Sentences with phrase «such incomprehensible»

How can there be such an incomprehensible disconnect?

We ought to understand, of any such incomprehensible moment of time, that the participants themselves would be unable to answer the question, «Exactly what happened»» The pursued were an ill - organized, virtually unarmed, and now panic - ridden column of walking men, women, children, flocks, bearing such conglomerate and awkward possessions as could not or would not be left behind.

As an example of such incomprehensible devotion, he cites the kidnapping of the child Edgardo Mortara in 1858.

Father, Son, Holy Spirit: Though we can not fully get our minds around such incomprehensibles, we know by our faith that the triune God is how the world came to be, the energy that keeps it going, and the future toward which it — and we — move.

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«By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

An entire adult life spent in prayer and fasting in the temple may have equipped her for high status in the ancient world, but to us such choices are nearly incomprehensible.

This is why something as obvious to a person not blinded by such things is completely incomprehensible to a believer..

Such a god is easy enough to love, but it is not easy to love «the real God, who is, to begin with, dreadful and incomprehensible.»

Such a notion he finds incomprehensible, for he can see God at work only in the reality of his personal life and in his transformation.

If the patriarch and matriarch of the faith can laugh at God's incomprehensible ways, argues Cohen, then surely such laughter has a theological warrant.

I refer to those obscure and exceptional phenomena reported at all times throughout human history, which the «psychical - researchers,» with Mr. Frederic Myers at their head, are doing so much to rehabilitate; 7 such phenomena, namely, as religious conversions, providential leadings in answer to prayer, instantaneous healings, premonitions, apparitions at time of death, clairvoyant visions or impressions, and the whole range of mediumistic capacities, to say nothing of still more exceptional and incomprehensible things.

Mystery in the title is meant theologically; it designates not a vague sense of something unknown, but, in Hopkins» words, «an incomprehensible certainty» such as the Incarnation.

To make the history of the Reformation intelligible to a Japanese student, means to explain it to him in terms of his own historical thinking and his knowledge of history and in positive or critical relationship to it; otherwise any such lecture remains incomprehensible.

When he was asked such questions, he merely replied that it was «incomprehensible, indescribable, inconceivable, unutterable.»

Part of the magic is that faced with the incomprehensible, the loss of a parent, Camp Kesem has made those affected better people, such as Abi and Shamon.

Watson also hit out, saying: «I find it incomprehensible that our elected lay members on the disciplinary panel found Ken Livingstone guilty of such serious charges, and then concluded that he can remain a member of the Labour party.»

How «real» are entities such as quarks, and to what extent should they be regarded simply as artificial models and analogies to help us try to understand the incomprehensible subatomic world?

It was not designed specifically for dating websites, however it is a. I will have to register on this dating site, I realized one thing there will not be any incomprehensible types that come to such sites that would get acquainted for one day, or rather the night.

But because of the overly familiar plot devices it does just feel like a two - parter and as such will be completely incomprehensible to the casual viewer.

What makes The Act of Killing such a sickening film to watch is the realization that, as bone - chilling and incomprehensible this world is, it isn't too far off from ours.

It's a film our critic describes as «emotionally devastating,» and it's hard to see how any documentary that takes such an unflinching and deeply - felt look at the aftermath of such an epochal tragedy as the school shootings in Newtown Connecticut could not be — especially as the film focuses not on the killer or on the politics of the event, but simply on the children, in particular on three of the victims, and their families trying to cope in the wake of an incomprehensible loss.

It is just incomprehensible to me that a major newspaper would do such a thing and that Arne Duncan would approve it.

It's incomprehensible in 2019 that certain things like LED lighting, safety features such as blind side alert and rear cross traffic and XM radio are not even offered until you climb up 3 - 4 trim levels of a new near luxury player in a field that favors SUV's.

The biggest problem when creating a game such as Warhammer 40K: Space Marine is trying to ensure that the massive Warhammer lore doesn't simply bury a newcomer that's unfamiliar with the universe under a pile of incomprehensible names and references.

This is particularly jarring in light of the silence (and in some instances incomprehensible praise) that descended from such quarters when Gleick's disgraceful behaviour came to light.

If I were ever to write such a content - free bunch of incomprehensible drivel as your post to which my remark specifically referred, then Joshua (or anybody else) would be fully entitled to make such a reply.

The department's submission to Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown is at times rendered incomprehensible, due to grammatical errors and sentences that taper off, such as the following paragraph:

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

It is truly incomprehensible that such blatantly obvious «climate intervention» programs can be carried out in skies all over the world, in plain site (for over 70 years), and still be officially denied.

«Didn't realise you are such a futurist»... «Lightfoot's ideas and style will be inspirational for some and totally incomprehensible to others.»

Quebec's Civil Code also contains various provisions dealing with external clauses, abusive clauses, penal clauses, illegible and incomprehensible clauses, and so on, to name a few, and also provides for a great number of statutorily imposed terms in what it calls «nominate» contracts (such as leases or contracts for services, which have rights and obligations specially prescribed by law).

Imagining how to go on after such a loss may be incomprehensible.