Sentences with phrase «than the contemporaries of»

Older men are more confident, self - assured, and emotionally stable than the contemporaries of the younger women.

Older men are more confident, self - assured, and emotionally stable than the contemporaries of the young woman.

The wheels were effectively pushed to the corners of the car, creating a much larger passenger cabin than the contemporaries of the time.

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«We take the work out of it by curating the best of the best in streetwear and contemporary fashion for the urban - dwelling guy,» he says, noting that more than 60 percent of purchases are from repeat customers.

The Anne Frank Foundation said it recognized the «good intentions» of those who name things after Frank, but pointed out that the significance of Frank and what she represents «will increasingly have a contemporary rather than a historical basis.»

Chiang Mai had a lot of creative young people making contemporary art in a way that felt more organic than the artisan - style «maker movement» happening in Brooklyn, NY, and Portland, Ore..

On average, members of this group earn 32 percent less than their contemporaries with college degrees.

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The significance of Anne Frank will increasingly have a contemporary rather than a historical basis.

VeChain continues to swell on their plans, relocating at a much faster gait than some of their evident contemporaries.

Instead of reviewing some of my long - time investment favorites, most of which were published more than 20 years ago, I thought I would take a look something more contemporary.

Borges, for instance, believed him a far more important figure in French letters than any of his more celebrated near contemporaries, and credited him with having invented an entirely new approach to aesthetic experience, reconciling (without merging) the traditions of Asia and Europe.

Many contemporary people of faith define hell as a psychological state — separation from God, self and others, rather than a space - time place.

Ripatrazone wrote The Fine Delight in part as a response to my article, he says, but he is less concerned with highlighting the artistry of contemporary Catholic writers than with proving that their intention is to critique the preconciliar Catholic Church as epitomized by the Tridentine Mass and the use of Latin.

No contemporary novelist has been as consistent in his opposition to the more pernicious aspects of modernity than Dean Koontz.

On the other hand, what lends an air of unreality to Kierkegaard's works is that our problems are so much worse than those faced by him and his contemporaries.

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

In 2009, 1,129 such incidents were recorded - an increase of more than 100 percent from the 559 incidents noted in 2008, according to the study, released Sunday by the university's Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism.

The fact that the pope, or a council, can address contemporary situations and issues directly, and tell us how the biblical teachings apply to them, is another reason why we can expect the utterances of the contemporary magisterium to resolve disagreements more effectively than the biblical texts themselves.

His genre movie is more realistic — more capable of expressing contemporary Iranian - ness — than much of Iran's celebrated social - realist cinema.

America is doing more than any other nation to spread the kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for God's ultimate work of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.

Hartshorne also has a deep and abiding conviction «that idealism (here taking Ewing's definition: the belief that reality can be explained in terms of the mind) has more to teach us than most contemporaries realize» (CSPM xiii).

All too frequently in contemporary American society, a sentence of «life» means something far less than «for the remainder of one's time on this earth.»

If we're more interested in starting a contemporary worship service in our congregation than we are in seeking justice in our community, we need to pop our heads out of the water and see where we are in the fast - running current of God's mission.

His intention was to make fun of Edwards and his picture of God as both supremely angry and merciful, But Edwards came off better than the contemporary preacher.

We are impelled again, at the least, to recognize that the complete reality of things is richer and more profound than their immediate, contemporary aspect makes them appear to be.

And of course, part of the difference was rhetorical: Leithart continued to identify «Protestantism» by its most widespread contemporary expressions, and accordingly called for its abolition, while Sanders and Trueman remained puzzled by this odd attempt to define something in terms of its most defective forms, rather than its historic essence.

