Sentences with word «vicissitudes»

But it ought to be clear that the sermon, though the primary channel, is not the only one, and unless the sermon is supplemented by discussion groups, forums, directed reading, and pastoral counseling in the intimate and personal vicissitudes of life, the sermon is apt for the most part to fall on unresponsive ears.

He settles for the low register of the highly articulate, frequently quoting the Bard while showing off his V for vocabulary, with predictable emphasis on such polysyllabic entries as vicissitude, vivisection and veracity.

Also, the flexibility to switch between funds lets you leverage favourable market conditions while also offering the necessary protection from market vicissitudes.

Through many vicissitudes the majority in Scotland adhered to the Reformed faith, and the Church of Scotland became Presbyterian.

In his forthcoming essay on Mario Merz's Igloo (1971), Matt Jolly explicates the political vicissitudes of the Arte Povera artist's porous, hemispherical structure that hovers somewhere between sculpture and habitable architecture within the white cube, pointing toward more strident forms of institutional critique following the social upheaval of the late 1960s.

By exploiting the normal vicissitudes of waking, sleeping and dreaming states, we are now beginning to explore how consciousness is expressed and controlled.

After adolescence, when one might pray for clearer skin and curlier hair, most religious people do not expect their lives will be longer or freer of physical vicissitudes because they meditate on the teachings of the prophets or follow the way of the cross.

Cells can respond to a host of environmental vicissitudes such as changes in nutrients, bursts of hormones, or encroaching neighbors, for instance.

Ever notice how easily you can make someone Law Vicissitudes: When choosing my degree, I was young, naive and full of false expectations.

As such, a flexible system can take into account vicissitudes not directly related to immediate grid electricity needs.

Faux's pictures look like younger, more liquid cousins of Jean Dubuffet and Jean - Michel Basquiat, fluctuating with greater vicissitude between abstraction and representation than Lee's work.

The administration's solutions include strengthening the progressive tax code, as well as creating new programs that insulate workers from the increasing vicissitudes of the economy.

It's the power to rise above, or rather live through life's various vicissitudes, by honestly examining yourself and your feelings, which makes our music a lifeline for those in need.

Life's inevitable vicissitudes, at every developmental stage from childhood to old age, can test our self - image and produce self - doubt.

But in another sense — a more important sense, it seems — they all were writing for Toni Morrison and for me and for anyone else who, in the unfathomable vicissitudes of time, picked up their books.

Yet it is a lesson always worth revisiting — and perhaps more urgent than ever, given the Church's current vicissitudes.

Those, on the other hand, who say that they are in despair are generally such as have a nature so much more profound that they must become conscious of themselves as spirit, or such as by the hard vicissitudes of life and its dreadful decisions have been helped to become conscious of themselves as spirit — either one or the other, for rare is the man who truly is free from despair.

But it does mean I should be making plans because the winds of life's vicissitudes howl ever more forcefully as we age.

However, Newton or no, Nietzsche is mainly concerned with the worldly vicissitudes of the spirit of revenge and its possible overcoming and is thus essentially animated by historical interests.

If God's activity is not readily apparent within the present Vicissitudes of good and evil, that is because his hand is now stayed, but if God has the power to actualize the good unambiguously, then his goodness requires that he do so, and that right early.

In response to the day - to - day vicissitudes of life it can be unrealistic, callous, and contrived.

In it is rooted also their trust in God through the worst vicissitudes of their struggle against nature, against their enemies, against strange gods that competed with Yahweh for their loyalty.

The list of presidents indicates the partisan vicissitudes of our national politics, while the cultural references suggest a constant trend in Peter's thought, with some cross-currents.

While many of the questions we have been dealing with so far occur when we experience suffering, confusion, despair or simply the unexpected vicissitudes of life, this question can arise, and probably most often does, in the midst of life's ordinary routine.

When we recognize the original point as that of the contrast between the handful of seed and the bushels of harvest, and when we set the parable finally in the context of the proclamation of God acting as king in the experience of men confronted by the message and ministry of Jesus, what is the significance of a story about a Palestinian peasant who sows handfuls of seed and, despite all the agricultural vicissitudes of that time and place, gathers in bushels of harvest?

Yeah, I guess these athletes are — but not when they're seeking comfort, not when they're using their animals to insulate themselves from the harsh vicissitudes of their sports, not when they're talking the way Michael Cage of the Cleveland Cavaliers talks about his Rottweiler Bruno: «Bruno's like a psychologist.

Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Dr. Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, who has been assuring us for years that our economy is well run and is in good shape despite international vicissitudes, is now singing a different tune.

This meditation gives the practitioners command of themselves beyond the minds vicissitude «s.

As directed and co-written (with Jim Taylor) by Payne, «Election» is a tart study in teacher - student relations, adolescent pecking orders and the nasty vicissitudes of living in a world of haves and have - nots.

Their intellectual debates and emotional vicissitudes as well as their growing depth of feeling and personal peril are handled with subtlety and tenderness.

Jacques Demy's film, more than The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, elevates the banal vicissitudes of lives spent dreaming.

Hale's moving, winsome graphic memoir, dynamically illustrated in Pham's swooping, richly hued artwork, gets straight to the heart of the rocky vicissitudes of childhood friendships.

that for two adolescents, Christine and David handled the typical vicissitudes of young love very well.

In the wake of Marlon James's Man Booker Prize — winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Augustown - set in the backlands of Jamaica - is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth.

Although the statement in the petition might be short, I believe you can research out of your curiosity why self - publishing must be recognized as a viable and profitable platform for authors rather than insignificant vicissitudes in publishing.

While the short - term vicissitudes of the market are based purely on investor sentiment, dividends are doled out based on actual business prospects.

Volatility returned with a vengeance... virtually evaporating vaults of value investors had ventured against the VIX and vexing voyeurs not envisioning vicissitude.

This material vicissitude is not necessarily unwelcome for de la Mora, rather by altering the circumstances of them; he opens them up to new interpretations and responsibilities.

Image: Jason deCAIRES TAYLOR Vicissitudes 2011 (detail) installation view: depth 5m Grenada, West Indies Courtesy of the artist

The subject is not time itself, but rather the ever - changing vicissitudes of artistic practice both internal to an artist and as conceived by a viewer as time passes.

Rosenberg successfully argued that their intensely physical gestures and primal connection to subconscious vicissitudes simultaneously expressed individuality and universal humanity.

The problem arises, that whatever the picky vicissitudes of the MMTS sensor, it is the CRS trends, especially Tmax, that is the wonk - donk here.

«Protection of reputation should be declared a stand - alone constitutional right under section 7 of the Charter, subject to the same vicissitudes as freedom of expression, namely, the further removed from its core value, the less worthy of protection,» states Timothy Danson, lead counsel for the doctor, in written submissions filed with the Court of Appeal.

The whole rationale for the judge appointment process not being subject to elections is to ensure their independence and inoculate them from being pressured by momentary prevailing vicissitudes.

In some jurisdictions, plaintiffs can also point to mental anguish and other medical vicissitudes.