What's the difference between incarnation and karma?

Incarnation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.
  • (n.) The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.
  • (n.) An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act.
  • (n.) A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation.
  • (n.) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Phil has to go through every incarnation of what he thinks love is until he really gets it."
  • (2) The Brotherhood's Libyan incarnation won only 10% of the vote in last year's congressional elections, but gained support with its campaign to mandate wholesale purges of Gaddafi-era officials.
  • (3) He looks younger than even the freshest-faced incarnation: skin smooth and honeyed, sipping an almond milk cocktail in one of London's few raw-food vegan restaurants ("I plan to live into my hundreds").
  • (4) Hall said it would be given the budget it needed to do the job, raising the prospect that far from having its budget cut, as much of the corporation has had to do, it may get more money in its next incarnation.
  • (5) But rather than stew in bitterness, Hodgson's departure seems to have focused the band in much the same way as getting dropped in their early days (in their incarnation as Parva) did.
  • (6) But one thing that distinguishes today's establishment from earlier incarnations is its sense of triumphalism.
  • (7) "Ironically the church is a church of the incarnation.
  • (8) For decades, "Tricky Dicky" was the supreme hate figure for the American left, the incarnation of the antichrist for Democrats.
  • (9) If the EU learns the lesson of the eurozone crisis and rows back from some of the more unbalanced and excessively intrusive initiatives of which the euro itself in its current incarnation has become the symbol, the Greek crisis may turn out to have been just another of those stutters that accompany any grand political experiment.
  • (10) I think of the younger, gayer, less neurotic incarnation of myself that appears on Facebook.
  • (11) The trophy has been through several incarnations, but this year's competition is the first where the MLS sides' entry isn't staggered according to league position - ensuring that 16 ties would take place featuring the top tier sides, with a chance of an upset in each of them.
  • (12) As Cohn himself pointed out, all his work was fundamentally concerned with the study of the same phenomenon: "the urge to purify the world through the annihilation of some category of human beings imagined as agents of corruption and incarnations of evil".
  • (13) But he said: “LVMH is the illustration, the incarnation of the worst, according to these extreme-leftist observers, of what the market economy produces.” Switching to irony, he said: “We have it all wrong.
  • (14) In most languages, the most common sexist insults are "whore" or "slut", which makes women want to distance themselves from the stigma associated with those words, and from those who incarnate it.
  • (15) An early incarnation of the uncertainty principle appeared in a 1927 paper by Heisenberg, a German physicist who was working at Niels Bohr 's institute in Copenhagen at the time, titled " On the Perceptual Content of Quantum Theoretical Kinematics and Mechanics ".
  • (16) But in its most critical passage, Tuesday’s report merely called for the American nuns to “carefully review their spiritual practices and ministry to assure that these are in harmony with Catholic teaching about God, creation, the incarnation and the redemption,” and called for greater dialogue.
  • (17) It has, however, detailed where the new boundary will lie compared to its current incarnation.
  • (18) Past incarnations of the Union would have chosen this as their moment to fold, but instead Philadelphia struck back before the half, and while it would take till injury time to do so, and thanks to another penalty, they got out of the game with Sébastien le Toux’s late equaliser.
  • (19) Cultural puritans might denounce the whole idea as a perverse extreme of reality TV, which in its Big Brother incarnation – a format also invented by the Dutch – was always designed primarily as a form of psychological torture for our sadistic viewing pleasure.
  • (20) In War and Peace, he successfully depicted the public and national soul as incarnated in a vast array of individuals, and the novel tries, in a compelling way, to define the same unity amongst his characters.

Karma


Definition:

  • (n.) One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I happen to know that he’s hanging out with somebody that’s a purely poisonous predator now — and that’s karma,” said the Croz.
  • (2) A few monks came down, and gave a class on karma and why bad things happen to good people, and I found answers I had been looking for.
  • (3) [Belief in] karma makes people submissive; that’s how the country is run.” For Weerasethakul, this issue is no longer simply aesthetic: after the 2014 military coup , it’s one of political urgency.
  • (4) He's a firm believer in karma, and says that after plenty of rough times he's never been happier.
  • (5) It was only quite late in the day that I realised that somebody on my own team had been killed.” That someone was a 34-year-old Sherpa called Pasang Karma Sherpa.
  • (6) Hugh Lanning ( Chair, Palestine Solidarity Campaign), Maxine Peake, Brian Eno, Miriam Margolyes, Ken Loach, Benjamin Zephaniah, Paul Laverty, Ahdaf Soueif, Dr Karma Nabulsi
  • (7) If you are a “dead beat” dad then karma is a cruel mistress.
  • (8) In this case one can expect a greater emphasis on meditation, breathing and cleansing techniques, along with devotional practices such as mantra chanting, tuition in philosophy, and karma yoga (community service).
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kandi Sherpa, widow of Pasang Karma Sherpa, who was killed in the 2014 avalanche on Everest, beneath portraits of her husband in her home in Nepal.
  • (10) We are treating it as if it’s cultural – we don’t want to offend people – and that is wrong.” Pointing out that numbers of teenage girls disappear every summer from British schools, Sanghera said that Karma Nirvana had recently written to every school in West Yorkshire inviting them to a free educational event, but that only two schools turned up.
  • (11) I wonder, however, how karma will play to a million children, orphaned by Aids?
  • (12) This year they renamed it the Pasang Karma trek and pledged to donate the profits to his widow, Kandi Sherpa and her three children.
  • (13) Karma Nirvana, a charity that supports victims, said its helpline dealt with more than 6,700 calls about forced marriage and honour-based violence last year, with its busiest months during the school holidays.
  • (14) For example: "I hope she has an unfortunate death like Stephen Gately as karma that she deserves for her 'sleazy lifestyle'."
  • (15) It would be just awful karma to throw a party and have somebody die there.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grace Jones at New York’s Studio 54 nightclub in 1978.
  • (16) I really believe that will happen, I believe in karma and I believe in hard work and I don't believe in like, I don't know."
  • (17) The book's title isn't supposed to suggest feminism ever went away – groups as disparate as Justice for Women, The Fawcett Society, Southall Black Sisters and Karma Nirvana have been working for women's rights for decades now.
  • (18) These are: action (karma), direct perception, emptiness, and dependent arising.
  • (19) Patients currently presenting for treatment of mental disorder may describe their illness with reference to these concepts, but they also rely on other indigenous traditional concepts such as astrology, karma, the effects of other humoral relationships, such as semen loss and so forth; or they may rely on ideas derived from cosmopolitan medicine or both.
  • (20) If the prime minister lasts another two years, it will only be because both men are happy for her to absorb the toxic karma of Brexit negotiations before they make their move.