Sentences with phrase «thing by contrast»

I would describe it as a «foil,» a thing that enhances or sets off another thing by contrast.

Not exact matches

Gould, by contrast, created a thing of beauty by reinterpreting the baroque work of a German composer who was widely seen as a touch old - fashioned, even by his contemporaries.

South of the border, by contrast, the White House seems to be undecided about whether or not ramping up LNG exports is a good thing.

The new - product launch, by contrast, is less of a sure thing, as the fine - art world isn't looking for a new transportation case — not even a bombproof one.

By contrast, its GPI performance declined over the same period as the booming province experienced growing wealth disparity, increased household debt, more greenhouse gas emissions and a spike in problem gambling, among other things.

By contrast, creative and critical thinking are enriched by mind wandering, by rest, and by sleep: things you do best on your owBy contrast, creative and critical thinking are enriched by mind wandering, by rest, and by sleep: things you do best on your owby mind wandering, by rest, and by sleep: things you do best on your owby rest, and by sleep: things you do best on your owby sleep: things you do best on your own.

The worst thing a man could be accused of being is feminine, since femininity is, in contrast, just another word for weak, passive, and fit to be dominated by other men.

By contrast, most manufacturers operate in a low - growth environment where they must do «a million things a little better» to excel, such as reduce scrap rates and improve plant productivity.

By contrast, the one thing every item in Hillary Clinton's agenda has in common is that it takes jobs and opportunities from African American workers.

But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria

The prospect of discerning an essence of experience in the bewildering mass of disparate things termed experience seems dismayingly remote by contrast with the direct access to the essence of experience which an intuitive and immediate grasp of one's experience would seem to offer.

Prophecy illuminates the past, present, and future by employing story and poetry to bring into sharp contrast the way things are with the way things should be with, the ways of power - hungry people with the ways of a loving God, the path of cruelty and injustice with the path of righteousness, the kingdoms of this world with the coming Kingdom of God.

In contrast, Caldecott states in the first line of his preface: «The book is about Tolkien's spirituality, by which I mean his religious awareness and experience, the things he believed about life and death and ultimate truth» (p xi).

AA, in contrast, immediately reduces the alcoholic's guilt - load by providing him with two things: group acceptance and the sickness conception of alcoholism.

Whitehead's view, in contrast, does justice to the strict demands of the concept of identity: two things are only identical when they are exactly the same.7 A person at two different moments of time is not the identical person; he or she should therefore be understood as composed of many different occasions, and as «one person» only by extrapolation.

In contrast, because the things I said are supported by scripture, that does indeed make those things a FACT.

The differences between the kinds of things in nature then go back to the different contrasts, repetitions, divisions, or modes of integration involved in the chains of prehensions by which actual occasions make up societies with different defining characteristics.

By «object» here I do not mean a mere thing in contrast to a person, but rather an intentional or epistemological object, which can be either personal or impersonal.

The future directed view, by contrast, is that revelation about God and religious truth is a continuing thing and, in fact, a lot more of it is ahead of us than is behind us.

True sensualism, by contrast, is a longing for real intimacy with the world of sensible things.

The more the present day is marked by noise — deafening noise — about ephemera, the more Benedict's silence about eternal things becomes profound in contrast.

Not that we may thereby swamp the thing in the wholesale condemnation which we pass on its inferior congeners, but rather that we may by contrast ascertain the more precisely in what its merits consist, by learning at the same time to what particular dangers of corruption it may also be exposed.

According to Roger Ames (NAT 117), an «aesthetic order» is a paradigm that: (1) proposes plurality as prior to unity and disjunction to conjunction, so that all particulars possess real and unique individuality; (2) focuses on the unique perspective of concrete particulars as the source of emergent harmony and unity in all interrelationships; (3) entails movement away from any universal characteristic to concrete particular detail; (4) apprehends movement and change in the natural order as a processive act of «disclosure» — and hence describable in qualitative language; (5) perceives that nothing is predetermined by preassigned principles, so that creativity is apprehended in the natural order, in contrast to being determined by God or chance; and (6) understands «rightness» to mean the degree to which a thing or event expresses, in its emergence toward novelty as this exists in tension with the unity of nature, an aesthetically pleasing order.

We seek (to borrow a line of thought from Kierkegaard) to make things easier; Lewis always seemed, by contrast, to be determined (like Kierkegaard himself to offer as his contribution to make things harder — or, at least (to be fair) not to soft - peddle or back away from the difficulties that Whitehead's thought presented.

