Sentences with phrase «such peculiar»

As one would anticipate from the inventor of such a peculiar item, Craven Walker was the embodiment of the English eccentric.

Such a peculiar style makes sure Mark Bradford still has a lot left in his tank to offer and we can surely look forward to more pieces from him in the future.

Hi Angela, Thanks for sharing such a peculiar experience — it's really not helpful to anyone for a publishing executive to be rude and disrespectful to aspiring authors.

This can often come along with such a peculiar sense of entitlement, too — the idea that yes, you have shelves so their books should be on them.

Lapping the Circuit of the Americas (COTA), the 3.4 - mile racing circuit outside Austin that has hosted three Formula 1 races and is America's only F1 track, is a fitting start to a farewell voyage for such a peculiar performance car.

What's interesting about Detective Pikachu as a game, apart from the amount of care and effort that's been put into such a peculiar idea, is the way it visualises a world filled with pokémon in something close to a realistic fashion.

You will have to search in such peculiar websites for a date partner so that it makes your job easy.

The chances that such a peculiar galaxy would be gravitationally lensed is very small.

After all, it's the weekend of the amazing Mystery Hunt — more about that soon — when such peculiar behavior is normal.

Other funding agencies would probably look askance at such a peculiar proposal.

Perhaps this is because the Cabinet Office is such a peculiar, unknowable creature.

Finding oneself at the nexus of such a peculiar contradiction would be, at the very least, a distraction.

Since many people can not accept that God uses such peculiar, cruel means to achieve eventual reward, let us consider a third option.

Not exact matches

We should expect alien visitors, were they not so frequently featured in such films, to be deeply puzzled at this peculiar human ritual.

Such major studios as United Artists, Universal and Disney (DIS) all passed on George Lucas» peculiar little science fiction project, and finally it was 20th Century Fox that grudgingly said yes.

There are the usual suspects, like pricey pills and supplements, as well as the peculiar, such as infusions of blood from young mice or standing - room chambers pumped with sub-zero temperatures.

It was a peculiar confederation to be sure, especially given that the Times» civic mission relies on vigilance and skepticism toward such powerful interests.

Types like this typically view Israel and Jews rather fondly, as they fit in with a peculiar apocalyptic credo strongly held by such groups.

The promiscuous position - taking of documents such as «Political Responsibility» is quite unwarranted by any peculiar competence of bishops or church bureaucracies.

It should be the work of Christian teachers in every generation, first, to understand the Scriptures, to distinguish what gives unity to the message of the Bible from what is peculiar to this or that writer, what is central from what is peripheral, what is essential from what is accidental; and then, on the basis of such understanding, to develop a doctrine of the act of God in Christ which will be intelligible, or at least not meaningless, to the contemporary mind.

Such problems may include «excessive affective dependency,» disproportionate aggression, incapacity to be faithful to obligations, incapacity for openness and trust, inability to cooperate with authority and confused sexual identity...» Of course all that is true; but wouldn't half an hour with a candidate over a pint tell most of us whether there is something about him that's a bit peculiar?

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

Such a metaphysics, though not successful in introducing development into being, at least correctly locates becoming as an important locus of ontology, namely as involved in those peculiar movements Aristotle called generation and corruption.

Its scenarios of door - to - door battles between cowboys and commies not only prolong adolescent fantasies but betray a peculiar lack of confidence in the ability of the police, the press and the armed forces to meet any such threat.

It has been the peculiar achievement of Western Christianity in the past to realize such an ideal in an organized spiritual society, which could co-exist with the national political units without either absorbing or being absorbed by them.

Biemel maintains a peculiar silence about matters such as these.

Aristotle is intent on pointing up the difference between conscious perception and the interplay of purely physical forces, i.e., those powers peculiar to bodies as such rather than specifically to sentient bodies.

