Sentence examples for act of believing from inspiring English sources

I am also happy to accept that for many believers the act of believing and its attendant ceremonial genuinely enhances their experience of life.

Every act of believing is conditioned by the historical and social context of the believer and every analysis of faith is influence in most cases by the locus of enunciation of the writer or theologian.

It cannot be that one and the same act of believing has different contents at different times or in different possible worlds.

All religions (and the act of not believing) have united us and divided us but it is high time to distill from them the core of cooperation and creation rather than stay lost on the edge.

Although this applies to learning rather than to assessment, many teachers implicitly attribute a similar but reversed process to the act of recall, believing that spontaneous recall is more valid than cued recall.

I am going to estimate that 95percentt of audience members going into An Act of God believe it is a one-person show starring Jim Parsons as God.

(A veteran journalist, Jefferson Morley, has been pursuing the trail of a now dead C.I.A. agent named George Joannides through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, believing that, at a minimum, the C.I.A. was keeping a much sharper eye on Oswald than it ever wanted known. Relevant documents are supposed to be released in 2017).

A pastiche of the Dodgers' former field in Brooklyn pasted onto the façade of a different team's twenty-first-century ballpark in Queens is less a historical tribute than it is an act of make-believe.

To Pynchon, innocence includes a mess of stupid jokes, naïve ideologies, and the act of make-believe, whether in an online city built by the protagonists' sons, or in a novel by a family man on the "Yupper West Side".

That the audience is now closer to the actors — and even more aware of the hoary old tricks used to simulate cinematic scenes of moving trains and cross-country chases — only increases the feeling of complicity in the ridiculous, wondrous act of make-believe that is theater.

In his article about the architecture of New York's new baseball stadiums, Paul Goldberger writes, "A pastiche of the Dodgers' former field in Brooklyn pasted onto the façade of a different team's twenty-first-century ballpark in Queens is less a historical tribute than it is an act of make-believe" (The Sky Line, March 23rd).