The varied interpretations of Impressionism are referred to elsewhere (see page ).
Consequently, different interpretations would be placed upon the phrase "the highest conceivable qualities of form and expression," by the various races of mankind.
It was the duty of the council to put an end to interpretations which, depriving the sacred books of the prestige of divine origin, diminished their authority among the faithful.
The strangest interpretations are daily astonishing the faith of the believer, and giving rise to scandals among Christians.
The modern interpretations of his origin have followed these two sets of data.
This view is now generally rejected for the reason that it does not accord with known facts; it is only by forced (though often ingenious) interpretations that a plausible case is made out for it.
It has maintained customs and ideas that had ceased to be effective and true, and in order to preserve them it has resorted to forced interpretations and has invented accounts of their origin.
Interpretations of births are given in Babylonian records.
In recently proposed interpretations we may note first certain attempts at a unification of some body of myths or of all known mythical material.
It has made impossible the arbitrary and, sometimes, unreasonable interpretations of scripture which in former ages have proved a serious detriment to religion and theology.
The Old Testament contains records and interpretations of these manifold revelations.
The principles upon which the interpretations rested were not the same in all ages.
Though this explanation seems satisfactory to some, others consider it somewhat forced and unnatural, and they are inclined to give different interpretations of the words of Jesus.
As has been pointed out in the preceding chapters, some long-cherished notions and interpretationshave been overthrown; to some extent our ideas concerning its literary forms have had to be modified, but its substance has not been disturbed.
While a comparatively small number of people read this theory from the original source, it is still being scattered far and wide in the form of quotations, paraphrases, and interpretations by more popular writers.
We may, therefore, with confidence conclude that the allegorical and mystical interpretations of Joel are impossible; and that the only reasonable view of our prophet is that which regards him as calling, in chap.
As of course was universally supposed according to either of the other two interpretationsgiven above.
Two different interpretations may therefore be given to the system.
It accepted the wildest interpretations of the common superstitions, in order to be able to league itself with the crowd in one and the same conflict with the new power which had just appeared in the world.
I will merely call attention to the fact, that if nature and the sacred text are fixed elements, this is not the case with the interpretations of theologians, and the results of geology.
I wish to show you that these interpretations proceed in all cases from considerations external to the system.
But (and this the point I wish to emphasize) these interpretations meet increasingly with the applause and acceptance of educated Hindu audiences.
And when he broke away from political preoccupations and turned to the inner life, his interpretations proved the absolute sufficiency of the Socratic method; and he left nothing pertinent unsaid on ideal love and ideal immortality.
Contagion is the only source of valid mind-reading: you must imitate to understand, and where the plasticity of two minds is not similar their mutual interpretations are necessarily false.
He lacked the feeling, possessed by all large and mature minds, that there would be no intelligibility or value in things divine were they not interpretations and sublimations of things natural.
These fancies are not fore-tastes of possible perceptions, but are free interpretations or translations of the perceptions I have actually had.
So the monumental function of Greek sculpture, and the interpretations it gave to national myths, made every temple a storehouse of poetic memories.
On the other hand, it will exclude all the more complex interpretations of looks and words which imply conscious comparison, reflection, and reasoning.
This circumstance has to be taken into account in proposing interpretations of passages contained in them.
I am well aware that the preceding interpretationsdo not accord with views entertained by many in the present day.
The writer will be pardoned for not here giving fuller histories, or for not carrying out the analyses to their ultimate goals, or for not giving the interpretations of the two dreams presented.
The plausibility of these interpretations once shown, they are next proved to be wide of the mark, by the fact that the dream can be more adequately accounted for in another way, i.
The above interpretations throw much light on the obscurity of the animal worship of antiquity.
As these interpretations stand, they do not fit the psychogenesis of the dream.
Thus every act of life became permeated by motives, originated in arbitrary interpretations of a super-nature.
As stated above, such interpretationshave not been generally advanced to explain such objects as sacred pillar stones, obelisks, minarets, etc.
These interpretations are not generally advanced, and therefore we have added considerable corroborative evidence which we have been able to obtain from independent sources.
And, furthermore, even if his interpretations of the few dreams which he presents and which were taken from different cases were true, of what significance would that be?
Should anyone wish to urge the more remote interpretations which I first manufactured, then the burden of proof rests with him.
Obviously the retinal processes are constant for the two interpretationsof magnitude and the ambiguity is due to the concomitant factor of convergence.
And the very fact that his presentation of religion had left many indifferent or dissatisfied was proof-positive that he had dwelt upon non-essentials, laid emphasis upon the mistaken interpretations of past ages.
Shall we interpret the Gospels by the Creeds, which in turn purport to be interpretations of the Gospels?
One of the very few critics who seem to have got near to the actual secret of Browning's optimism is Mr. Santayana in his most interesting book Interpretations of Poetry and Religion.
Interpreting it each time differently, he yet dismissed both interpretations with a smile.
He knew the titles--The House of the Master, and The House of the Hidden Places, both singular interpretations of the Pyramids that once had held his own mind spellbound.
When Joseffy was young he delighted in the exhibition of his fabulous technic, but he has mellowed, he has matured, and superimposed upon the brilliancies of his ardent youth are the thoughtful interpretations of the intellectual artist.
His interpretations of the classics, of the romantics, are of a superior order.
Once more, I thank my esteemed friend Damrosch for his admirable interpretations of my works, and remain his cordially devoted "'FRANZ LISZT.
The interpretationswritten above the line are called "interlinear," those written in the margins of the MSS.
Some interpretations would be merely verbal explanations.
Interpretations of this sort," says Socrates, "are learned sophistries, however popular and usual they may be.
We have the preface to his book, which states: "I shall not hesitate to set beside my interpretations all that I rightly learnt from the Presbyters, and rightly remembered, earnestly testifying to its truth.
Christ is never said to have declared any evidence of His mission (unless His owninterpretations of the prophecies be so considered) except internal conviction.
Thanks to his investigations Döllinger was able to write: “False interpretations of the most obvious and arbitrary kind are quite the usual thing in his polemics.
Some quite excellent observations occur in his works on the danger of having recourse to allegorical interpretations and of not taking the text literally.
In order to answer it without prejudice it is essential in the first place to point out, that the subsequent interpretations and evasions must not here be taken into account.
Men have learned to distinguish between their owninterpretations of religion and of religious documents on the one hand and the religion itself on the other.
The old, human, narrow, prejudicedinterpretations have been modified.
Genesis Chapter 40 Joseph interpreteth the dreams of two of Pharao's servants in prison: the event declareth the interpretations to be true, but Joseph is forgotten.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interpretations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
