Sentences with phrase «without much reflection»

When outsiders threatened to invade the bar's homogeneity, the profession reacted harshly and often without much reflection... By contrast, when social, economic or technological change was occurring around the profession, the profession's calm became intractability and myopia... In either event, the profession sought the status quo and resisted «innovation and change that was being demanded,» even when change was inevitable or desirable.

But later I accepted the idea of his divinity — without much reflection — because of the power and truth of what he taught.»

Not exact matches

The fact that it's cutting back is seen as a reflection of a changing mentality among Silicon Valley startups that largely enjoyed an easy funding environment that allowed them to grow at all costs — without generating much profit or cash.

He understands that the thing of letting the self go is a pretty serious business after all, he is not so apoplectically muddled by the blow as the immediate man is, he understands by the aid of reflection that there is much he may lose without losing the self; he makes admissions, is capable of doing so — and why?

While I couldn't tell exactly where Hood stood on the issue, it seemed that he had decided that our decision to allow Muslims from the Memphis Islamic Center (MIC) to use our Celebration Center for Ramadan prayers was made off hand and without much, if any, theological reflection.

For one, you can give them the «Just the facts, ma'am» response, explaining what happened without much emotion or reflection.

Crucially, Kepler also detected a slight dip in luminosity, much less dramatic than the dimming associated with the planet passing in front of the star, when HAT - P - 7 b passed behind its star — the spacecraft was seeing only the star's light, without the reflection and glow from the exoplanet.

They [the Iranian authorities] would much rather close the case without any media reflection.»

Crossword puzzles can be done alone, and without much deep critical reflection, but science can not.

This film could have been so much more, but Cleveland, as it is portrayed here, is the same as any other American city, there are no comments or reflections about how Danny DeVito succeeds where the dashing Paul Rudd fails, and... well, Jack just moves into the garage, rather spontaneously and without much attention paid to the failure of the film's principal marriage.

Still, reflections of how the guerrilla crew set fire to a Joshua Tree without much thought to legality does produce some giggles.

So much concentration comes to the look of the film and in immaculately dressing up the quality actors, it's a disappointment that the same passion hadn't been applied toward the story itself, which touches on plot points without stopping for moments of reflection before we're given another.

Reflection often occurs without much intention.

In these hard economic times, too many Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley, Lower Mainland people, and British Columbians who lived free of financial crisis until now, find themselves facing the shame of debt they can not repay after taking out too much easy credit just to live, pay for necessities such as housing, food, medicine, etc., a reflection of our ever growing senior and minimum wage population funded with insufficient pensions and facing rising living costs without corresponding increase in earnings.

Without paying too much attention an external FPS counter itself, Blue Reflection seemed to run at a fairly solid 60 FPS - though there's every possibility this is hard - capped to your monitor's refresh rate due to forced VSYNC; so just keep that in mind.

Without too much reflection, here are a few quick reactions: