Sentences with phrase «by abjuring»

By abjuring her «rough magic,» burying her magician's staff and drowning her book of spells, Prospera elects to live in a world without supernatural possibilities; having demonstrated the power of art, she accepts the limits of that power and forsakes hubris for humility, something Ms. Taymor seems unable to do.

Not exact matches

The philosopher does not start from a faith in being's intelligible disclosure of itself — in fact, he starts by explicitly abjuring such faith — but rather vests his trust in the power of the self to posit reality from its own unshakeable position.

As well as eating and drinking, the faithful are expected to abstain from smoking and sexual relations between dawn and dusk, and to abjure lies, slander, greed, covetousness, giving false oath and denouncing someone behind their back (all of these are prohibited throughout the year by Islam.

We would be better able to answer that question if Hasker had told us exactly which views often held by other traditional free will theists he has abjured.

Has he abjured his past flirtations with the «impressionism and relativism» so roundly anathematized by earlier critics?

The photographer and art historian Jeff Wall has written that while many other conceptual artists «abjured, apparently for good, any involvement with the world» outside of their methodologies, Mr. Graham's aim has always been «to remain involved with the wider world as a subject and occasion for art, but to structure that involvement in the rigorously self - reflexive terms» opened up by conceptualism.

By the way, I hear he has reverted to his earlier views now, and abjures the climate pessimism he propounded in «Revenge of Gaia».