We keep our heads down, eyes glued to our phones, afraid if we don't, we'll miss out; when all the while (ironically) we're missing out on the very world around us. (relevantmagazine.com)
The stories were told at a time of acute crisis, in a situation that challenged the very world order the tales projected but that also required their telling. (religion-online.org)
This very world, this very contradiction, unabridged, unmitigated, unsmoothed, unsimplified, unreduced, this world shall be — not overcome — but consummated.... (religion-online.org)