Sentences with phrase «very obscure ways»

Unfortunately, the book also fell very short in terms of readability, as it referenced the first book in very obscure ways that left the reader wondering what had happened in book one.

This is a very obscure way to use language.

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On the face of it Santayana rejects all three of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he makes no very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent nature of an object as a matter of the individual eternal essence which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form as at least a virtually inevitable way of expressing the obscure manner in which one state of things takes over from another (see RB 278 - 284).

Exorcizing the concept «God» from the system leaves me in a stance very similar to that of Paul van Buren, who holds that the essence of Christianity is an ethical message about how to live a life and that «God» talk is a dated, misleading, unhelpful, obscure way of saying what Christianity wants to say about what it is to be a man and to live a moral life.

Oddly enough, Augustine was writing about the mysteries found within the book of Genesis, when he said, «in matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received.

«In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received.

Otherwise, the Bible becomes the prisoner of what was once believed to be scientifically true: «In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received.

«In mattes that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received.

«The reality of the city's overall legal position — meaning the need of the city to defend our legal prerogatives in all sorts of cases in very narrow, obscure legal ways — makes people think it's a policy matter.

Located very close (in astronomical terms) to the Milky Way, this sweeping spiral galaxy would be among the brightest in the sky were it not for its dust - obscured location.

I believe very firmly that those of us who have the enormous privilege to actually participate in this have an obligation to share this experience, to the greatest extent that we can, with the people who have made it possible — and to do so in a way that is not heavily laden with scientific jargon and not obscure and difficult to comprehend.

«The biggest challenge is that this weak radiation from the early universe is obscured by the radio emission from our own Milky Way galaxy, which is about a million times brighter than the signal itself, so you have to have very carefully calibrated data to see it,» said Hallinan.

It is a very obscured galaxy which lies twenty degrees to the south of the group on the other side of the Milky Way.

In addition, Mr. Anonymous and Mr. Seid match up in at least three ways that are unlikely to be coincidental: the use of the obscure «Donors Trust» vehicle to mask his identity, the insistence on being referred to internally only as «the Anonymous Donor», and the very recent accession of known Seid deputy Chuck Lang to the board of the Heartland Institute.

She is clearly the center of Pakula's aesthetic; I found his mise - en - scene to be something of a representation of Bree herself, enigmatic and obscured but in some ways very forthcoming.

Prothero's point, aided by cogent summaries of the world's major diaspora religions, is that while there is some overlap about goodness and an ideal world, there are specific reasons why religions emerged the way they did for very different purposes (his sports analogy is a good one — most sports have a score - keeping system, but runs are very different than goals or crossing a finish line), obscuring the real and often hostile fissures between them.

Let's hope the single issue of CO2 doesn't obscure the very serious threats that do more than just promise to rise coastal sea levels, which by the way, would be changing as they have throughout the long history of the planet anyway; a presumed future history that our technological civilization hopes to experience for some time to come.