Even the most familiar details of costume seemed to acquire a new meaning and importance, while those of special relevance had the charm that might arise from the mingling of a very august occasion with a fancy-dress ball.
Legally, the question of relevance gets difficult when we're dealing with subjective matters.
The relevance is direct, to the question of motive.
There was too often, her mother had observed, an utter lack of relevance in Irene's remarks.
Salt tentatively, as though he had expected that a possible relevance might have been forthcoming after all.
Dewey stresses the relevance of these forms to the thought-process, rather than their relevance to a particular sphere of discourse.
The concept of obligation, like that of necessity, Dewey believes, has relevance only for the judgment situation.
Nor can the relevance of the verses be denied, as Cornill, one of their rejectors, admits.
The Great War invested the experience of the Prophet, who is the subject of this Lecture, with a fresh and poignant relevance to our own problems and duties.
Some moderns have denied these verses to Jeremiah and taken them as the addition of a later hand and without relevance to the parable.
So are 2 and 3 because of their doubtful relevance and their style, that of the great prophet of the end of the Exile.
But really, whether they that kept the swine were Jews, or whether they were Gentiles, is a consideration which has no relevance whatever to my case.
Enough has been shown of the background of his theories to demonstrate their harmony with and relevance to society which had endured in China for centuries before the coming of the West.
Even in this, however, some of the old Chinese ideas may continue in use and give relevanceto the terms with which Sun discusses the social revolution.
Such criticisms, implying as they did that the Roman evidence had been accredited with a widerrelevance than it did or could possess, were calculated to abate the more sanguine claims alike of comparative jurisprudence and of anthropology.
The consequence is inevitable: it forfeits relevance to everything natural; touching nothing actual, it reconstructs nothing actual.
As given, ready-made, theirrelevance is a miracle.
With this before us the relevance of truth and error to desires and strivings can never be made the basis for the charge of subjectivism.
The Greeks were not world-weary, and consequently, their joy in life and existence contributed a minimum of relevance to their other-worldly dreams.
And what we have now to see is the fact that no consideration that has a bearing upon the problem in its ethical phase can lose its importance and relevance in the subsequent phase.
If we add the qualification of relevance we destroy the cogency of the method.
At any rate, if relevance in proximo is interpolated in the peccant clause of the canon of the Joint-Method, the practical utility of the method is rehabilitated.
But there will often be complications due to certain disputable workings, of which the relevance is not yet established, and about these there will legitimately be differences of opinion.
For Eastern systems, contributions of equal value and relevance can be found in the major writings of ancient China and Japan, as well as in Hindu documents.
The relevanceof experience to the task at hand was replaced by the anticipated relevancy of structuring future tasks in order to minimize effort and maximize outcome.
Critics of the traditional curriculum dispute the relevance of a tradition that seems to exclude more than it includes.
The test of the relevance of such disciplines (or subjects) in a curriculum should be based on the same pragmatic criteria that our lives and livelihoods depend on.
Relevance Temples of knowledge Coherence and connection Plenty of questions The equation of a compromise To be a child Who are we kidding?
The relevance (or irrelevance) of philosophy cannot be ascertained outside the practice of questioning and answering, a practice that made philosophy necessary in the first place.
Relevance applies to the perspective of the future and to the recognition that experiences of the past are less and less pertinent in the new context.
Nobody seriously disputes the relevance of studying language, but very few see language and language-based disciplines as the prerequisite for the less than life-long series of different jobs students of today will have.
Relevance Schools and universities are criticized for not giving students relevant knowledge.
The chief executive insisted that his instructions were that all documents of relevance were to be retained on the single file" (emphasis added).
Mr. Chippindale's opinion has some background relevancein the present case.
Its function is to endow the parts of sentience with a consciousness of the system in which they lie, so that they may attain a mutual relevance and ideally support one another.
Such relevance and symbolism are indirect and slowly acquired; their status cannot be understood unless we regard them as forms of imagination happily grown significant.
But the condition of spiritual communion or ideal relevancein these intelligences is their possession of a method and grammar essentially identical.
This relevance to given experience and its objects is what cuts those myths off from their blameless and gratuitous rôle of reporting experiences that might be going on merrily enough somewhere else in the universe.
As the subject-matter recedes the mental datum ceases to have much similarity or inward relevance to what is its cause or its meaning.
Attachment to ideal terms is indeed what gives consciousness its continuity; its parts have no relevance or relation to one another save what they acquire by depending on the same body or representing the same objects.
But its expression may have been only momentary, and that eternal ideal may have no further relevance to the living world.
In the episodic passages of Beowulf there are, curiously, the same degrees of relevance as in the Iliad and Odyssey.
In the introduction of accessory matter, standing in different degrees of relevance to the main plot, the practice of Beowulf is not essentially different from that of classical epic.
His figures have a shallow prettiness of manner, stamping them once again as products of a style which, in its earliest phases, was admirably suited to recording dramatic action but which had little relevance to either religion or romance.
In fact, however, its relevance is great for, as a consequence, Krishna the prince acquires as many female companions as he had enjoyed as a youth.
There is not much obvious relevance in this remark, but Donne has already in this poem touched on the difference between faith and knowledge: better proofes the law Of sense then faith requires.
In the 1669 version it is not easy to see the relevanceof the rhetorical question and of the line which follows: 'Nothing for us, we are for nothing fit.
The relevance of the first Stanwix Treaty to the geographic area of this study is a matter of the utmost importance.
But really, whether they that kept the swine were Jews, or whether they were Gentiles, is a {555} consideration which has no relevance whatever to my case.
Cooper (1988), for example, discusses her ideas on the relevance of covenantal relationships for nursing ethics.
When we have gone outside the discipline to extend possibilities for understanding, we have made an effort to go beyond application, to think through the nursing relevance of ideas that seemed, on the surface, to be useful.
Caring: Theoretical perspectives of relevanceto nursing," 62 Boykin, A.
Such complexities and uncertainties have a powerful reality and relevance for planners.
The fine themal relevance may be pursued in infinite degree, to no end but sheer bewilderment.
So out of the first chance counter-figures somehow spring beautiful melodies, where we feel the fitness and the relevance though we have not heard them before.
There can be no doubt of the need of vigilance if we are to catch the relevance of all the strains.
And yet there is a rare charm in these subtle turns; it is the secret relevance that counts the most.
