Sentences with phrase «totally alien concepts»

Having taken a break you are in the enviable position of having time and space to think through the next phase of your career and find the right job — even though as a mother of two, time and space might sound like totally alien concepts at times!

Particularly I'm interested in those historically greyed gradations between what the Greeks called «persuasion» («pathei» if I remember, though I'm probably wrong) and what became, via the Christian concept of «Truth», «honesty», a totally alien concept to the classical world (for no one was capable of «lieing», then)-- to «persuade», even in the 1300's, with «graphs» would have classed you as a mountebank and a charlatan.

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God is supposedly so far more advanced and totally alien from us to even begin to comprehend, yet believers just take him at his word that he's good, just and loving, the way we understand those concepts.

It's totally alien to our concept of freedom, justice, and values.

It wasn't quite as good as I remembered, and the seven year old was totally confused by the concept of actors playing actors on a TV show who are mistaken for space warriors by aliens and co-opted into leading their race into war, but it was still quite fun (for me).