Much of politics is psychology, and, though Bush may not have been the author of certain insights that contributed to his reëlection, he did master the art of playing on voters' fears in fearsome times.
I have a certain insight in that I was Mapplethorpe's bicoastal lover, and, as editor of Drummer magazine, I assigned him his first cover before he was world famous.
So the more fanciful and imaginative of thinkers began to do two things: Firstly, they started comparing the world's religions with a view to arriving at certain insights that transcended time and place and secondly, they began to imagine what a religion might look like if it didn't have a god in it.
Having an objective person's point-of-view can help you and your wife reach healthy compromises, and may give you certain insights that you wouldn't have been able to reach on your own.
Q. Do you find, looking back over the course of your career, there was a certain insight you had that put you on a different trajectory? A. I went to Williams College.
That gives him a certain insight when it comes to casting, and he was more than willing to wait for Douglas to recover to make the film happen.
A certain insight in their own limitations was a factor that triggered persons with dementia to delegate responsibility to others.
But it takes a certain insight to spot the gaps in research and academic texts--and in my case having "been there, done that" is at the root of that necessary skill.
"I have a certain insight into philosophy, I think.
A powerful insight, that.
Zangwill's aesthetic definition of art says that something is a work of art if and only if someone had an insight that certain aesthetic properties would be determined by certain nonaesthetic properties, and for this reason the thing was intentionally endowed with the aesthetic properties in virtue of the nonaesthetic properties as envisaged in the insight (Zangwill, 1995).
