Sentences with phrase «inexplicable urge»

Banner image: George Herms, Inexplicable Urge, 2012; Mixed media, 24 x 28 x 12 inches; 61 x 71.1 x 30.5 centimeters.

An inexplicable urge to touch them, these curious peaks and troughs, flowing across the canvas like an enticing piece of poetry, or sound; they are like a parallel universe, made of light and shadows, the real and the surreal, space and its many variations.

There are moments in Only God Forgives when you feel an inexplicable urge to laugh, and there are moments, too, when you recoil from the horrors on the screen.

I have an inexplicable urge to eat candy when I travel, so I like to have some antioxidant - rich dark chocolate bark on hand as a semi-responsible indulgence.

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Everything is in the grasp of this life - force, this «infinite, inexplicable, forward - urging will in which all Being is grounded» (Kultur und Ethik [Biederstein Verlag, 1948], p. 211).

Still, CEH's executive director called Pepsi's delay «inexplicable» and urged the company to «take swift action» to provide the same safer product that's being sold in California to all Americans.2

Yet our urge is to try to make sense of them 1) because you can not let down your guard with the cunning McDonagh and 2) because human beings reflexively and instinctively try to make sense of the inexplicable.

The forces bedeviling these families vary in nature — an apocalyptic disaster in «Time of the Wolf,» inexplicable suicidal urges in «The Seventh Continent,» memories of past transgressions in «Caché» — but see enough of them and you will soon realize that every tormentor is a front for Haneke himself.

DAUM: It was partly an inexplicable chemical urge.