Sentences with phrase «than a novelty in»

The Virtual Cockpit is much more than a novelty in the TT Roadster, showing real innovation in how we interact with navigation and other onboard systems.

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And I'll gladly suffer through all these pet peeves rather than return to the days when workout rooms were the size of walk - in closets, HBO cost extra, Wi - Fi was a novelty and the average hotel bed had the topography of a mountain range.

As The Economist noted in a recent feature, it may become no more than a novelty or a historical curiosity.

Seattle's Pronto launched in March amid bike - share systems» ascent from urban novelty to legitimate transportation technology, one that last year served up 28 million U.S. rides in more than 50 cities.

Taylor's Facebook page, which now counts more than 166,000 «likes» — in addition to the novelty of her age — garnered the attention of local news outlets and eventually major national programs including the Today show.

In reality, The Grey Album comes off as little more than a novelty.

Needless to say, as we have seen previously, the capacity for novelty is minimal, even negligible, in many actualities, thus, presumably, their responses are more in accord with the divine call than those of more complex creatures; the greater the degree of complexity, the greater the capacity to misuse freedom and refuse or diverge from God's call.

«Whether it is ignorance or fear, or both, that inspires this conduct in them, certain it is that the passion for novelty is always united in them with hatred of scholasticism, and there is no surer sign that a man is tending to Modernism than when he begins to show his dislike for the scholastic method.»

Furthermore, by its novelty miracle impels a recognition of order, not in the sense of a regular occurrence, but as a given structure or condition which is this rather than that.

5 This is a remarkable anticipation of Whitehead's view in Process and Reality that God's primordial ordering of the world's possibilities (the eternal objects) is the ultimate source of novelty in an emergent universe, except that Thornton understands these possibilities to be everlasting rather than timeless.6 This reification of what for Whitehead is purely possible, needing concrete embodiment in the actual world, leads Thornton to conceive of the eternal order as absolutely actual in its unchangeableness, identical with God.

Change, to keep the church alive in the 21st century (in the UK at least where churchgoing is about as normal as ferret juggling) needs to be far, far more radical than that, and based on an assessment of what real people's real needs are, rather than a thirst for novelty.

There is in fact nothing more to be said about the novelty of these uniquely occurring occasions than that each occasion is novel, that it happens only once and is unrepeatable in relation to all other occasions to which, as such, it can stand in a real relation of connectedness.

But, in the case of race and physical deformity, another part stems from something more fundamental than novelty.

Vast numbers of people think that the fact of a relatively settled order of nature, along with the scientific interpretation of change and the description of the inner dynamics of human personality (and much else as well), has ruled out once and for all genuine novelty and made change nothing more than the reshuffling of bits of matter - in - motion.

In a recent issue of the journal Behavior there are two articles (Baker 1973; Dawkins 1973) making positive use of one feature of process philosophy, its concept of creative novelty transcending causal determinateness other than statistical.

Such a claim would supplement rather than contradict Whitehead's analysis of novelty in actual occasions as arising from hybrid prehensions of God.

Underscoring the fact that «the element of absolute novelty in Jesus» teaching is smaller than is often supposed,» Hamilton affirms that Jesus» distinctiveness lies in how he selected from his tradition certain themes and gave them a completely new emphasis» (LGMW 194).

This promissory and storied character of reality allows it to unfold in such a way that novelty and surprise can continually come into view and thus render the universe and history both more complex and more intelligible than we could ourselves imagine on the basis of previous patterns of occurrence.

Now although Hall considers this a «process» view of creativity, its emphasis upon the individual as «its own source of order and novelty» is more extreme than that in Whitehead's philosophy.

And this radical novelty is more than the occupation of a new region in the extensive continuum.

As a result of developments in modern science we are much more aware than our theological predecessors were of the extent to which novelty continually pours into the world process.

In this paradigm the passage of nature is something more than simply the production of novelty, of things happening that have not happened before.

I take Plato as on my side in this when he says that in God is both being and becoming, both permanence and novelty, a closed past and an open future, also that God cares about the creatures, thus siding in advance against Aristotle's unmoved mover, taken as the God of religion.14 What moves things is at least «self - moved,» and is soul, including the supreme and cosmic soul, God, whose body is all else than cosmic soul and other than forms.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the novelty is that all of the meal is in a bowl rather than a plate.

I love, just love this product — if I could be I would be a walking bill board for Turtle Mountain because it is just SO much more than Purely Decadent (no pun intended) Although Sweet Nothings in the novelties I may have my eye on most; because I have never tried, LOOOve fudge, and Love So delicious.

