Sentences with phrase «than the actual experience»

Like many other challenges in parenting, the anticipation of teething is often worse than the actual experience.

Like most things in life, the thought of dating can create more anxiety than the actual experience.

Is it fair, reasonable and logical to weigh the opinions of those with no experience more highly than the actual experience and evidence of other jurisdictions?

There is little more important than actual experience.

Turns out the fear of the unknown was so much worse than my actual experience!

Not exact matches

(See Why You Never Saw it Coming) At the same time, in the good news category, once we're free of the drudgery of dragging all the usual stuff home, our actual shopping at the market may once again be an awesome experience rather than an unavoidable chore as well as an opportunity to discover and try new things.

Sofge, who stressed coalition forces» efforts to avoid civilian casualties, said the actual process likely takes less time to complete than it does to describe, in part because of the experience they have doing it and because parts of it happen concurrently.

«For Amazon, they've been cultivating the mobile buying experience with all of their apps — from actual purchasing to price comparison and more — so they have more evidence than most.»

PMI says the product is a closer experience to smoking cigarettes than other alternatives, such as e-cigarettes, because it uses actual tobacco.

Being a Washington outsider may, in fact, ultimately be more appealing to voters than a CEO's actual business experience.

People on the web are craving authentic experiences and relevant interactions with actual people rather than automated messages from companies and brands.

Our actual expectation is that the completion of the current market cycle is likely to wipe out the entire total return of the S&P 500 — in excess of Treasury bill returns — all the way back to roughly October 1997; an outcome that would require a market retreat no larger than it experienced in the past two cycles, and that would not even carry historically reliable valuation measures to materially undervalued levels (see When You Look Back On This Moment In History).

Quite frankly, I'm not interested in any «intelligent discourse which is little more than a circle jerk of a discussion where privileged people sit around and abstractly theorize about what the «real problems» of and «solutions to» marginalized people's problems that doesn't center the words and experiences of actual marginalized people and their own understanding of their own problems.

There is no better instance of the point than the effect of the media in reducing the diversely known by actual personal experience to a putative sameness.

In particular, Meier insists that the theophany must be excluded from all attempts to understand the event, since it is a later Christian invention rather than a surviving memory of some actual spiritual experience of Jesus.

Rather than allow this experience to float free of the moorings of actual science, as Jurgen Moltmann appears to do, we would prefer to ground it in the dynamic of scientific observation, along the lines indicated in this issue's Notes from Across the Atlantic.

On their own, without correlative experiences, Hartshorne's «metaphysical necessities» may properly seem more like bright ideas or comforting illusions than actual truths.

It was a statement of belief only the shortest step removed from the actual experience of the church — hardly more than a description of that experience.

If our world were a centered universe, a universe with an all - seeing (i.e., all - prehending) God with the ability to introduce, on his own, new information pertaining to the past into the experience of emerging actual occasions by means of their subjective aims, then our world would be a much more harmoniously ordered world than it in fact is.

Since God, on this view, is contemporary with every finite actual entity, being neither in the past nor in the future of any other actual entity, God, on the principle in question, would be able neither to prehend nor to he prehended by any other actual entity, a conclusion more radically at variance with religious experience and practice than the doctrine Whitehead was invoked to repair.

Whitehead's system is able to encompass the results, however: while the actual occasions constituting the central nervous system of bees are certainly of a lower degree of complexity than that of mammals, a bee brain contains thousands of interactive neurons, so that there is no a priori reason why the dominant occasion of the bee may not be capable of complex experiences in situations relevant to the bees» survival.

But at another level, the story hints at a possibility in love somewhat brighter than the actual human (particularly the parental) experience of it.

What is more, by insisting on speaking of time as in actual occasions rather than actual occasions being in time, Whitehead makes it possible to speak of the experience of time.

This trust in life and the actual experiences which it entails are part of human existence that can be far better explained, as Birch and Cobb affirm, by an ecological model rather than an older mechanical one.

