Sentences with phrase «than the magic of»

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Magic Leap, one of the most hyped yet mysterious players in the nascent augmented reality scene, has pulled in more than half a billion dollars in a Series D equity round.

While the video of Magic Leap's headset showcases casual uses — like a quirky robot hiding under a desk, or a projection of the galaxy in motion in mid-air — the Florida - based company sees its mission as nothing less than creating a visual operating system for real life.

In essence, spending a lot of time with your kids while also trusting them to make choices for themselves (rather than ruling every aspect of their lives with rules) seems to be the magic formula for well - adjusted offspring.

In some cases, the stock is trading for less than the $ 23 per share it was valued at during Magic Leap's last round of funding in February 2016.

But others, like Beyoncé — who received a personalized «mermaid» Magic Leap demo, which the team created on short notice, and was bored by it — were more of a reflection of Abovitz's desire to connect with celebrities than anything directly related to the company's business, former employees said.

The packs were described to Business Insider as «pretty bulky,» or about the size of a soda can, and larger than the patent drawings Magic Leap has included in filings.

The seat of Cassia County is the second largest city in the Magic Valley and has more than 9,300 residents.

So it will take more than a celebrity board of directors (Mary Meeker, Larry Summers, former Brown University president Ruth Simmons and NBA legend Magic Johnson to name a few) to convince Wall Street that Square is worth buying.

If we were to substitute EBIT / TEV for the P / B, P / E, price - to - dividends, P / S, P / whatever, we'd have seen slightly better performance than the Magic Formula provided, but you might have been out of the game somewhere between 1997 to 2001.

The biggest advantage of investing sooner rather than later is the magic of compounding returns.

You said, «But if God does exist, then His actions don't require magic, any more than do the actions of anyone else.»

But if God does exist, then His actions don't require magic, any more than do the actions of anyone else.

What we have are two religions more similar in their bizarre acceptance of magic as reality than different in their preffered magical components.

If a Bible verse (or discovery) is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical or metaphorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is an ancient cultural anomaly; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.

«The chanciness is part of the lasting magic of gay life,» writes Browning, «a sort of radical plot twist that characterizes queer life and sets aside so many conventions of social judgment, class, race, and attitude, supplanting them with a direct and naive faith that bonds of great value can be forged on nothing more than instinct....

Even if the current theory of evolution turns out to not be 100 % correct, it is a FAR better assumption than that some Beard Man or Zeus or whatever made us out of magic dust or something.

If a Bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either; (i) taken out of context; (ii) symbolic, allegorical or otherwise means something other than it says; (iii) referring to another verse somewhere else that rectifies the error; (iv) a translation or copyist's error; (v) a mystery of God not discernible by we mere humans; or (vi) just plain magic.

In his acclaimed Narnia series, C.S. Lewis illustrated the Gospel as a magic deeper than the Deep Magic, from before the dawn of magic deeper than the Deep Magic, from before the dawn of Magic, from before the dawn of time.

The most disingenuous aspect of creationism is that is alleges evidentiary problems with evolution (generally, nothing more than arguments of incredulity based in arguments of ignorance), but then invariably requires invocation of magic to patch up their «legitimate alternative.»

Yeah, cause JohnR thinks his flavor of magic is better than the Muslim or Mormon version.

If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is a translation error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernable by humans; or is just magic.

If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is an ancient cultural anomaly; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.)

By the same token, we can no more imagine Cioran eating McKenna's magic mushrooms than sharing the latter's enthusiasm for the «ambient music» of the international youth culture - which might only drive him to one of his meditations on suicide that he has found to be «almost as liberating as the act itself.»

Some might see glaring faults from a guy named «Attack of the 50 Foot Magic Underwear» who seems to think he has the facts on his side, when in reality he is just as small - minded and un-educated as the people he professes to be better than.

it's a slightly different kind of magic than organized religion, but at the end of the day it's just superst.ition and fairy dust.