If you enjoy footballers who run around like headless chickens, look rather clueless most of the time, then look no further than Aly Cissokho, who became something of a novelty hit during his loan spell at Anfield in the 13/14 season, as this highlights package will prove.

If you have a party supply store in your area, fill up a bag with items from the party favor aisle — they'll be way cheaper than Matchbox cars, your son will probably dig the novelty of picking out his own «prize»... and yet ALSO the novelty will eventually wear off because yeah, in reality the toys aren't anything THAT awesome.

Although Burke's particular emphasis on the expression implied its comparative novelty, the hunting term had been used in this political context for at least a generation: on 18 November 1742 Heneage Finch remarked in a letter to Lord Malton that «the Whigs for once in their lives have whipped in better than the Tories».

Rodriguez says the novelty - shaped pears are grown in China in an orchard that is no different than any other, and it's likely only a small portion of the trees are relegated to growing the novelty - shaped fruit.

«Both 2 - D and 3 - D are equally effective at eliciting emotional responses, which also may mean that the expense involved in producing 3 - D films is not creating much more than novelty.

Control mice, for example, spent more time sniffing around a new item placed in their cages than investigating familiar objects — a sign that their ability to react to novelty was intact.

She believes that the novelties in Einstein's lobes may have contributed to his «preference for thinking in sensory impressions, including visual images rather than words.»

James Lemke, an engineer, claimed novelty in the idea of making the working gaps of the recording heads ten times smaller than be-fore.

It is remarkable (and perhaps a novelty in the history of science) that the paper takes several graphs straight from climate sceptics PR material produced for lay - people, rather than basing its case on peer - reviewed scientific sources.

Higher responders to novelty (HR) had a higher corticosterone secretion which showed a quicker increase with age than did the others (LR); the differences in response to novelty observed in youth were no longer apparent in the old rats.

If not, then I see no real value in getting it other than novelty.

Yes it's has its moments, but all in all, the film feels like more of a novelty than anything else.

Thanks to the evil magic of a Satan genie in the L.A. costume and horror - themed novelty store where Max works, Evelyn claws her way out of her grave and, despite her body decomposing, she's friskier than ever and wants to zombify him so they can be together forever.

Where the core of Project CARS 2 lies in circuit racing and now rallycross, ice racing seems more of a novelty than a mode you'd willing want to return to.

Nobody loves novelty more than the Hollywood Foreign Press; the winners in this category have been first - time nominees for the past four years in a row.

Even more effectively than in Frankenstein, Whale adapts the shadowy darkness of the silent German Expressionist classics to the early sound era, a time when most Hollywood directors had seemingly forgotten everything that had been learned about the creation of mood, atmosphere and meaning through image over the prior 20 years in the struggle to capture the novelty of actors actually talking (By 1932, this phase of film was thankfully on it's way out, thanks to Whale, Howard Hawks (Scarface) and Busby Berkeley).

Baseline levels of dopamine are lowest during adolescence, but its ecstasy - triggering release in response to «sex, drugs, and rock and roll» and novelty, giggling, texting, chocolate cake, rugby, and risk, is higher than at any other stage of human development.

In fact, some early mobile learning initiatives have been taken up more for novelty value than for identified real needs.

Facts are more important than novelty: Replication in the education sciences.

It seemed too small to so polarize Southern California's automotive journalists, people more exposed to automotive novelty than any group in the world.

And while the Veloster has four seats, a bigger boot and the perception of more practicality than a regular coupe, those six foot or over will be very cramped in the back and the 2 +1 door layout's novelty value subsides rather quickly when you're travelling along and want to put stuff in the back.

Having standard - fit all - wheel drive on Mitsubishi Lancers with the 2.4 - liter engine (2.0 - liter models only come with front - wheel drive) also means there's good amounts of traction on slippery road surfaces and in snowy conditions — on top of being a relative novelty at this price point (the only all - wheel drive alternative, the Subaru Impreza, is nearly $ 2,000 more expensive to buy than a like - for - like Mitsubishi Lancer).

And there's a much - touted «cooled beverage storage» in the glove compartment that seems more of a novelty than a breakthrough.

Collective called the 3E Robotics Concepts, the small prototypes are more than just novelty items that Honda cooked up for our collective pleasures; they were created to give us a taste of what the future could look like with these robots by our sides to improve our daily lives in different ways.

E-books have gone a long way since 10 years ago, when they were little more than an interesting novelty, or even since 5 years ago — in 2011 they represented no more than 1 % of the book market everywhere (except in the UK, where e-book sales were 4 % of the total and digital sales were 8 %).