I'm going to bundle up tight today -- silk underwear, hat, gloves, and insulated boots -- and go for a walk in the woods, just to savor the depth of silence, the sense of a world brought to a point of absolute and unimaginable stillness.
What it means, of course, is that we are creating a world in which our sense of identity, of who we actually are, is defined by what others think of us.
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Jews find themselves out of step with most of world opinion, which heightens a widespread sense of apprehensiveness.
But even on these occasions America will have to take care to keep public opinion on its side and not to dissipate the world's sense of outrage.
Writers accustomed to spending months, even years poring over the importance of world events, had weeks to make sense of the attacks and place them in a context that even young children can understand for years to come.
Games are in fact one of the major ways in which we make sense of the world around us.
From the cave painters through Greek myth to the fiction factory of Hollywood, people have sought to make sense of their world by developing a compelling narrative.
As featured in the Harvard Business Review, since the days of cave paintings, graphic depiction has always been an integral part of how people think, communicate, and make sense of the world.
As much of the population retreats to a vocational lifestyle, only dimly aware, through TED talks, Paul Graham essays and Khan Academy videos, of the human civilizational Grand Narrative, scholarship in the old sense of the world will return as an indulgence for the few, rather than an industrial mode of knowledge production.
We are extending the connectivity of the Net to a much wider world wide web that includes the manifold physical objects of the world, letting them speak back to software that makes sense of what those objects tell us.
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We cannot pretend to be someone other than who we are, and much of the controlling, rigid leadership we see in the world today is armour against a sense of failure and weakness.
Our game features thousands of pieces of original artwork, giving players a true sense of place within the world they love, Westeros.
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This model emerged from the ever-increasing complexity of our world and the resulting need for specialists to make sense of specialized knowledge.
And what do we make of the obligation to play a bit part in the science of the day, the world we live in, to make more sense of it rather than add to the noise?
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Microsoft clearly sees customer concerns about privacy in the digital age as a business opportunity: Give consumers something they say they want in the form of greater sense of protection as they navigate the online world.
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"Everyone has a way of viewing the world and Sarah does too and hers would be shaped by the common-sense practicality of how she's been shaped by the Bible -- which is basically the world view that says God loves people, people can access him and he's given us wisdom for living, " McGraw says.
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Our conference, now in its third year, aims to make sense of a world in transformation.
The trailer is pre-rendered footage, so we get mostly a sense of the world.
The role of the developing world in one sense is much greater than the chart indicates.
And ultimately you have to go with your instinct, your gut sense of the world and of men.
Few films depict so eerily yet so meticulously the metaphysical and historical sense of a world out of joint.
Autism affects how someone communicates, how they relate to others and how they make sense of the world around them.
In Mr Federman's view, the quest for truth has given way to the quest for making sense of the world as experienced.
Where children are young and trying to get a sense of their world, adults tend to think that they already have things figured out.
Economics really just is a toolkit, just as physics or chemistry is, a toolkit that we can use to make sense of the world around us.
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And by that time, you know, fourth grade, I'm believing, is when girls are making a lot of sense of the world, where they're starting to make decisions about themselves.
"I was trying to make sense of a world turned upside down, trying to look at what happened that day while being distracted like everyone else by the political stuff happening on television, " he said.
But as the only two of those so far identified are wheat noodles and rice in North and South China respectively, not something that needs to be considered at the basic level necessary to make sense of the world.
As with Katrina, there is a back story for government's dysfunction: It's a long saga involving the fervent renunciation of the idea of financial regulation, bought-and-paid-for tax favors, confusion about how globalization affects money markets, a general ignorance about the modern financial world and a stunning lack of common sense.
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