Sentences with phrase «very old expression»

There's a very old expression in computer science that applies here.

Not exact matches

Some of the older churches that are works of art themselves I can look past, but this was a purely modern building with very little artistic expression.

(For instance, on the very day on which I write this page, the post brings me some aphorisms from a worldly-wise old friend in Heidelberg which may serve as a good contemporaneous expression of Epicureanism: «By the word «happiness» every human being understands something different.

Young skeptics like me long to deconstruct old notions of truth, salvation, faith, and doubt, and in doing so, we have developed ideas that can easily be described as «subtle differences or distinctions in expression, meaning, or response,» or «very slight differences or variation in color or tone.»

By blending rums using very old and rare casks, we have been able to create an expression for 2016 with a luxurious amber glow, full - bodied fruit flavours and a long aftertaste.»

I'm 59 years old, 5» 1 and 110 lbs, I've been wearing leggins for a while now, until the other day, a friend of mine that is very heavy saw me in my leggings and her expression was OMG you look so skinny!

The next page shows an older Masako, stiffly posing inside the family's Japanese home, wearing a kimono and a very unhappy expression on her face.

Considering that Ezekiel (apparently channeling a vitriolic God who's had it up to the back teeth with Jerusalem) references the expression as if it's a very old adage indeed, it would seem that the expression was in common use in the Middle East back in the 6th century B.C - over two and a half millennia ago.

I have a 6.5 yr old Chowbrador (DNA (blood) test determined he's 50 % Chow, 40 % Lab - Beagle, 5 % Min Pin & 5 % other) that looks like an oddly built lab with a very serious expression on his face & Beatle - like sound effects.

If these conventions made paintings that looked very different from the Old Masters, that was because the art of painting, like any other form of human expression or communication, could not survive by simply repeating what had already been done.

These are provocative, labour - intensive works of art that remind us that an old book is not only a reliquary of outdated knowledge, but an ever - evolving act of knowledge - transmission that is not only found in written form, but also found in the very expression of life itself.

Very few of the young gentlemen who «went up,» as the old - fashioned expression had it, went on to earn their livings through the study of Latin or ancient Greek.

In other words, the old expression you get what you pay for is very much pertinent here.