By contrast, most theologies proceed by reflection on what is regarded to be a general character of thingBy contrast, most theologies proceed by reflection on what is regarded to be a general character of thingby reflection on what is regarded to be a general character of things.

By contrast, «to understand» (God or anything else) has been analyzed here in a way that excludes «essentialist» implications by insisting that to understand is itself not some one thing, but rather an indefinitely large number of capacities and abilitieBy contrast, «to understand» (God or anything else) has been analyzed here in a way that excludes «essentialist» implications by insisting that to understand is itself not some one thing, but rather an indefinitely large number of capacities and abilitieby insisting that to understand is itself not some one thing, but rather an indefinitely large number of capacities and abilities.

Generally put, contrast occurs when two things not fitting together according to their own internal principles are fitted together by the special context of the experiencer, by the subjective form that experiences them together.

By contrast, politics is seen as dirty, as concerned with «worldly» things, unworthy and unholy things, things which should not be allowed to pollute the Gospel and the Church.

He designates this process concrescence,» in explicit contrast to «transition»: «The creativity in virtue of which any relative complete actual world is, by the nature of things, the datum for a new concrescence is termed «transition»» (ibid).

By contrast this book urges that the overarching end or goal of theological schooling is to understand God; and «to understand» is to come to have certain conceptual capacities, habitus, that is, dispositions and competencies to act, that enable us to apprehend God and refer all things including ourselves to God.

I am so intrigued by the contrasting textures in this cake and I love black sesame things!

The 24 - year - old is also now seven games without a goal, which only adds to the feeling that he's someone who thrives off the confidence that comes from scoring streaks — and, by contrast, suffers when things get tough.

One thing that was a bit tough to come by in the Distillery District is a lot of contrasting colour — especially on a cloudy day.

My lactation consultant, in contrast, helped me strategize how to deal with the problem, but also very swiftly put things in perspective by saying: «I had to supplement with my second child.

By contrast, complex or closed - ended toys include most electronics, which deliver a specific result when pushing a button; and rigid plastic talking dolls with fixed expressions and building sets that can only be put together to create one thing.

In stark contrast, name one thing that the Labour movement has achieved without having to fight for it by way of direct action?

The UK, by contrast, has been contradicting itself at every turn - to the point of surprising Germans, in the sense that they tend to view the British as pragmatics who get things done.

I expect you could make a better case by showing the things the government choose not bar, and contrasting them with the things they did bar.

The nice thing about your column, by contrast, is that it's quite simple and it makes it very easy to see where you're coming from.

In 2004, the Howard Dean campaign made electoral history by harnessing the power of the internet to raise more than any other Democratic contender: more than $ 25m raised, largely in small - money donations averaging $ 80 — a marked contrast to the usual way of doing things, which involves raising titanic sums from rich people whom you then owe a lot of favours to, whether or not you take office.

At the time, it was part of a civil rights agenda being set by the then Labour opposition, which included such things as the Human Right Act, and a (failed) «Ethical Foreign Policy» and was in stark contrast to the authoritarian approach of the then Conservative Government; Michael Howard's support for ID cards and Ken Clarke using PII Cetificates in the Matrix Churchill case spring to mind.

Rudd, by contrast, was last week forced to deny suggestions she was still secretly in favour of keeping things pretty much as they are.

It went down for young people late in the 1990s and then went back up a little bit as a general population figure; so that you have a tremendously important contrast between steady rates of illegal drug use as measured by drug overdose death rates, as measured by urines of arrested people, emergency room mentions, all kinds of things.

By contrast, bacteria rely mainly on diffusion to move things around the cell.

Doyle, by contrast, insists that his analyses draw from the gritty details of how things actually work.

Bacteriophages, by contrast, were mysterious, quasi-living things that scientists still barely understood.

So Sandia borrowed and refined a technique being studied by the medical field, X-ray phase contrast imaging, to look inside the softer side of things without taking them apart.

This process stands in stark contrast to how industry accomplishes the same thing, by relying on free - floating enzyme mixtures to break down biomass.

In contrast, PRISM, which is designed to refuel every 12 to 24 months, has primarily been focused on closing the fuel cycle by, among other things, consuming transuranics.

One thing I couldn't get over all day long though was the loveliness of the striped skirt, which was enhanced by the contrasting solid color bodice.