Sentences with phrase «useful sense of»

There's a useful sense of depth when throwing boomerangs or tennis balls and foreground perspective is used brilliantly whenever a dog decides to come up to the screen and lick the player's face.

In A Common Faith Dewey suggests that organized religion once provided a useful sense of the whole, but that now it has abandoned that task and, instead, attempts to fob off on newly emergent societies the basically irrelevant sense of the whole generated by an earlier society in a different history If this last judgment is harsh, it was harsh because «the religious» was so important to Dewey and because he still hoped for a religiousness capable of setting forth a functional sense of the whole.

Any plan that proposes to recapture one at the expense of the other is not wholly political in the most useful sense of the term.

Many users complained that the decision amounted to a Facebook ripoff and did away with a useful sense of subtlety.

Not exact matches

The platform now had to make sense of the interplay of two voices, and do it quickly enough to allow for useful interventions.

The information they can provide will surely be useful, but if you really want to get a sense of a program, seek out students who are already in it.

In that sense, looking at spending in terms of efficiency is a useful way of assessing what it means to spend 30 % or 40 % of budget revenues on health care.

Before you choose to share an article yourself, Feedly even lets you see how many shares each article has already received, giving you a sense of «social proof» that others have found an article useful.

Even the vast majority of websites, while useful, are effectively advertisements for whoever they belong to (yes, even this one, in a sense).

By doing activities that make them feel useful, employees increase their sense of «time affluence,» the researchers conclude, implying that the source of our perceived time famine isn't really lack of hours but a lack of a sense of purpose and accomplishment.

When we do not know what a policy is meant to accomplish, I find it useful to work backwards and think of potential problems where the proposed policy makes sense as a solution.

This is why the deal makes so much sense: AOL provides the technology to target individuals instead of content, and Verizon the ability to track those individuals — at least the over 100 million customers they already have — at arguably a deeper level than anyone else in digital advertising (for non-Verizon customers, AOL's ad platform is still useful, albeit not as targeted; rates would be commensurately lower).

Depending upon the nature of the equipment, its useful life, and whether or not the intention is to keep it as a long - term asset, an equipment loan could make sense for a small business.

These include a sense of belonging, security and making a useful contribution.

Perhaps the common - sense way to approach this is to accept the possibility that Chilean - style controls (taxes on short - term inflows) may be useful for some countries during the transition, but not too much should be expected of them (see the conclusions on Chile itself, which suggest that the controls managed to lengthen the maturity of the debt, without being able to prevent the exchange rate from appreciating during the phase of capital inflow)(see Edwards (1998)-RRB-.

This is a distorted translation... lots of good information comes from ancient books... it's just that the bible is fictional and any useful information can be found anywhere else since the bible plagiarized any real useful information that's in it... like do unto others as you wish them to do to you... is just ancient common sense and has nothing to do with what any fantasy gods might have said... the bible is a waste of time for the stupids.

It seems to me useful to emphasize that this concern finds support in the work of exegetes who try to make out that Jesus was an advocate of violence, a revolutionary in the current sense.

Most, however, quickly sense the open spirit of the conversation — that they are not being judged and that their answers are in fact useful and interesting — and many grow enthusiastically articulate.

In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»

To me, Wright's approach makes the most sense of 2 Timothy 3:16: «All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.»

We know that Aristotelian physics, though a perfect example of «common sense,» is actually less accurate (and much less useful or powerful) than Newtonian physics.

To this useful image Marian Evans contrasts Dr. Cumming's God, who «instead of sharing and aiding our human sympathies is directly in collision with them; who instead of strengthening the bond between man and man, by encouraging the sense that they are both alike the objects of His love and care, thrusts himself between them and forbids them to feel for each other except as they have relation to Him.»

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

H. Richard Niebuhr's famous metaphor for the minister as «pastoral director, «5 and more recent variations of it, 6 continue to be useful in taking account of the two elements that distinguish the ministry from other professions, namely, the sense of a personal calling to be a prophetic resource to persons and to structures in society plus accountability to an organization that the minister both leads and serves.

For example, talk of coming down from heaven may have been appropriate in a world that conceived the divine habitations as almost literally «above»; it will also be appropriate as a useful metaphorical way of describing the presence among us of that which (again in a symbolic sense) is higher than human experience as such.

