Sentence examples for is conceived in terms of from inspiring English sources

The novel is conceived in terms of an alliance between the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, who embody the liberal imagination at its best, and Ruth Wilcox, the owner of the house Howards End, which has remained close to the earth for generations; spiritually they recognize a kinship against the values of Henry Wilcox and his children, who conceive life mainly in terms of commerce.

Institutional practice is conceived in terms of actions and attitudes, not norms or texts and utterances that convey norms.

In traditional Mahâyâna Buddhist theory, the Buddha is conceived in terms of three modes or forms of embodiments (trikâya): dharmakâya (Jpn: hosshin), nirmanakâya, and sambhogakâya.

Within the sphere of the "intellectual"—e.g., within scientific or historical scholarship inquiry is conceived in terms of a process of "approximation" to reality.

Insofar as the good life is conceived in terms of devotion to or enjoyment of purely intrinsic, noninstrumental goods (such as intellectual contemplation and the appreciation of beauty), it is a life that can be led only by a leisured class, whose members do not have to spend their time earning a living.

Contrast terms such as 'superior' and 'inferior' invite us to ask, "in respect of what is A higher than, or superior to, B?" Bradley insists that if I say Sally is superior to Joan I must first be comparing them in terms of some characteristic they share for example, both are beautiful and, second, I am positioning them on a scale, which is conceived in terms of two determinate termini.

A home for Antinori could be conceived in terms of the hill, he argued.

On one shore, political institutions are conceived in terms of divine authority and spiritual redemption; on the other they are not.

At its worst, this procedure results in a carved copy of a design that was conceived in terms of clay modeling.

A traveling, varying magnetic field is everywhere associated with a periodically changing electric field that may be conceived in terms of a displacement current.

His later films — even those he has so painfully struggled to finance out of his earnings as an actor — haven't been conceived in terms of daring modern subjects that excite us, as the very idea of "Kane" excited us.