Sentences with phrase «vague feeling of»

Whether it be work problems, relationship issues, illness or just a vague feeling of unhappiness or irritability, seeing a therapist can help.

It is a question which feeds into contemporary success stories such as Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare — is there a vague feeling of relief that in their success, art institutions can quietly forget about the ranting and raving «80s?

Moviegoers hoping for something — anything — to take away from «Nostalgia» (other than a vague feeling of dysphoria, tinged with ennui) will not be similarly compensated.

The problem has always been the commitment needed to record a video and that vague feeling of awkwardness.

During the day I've been having a vague feeling of unwell.

Others may have a vague feeling of queasiness, fatigue, or loss of appetite.

There is every indication of a vague feeling of causal relationship with the external world, of some intensity, vaguely defined as to quality, and with some vague definition as to locality.

At this pole of the perceptive process there is a pervasive and vague feeling of the influence of the world upon our being and becoming.

For DuVernay, hope isn't a vague feeling of optimism but something far more practical — d essential.

With primary perception there is a pervasive and vague feeling of the influence of the world upon our being and becoming.

The higher animals have learned to interpret these sense - qualities, thus perceived, as symbols of the actualities in the external world — actualities which are themselves perceived only by vague feelings of their causal agency.

The only real disappointment is the artificial, vague feel of the brake pedal; even after decades of building hybrids, Toyota still struggles to achieve progressive pedal response with regenerative braking systems.

Two sculptures by Donald Judd at the Leo Castelli Gallery clarified for me some vague feelings of physical incompleteness and ideological limitation which his large Whitney retrospective last year had suggested.

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One of the issues I've seen in many startups is that the leader sets unrealistic or vague goals, so employees are a bit confused and feel unmotivated.

Inevitably, a feeling of letdown set in, as officials proved vague on the details and timing.

Have you been feeling a vague — or not so vague — sense of anxiety?

That love is not some vague feeling or looking after people in our community, important though that is; it is by following Christ's teaching, living out as closely as possible the manner of His perfect loving, that we attain heaven: «He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.»

In relation to the vast majority of past events this primal feeling is vague, trivial, and unconscious.

We are unsure of the Gospel ourselves and so we slip and slide around it, and the person doesn't get saved because we were so vague, and we feel depressed because of how horrible we did.

For feelings of very remote actual occasions tend to be «vague, trivial, and submerged» (Whitehead 239).

we are left with only the vague feeling that Stendahl does not approve of such goings on.

If refusal to face squarely the fact of death is found so widely in these days, so also is loss of belief in a continuation of human existence, beyond death, in what used to be called the «after - life» It is indeed true that among conventionally - minded church - people and many others there is a vague feeling that when the body dies the «soul» goes on.

Whitehead would give later in Process and Reality a metaphysical explanation of how we may objectify precisely an individual thing from vague feelings by his description of indicative feelings (PR 260).

From James in particular, Whitehead borrowed the generalized notion of «experience» as pervasive and as constitutive of all entities, characterized chiefly by vague and preconscious feelings of causal connectedness and mutual influence among the neutral entities.

produces percepta which are vague, not to be controlled, heavy with emotion: it produces the sense of derivation from an immediate past, and of passage to an immediate future; a sense of emotional feeling, belonging to oneself in the past, passing into oneself in the present, and passing from oneself in the present towards oneself in the future, a sense of influx of influence from other vaguer presences in the past, localized and yet evading local definition....

But things are different in the case of actual entities: «An actual entity in the actual world of a subject must enter into the concrescence of that subject by some simple causal [i.e., physical] feeling, however vague, trivial, and submerged» (PR 239 / 366; italics in text).

Whitehead, quoting a New Testament saying, expresses it this way:»... the higher intellectual feelings are haunted by the vague insistence of another order, where there is no unrest, no travel, no shipwreck: «There shall be no more sea.»»

