Sentences with phrase «ways of speaking»

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

To understand Aboriginal ways of speaking English leads to better understanding Aboriginal identity, a better engagement in intercultural communication, and learning about the complexities of how English is used by and with Aboriginal people in the legal process.

Samsung says that deep learning should allow Bixby to improve over time as it begins to recognize users» preferences and ways of speaking.

The Echo will recognize various other ways of speaking the same command, such as «Alexa, dim the Kitchen lights to 20 percent,» or even «Alexa, Kitchen lights 80 percent.»

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

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.

Harsh, but true, for me it is way easier to make funny conversations with the other one, think he needs to study there ways of speaking xD

«Those who will be disappointed, who will be disaffected and those who will be aggrieved, you must take time to find ways of speaking to them so that they forget the past and join whoever wins to help with the battle ahead,» he counseled.

Or are preachers just tired of traditional assertive discourse and becoming fascinated with newer indicative, narrative, and imaginative ways of speaking?

Whereas we commonly understand religion and theology as beginning with an inner and personal experience that only later seeks a community or tradition, the postliberal asserts that the community's ways of speaking and acting, its rites and rituals, its patterns of life and behavior shape and indeed make possible certain kinds of experience.

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.

To maintain that the essential qualities of love are merely anthropomorphic ways of speaking about God questions whether God's love is truly love in any human understanding of the word.

The picture of a king and his realm and of the world as God's body are ways of speaking, ways of imagining the God - world relationship.

There are certain ways of speaking about Jesus which imply, or even come near to stating, that Jesus did something to change the attitude of God to men, that somehow Jesus changed God's wrath into love, that somehow Jesus persuaded God to hold his hand and to pacify his anger to withhold his judgment of condemnation, that, to put it very crudely, Jesus by his sufferings and his death bought off God.

Telecommunications technology has released ways of speaking into our culture that are constrained by these same forms and structures shaped by print.

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 ways of speaking about unspeakable events intrude upon the appreciation of those events.

My approach shows what is wrong with Locke's flight of fancy that an unstructured material body might think, or Kenny's suggestion that our ways of speaking are compatible with our heads being full of sawdust, so that indeed bodily function is internal to normal mental function (pp. 336 - 339), so that thought and understanding while integrated with the imagination nonetheless transcend it, and transcend the body.

These were just misguided ways of speaking, for these speakers didn't realize that they were presupposing the classical view of the future as a domain of settled facts and then denying God knew it.

There are many ways of speaking inappropriately, of course — even harmfully — but it is always true that words fitly spoken are things of beauty and power that bring life and joy.

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.»

Rorty uses the term «edification» to stand for «this project of finding new, better, more interesting, more fruitful ways of speaking» (PMR 360).

Radicals like Monique Wittig, who see the present systems as categorically exclusive, advocate inventing new ways of speaking and even new categories of experience.

It may be the case that bringing in terms like «soul» and «psyche» confuse more than they help, but I am willing to run the risk to try to bring Whitehead's abstract terminology into contact with more ordinary ways of speaking.

Each generation must struggle to create itself anew through words and deeds, and the chief instrument for personal and social progress is the development of new, enriched ways of speaking.

It would appear that we do not have two different kinds of causation but two ways of speaking about a process, dependent on the speaker's perspective on a particular stage of the event - succession Supposing we are contemporaneous with an electron, we look at its present state in relation to its past, and we say «efficient causation»; if we look at its present state in relation to its future, we say «final causation.»

Both ways of speaking are valid, just as the different ways in which the meteorologist and the person in the street speak about the weather are valid.

The pictures of a king and his realm and of the world as God's body are ways of speaking, ways of imagining the God - world relationship.

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

AI performance on 2018 - 2019 Android phones running on the Snapdragon 845 will be tripled, which will help voice assistants better understand more natural ways of speaking.

Mastering this way of speaking, especially in high pressure situations or for longer periods of time, can't possibly be so easy, but still it's good to know that the basic principles of improving your voice are completely straightforward.

But as I learned, there are four very common fears that stand in the way of you speaking up, especially as a new hire.

------- So then, bob, when I take on others for their beliefs and use my way of speaking, I am an offender.

Thsi is a cowardly way, a fools way of speaking.

This way of speaking presumes a fraternal coexistence of the Slavic peoples — Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian — in a single «Orthodox Civilization.»

Certainly we would all agree that we need a way of speaking about what God is and does that is both sensible and faithful.

Theologians of nature, who take the evolutionary reality of the world seriously, also find it attractive as a noninterventionist way of speaking of God's agency in history and nature.

One way of understanding this language would be to suppose that this is simply a new way of speaking of «doctrines of.»

The language of mythology, or, as I myself prefer to say, metaphor, is the language which religion speaks; it can do no other, for religious faith is neither scientific formulae nor philosophical concepts, but a dramatic, poetic, symbolical way of speaking of the deepest realities and our apprehension of them.

Since God is He Who Is, that is, pure being, every attribute of God is only a way of speaking of his one act of existing.

These chapters have a naïve, symbolic way of speaking, well suited to the understanding of primitive people.

We can even say, in a certain way of speaking, that our Creator's whole point in making the world was that some of his creatures should share in his love.

This way of speaking about the authority of Scripture stands in contrast to how it is often spoken of among Christians, as a phrase invoked to shut down conversation and bolster one particular interpretation of Scripture.

The glory of God is a way of speaking of God himself.

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.

I want to claim the tradition for our side, if that's not too polemical a way of speaking.

Hence «God's primordial nature» is but an imprecise way of speaking about the order of nature — a formal structure expressing the theory of extension in its most general form (PW 58/56).

Wolf That way of speaking is confusing.

There he suggests that our tendency to call purposes unconscious is a misleading way of speaking, since they are in fact God's conscious purposes (see 207 - 209).

But at once I recognize the need to qualify such a way of speaking.