In this perspective he was following a trail first blazed by a fellow Alexandrian a century and a half earlier, the Jewish philosopher Philo, a contemporary of Jesus who attempted to clothe the Septuagint in amenable patterns from Greek philosophy, particularly Platonism.11 His synthetic effort is echoed throughout the corpus of Clement's writings, which are far less systematic in approach than one would wish; the Stromata («Miscellanies») is less an orderly treatment of theological topics than a series of notes woven into a tapestry whose warp and woof are difficult to discern.12

Thus the «incarnational» counter to contemporary Gnosticism and its ideology of «you are what you say you are» (irrespective, for example, of biology) will be less an argument than a demonstration: living in concord with the moral truths built into the world and into us, which lead to beatitude or happiness.

The contemporary «learning society,» overwhelmed with information, knowledge and entertainment, requires discerning and constructive responses of an even greater order than those of the early church in the sophisticated rhetorical culture of the Roman Empire, or the early modern Western church faced with printing and transformations in scholarship, geographical horizons, sciences, nations and industries.

Readers unused to contemporary trinitarian theology may find this book hard going, though it is more lucid than many examples of the genre.

Altizer is closer than any other contemporary theologian to the first radical of twentieth - century theology: the early Barth of The Epistle to the Romans.

the loss of the fully personal to the imperialism of a single - visioned mindscape, we are led to entertain the possibilities that human life is larger than currently conceived, and that the experience and concept of play might provide the contemporary person with a way into these larger realities.

In fact, the capacity of a contemporary congregation to sustain any unified, sharply defined world view has been more frequently questioned than confirmed in recent studies of church life.

Contemporary practical theology is thus more than the «application» of theological concepts to one social situation or another.

Furthermore, since its ultimate claim to existence is rooted more in the events of the past than in contemporary social problems, it has even a more conservative image than political and economic institutions.

«For those old enough to remember, there were ways in which the Miami of 1992 more closely resembled the Havana of 1958 than did contemporary Havana,» notes Rieff.

The cloistered world of these thoroughly pre-Vatican II nuns, with their rigid rules, harshly penitential disciplines, and permanent, world - denying vows, must seem more alien to contemporary readers than the futuristic realms of most science fiction novels.

Donald notes that Lincoln's contemporaries «attributed prodigies of reading to him, but books were scarce on the frontier and he had to read carefully rather than extensively.

This failure can be illustrated with the same example, for although Marxists on the whole have been less sexist in their attitudes than have psychoanalysts, they appear only a little less deficient when viewed in the light of contemporary feminist consciousness.37 Or, again, use of Marxist sociology by Latin American theologians of liberation has done little to free them from implicit anti-Judaism in their theological formulations.

Rather than have recourse to an unproductive apologetics when faced with contemporary atheism, we ought to concern ourselves with weeding out from Christianity what is not authentic, should even be grateful to Marx's critique of religion for the purifying function which it performs in this way.

St. Paul may have had an understanding of human liberation that is more radical than that of many contemporary feminists.

Rather than speaking of our time as a post-Christian age, the contemporary Christian might more truly say that the Word appears in our history in such a way as to negate its previous expressions.

It is this single fundamental argument rather than the explanations of the five arguments in its terms that is important to us in understanding contemporary Thomist natural theology.

But the feeling about the city that Melville is trying to express runs deeper than the pastoral commonplaces and reform literature of his contemporaries.

I judge that Wesley's support of the conservatives of his day was more like the liberalism of today than like contemporary conservatism.

I certainly did not fail to let the meeting be friendly, I did not treat him any more remissly than all his contemporaries who were in the habit of seeking me out about this time of day....

It is also proper to ask whether the effect of that encounter on their own lives, and through them on their contemporary world, is more consonant with it being genuine than with being an hallucination.

The acclaimed book is written by Eugene Peterson, and puts the original text of scripture into contemporary language and has sold more than 16 million copies.

But it could be the nucleus of a complete neighborhood, one which has a church community at its enter, and the potential to promote growth in an urban rather than suburban sprawl pattern (much as the most beautiful parts of contemporary London grew in the 17th and 18th centuries around small residential - square developments).