The former — religious experience — need not be highly articulated nor even highly conscious of God as God; it may be vague, diffused, and unformed, yet also a deliverance of what it feels like to be dependent upon a reality greater than anything human or natural.

«One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he can not communicate with us, can not reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so and that religion is our own sweet invention» (p. 479).

They seem to be an integral part of the American «way of life» — a vague phrase, but one which does signify something to the feelings of Americans even if hard to analyze in terms and propositions.

Third, the idea of consciousness includes that of unity, implying, in some rather vague sense, the fusion of the totality of the impressions, thoughts and feelings, which make up a person's conscious being, into a single whole.

Without so much as a blink of the eye, Safranski invokes Schleiermacher to transition from a vague «religious feeling» to a discussion of the purported «connection between mythology and the feeling of freedom.»

We have felt a vague sense of uneasiness and guilt; we know we are not necessarily called to the mountain villages of Honduras, but we don't know how to justify our experience of blessing and stability.

But from the outset, the ideology behind Eden's Gate doesn't feel rooted in any tradition beyond vague notions of sin and survivalism.

The way she feels about what she is hearing, what Whitehead calls «the subjective form» of the prehension, is affected by her tiredness and the soreness of some of her muscles as well as by vague and half - conscious hopes and fears.

If we can respectfully acknowledge that a majority of todays» generation of believers are taught into the faith by their parents, we reluctantly must conclude that the theology base of * a lot * of these believers is not upon careful reflection and personal choice upon the fervent divulgence of the Scriptures, but rather a hodge - podge compilation of «feel good» thoughts that have no biblical or moral grounding other than vague references.

So far as religious conceptions were able to touch this reality - feeling, they would be believed in in spite of criticism, even though they might be so vague and remote as to be almost unimaginable, even though they might be such non-entities in point of whatness, as Kant makes the objects of his moral theology to be.

If we think of this subjective aim simply as a conceptual feeling, or even as analogous to an ordinary subjective aim embracing its whole career, we apt to think of it as some very general ideal, necessarily vague in order to be all - inclusive.

Their religion was like a dried flower pressed in a Bible, and often seemed to consist of nothing more than a desire for peaceful feelings, a vague longing to be connected with something that transcends the self and a sense of obligation to be decent to their fellows — all positive stirrings, but hardly the vigorous plant that could flourish in a nurturing religious community.

Perhaps at the level of primary perception human as well as other kinds of occasions already have a causal «awareness» of this pervasive sensitivity and at least a vague sense of being deeply felt themselves.

While common sense develops only a dull, vague, but solid feeling of the infinite reproducibility of this elementary experience, say, feeling the stone under the butt and the butt on the stone, natural science consciously aims at optimization and at an optimized grasp of the persistence and regularity of constellations of events, which satisfy the requirements for stability that things have.

Like few before him, Graham had a knack for tying salvation to emotional need, putting language to that universally felt need of some vague sense of absence.

A disciple of Dr. Bultmann's would no doubt feel that I am travestying his view by substituting my vague figure of the two - sided medal in place of his much more precise existential position.

What I would look for first, to test the hypothesis of intersensory prehension, is straightforward, reliable evidence of a vague awareness of presences (a feeling of feelings in the environment) in the absence of normal sensory input.

I feel like those really good chili recipes, passed down from family members are pretty vague, and a lot of it is just adding to taste.

All the while you will have an uneasy feeling that all is not right and that you have a vague recognition of the faces at the window.....

It is important to note that women often present with atypical symptoms — a vague sense of «feeling unwell,» nausea, and anxiety.

I'd leave the office with my whiny child, bundled up against the weather, feeling a mixture of sheepishness, vague disease, and a worried anticipation of what the future would bring in the history of my child's illness.

Just the same vague old language about «women who have been pregnant before feel it earlier» but no real examples of how MUCH earlier.

There was no chance, it was felt, that the Scottish would vote «Yes» in the vague hope of achieving some sort of devo - max.