Sentence examples for tendency to conceive from inspiring English sources

Some Delta groups grew rich, a development that may have encouraged an already existing tendency to conceive of gods and spirits as species of beneficent foreigners.

Drewermann's first conflict with the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy occurred in 1983, when he criticized what he perceived as its anthropocentrism regarding the natural environment its tendency to conceive the value of the environment in terms of human interests.

The earliest known commentator on anthropomorphism, the Greek poet and religious thinker Xenophanes (c. 560 c. 478 bce), criticized the tendency to conceive of the gods in human terms, and later theologians have sought to reduce anthropomorphism in religion.

(One of the ironies of being a writer — or working in any kind of creative area, I suppose — is the tendency to conceive of yourself in oddly dehumanizing ways: as "productive" or "unproductive," as laboring toward some kind of Stakhanovite ideal of efficiency and yield).

(One of the ironies of being a writer or working in any kind of creative area, I suppose is the tendency to conceive of yourself in oddly dehumanizing ways: as "productive" or "unproductive," as laboring toward some kind of Stakhanovite ideal of efficiency and yield). At a rate of about once per second, my word processor's cursor blinks at the end of the last word typed.

The first great event was his encounter with Jean Vitrier, who became a spiritual guide at a time when Erasmus was spiritually troubled, and whose influence reinforced a tendency to conceive religion as a personal and inward experience.

If a movie is good, there is a general tendency to believe that everything in it was conceived and worked out according to a beautiful master plan, or that it is the result of the creative imagination of the director, but in movies things rarely happen that way — even more rarely than they do in opera or the theatre.

This work has shown an increasing tendency for people to conceive of health in multidimensional terms beyond a narrow bio-medical model [ 14, 15], underscoring the relevance of lay ideas for a more rounded understanding of health inequalities.

And the concept of the gilgul itself reflects the tendency of Jewish memory to conceive of time cyclically, to conflate historical moments across vast swaths of time — Yerushalmi quotes the Haggadah: "In each and every generation let each person regard himself as though he had emerged from Egypt".

Although there may be no direct line of influence, we may also consider Feuerbach's critique of religious belief as a 'projection' of human attributes, and Freud's analysis of religious belief as an instance of 'wish-fulfillment', as two modern successors to Xenophanes' observation of the general tendency of human beings to conceive of divine beings in terms of their own attributes and capacities.

At the heart of those laws is the Hobbesian notion of conatus, which Leibniz describes as "the beginning and end of motion," and which he seems to conceive of as a tendency to motion in a particular direction.