Sentences with phrase «way of speaking»

You know, certain ways of speaking of you know and I would play around with that.

I wouldn't say it was an actual sound inside my head; rather, it was the distinct awareness of a certain way of speaking.

My own way of speaking of this matter is to insist that the doctrines of redemption and creation must be held together.

We can work with you to help you understand what is going on and to find ways of speaking and listening so that arguments don't get out of control.

Partners must develop ways of speaking with each other that won't build resentment.

For ancient people, evidently, this was a natural way of speaking.

But at the same time parrot - like repetition of the older ways of speaking would not be right.

The concrete way of speaking emphasizes the necessity of inner privacy, but the most intense and most personal prayer may be made silently in the midst of a crowd.

This may seem an extreme way of speaking, but the plight of the secular university invites such speech.

This community understands the perfect way of speaking to the fans and gives us a place where we can feel like we genuinely matter and make our voices heard.

Another factor was a public campaign against the concept of a single correct way of speaking.

Years of spending hours of nearly every day within the same building as scores of children have given him a prudent way of speaking and a humble demeanor.

The artist and spokesman is a youthful and energetic 61 - year - old with a measured way of speaking and a poet's gift for metaphor.

How can we free ourselves from this limited way of speaking?

In the beginning of the relationship, when we were on our best behavior, we were probably pretty consistent with kind and gentle ways of speaking to each other.

With the help of a skilled couples therapist, partners can learn new, more effective ways of speaking and listening to one another.

I tend to use funny words, and my husband is always laughing at my old fashion way of speaking.

As usual, it's just a matter of getting used to a certain way of speaking, though.

But we will in faith continue to shape new ways of speaking about the things of God informed by events that spill out of our own histories and self - consciousness.

The phrase «Christian intellectual tradition» is thought by many to be oxymoronic since they have been led to believe (frequently with the encouragement of misguided Christians) that Christianity has to do with faith while the intellectual life has to do with reason, and these are two different ways of speaking about reality that can not speak to one another.

Is there a better way of speaking of God's self - revelation than in the category of being?

It's also why Frog speaks in old style English instead of his rather bland way of speaking from the original version.

In our time of dislocation the church can offer ways of speaking and acting that the dominant society regards as subversive, but without which we can not for long stay human.

He stresses the need to create new ways of speaking which will heighten our sense of human solidarity by increasing our sensitivity to the pain of others and enlarging our sense of «us.»

For many believers, the Holy Spirit seems to play a ghostly role in Christian life and theology: at best the Spirit seems little more than a theological way of speaking about good feelings.

There are certainly other ways of speaking about the daily realities within which knowers come to know; but their concreteness, their «embodied - ness,» must never be lost sight of — something that happens when «experience» sounds more like a concept than an unavoidable part of the human condition.

In England, Bishop Robinson's Honest to God became a best seller, partly because of his frankness in expressing doubts about traditional ways of speaking of God.

The sum of these characteristics is the idiolect — a person's specific, individual way of speaking.

Not just how I found containment in poses but my confidence and way of speaking changed as well.

Like any coming - of - age teen soap opera, much of the film's appeal is in its vaunting of style over substance — coining whole ways of speaking, dressing and posturing for an impressionable generation brought up on Hollywood tropes — but Heathers embraces its style as an essential keystone to filmmaking, recognizing that even the most bloated melodrama can be sold through a well - manicured image.

I can?t say I was very impressed by her, her signature way of speaking got old as hell pretty quick.

Duana has a very Yoda - like way of speaking sometimes.

Wiseau has a strange way of speaking (until very recently, he claimed he was from New Orleans, but he's actually from Europe) and insisted to Sestero that they were the same age (almost certainly false).

Such ideas, therefore, of a kingdom beyond history must be either nonsense or metaphorical ways of speaking of certain aspects of temporal experience.

In this way, Cartwright and others in the EP are indeed attempting to hold elected leaders «accountable,» as Stout demands, but accountable to specifically churchly ways of speaking and acting.

My favorite shorthand way of speaking about what post-critical naivete is with a single line from a Native American storyteller, which I quote in a footnote at the end of Chapter 1 of Meeting Jesus Again for The First Time, so you may be familiar with it.