But other patterns can be devised where the temporal extension of the divine experience must be much smaller than that of any actual entity.

The fact that Whitehead understands human experience to consist in discrete «drops» or «actual occasions» of experience may be an example of the fact that Whitehead's generalizations were developed from more than one starting point, in this case modern quantum theory as well as psychology.

However expert he may be in his own particular field, his actual experience of life is far smaller than he realizes.

His concern is not with evolutionist theories or cosmology, but with an initial formulation of his micro-ontology of actual occasions, intended to provide a coherent account of the experience of novelty and creativity as more than endless permutations of the previously - given.

The actual occasions that constitute the body are truly identifiable with the self, but less so than is the central, or coordinating occasion by which the self is an experiencing subject.

The objective unity of the world, even though the experience of it may be difficult to reconstruct, is not of a character more lacking in evidence than the concretion of the world in actual, perishing occasions.

My actual faith experience has been onion layers rather than one specific story.

No, they are not like getting actual experienced quality signings, but Akpom is better than Walcott and Holding is almost certainly better than Chambers so at least they represent a very small step in the right direction.

While we know from first hand experience that no game is a foregone conclusion pre-match, were Chelsea to drop points in this home fixture with newly promoted Blackpool, it would rate amongst some of the biggest shocks in Premier League history, although, in actual fact, most punters are worrying over how many Chelsea will win by rather than deciding whether or not Blackpool can spring another surprise at tasty odds.

However, since most babies do experience catch - up growth and development, the older your twins get, the closer they will be to needing a schedule that more resembles their actual age, rather than their adjusted age.

And I would bet that the hospital horror stories are more to do with the womens «feelings» about her birth experience rather than the actual damaged / dead babies from the home birth horror stories.

The anti-hospital movement is not driven by actual bad experiences in the hospital any more than the anti-vax movement is driven by actual bad reactions to vaccines.

In many ways, it was the feminist movement that helped women communicate their actual experiences of motherhood rather than feeling that something was wrong with them.

Men, in my experience, appear to get more worn out by labor than the actual woman laboring (no joke).

When participants envisioned the most positive outcome, their energy levels, as measured by blood pressure, dropped, and they reported having a worse experience with the actual event than those who had conjured more realistic or even negative visions.

Because these terrorists are getting younger in the post-9 / 11 era, they have grown up in a, media - driven paramilitary or «Rambo» culture; however, less than a third of them have actual military experience and none fought in Afghanistan or Iraq, Hamm said.

Although they voiced more negative opinions about unionization than their nonscientist colleagues did, their actual experiences «teaching and advising [unionized] students... were no different than in the humanities or social sciences.

Although thinking about dying can cause considerable angst, new research suggests that the actual emotional experiences of the dying are both more positive and less negative than people expect.

I talked about my personal experience with remineralizing my teeth here, and I did use oil pulling as part of this protocol, but I suspect that the benefit may be from the ability of certain oils to combat the bacteria that causes tooth decay, rather than actual mineral support for the tooth.

We've observed that the likelihood of experiencing an actual relationship is dramatically higher with PreQM members than that of the general, single population.

Or maybe not... Here is an actual quote: «Online dating is a distraction and the experience had evolved to where information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment rather than a tool of empowerment.»

Virtual dating is a lot of fun and offers many times a better experience than actual dating in the real world.

Since he can not jump, those levels were more like puzzle than actual platforming, and offered a fresh experience in - between the traditional levels of the game.

This mode simulates the experience of playing an actual game of basketball more closely than any videogame I've played.

A gimmicky observation of life in Nepal, this is one of those documentaries that offers the audience an experience rather than any actual information.

Mean girls, cute boys and crazy parties might be considered stereotypical or overdone college - movie tropes, but Life of the Party pairs them with actual classrooms and libraries, making for a more realistic depiction of the college experience than most comedies.