Sentences with phrase «contradictory feelings of»

Contradictory feelings of unease...

He made large, imposing images of the buildings and bridges of New York City, where contradictory feelings of excitement and imprisonment are expressed.

But maybe that's just another example of the contradictory feelings of life after loss.

Not exact matches

Personally, I feel that if there is a god, and he wants me to believe he exists, he can come over here and tell me himself, I don't accept the Bible as «proof» of anything, because it is self - contradictory and appears to be heavily influenced by the governing culture of the time.

But since there are mutually contradictory elements of experience in the world, it would seem impossible for God to feel one person's pain and someone else's happiness simultaneously.

Yet even if we were to grant to human beings the capacity for full empathy of emotion, it would still be impossible for a single human being to feel contradictory emotions.

If it is always and everywhere difficult for human beings to hold in their minds seemingly contradictory tenets of Christianity, Silence makes the task feel impossible.

All of us send such contradictory messages occasionally simply because we all have conflicted feelings.

She seems to be full of contradictory feelings, telling Wangel, «I love no one but you,» yet also saying to him, «You came out there [to her village] and bought me.

So instead you have millions of contradictory baby books and conflicting sources of advice, or just feeling your way around in the dark until it all kind of naturally clicks into place at some point.

But maybe you can raise children who are better equipped than you are to cope with a culture that promotes unattainable and contradictory ideals while simultaneously depending upon an economic marketplace of information and goods that promise to temporarily assuage media - induced feelings of inadequacy.

I feel like I'm drowning in contradictory information and also am too sleep deprived to make sense of it.

With information around every corner and our culture projecting constant messages (many times contradictory) regarding how we should raise our kids, feeling like a confident and intentional parent can seem out of reach many days.

«For all I know it may embrace raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, and feel warmly towards brown paper packages tied up with string: it's not that these ideas are impossibly contradictory, just that cramming too many of them beneath one umbrella term renders it faintly meaningless.»

There's some contradictory studies where nettle root decreased inflammation very little, but overall, it looks like nettles are mildly anti-inflammatory, despite feeling like the opposite when you fall into a field of them.

Most of all, it's clarified how food and the environment impacts my hormonal health — there is so much contradictory information out there which can be very overwhelming, and I feel like this course has clarified a lot for me — like the last jigsaw piece completing the complicated puzzle....

At the low point of that journey, I contorted my life to abide by numerous, contradictory rules in hopes of feeling better.

The high waist has something to do with my feeling of safety whilst making my legs appear longer, it's a little contradictory I suppose but being confident that my flabby -LSB-...]

Our intuitive feelings are very complicated and often so self - contradictory, that it takes a great deal of self - analysis to sort out the way we feel for a brand - new love that's arrived so promptly after our ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend.

There's also a contradictory nature; Despite feeling like an old - fashioned, Hollywood style picture it has many riffs and rip - off's of contemporary war movies.

And while there are definitely flavors of both in it, my early impressions of Builders left me feeling underwhelmed and wishing it had done a better job of blending both game styles together in a way that wasn't contradictory or shallow.

Mr. Turner covers 25 years of the contradictory painter's life, and it often feels like it, moving at a languorous pace over its two - and - a-half hours.

Celebrating «The Artist» for its originality may seem a tad contradictory — after all, silent movies have been around longer than any other form of cinema — but when compared to today's crop of films, it certainly feels fitting.

by Sean Rom «Puss in Boots is an amiable and gently entertaining film but it also feels like the compromised marriage of two contradictory desires...»

We really felt this stuff was sort of contradictory, because you can't tell someone to stop and pretend it doesn't bother you at the same time.

«I always felt that to teach a course on education organizing was contradictory if we didn't also get involved,» says Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Mark Warren.

The DS 5 offers a strangely contradictory driving experience — it's not quite sharp or responsive enough to be considered a truly sporty handler in the mould of the BMW 3 Series, but it's suspension can feel firmer than you'd expect sometimes.

The documentation from the time is contradictory, but the captain felt he was prevented from landing, while the United States Coast Guard, which appeared to block the ship from turning toward shore, claimed they were present merely «out of concern toward those on board.»

My slow travel preferences, combined with the contradictory fact that I've visited seven countries in the last two weeks, contributes to my sense of feeling flat in Moscow.

