I'm not sure that I don't like this modern mystery: at once so visually apprehensible and so immaterial. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Whenever Baltar does something wrong i.e. morally apprehensible 1 drink. From Wordnik.com. [Galacticaa.net » The Battlestar Galactica Drinking Game] Reference
Are languages based on pictographs better, more direct, more apprehensible, more magical?. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Pictographs, water-ness, and ness-ness] Reference
Of course unchannelled flow, if truly unchannelled, would not be apprehensible as flow at all. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
This suggests that Carneades held that everything is non-apprehensible but that some things are. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Skepticism] Reference
Yet this is only partially true, for I grant the heuristic value of concepts in making history apprehensible. From Wordnik.com. [Charisma and History: The Case of Münster, Westphalia, 1534-1535. Tal Howard] Reference
If it's apprehensible or communicable through a metaphor, then there must be some shared experience the metaphor commonly invokes. From Wordnik.com. [The Continuing Bloggersation] Reference
But there is a more easily apprehensible principle that underlies "equal protection," and that is, no distinction on account of race. From Wordnik.com. [Losing Things] Reference
According to the fathers, this is a kingdom, a power, a glory and a quality of life that is potentially no less apprehensible to us now. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Cairns: The Christian and the Community: A Relationship in God's Image] Reference
Weaving numerous elements together, some esoteric, others fairly apprehensible, AW takes us on a dreamlike expedition into another culture. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives – review] Reference
This is royal science, a royal mystery, highly cleansing, directly apprehensible, consistent with the sacred laws, easy to practise, (and) imperishable. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
It is true that they cease to become apprehensible by the senses; but then, though removed from the ken of the senses, their existence may be affirmed by inference. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
And then suddenly I couldn't do that anymore, couldn't make those approximations that make something incredibly complex and contradictory more easily apprehensible. From Wordnik.com. [won't make trouble. don't need no fuss. but i'm wounded, old, and i'm treacherous.] Reference
She plays a lot with language, it seems, and she appears to favor a less fluid syntax that is rooted in a quest to make quite logical and apprehensible the language of Herbert. From Wordnik.com. [Translating Again : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
The principle is clearer and more apprehensible in the concrete example than in the abstract statement; as a matter of fact it is applied in every experimental search for a cause. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
And when I say popular I do not mean apprehensible by villagers only. From Wordnik.com. [Back to Methuselah] Reference
Let us retrace, but in such a form as to be apprehensible by all readers. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1] Reference
He was beyond that state in which any difference was apprehensible between one thing and another. From Wordnik.com. [Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2)] Reference
They entirely owe themselves, their being, and preservation, to an every where present, and apprehensible. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.] Reference
Some of his lyrics are viable but they are so apprehensible and sound so terrible, I can't listen to him. From Wordnik.com. [Gavin's Blog] Reference
The contradiction, as it seems to us, resolves itself into an essential, easily apprehensible, if mystical, unity. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books Second Series] Reference
I find it apprehensible that they would request 1.84 billion of tax money after leaving the US and setting a base in China. From Wordnik.com. [Manufacturing.net Headline News] Reference
Baddy contradictorily saboteur hydrastinin nonmesonic thrifty apprehensible periodically basobismutite suitability sceptical. From Wordnik.com. [Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference
But while the infinite is thus incomprehensible as a subject of thought, it is directly apprehensible as a reality of reason. From Wordnik.com. [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference
Matter, whose essence is materiality, survives all apprehensible changes; spirit, whose essence is spirituality, should do the same. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
These terms appear to imply the reality of a self, only that it is not to be confounded with the apprehensible elements of existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
So when he does go 1-for-14 and Duke's season ends, that expression of misapprehension becomes a lot more apprehensible to all watching. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicle] Reference
If you had told me of a mermaid, or a wood-nymph, or of the philosopher's stone as apprehensible wonders, I should not have marvelled more. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Fancies] Reference
And yet this phantom of the next age limns himself sometimes so large and plain that every feature is apprehensible, and challenges a painter. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I] Reference
Plato to Leibniz, had kept the human mind open for the thought of the universe as one idea behind all its physically apprehensible transformations. From Wordnik.com. [Back to Methuselah] Reference
This, however, is apprehensible only to faith and is not demonstrable by experience (S: S. From Wordnik.com. [The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"] Reference
“spectacular effects,” is perhaps a gloss on “all objects apprehensible through vision.”. From Wordnik.com. [Hiero] Reference
“private”, and “directly or immediately apprehensible in consciousness” (1988, 229; cf. Tye 2002, 447). From Wordnik.com. [Inverted Qualia] Reference
Soul, "then the whole nature of man exists under law, and is apprehensible to science. From Wordnik.com. [The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology] Reference
I mean apprehensible by Cabinet. From Wordnik.com. [Back to Methuselah] Reference
Now clearly, as was apprehensible. From Wordnik.com. [The Minstrel A Collection of Poems] Reference
A trumpet; he would need software that would interpret the notes to make it apprehensible for the rest of the class. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Eastern Echo] Reference
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