Sentences with word «tentativeness»

The truth is that scientists and forecasters don't really know what caused the lull during this season — which underscores the ongoing tentativeness of our understanding of what sparks individual hurricanes, and what causes their seasonal variability in general.

However, despite these roots, the imperative of universal care is offered with tentativeness for consideration to anyone.

Looking at Martin Bromirski and Amy Feldman, among others, Butler saw abstract painters «saying goodbye to all that didactic thinking and exuding a kind of calculated tentativeness.»

In a day when the religions of the world confront each other, the view proposed here might engender humility and tentativeness in the claims made on behalf of any one model.

A fourth cause back of the current sag in the pulpit is the loss of certainty and the increase of tentativeness on the part of the preacher.

All his knowledge is to be held with some degree of tentativeness for it is subject to reinterpretation in the light of fresh evidence.

Another Christian View (1978) co-authors Letha Scanzoni and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott continue to evidence some of the above tentativeness as they couch their conclusions in questions.

«We are bearish on efforts to curtail entitlement spending in this Congress given the lack of Democratic support for the effort in the Senate, tentativeness among certain Republicans, and a basic lack of procedural bandwidth before the midterms,» the Compass Point analysts said.

The term does not imply tentativeness or lack of certainty.

All our human knowledge is subject to further correction and change, and must be adhered to with some degree of tentativeness however small.

Protestant, Catholic, and Jew still faced each other with a kind of curious tentativeness.

Scholars honor tentativeness more than certainty, and skill in criticism and analysis more than confident assertion.

This means, however, that discussions about God must have a certain inherent tentativeness, a certain openness to question.

What is needed is an openness and tentativeness allowing for the ongoing exercise of divine freedom coupled with an underlying integrity which can not possibly be threatened by whatever happens.

In this sense modern music is the product of a radical tentativeness become audible.

(Philippians 2:10 - 11) That is why all theological discussion about Christianity and the Jewish people has an air of tentativeness about it.

But, uniquely, the rationalists (as we use the term) insist — albeit with the same tentativeness that is required by the fallibility of all human reflection — that some of the elements of an adequate philosophical system are properly speaking metaphysical, i.e., they make claims that are said to apply to any possible world because they are thought to be universally and necessarily true.

For our time when one of the great human advances is the gender revolution, the need for her symbols of love, parent, love and friend, for God can be accepted with less tentativeness than characterized in her bold book.

Granted, she was encouraged — but there was none of that wade - in - the - water tentativeness that Karrie Webb displayed last year when she took the winner's plunge.

Tentativeness comes with the territory of pregnancy after loss.

That's tentativeness right there for you.

Woodley's has a reserved tentativeness drawn from her character's willingness to be selfless around other people.

But it is less the structural derivation than the coloristic tentativeness that puts me off.

Gallery partner Claude Simard said that business had been very good and dismissed the suggestion of buyer tentativeness.

I am sure Tracey Emin is here because of her name, but there is a great group of watercolour and ink drawings by Lucia Nogueira — who understood how to use tentativeness as a positive quality, as well as full - on emphatic colour against the whiteness of the paper — and a group of Callum Innes works that are to do with veiling, and the way layering of colour affects the luminosity of watercolours, which all depend on how light passes through the paint and is reflected back at us.

The small monochromatic paintings, from 1995 - 2010 included in the exhibition, convey a sense of calculated tentativeness.

In a day when the religions of the world confront each other, the view offered here might engender humility and tentativeness in the claims made on behalf of any one model.

For this reason it is important that we choose our images carefully, albeit with tentativeness and humility.

It moves toward fluidity, changingness, immediacy of feeling and experience, acceptance of feelings and experience, tentativeness of constructs, discovery of a changing self in one's changing experience, realness and closeness of relationships, a unity and integration of functioning.

The most recent projections, granted their tentativeness, nonetheless make clear that the highly desirable goal of paying off the federal debt is in reach before the end of the decade.

In Greenawalt's words: «With some uncertainty and tentativeness, I hold religious convictions; but I find myself in a pervasively secular discipline.»

With this tentativeness also belongs an attitude of expectancy concerning new human possibilities that may emerge as evolution proceeds.

In fact, most of the interesting and important questions in life can only be answered with a certain degree of tentativeness.

The characteristic and sometimes demonic mode of Reformed interpretation is not tentativeness and relinquishment, but tentativeness hardening into absoluteness.

Several evangelical authors have expressed this need for greater modesty, tentativeness and flexibility: Daniel Taylor in The Myth of Certainty, Michael Baumann in Pilgrim Theology and William J. Abraham in The Coming Great Revival: Recovering the Full Evangelical Tradition.

But this tentativeness regarding our knowledge has had the unfortunate effect in many instances of undercutting the assurance with which the Christian evangel is proclaimed.

Probably with a lot more humility and tentativeness.

Thus Whitehead's thinking thereafter always had an element of tentativeness; he was painfully aware of the difficulties in discovering the final foundations of things.

Tentativeness, suspended judgment, self - criticism, and tolerance of divergent ideas are among the desirable attitudes.

A pernicious feature of Christian discourse in our day is its tentativeness, the corrosive assumption that everything we teach and practice is to be subject to correction by appeals to putative evidence, whether from science, history, or the religious experience of others.

In this chapter, however, there is a tentativeness, a suggestive inarticulateness struggling with a far wider vision than we can possibly do justice to.

What makes a desire into a real prayer of petition is the entertainment of that desire chiefly within the consciousness of the tentativeness and inevitable imperfection of the object of desire.