lives in the splendid isolation of the Internet with all the faux connectors like Facebook, Twitter, and the rest.

It's a classic case of splendid isolation; when it was conceived, sportiness and agility were not yet among the marque's top brand values.

In this car more than in the other two, a smooth driving style will be rewarded with total refinement and, pardon the cliché, splendid isolation.

In the splendid isolation of a defunct airfield, however, it seems reasonably safe to speed up the action by a fraction.

I rolled up the windows, increased the volume of Bose stereo, and took a satisfying bite in splendid isolation.