St. Olaf College philosophy professor Marino dispenses wisdom about facing existence head-on, especially when the universe feels like it's working against you (HarperOne, $25.99).
It is more an expression of philosophical amazement — a way of saying "wow" in the face of existence.
What begins as childish fun soon becomes, as with Juan, the stuff of family nightmare because Mia seems to be narrating Hollow Face into existence.
The elderly who remain — increasingly isolated and stranded — face an existence that is distinctively harder by virtue, or curse, of geography than life in cities and suburbs.
It means, now that the Queen has approved it, that we face the existence of a royal charter to set up a system of press regulation that no publisher will sign up for.
In multi-sensor fusion, it is hard to guarantee that all sensors work at the single sampling rate, especially in the distributive and/or heterogeneous case, and fault detection (FD) in multi-rate sensor fusion may face the existence of unknown inputs (UIs) in complex environment.
"To be loyal to Judaism means to affirm it even at the price of suffering," Heschel wrote; and, as Jews, he said, "we have to face our existence in terms of sharp alternatives: we either surrender to the might and threat of evil or persist in the earnestness of our existence".
The first time I saw Bowie in a movie, The Man Who Fell to Earth, I was 12 or 13, in the grips of major family illness and had little sense of how to deal with -- let's face it, existence itself.
Upon arrival in America, they faced an existence foreign to any they had known, and they were stripped of all freedoms and human rights.
He campaigned for "air mindedness", when aircraft began to make technological headway and the nation, now facing the existence and efficiency of airships which could circumvent the North Sea and English Channel, was now increasingly concerned about aerial bombardment.
It has been suggested that a neural circuitry specialized for the processing of faces exists in the primate brain, by non-human primate single-cell recording studies which have shown the existence of face-responsive neurons [2] [8] and by human functional brain imaging studies [9] [11], which have shown the existence of face-responsive areas.
