Sentence examples for unchanging character from inspiring English sources

Plato's conception of such knowledge was strongly influenced by the rigour of mathematical reasoning and the unchanging character of the objects to which it was addressed.

In all this al-Ghazâlî accepted the unchanging character of this creation.

Plutarch explains that Parmenides was in fact the first to distinguish between the mutable objects of sensation and the unchanging character of the intelligible: "Parmenides…abolishes neither nature.

Here, the hero's preexisting and unchanging character (stoical, wise, fearless) determines the outcome in advance, while time is reduced to an empty series of relatively independent happenings that the hero merely happens to pass through (Bakhtin, 1981; see also Holquist, 1990, pp. 109 110).

Ultimately I was willing to change and see my marriage to Meg as an evolution instead of a never-ending play by the same unchanging characters.

Research from study co-author Carol Dweck has shown that people who have a "fixed mindset" about their personality, or who believe that their character is unchanging, are more likely to believe that the rejection exposes some deep deficiency in their personality.

Manfredi constructs his narrative with a methodical hand; all the characters possess unchanging personalities that foretell their successes or misfortunes.

In The Independent on Sunday, columnist Lucy Ellmann criticised both what she saw as the unchanging nature of the characters and Flannery's concentration on friendship rather than family.

Stanton cited Keaton's "great stone face" as giving them perseverance in animating a character with an unchanging expression.

By internet standards, an eight-minute video seems pretty long, particularly if it follows a single character in an unchanging setting.

That is one more reason the character and the play seem so unchanging.