Sentences with phrase «very act»

Act 4 begins to bend in on itself, swapping the immediate appeal of Act 3's celestial musical number and self - referential adventure game - within - a-game for obscure experiments in poetry, cinematography, and the (deep breath) very act of seeing itself.

They are self - referential to representation and art making, to both the surface and the mark, and to very act of seeing itself.

No matter how you choose to express that gratitude or what you choose to express gratitude for, the very act of expression can make you a better leader.

The very act of checking email hikes our heart rate and stress level, according to University of California researchers.

I absolutely love experiencing new cultures and even the very act of going from place to place, but the constant interaction and energy needed to communicate can be equally draining.

Even the very act of accepting a summit with Kim before lower - level meetings have played out represents a break with political norms.

The very act of seeking new experiences also happens to be great for your mood, and people who are happy are magnetic and far more interesting to be around than downers.

Plus, the very act of dieting — restricting the amount of calories you take in on a daily basis — unleashes a series of shifts in the body that make it incredibly tough to keep the weight off.

The very act of having to stand up and speak publicly is daunting enough, but add in the pressure to deliver some vital information, give advice, tell a great story or make an audience laugh and the terror really sets in.

The very act of incorporation, after all, requires a framework of public laws to enable it, as do key aspects of modern incorporation such as limited liability.

The very act of decision making can trigger some reluctance in a prospective buyer.

«Expressed variously as «always be shipping» or «fail fast,» the people who promote this approach would have us believe that leadership — indeed, the very act of creation — is achieved by mere momentum alone,» he writes.

The very act of giving your emotional brain a detailed portrait of your end goal also ensures that, even inadvertently, you will take the steps needed to steer yourself toward it.

And while the new, combined company will likely still be run by current popular T - Mobile CEO John Legere, the very act of eliminating one of only four major players in the wireless market will indisputably reduce the incentive to more seriously compete on price, and could help reverse the progress the sector has seen in recent years.

But the very act of getting high - ranking officials together, outside of approved occasions, could now be taken as evidence of a conspiracy.

The very act of building a business remotely can help women entrepreneurs avoid some of the potentially outdated or less useful business models that traditionally - founded companies adhere to, says Alice Hendricks, CEO of

John Newton a captain on a slave ship, transformed by prayer and prayer alone mid ocean in the very act of transporting human cargo.

But the very act of creating a «How To Deconstruct» is necessarily based on ambition?

Ironically, it is religious condemnation that drives the gay person into committing the very acts that are then used to condemn their lifestyle.

As Aquinas said, He is not a highest being... but «ipsum esse subsistens», the very act of being itself.

Nor is it possible for an inauguration to invoke divinity in a religiously neutral way, for the very act of naming divinity as Allah, Father, Mother, Christ, One, or Many is itself sectarian.

This possibility makes the unhappy suggestion that government officials are willing to violate the Constitution in the very act of swearing allegiance to it.

Marriage is a reality authored by God in his very act of creating the human race.

Gardening of life of justice and shalom is the very act of God to dwell with the people of God.

I find people's mindsets are misconstrued by the very act of attending.

In the very act of the incarnation, when God became human, just like us, born a babe, God yielded power.

The very act of using words to convey an idea (in an essay, or a story) displays the image of God, who created the universe through words.

This very act is a blessing for us as we are drawn into the life of the Blessed Trinity and our own lives are conformed little by little to God's purposes, shaped by his grace and guided by his providence.

The very act of trying to prove your faith devalues it.

We have to deal with the meaningless till the last moment, writes Buber in a comment on Franz Kafka, but in the very act of suffering its contradiction we experience an inner meaning.

The very act of recognition withdraws the subject from the object being observed and analysed.

Poets and prophets must name the horror; but the very act of naming stills its power, unveils its darkness, bringing light to darkness itself.

As the old Latin saying has it, solvitur ambulando: it is proved to us and for us in the very act of accepting it and living by it.

Wholly to isolate flesh from Spirit, or light from darkness, or sin from grace, or the sacred from the profane, is to embark upon a path which must inevitably lead to a disintegration of the very act of faith.

It does so not only in the redemptive moment of Christ's death and resurrection but also continuously in the very act of creating the world and allowing it to exist.

This statement, applied to the individual, does not autonomously fix the moment when this event takes place; but every man applies it to himself, not by reflecting on a certain empirical fact, but in the very act of faith and hope itself.

Letting evil slide that might be within a religous organization because it's «The Church» is stupid and evil within the very act of not doing anything.

The very act of living a decent and upright life is in itself a positive factor in maintaining civilised standards.»

The very act of expressing a misunderstanding, feeling or frustration with your spouse can actually create a stronger sense of togetherness that will help resolve the issue.

The problem rather is that the very act of treating prophecy belief historically at all — that is, showing that its main features have cropped up with astonishing regularity for centuries — undermines the assumption that lies at the heart of the system: namely, that the signs of the time are valid because they are the signs of this time and no other.

There is a theoretical knowledge of the content of faith, but it is inseparable from a practical knowledge, a transformation of the knowing self in the very act of knowing.

Indeed, the very act of holding to his resolve — what his critics identify as his stubbornness and arrogance — becomes a way of reassuring himself of his special place in God's plan.