She uses circumstantial materials to create a fantasy realm composed of both decorative surfaces that provide a feeling of accessibility and contradictory materials that elicit a sense of uneasiness.

The space feels like an urban park but this is contradictory, because nothing is naturalistic and the language of Boyce's installation is drawn from a modernist, concrete garden created for the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

She examines the complex and at times contradictory emotions that being in a crowd can produce, including collective unconscious, fear, claustrophobia, the feeling of safety in numbers, or being part of something larger than oneself.

Track 16 February 10 - March 31, 2018 The latest work from Argentine art collective Mondongo (Juliana Laffitte and Manuel Mendanha), is overwhelming, igniting contradictory feelings through an array of mediums...

Among an ever expanding (and as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired by the complex and contradictory city I live in (the city of Chicago) and the incredible community of hard working, sincere, talented artists who I am surround by and have the privilege of working alongside and in collaboration with every day (too many and to diverse to name individually here) / / by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / / by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / / by writers and philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (of which my father gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / / by ideas of radical intimacy and transformation and ephemerality and experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and living structures / / by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / / by exploration and navigation and «the Age of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / / by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.

The Foundation chose to celebrate plurality over restrictive critical judgments in making acquisitions, and so it offers a fairly broad view of artistic developments in the 1970s and 1980s, even though some of the inclusions can feel jarring, even contradictory — a room of quiet, conceptual works by On Kawara and Rémy Zaugg, for instance, is situated not far from one of the big - brushed behemoths by Martin Disler, Rainer Fetting (more rare names), Julian Schnabel, and Francesco Clemente.

In touch with his dark and contradictory feelings, Saul has done more paintings of people strapped into electric chairs than anyone else in history.

The images explore the contradictory nature of these escapes — both their sensory pleasures and their accompanying feelings of isolation, dislocation and wistfulness.

Laure Prouvost's reality is a fast world of contradictory images, impressions, and sounds that accumulate to evoke a rush of feelings and endearing humour.

Rather than show the interaction between two bodies, this single limb uncannily represents two opposing gestures, perhaps referring to the experience of sustaining contradictory feelings and desires, a theme Bourgeois had explored before in her important sculpture Janus Fleuri from 1968 (Tate AL00347).

In Zhou Yilun's art, this cocktail of contradictory cultural elements doesn't have the alluvial and demanding vehemence of other artists sharing the same genre, but a type of guilelessness, pleasant purity which finally offers the feeling of comfortable honesty and freedom regarding personal expectation and prejudice.

As for you own wooly - headed idea, litmus questions with three simultaneous and contradictory answers, your example suggests that you «feel» that the climate of the 21st century will both be dominated by anthropogenic warming and by natural variability.

His comments were contradictory at best, they laid bare once again the monumental lie that was his promise to lead the greenest government ever, and — perhaps more importantly — ignored a growing tide of feeling in Britain that we need to properly tackle climate change and embrace renewable energy.

If you're feeling overwhelmed by a list of seemingly contradictory to - do's, turn things on their head and work on fixing these to - don'ts instead.

Being bombarded with «shoulds» and «coulds,» and often contradictory advice does not help the constant feeling of, «Am I doing this wrong?»

All couples endure the pulls of difference of opinion, contradictory goals, feelings, and betrayals, sometimes ever so slight.

Our apparently contradictory GUS finding may reflect measurement of events over a longer time period, and their impact on children's feelings, rather than on parenting behaviour - especially as our measures of parent - child relationships (unlike those in the UK Millennium Cohort Study) are child - reported, and involve older children.

These are questions many couples struggle with in the counseling room, sorting through the mixture of ambivalent and often contradictory feelings about the relationship.

It usually helps if couples can see healing as a process, managing the contradictory feelings, and at the same time working on strengthening the friendship part of the relationship by taking time for each other, remaining positive and not critical and being gentle during conflict.

While the dimensions of understanding and mood repair (regulating emotions) generally predict the degree of psychosocial adjustment (Fernandez - Berrocal and Extremera 2007; Wong et al. 2007; Berking et al. 2008), the relationship between the attention (perceiving) dimension and adjustment problems is not clear; contradictory results show that attention to feelings may play a different role than understanding and mood repair.

French furniture pulls off the contradictory feat of feeling both opulent and simple at the same time, making it the perfect choice if you want a bedroom that's calm as well as luxurious.