Sentences with phrase «than the novelty of»

We were able to control an Ecobee thermostat, but other than the novelty of that, we didn't find it practical for checking the temperature in another room or tweaking the settings.

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Handmade, this watch is much more than a novelty gift for fans of cold brews.

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.

The classic pinkish novelty blob — let's call it a sliquid; it's not really a solid and not really a liquid — has amused millions of kids and adults the world over for more than six decades.

Apparently fear and surprise are more viral than sadness and trust — the researchers argue that «novelty and... emotional reactions» were responsible for the broader appeal of untrue stories.

The novelty of using social networking to fight Bay Street generated more than just a mention.

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.

This year's tournament was again held at The Ritz - Carlton Golf Club, Orlando, Grande Lakes where a more than full field of 152 golfers enjoyed a unique on - course experience that included foot golf, golf ball cannon and speed play novelty holes, food trucks and on - course entertainment by trick shot specialist Brett Cleverdon followed by a celebration lunch.

We need a functional standard of orthodoxy: one supple enough to do justice to the sorts of nuances Griffiths introduces, but one real enough to help us understand when theological speculation, novelty, and critique undermine rather than enrich the faith of the Church.

It became clear that, for Whitehead to bring his cosmological vision to completion, he needed to posit a source for the becoming of novelty, 3 and he found no better name for that reality than «God.»

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.

Origination of novelty is harder to envisage than mere growth.

The nine benchmarks also accept the contemporary understanding of time, the role of unpredictability (novelty), persuasion as a higher form of power than coercion, and the priority of evolution and change (instability) over equilibrium or stasis.

By itself, however, natural selection provides for no evolutionary advance, for it introduces no novelty, and hence no possibility of anything more than that which already has been.

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.

If a system were simply an «order» without any openness to novelty, it would be frozen into a single identity and would therefore be incapable of anything other than self - duplication.

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.

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.

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.

The «flattening» problem that Bloom worried about was too nervous about a brutish end of history than an infinity of beastly novelties, but we've put so much effort into sanding off the sharp edges of our beastliness that it's no surprise collective naughtiness seems at the same time to be getting safer and more dangerous.

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

We appreciate the human brain more than we do a lump of clay because the brain integrates into an intense unity an incredible complexity, nuance, richness and novelty.

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.

There may be flashes of free thought, but more often than not the novelty derived thereby is not coordinated with the background order.

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

The novelty of eating every meal at a restaurant or room service soon wears off, and the traveler craves nothing more than the taste of a home - cooked meal.

Nevertheless, there is the novelty of it being quick, easy, and less dishes to clean than a typical, large recipe.

Roughly one - quarter of consumers say technology options are important features that factor into their decision to choose a restaurant, underscoring that technology is rapidly becoming an expectation rather than a novelty when dining out (2014 Technology Innovations Consumer Survey, National Restaurant Association).

However, the idea I have for a hot sauce is built more around the novelty of my product name, than the quality of the sauce.

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.

So if I did can it would probably end up as extra «novelty food» rather than actually replacing any of my usual produce wants over the winter.

Those who start off enthusiastically and then lose interest simply enjoy the novelty of food more than those who start more slowly.

I am a bit of an instant gratification kind of girl and I just can't seem to write more than a couple of chapters before the novelty wears off.

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.

The novelty can actually cause a couple to spend those precious baby - free moments together rather than on laptops at opposite ends of the house.

At first, it can be cute to see how much your baby loves «blankie,» but the novelty of it all can wear off quickly when the toy becomes more important than you or other family members.

However, trusting the method, after less than two weeks the novelty wore off and the toys did a great job of providing security and a point of interest that made bedtime attractive.

Of course, as more people use Twitter and its novelty fades, this route may be pinched off, just as it's now harder to reach many reporters via email now than it was when it was a shiny new tool.

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.