Science, being human enquiry, can hear no answer except an answer couched somehow in human tones. Primitive man stood in the mountains and shouted against a cliff the echo brought back his own voice, and he believed in a disembodied spirit. The scientist of today stands counting out loud in the face of the unknown. Numbers come back to him - and he believes in the Great Mathematician.
Quotes about couched (15 Quotes)
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
Because it was couched in realism, I think people recognized things. The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.
To be sure, Motherboard never left the confines of the SOE stables after Simpson couched the project, citing economic reasons. Moreover, the end product was a much-larger-scale endeavor, ... It had nothing to do with editorial content.
At the celebration at the Shiite shrine, a cleric gave a scathing speech in the mosque's courtyard. He lashed out at the first Muslim caliphs, the founding fathers of Islam in Sunni eyes, and usurpers of power in Shiite eyes. Though he couched his attacks in the context and vocabulary of early Islamic history, it was clear that he had much more contemporary targets in his metaphorical crosshairs.
As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie; Couched on the bald top of an eminence.
I'd like to say as I get older, I try to move toward more sophisticated - more complex - material, but that's just not true. As I get older and more mature - as I started to mature as an actor and an artist - I start looking for stories that are really simple... simply told, straightforward stories that don't make any pretenses about what they are, or ones that are couched in other things to give you permission to enjoy them.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
In an attempt to promote their dying network, they have maliciously couched his remarks in a manner that is confusing and leaves room for negative interpretation. Randy is not in the NFL substance abuse program and has complied with all urinalysis required by the league, the team, insurance companies, endorsers, etc.
Under yonder beech-tree single on the greensward, Couched with her arms behind her golden head, Knees and tresses folded to slip and ripple idly, Lies my young love sleeping in the shade.
My hounds they bay unto the death,
The buck has couched beyond the burn,
My love she waits at her window
To wash my hands when I return.
The trade deficit will be couched in terms of outsourcing. If you look at trade itself, it doesn't capture a lot of attention until it spills into the question of losing jobs overseas,
To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.