I believe in the power of the blood of Jesus but now this leaves me afraid to admit it, for I'm already pegged as superstitious and into magic — seems no different than the boogyman stories my once conservative church tried to lay on me, that my protection is in their oversight, that if I leave them my life would be destroyed, and more — we must be careful in our ernest seeking after truth that we don't become what we have despised and that we don't put on others our perspectives and understandings.

, rather than accuse the person of questioning God, or rather than get angry and storm off in a huff, or rather than tell them to just go read the Bible, the best way to respond is to say these magic words:

And, where it works its sublimest magic, our culture of empty spectacle can so stupefy the intellect as to blind it to its own disquiet, and induce a spiritual torpor more deplorable than mere despair.

If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernable by humans; or is just plain magic.

You likely deny evolution and global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating with some sky - god and turning grocery store bread and wine into flesh and blood.

Post-critical naivete is the ability to hear the Christmas stories once again as true stories, even though you're pretty sure that Jesus was born in Nazareth and not in Bethlehem, even as you're pretty sure that the magic star and the wise men themselves come from an exegesis of Isaiah 60, rather than reflecting historical memory.

That in no way implies that some kind of intelligent being created it from magic any more than a drop of water condensing out of a cloud implies someone crying in the sky.

Sigmund, who is strongly critical of liberationists» rejections of capitalism, also takes Novak to task for trusting to «the magic of the market» and for being «no more willing to engage in criticism of capitalism than liberation theologians are of socialism.»

The bible is no more proof of Christ than Harry Potter is proof of magic wands.

Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe.

Isn't that like someone who doesn't understand rocket science assuming that rockets fly by magic, or people ignorant of modern medicine believing that illnesses come from demonic possession rather than germs?

I'm sure you are much smarter than Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, John Adams, John Payne, Ghandi, ML King Jr., Maimonides, etc., etc., etc., — all of whom believed in a magic man in the sky.

If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.»

From the article, it appears that the practices of this group appear to be more centered on magic, the otherworldly and fantastic, and for all practical purposes «worshipping» snakes than they do any deity; unless, for these folks, snakes ARE their deity.

There is no magic or specialness to the present sanctified Hebrew anthology than to other anthologies: be it the Qu» ran, The Mahabharata, The Writings of Chuang Tsu, The Panchatantra and many many more ancient pieces of literature.

Einstein's use of the word doesn't mean that he bought into any supernatural power behind nature any more than the ti.tle of Dawkins» latest book, The Magic of Reality, means that he now believes in mMagic of Reality, means that he now believes in magicmagic.

I'm a recovering pastor who still speaks in tongues but I have to agree that people often relate to the gifts of the Holy Spirit with more of a superstitious magic mentality than one of faith and submission.

Q. 2 You are only capable of believing something as patently absurd as the entire Universe beginning less than 10,000 years ago with one man, one woman and a magic talking snake if you are influenced by:

No one has grasped the magic of Dostoevsky's novels better than the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin.

- If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.

Why should a tale of a man living in the digestive tract of an aquatic creature for three days and exiting unscathed be thought of as more valid than the story of a man who translated ancient writing with magic seer stones?

Ficino, with his «natural magic Paracelsus for all his bombast, Giordano Bruno in spite of his «Egyptian» fantasies, did more to advance the concept of the investigation of a regular «Nature» than many a rational, sensible, Aristotelian scholar who laughed at their absurdities or shrank from their shocking conclusions.

Many Christians (I am one of them) may feel nostalgic for a culture that is more God - oriented than ours, but this religious nostalgia must not be allowed to fly us on a magic carpet to a mystical fata morgana.

It may not amount to a metaphysics in the fullest sense, since strictly speaking it possesses no rational content — it is, after all, a belief that all things rest upon something like an original moment of magic — but it is certainly far more than the mere absence of faith.

I can find more living people who can give eyewitness testimony to voodoo magic actually working than all the witnesses of Jesus in the bible.