Sentences with phrase «what grand thing»

What a grand thing to do for someone who doesn't even know what questions to ask yet!

what a grand thing to be able to do with your husband!

While every architect and his barber is musing about what grand thing will rise downtown, our friends in...

This is not a sports car; this is a grand touring coupe, and what a grand thing it is.

Not exact matches

Or, in the grand scheme of things, what matters most?

This huge, blue planet is in existance just so we can be born, live, make a living, have a baby, then die... no connection, no spirit, no soul, no more appreciating the beauty around us, no more being astounded at the improbabilities, no more being amazed at the wonders of life... because none of that has any meaning any more, it's just a bunch of junk that happened accidently... who cares, we're just all going to fade away into nothingness... become one with the dirt, because we are actually no better than the dirt... I don't know about you, but I'm depressed now... but then that's what's great about our country, you can choose to believe or... not... in this... country... that has... no particular meaning... in the grand scheme of thngs... oh, yeah, that's right there is no «grand scheme of things»... so never mind.

In metaphysics the Grand Unified Theory has been achieved many times over (from Hebraic monotheism to Aristotle's prime mover), but the issue is: «what are the features and characteristics of the thing that is in the strictest sense?»

A genre of writing that fascinates some scholars and clergy consists of books and articles written by scientists who, venturing beyond what can be securely proved, present larger visions of the cosmos, life, the beginning and the end of all things, and the place of the human in the grand narrative.

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

There is, of course, some comfort to be derived from the thought that everything that occurs at the level of what Aquinas calls secondary causality» in nature or history» is governed not only by a transcendent providence, but by a universal teleology that makes every instance of pain and loss an indispensable moment in a grand scheme whose ultimate synthesis will justify all things.

But I do make sure to listen to my body and try new things, learn new things, take time for myself, and I believe that intention is what really counts in the grander scheme of things.

My family loves tilapia, too, though I have to laugh — my spouse was reading some article that mentioned the fun thing about being a dad was «being able to eat fish sticks again», so guess what was in the oven when I returned from a weekend - long sled hockey tournament in Grand Rapids?

But in the grand scheme of things, it was really only dipping a toe into the worldwide pool of desserts and breads, and I think that is what culinary school should be doing for global education — exposure rather than complete education.

When it comes to Boulud's attention to the details of his empire, there appears to be no hierarchy of importance: The invite list to the upcoming soft opening in Vegas; the amount of cream in the pâté grand - mère used in a banh mi at the Épicerie; a visit to actor Bryan Cranston lunching at Bar Boulud; a call to a high - profile pediatrician on behalf of two married employees with a constipated infant; what to do with a shipment of fresh herring; the placement of speakers in a corner of the dining room at DBGB; the lighting of a photo shoot for a cookbook he's contributed to — all things big and small are apparently in Boulud's portfolio, and everything receives an equal share of energy and time.

And what I want, does not matter in the grand scheme of things where AFC is concerned.

I hope I'm wrong but this could be the most damaging win when it comes to transfers... winning 1 game, after about 20 minutes of really good play, is of little consequence in the grand scheme of things... only those with the most selfish of intentions would suggest otherwise... the only reason we're even in this predicament, where were celebrating our first victory of 2018 against a bottom half squad who is managed by possibly the only individual more antiquated than our manager, is because of Wenger's ridiculous mishandling of his contract last year combined with his mishandling of the contracts of our top players this year; a fact that he himself admitted to... so before you get too excited about the possibilities of our current roster don't forget what has happened over the last several years and pray to the gods of football that real quality reinforcements like Auba are on the way, which could have happened years ago for less money and we might have been holding a trophy of some significance, or this brief respite will be followed by the usual mediocrity and stagnation

After this year's Australian Grand Prix had an amount of overtakes that you could count on one hand, it no longer mattered that the cars looked cool and were setting lap records, what mattered to fans was that the whole sport was ruined and Ross Brawn needed to fix things quickly.

18 years doesn't sound like a long time in the grand scheme of things, but when you consider what they achieved and the advances they pioneered, Audi managed to pack an awful lot in.

But what you tend to learn (usually pretty quickly, in the grand scheme of things) is that every child is different and the swathe of normal is actually pretty huge.

