Sentences with phrase «vagueness gives»

The unscientific vagueness gives this poster away as being more about propaganda than about communication of science.

Everlasting's production process remains as frustratingly opaque as its contestants, and it isn't always enough that the vagueness gives Rachel and Quinn a wide - open playing field for their mind games.

Not exact matches

Invited to give a speech in 2009 setting out her vision for Europe's future, she admitted that her vagueness about her intentions was a deliberate strategy, not an accidental oversight.

In Brightman's view, that is always knowledge of the given; for Hartshorne only God can know the given with complete clarity, and the rest of us can not be certain (due to the vagueness of the given to our consciousness) what we know when we reflect upon, imagine, and infer things from the given.

Thus, using the vagueness of the past self as a test case, we can also see that there is a difference of «distinctness» in the way the datum self is given as opposed to other selves.43 Yet, literal participation of the one in the other is maintained, for Hartshorne, since the present self must at least literally participate in its own past self — otherwise, personal identity is problematic, and this threatens personalism with precisely the sort of solipsism Hartshorne indicated from the beginning.

However, while this gives us a vague common denominator which we can all use, by virtue of this same vagueness it isn't much help in saying who Jesus is.

It has an amiable vagueness about it because of the wide range of meanings that have been given to it.

This declaration limits itself, as given its assumptions and method of proceeding it was inevitable that it should, to claims of such vagueness and generality that it would be hard for anyone to disagree about them, but equally hard for anyone to get excited about them — much less to structure his life around them or be prepared to die for them.

This pattern gave Sarah a sense of vagueness, a habit of daydreaming and a difficulty being fully present in her interactions with her husband, despite her deep love for her him and strong desire to start a family.

It's also because we're still willing to give von Trier the benefit of the doubt, expecting the vagueness of Joe's addiction to become more clear in the second part.

To shy away means to give all this brutality the mystery and vagueness it needs in order to continue (same as censoring pictures of coffins and battlefields, etc.), and in doing so, the first film, directed by Gary Ross, felt almost like a betrayal.

So, in the summer of 1962, Leo gave me $ 500 and said he'd try to work me into the season — but it was vague Well, I couldn't take the vagueness.

By the way, John West's hammering on the vagueness of «catastrophe» gives an excellent example of someone in difficulty with the meaning of the word — just the kind of thing I was describing at 22 Oct 2013 at 10:39 AM.

Given the absurd vagueness of this rule, one can only conclude that due process rights are not held in very high regard at UBC; nor is freedom of speech, it would seem, considering the UBC Statement on Respectful Environment for Students, Faculty and Staff purports to proscribe such things as «gossip».