Sentence examples for practical reflections from inspiring English sources

"She closed her eyes and tried to empty her mind of all that was not God, but found that it was like trying to empty an ocean: where do you put the water?" It is in such practical reflections and details that the common religious efforts of the protagonist and her sister nuns show best.

Clearly, our capacity for deliberation and the potential sophistication of some of our practical reflections are important conditions on freedom of will.

They include ethical and practical reflections on the design and evaluation of emerging technologies for older people, as well as guidelines for ethical, participatory, professional and cross-disciplinary research and practice.

As pragmatic trial research is a dynamic process in which the parts of research and (health care) practice will be redefined repeatedly, a continuous process of methodological and practical reflection is imperative.

Practical reflection loss measurements are carried out using free space technique.

For, like his engaging and hugely popular lecturing style – less lecture, more public Socratic dialogue – his technique is to allow wisdom to dawn through the application of practical reflection upon the particular.

McCain's idea for a "League of Democracies" was a practical reflection of his belief that "our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom, knowledge and resources necessary to succeed".

But the contrast between theoretical and practical reflection required for this purpose seems elusive.

Accounts of this kind offer interpretations of the normative and evaluative language that distinctively figures in practical reflection.

An inability ever to countenance judicial murder may be recommendable by critical to intuitive thinking as a constraint upon practical reflection in an emergency.

These include ascriptions of belief and ascriptions of intention, but they also include the varieties of 'ought' statements that make explicit the normative character of practical reflection.