If I had understood how short the first year is in the grand scheme of things, and how amazing my children would become no matter how or what they were fed, I could have bypassed so much internalized shame.

«Two hundred grand to 250 is premier league... what you would get is, when we talk about your donations, the first thing we want to do is get you at the Cameron / Osborne dinners,» he said.

Because if you see what the problems are — we did things like grand challenges where we enunciated, «Okay, if you could give us cold chain for vaccines inexpensively, that would save a huge number of lives here» — and articulating, so that the inventors don't just have the market signals [of what the rich world wants], but also the recognition and the awareness of what the nonrich world wants.

And I know that in the grand scheme of things, my experience with dengue was relatively tame compared to what others around the world have suffered.

In the grand scheme of things, don't get me wrong, I know there is perfection always, even in what looks like madness and everything has its time.

But I do make sure to listen to my body and try new things, learn new things, take time for myself, and I believe that intention is what really counts in the grander scheme of things.

Whether you eat twice or three times doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, and what you eat is much more important.

We live few miles from Grand Junction so not able to go run to buy things I need, makes me figure out how to work with what I have.

I realize that this entire thought or notion of whether something is pink, lavender, radiant orchid, blue, purple, or periwinkle REALLY does not matter in the grand scheme of things, but sometimes it really does irk me when my counterparts and I can't come to an agreement on what color something is.

I thought I knew what I was doing a little bit, having read an awesome book titled Will Write for Food, by Dianne Jacobs, but in the grand scheme of things, I new nothing.

I had been looking forward to this movie for a while and though I could see some of what was coming I definitely didn't foresee the grand scope of things.

Furthermore, what effects do these actions have on the citizens caught in the middle of something so ugly and dangerous (a subplot that very few directors have the skill to weave into the grander scheme of things, let alone winding up allowing for some of the strongest takeaways from the film).

In the end, he writes a book about the entire experience and what it meant in the grand scheme of things.

So it's turning into what we all were predicting as early as October, a «Boyhood» versus «Birdman» battle, with the addition of «The Grand Budapest Hotel» and perhaps «American Sniper,» just to make things interesting.

Real castle or no, what's here is just as grand and alive as the real thing.

by Walter Chaw A work of holy madness about acts of holy madness, Aguirre, The Wrath of God is a transcendent, haunting film that defies description and captures, somehow, what it means to be human in all the venal, small, sometimes grand things that being human implies.

«What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories» — George Eliot Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival,...

Jackson's vision of the in - between plane of existence where young Susie Salmon resides is interesting, but it's ultimately a distraction in the grand scheme of things, and it isn't quite as awe inspiring as the afterlife in Vincent Ward's underappreciated What Dreams May Come.

Here is the big thing we've learned by letting the students choose what they'll study: They are naturally curious and fascinated by history on the grandest scale.

2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited 4WD — Then only thing limited about this used Jeep is what your imagination will allow you to consider.

When we pulled up Chevrolet's Grand Sport website, the first thing we see is what looks to be the return of Admiral Blue exteriors for 2017.

Perhaps my favorite thing about the Mercury Grand Marquis is what's under the hood.

At least one thing has remained constant, though: you know exactly what to expect from the Jeep Grand Cherokee.

I openly admit that I can barely grasp who is who and what's going on half the time in the grand scheme of things in Ooku but Fumi Yoshinaga makes every scene so potent with drama and expression that I'm completely engrossed all the time anyway.

What gets me, is that in The Grand Illusion, not only do the irrational assume that the editors and artists etc of the large companies are all those ugly, awful things I listed earlier, but the smaller players are no better.

But in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really matter what happens to me or it doesn't matter what happens to Smashwords.

Daniel is relatively new to picture books, at least in the grand scheme of things, and I thank him for visiting today to tell me and my readers more about his career, his books thus far, and what's next on his plate.

For now, it's important to see what the numbers typically mean in the grand scheme of things.

What's a late fee or two in the grand scheme of things?

Others focus on dividend stocks and fixed - income investments with up to 40 - year investment horizons and couldn't care less about what their past year's annual returns are in the grand scheme of things.

Advisors with a long - term perspective won't make predictions about what any of the gyrations mean or will lead to because these fluctuations don't genuinely matter in the grand scheme of things.