Sentences with phrase «such novel experiences»

Such novel experiences help unleash your imagination by forcing the mind out of its tendency to rely on categories and take shortcuts, according to neuroscientist Gregory Berns.

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The viewer of art and the reader of a novel who surrender themselves to a new order of reality illustrate well both the validity of and the difficulties involved in such spontaneous freedom in the play experience.

Further, if we live by such a vision in this life, it means we are seeking the most creative, novel, stimulating, intense experience in virtually everything we do.

It is clear from the context, moreover, that Whitehead is concerned primarily with the «emergence of novel features in immediate occasions of experience, beyond that indicated by the constraints of the immediate past on such experience.

Whitehead's explanation of how the inharmonious systems are included in an harmonious system is «a fourth way»: «This novel system is such as radically to alter the distribution of intensities throughout the two given systems, and to change the importance of both in the final intensive experience» (Adventures 260).

Experience - based restaurants that incorporate novel ingredients such as gold leaf and liquid nitrogen.

As novel applications, such as drug screening, SNP detection, diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and food protection, are developed, there will be more demand for experienced microarray technicians in the workplace.

«Such an experience gives players a space to challenge how they see the world, just as movies like Schindler's List or novels like Animal Farm, did for past audiences,» said Bowman.

The participants also completed questionnaires assessing traits associated with sensation - seeking and impulsivity such as their need for novel and intense experiences, willingness to take risks, and a tendency to make rapid decisions.

She has extensive research experience in the development and application of novel electron microscopy techniques for energy materials, such as lithium ion battery materials and fuel cell catalysts.

From its opening sentence («We rode the hillsides and vales of Missouri, hiding in uniforms of Yankee blue») Woodrell's novel lures the reader into the first - person narration of a young Dutch Southerner destined to become the sort of «hardened youth» whose experience of war and death («we made trash of men and places») is such that when he comes upon two human heads sitting «ripe and pecked» on a pole, he simply notes that one year earlier this sight would have sickened him «beyond consolation».

International authors such as Leon de Winter and Connie Palmen, the author duo behind the Iny Lorentz historical novels, and the fantasy - novel writer Markus Heitz will make literature a real experience for visitors.

«You certainly want to join any organizations that you can,» as well as look to what others have had to say about their experiences working with publicists on social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook, says Liccketto of looking for publicity for a novel.

Orwell based his first novel, Burmese Days, on his experiences in the Far East, but it was his later novels such as Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty - Four that would turn him into one of the most respected and visionary writers of the twentieth century.

Y. Euny Hong's background as a journalist for such publications as The New York Times, Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal seems an odd preparation for this wry, clever debut novel, but perhaps it's her experience as one of the founders of Rumpus Magazine, the humorous, controversial Yale University tabloid, that gives real insight into her writing style.

If you, the reader, discover upon reading Erdrich's novels, that the challenges facing the Anishinaabe family resemble something you have experienced, then maybe — just maybe — your beliefs about such communities of American Indians might make them seem less foreign.

However, if you're on a tight budget and need a tablet for single - serve entertainment experiences, such as watching a movie or reading a novel, the $ 49 Fire 7 could be your best bet.

While in theory I like the idea of having a tablet that does more, with such multipurpose functionality, in practice I found using the Novel tiresome enough that these experiences are better left to a smartphone handset than to this larger screen device.

«The strong, supple prose on display in all three novels, the intelligence of the plotting, and the skillfully varied pacing make this a standout trilogy — highly recommended» — from a review by the Historical Novel Society «Breathtakingly gorgeous writing & a multi-layered tale of such depth, breadth and insight that it was very nearly a spiritual experience &» — from a review by T. T. Thomas on Amazon.com» & there s no ring of power or glowing sword of specialness; the magic, like the tone of the book, is quiet.

Amazon's Kindle reading experience is one of the best available, with useful features such as X-Ray, which allows readers to track character appearances through a novel with explanations of who they are pulled in from Shelfari (a community - powered books encyclopedia) and Wikipedia.

They want to use augmented reality to project the game onto real surfaces (such as a table) like a hologram, allowing the player to interact with the game in a way that creates a novel experience.

While it was fun creating the mystery novel - like scenario, we had no previous experience in working on such a plot, so we were making adjustments to the storyline until the very end.

Works like Sun Tunnels (1973 — 76), Views Through a Sand Dune (1972), and her extensive Locator series were responsive to the environment and offered novel means for observing natural phenomena, such as summer and winter solstices, and sun and moonlight patterns, which transform specific geographic locations into vivid and resonant experiences.

Inspired by direct experiences and observations of her surroundings as well as the films, plays, and novels of such luminaries as Alfred Hitchcock, John Cassavetes, Roman Polanski, Jack Smith, Jorge Luis Borges, Tennessee Williams, and Samuel Beckett and mainstays of popular culture like soap operas and science fiction, her work is carefully scripted and produced while maintaining an immediate sense of spontaneity and unpredictability.

Tying in the work of contemporary artists from Sally Mann to Takashi Murakami, Karnes allows the viewer to experience the work of such varied artists in a novel way.

This relief pays homage to the French writer Louis - Ferdinand Céline, whose unflinching portrayals of city life in novels such as Mort à crédit (Death on the Installment Plan, 1936) provided Oldenburg with an example of the experience of the street expressed directly through art.

Android TV is such a novel concept, not to mention implementation, that it will require a lot more exposure before it becomes the de facto Android living room experience that Google most likely wants it to be.

«Lulu is a place where people of all ages, backgrounds, experience, and professions can publish, sell, or buy creative content such as novels, memoirs, poetry, cookbooks, technical manuals, articles, photography books, children's books, calendars, and a host of other content that defies easy categorization.

«Lulu is a place where people of all ages, backgrounds, experience, and professions can publish, sell, or buy creative content such as novels, memoirs, poetry, cookbooks, technical manuals, articles, photography books, children's books, calendars, and a host of other content that defies easy categorization.

Finally, the impact of just one movie - related parenting strategy was investigated in our study, whereas other investigators examined other aspects of movie - related parenting, such as parents accompanying their children to the video store, actively determining movie ratings before allowing their children to view movies, monitoring movies viewed at friends» houses, and coviewing R - rated movies.21 Because sensation - seeking adolescents are more likely to seek novel and intense sensations and experiences, 28 parental movie monitoring may be particularly important because the adolescents themselves are less likely to be able to resist the temptation of watching R - rated movies.