Television is perhaps most useful to many people by allowing them to laugh, to get angry, to feel emotions, or even to be bored without feeling a sense of responsibility or a pang of conscience.

Nonetheless, as Frege writes to Husserl, it is sufficient if poetic strings or works of art have a sense, but for scientific work, i.e., to be useful, we must not lack a reference.

It is in this sense» and only this sense» that the stem - cell wars are over: The central cause of battle, the destruction of human embryos, is no longer necessary or even most useful.

Irony, Wallace pointed out, is «almost exclusively negative» — useful, on occasion, for stripping away nonsense, but not for making sense of things.

If systematic theology, however, has a different sense of its experience and public than philosophical theology, and if process thought is to be useful here, it may need to proceed differently than it has thus far.

This perspective was useful in doing justice to many aspects of the personal character and historical role of George Washington; it made less and less sense when confronted with the figures of Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Pretty common sense I would agree, nevertheless a useful dialogue to have, if only to gain understanding of one's position?

This book is about how we as Christians can live the gospel in a meaningful way in a world that has lost all sense of meaning:» In a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most useful thing a Christian can do is to live» (p. 77).

The child's key growth task during this stage is to achieve a sense of «industry» — derived from beginning to acquire the skills which will be useful to him as a man or woman.

Two items from Wiesel's biography, neither of them intellectual or theological in the usual sense of the term, may provide useful illustration.

After all, unless prayer «fits in» and thus both makes sense of and gives sense to that enterprise, it may appear as no more than a peripheral although useful exercise in the life of Christian discipleship.

In both cases psychicalistic ideas were useful in arriving at some empirical facts, for example, about the composite nature of «loudness» as a variable of sense experience (Hartshorne 1934, pp. 61 - 72), or the biological significance of «highly developed» bird song, or of contrast and uncertainty in the sequence of songs or phrases (Hartshorne 1973, pp. 106 - 112, 117f, 119 - 136, 151 - 188).

Some individuals find it necessary to modify or discard the ancient confessions of belief, while the Church as a whole continues to be able to assert them in their original form and in the sense in which they were first drawn up; or, the majority may gradually abandon them while certain individuals continue to find them useful and to cherish them.

Our age of irony has its dangers — irony can be useful for stripping away nonsense, but not for making sense of things.

Reductionism simply does what it says it is going to do, namely it reduces, from the experienced event to an intellectually constructed object, which is useful in making sense out of the particular aspect of the event we are interested in at the time.

Inadequate as they are, subject to modification from time to time, needing correction and supplementation, our various human languages (verbal and pictorial, aural or graphic) are both necessary for us and useful to us; they help to make sense of, and they help to give sense to, the richness of experience and the given - ness of the world as we observe and grasp it.

In Chapter 1 I have attempted to summarize the main points of Berger's argument, showing how it provides a useful way of understanding the extent to which sacred and nonsacred realities alike are constructed collectively with symbols; I then suggest some features of religion in contemporary society that seem to make sense in these terms.

In view of these tendencies to go back to the «sources» to justify certain contemporary positions, it may be useful to examine what the early thinking on «development» was, noting, of course, that the term «development» in the sense in which it is currently used is of relatively recent origin.

«Alcohol addict» is roughly synonymous with «alcoholic» (Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon types) and is useful to keep in mind, in that it conveys a sense of the intensity of the compulsion involved.

Any chili cook can look up heat levels of the various chiles and make a guestimate about the amount of any certain variety to use in a recipe, but such information will only be useful in a general sense.

We all think and organize our kitchens differently, and it's useful to see how each one of us makes sense of the myriad of options.

Hugh's dry sense of humor kept us in stitches while we soaked up cooking techniques that are quite useful.

While a bit of patience can be useful in football, Arsenal should have sensed the chance to really go for the jugular against Everton, but their hesitancy allowed the hosts back into the game, wth Seamus Coleman heading in the equaliser just before half - time.

With the Bible story videos for kids found in these channels, raising them with a strong sense of faith and teaching them important lessons in life just got easier with the help of these useful videos.

This product is very useful for young buys because it is not only leading them into the success of potty training but it also gives sense of accomplishment and responsibility.