Sentences with phrase «usual sense»

It can be made plausible if the more usual senses of truth can be shown to follow from it.

The Behemoth's turn - based strategy game carries the studio's usual sense of humor and a fun Pokémon - style «catch»em all» twist.

While no Christian disagrees with these efforts, some Catholic, Orthodox, liberationist and ecumenical Christians tend to reject these emphases because they fail to evoke direct social action in the more usual sense.

As physics Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek notes, however, Einstein's theory is «not «simple» in the usual sense of the word.»

He was a witch - hunter drunk on his own power (as well as drunk in the usual sense of the term).

To the Hindu objection that religion could not be the basis of separate nationhood the Muslim League replied that Islam is not a religion in the usual sense of the word but it is at the same time a religion and a social order with a distinct culture of its own.

No one argument formulated from any set of premises can constitute a proof of the existence of God in the usual sense.

While the clergy staff person represents the religious dimension of living, he is not a pastor in the usual sense of the word.

Science in the usual sense does not deal adequately with the factor of coded sequence; it does not often even advert to it, though the use of computer models is beginning to enhance our understanding of the many possible patterns of information at every level of matter and life.

To say that the general backgrounds, the local color, the atmosphere of the environment, and even the existence of the patriarchs — to say that this is to the best of our knowledge true is not, on the other hand, to say that the stories are, in the usual sense of the word, history.

Creative action, we reiterate, is not limited to works of art in the usual sense Any subject or endeavor may be regarded as beautiful if its definition is broad enough.

Although temporal language is often used about actual entities in PR, it is not intended in its usual sense.

Liberal education — in contrast to vocational education, in the usual sense of that term — is fundamental in that it is concerned with the ends of all living, toward which both labor and leisure are aimed.

This awareness can not be objectified or known in the usual sense, and various religious traditions present varying descriptions of it.

Whenever we use a word, there are three possibilities: (1) we use it in its usual sense, the meaning you would find in a dictionary; or (2) we use it in a way that is an analogy to its normal sense, an analogy that is clearly understood; or (3) we use it in a way that has no meaning at all, or — what is the same to everyone else — we use it in a sense that is known only to us.

To say that God knows what we are doing is to use the word «know» in its usual sense: God is cognizant of what we are doing, through whatever processes God (as opposed to you and me) comes to know such things.

The 2010 campaign was also highly personalized, although not in the usual sense of focusing mainly on the President's character attributes, as was the case in the Clinton «impeachment» mid-term election of 1998.

Here was true ecumenism: not ecumenism in the usual sense of reducing things to the lowest common denominator, but rather an open, frank, discussion about our differences and commonalities.

The ideal of moderation was not more» moral in our usual sense than was heroism.

Excellence was not moral in any usual sense of that term.

One is precisely this «answering back» or response in the usual sense; another, which in common usage becomes «responsibility,» is our human accountability for what we do (or fail to do) in making just such a response.

As to what he did say — that is, as to his positive teaching about the will of God — it seems likely that although it was related closely to his thinking about the coming kingdom, it was not in the usual sense eschatologically conditioned; indeed, quite the contrary.

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

Communication in the usual sense requires the use of objective signs or symbols and a medium through which the transfer of information proceeds.

At least in the instance of the living cell, Whitehead believed that the constitutive entities are not all physical in the usual sense.

In the usual sense of the term, a human community is a group of people living together on the basis of some principles of order.

It is not in the usual sense an abstraction, (At times Whitehead makes statements that seem to imply that creativity is an abstraction [e.g., PR 30.]

In the case of the descriptive laws, there is no question of «obedience» in the usual sense.

The norm should be that this trade should be free, not in the usual sense of «free» trade, which means that corporations are free from responsibility to communities, but in the sense that each community is free to engage in trade or not.

This isn't so much a coloring book in the usual sense as simply a book of reproducible coloring pages, which feature intricate stained - glass - effect images of saints for every month of the....

This isn't so much a coloring book in the usual sense as simply a book of reproducible coloring pages, which feature intricate stained - glass - effect images of saints for every month of the year.

So long as we speak of an ethic of Jesus in the usual sense, we can not understand how the teacher of a system of ethics can at the same time preach the imminent end of everything in the world.

This singularity is not understood as having a physical significance in the usual sense, but it is convenient to quote times measured «since the Big Bang» even though they do not correspond to a physically measurable time.

I don't mean that in quite the usual sense, of course — you've been doing a fine job yourselves, without any help from us, of turning out fatherless children.

This confronting of the parables with existential questions is not allegorical interpretation — at least not in the usual sense, if one agrees with Bultmann's view that presuppositionless criticism is impossible in that one must always approach a text with some kind of question and preunderstanding.

In 1917, in an informal lecture, Whitehead offered the suggestion that aesthetic appreciation is central to education («Aesthetics, but not in the usual sense»).

Not in the usual sense since this appreciation was to take in the «wonder» of London's harbors, warehouses, and places of trade.

I think he's half right: Intelligent Design is not science, at least not in the usual sense, but neither is it religion.

They are, therefore, to be judged not simply by standards of truth in the usual sense, but by much broader criteria of qualitative worth.