I think we agree on the fact that it is by faith that all are saved i have no problem with that and its in that that there is unity.You find within any christian modern church law can be mixed with Grace that is not peculiar to any domination maybe it is more extreme in some.Where there are believers there are works of the flesh such as pride and self reliance.I was thinking today the word says if we believe in our hearts and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord then you shall be saved.Its not a hard doctrine to believe thats in its basic form.The seventh day have tacked on to that belief adherence to the sabbath that is sadly how denominations spring up.In the anglican church we still recite the apostles creed how many church still do that today as a basis for there faith in Jesus Christ.Your statement that some are saved is just as true to those who go to modern christian churchs who say they are christian but walk according to the flesh..

The executive order seemed especially peculiar when juxtaposed with other stories on nature's inherent «unfairness,» such as a winter of record snowfall and the January earthquake in Los Angeles.

Again, this understanding as such, although far from universal among ancient peoples, was not peculiar to Israel.

A peculiar phenomenon are the sects connected with Eastern (Oriental) religions, such as the Bahai, Vedanta, Theosophy, and others.

We do not wish to ask such a question, for it reflects a perspective peculiar to our own way of thinking.

The reason this has proved to be such a problem in process thought has less to do with the peculiar nature of Whitehead's concept of God than with an underlying assumption about prehension.

But, for the contemporary world, it was heresy of the first order, such, in fact, as to set the Hebrews off as a peculiar people in a sense quite different from what their own thinkers boasted.

In the seventeenth century, phenomena such as the environment and the humors became substitutes for original sin in explaining the peculiar tendency to perversity within humankind, but with the loss of corporate corruption and corporate culpability, the focus on sin began its slow shift to sins, individually committed and individually suffered.

[18] Such selective usage is not peculiar to those within the various Christian communities, but is also a characteristic of those who wrote to attack Christianity.

It is generally recognized that many blows struck against the pulpit come not because of its peculiar faults but because it is a part of a traditional and entrenched institution, and all such institutions, religious, political, or otherwise, are being called into question.

As any longtime faculty member at Union will tell you, such a vulnerability carries its peculiar burden of challenge and danger for the nourishing of a fruitful conjunction between piety and learning.

At most, such study so interpreted shows us that one corner of nature is in some respects absolutely peculiar, revealing the introduction of unprecedented forms of reality not to be explained by anything found in the rest of nature.

And as for the general character of thought — patterns peculiar to such groups, a collective or social imagination, or what Castoriadis calls a «social instituting imaginary,» may be needed to explain the differences between cultures and their peculiar destinies (RI 149).

Therefore, no system of material objects may serve as a frame of reference and be completely suitable for the purpose of analyzing in terms of laws the motions of material objects; for such laws of motion should be stated in such a manner that they are unaffected by the peculiar absence or presence of inertial forces in particular physical frames of reference.

In some instances special journals deal with the peculiar problems of such a ministry.

If the latter, it seems peculiar for Hartshorne to hold that some aspects of events (the noncategorial) require an explanation (in terms of final and efficient causality and categorial structuring), while others (the categories) require none; perhaps that conclusion is true, but such appeals to inexplicability should always be a last resort.

He writes «if there be any doubt as to whether the congregation be indigenous or foreign, such doubts ought to be set aside by the peculiar customs found among them.»

At most, you might deem it well to keep a few chosen specimens alive to represent an interesting and peculiar variety of humanity; but as for the rest, what comes in such surpassing numbers, and what you can only imagine in this abstract summary collective manner, must be something of which the units, you are sure, can have no individual preciousness.

But the electromagnetic society as such would provide «no adequate order for the production of individual occasions realizing peculiar «intensities» of experience unless it were pervaded by more special societies» (PR 150).

Yet this failure does not prevent the pragmaticist from granting «that a proper name... has a certain denotative function peculiar to that name and its equivalents» and «that every assertion contains such a denotative or pointing - out function.»

Such a moment has a peculiar character.

(28) Increasingly, church leaders are questioning how a demanding gospel can be communicated on a medium such as television, which is characterized by the peculiar qualities of being entertaining, relaxing, and un-demanding of personal effort or exertion by its viewers.

In a third concentric circle we may place those traditions which are peculiar to a particular grouping of people such as the Orthodox Church in the East, the Catholic Church m the West or one of the many Protestant denominations.