Sentences with phrase «aesthetic pleasure of»

''... the sheer aesthetic pleasure of seeing 4 different colors of bullet showers decimating the enemy is truly a spectacle.»

This small silver lining provides a reason — beyond the sheer aesthetic pleasure of riding — to traverse the beautiful lands of Hyrule upon the back of a horse.

Now that we can mimic the tactile and aesthetic pleasure of print magazines with tablet and mobile apps, at a lower cost, with the immediacy and archival capability of online, there is no reason to fear the decline of the publishing industry.

But Miller's Crossing is an aesthetic pleasure of the highest order on nearly every level.

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In modern societies, Weber argued, the biblical God must compete with worldly gods such as aesthetic experience, material success, nationalistic fervor, erotic pleasure, and the many other forms of self - transcendence and this - worldly immortality that call out to our inner demons.

The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»

Every person has a need for the pleasures of the mind and the body; these include sexual, intellectual, aesthetic, interpersonal, and spiritual satisfactions, as well as adventure derived from new experiences.

And can we learn once again to be happy in traditional towns and cities — not only as a moral antidote to individualism, inequality and the misuse of environmental resources, and not only as an aesthetic antidote to suburban sprawl, but also for the sake of the genuine goods and pleasures (including both communal belonging and individual freedom) of traditional urban life?

The pervasive, universal values are not moral and are not mere pleasure, they are aesthetic in the sense of the intrinsic harmonies and intensities of experiencing.

Experiences of the pleasures of the mind and the senses, including physical, intellectual, aesthetic, interpersonal, and spiritual satisfactions, as well as the adventure of new experiences.

They function as the religious vocation, the seduction for the enjoyment of aesthetic pleasure, the tantalizing tease, the pitch of the salesman, the marriage «proposal,» the «come on,» the «proposition» of the lover.

Hence we may therefore speak of an «aesthetic conversion'that takes place when we recognise beauty not merely as that which produces feelings of pleasure, but as «form», understood as «perceivable order, intelligibility and value».

One who has earnestness and inner spiritual resources can let his soul be lifted by such beauty as is present, get along without what is absent, and avoid confusing aesthetic pleasure with the beauty of holiness.

This last theory, pleasure in the ugly, best articulates the essential aesthetic of the electronic church.

Nevertheless, because the electronic church so often both depicts evil and implicitly denies its seriousness, the pleasure theory best articulates the core of the electronic church's aesthetic and sensibilities.

One of More's colleagues, a Swedish philosopher named Nick Bostrom, took to the podium at the same conference to predict «orgasms and aesthetic - contemplative pleasures whose blissfulness vastly exceeds what any human has yet experienced,» as well as «love that is stronger, purer and more secure than any human has yet harbored» and «values that will strike us as being of a far higher order than those we can realize as unenhanced biological humans.»

There is the silo argument, for maintaining the existence of all those organisms useful to us; the laboratory argument for maintaining those organisms needed for experimental studies; the gymnasium argument of nature for leisure; and the cathedral argument of nature for aesthetic pleasure.

Magid is both a baker — special - occasion cakes are her specialty — and a stylist, and the visual design of the book reflects a clean, feminine aesthetic that I find a pleasure to read and bake from.

There are limits to the pursuit of aesthetic pleasure, of course.

«In these instances, music is typically the central source of these experiences, and aesthetic qualities were very much involved in the experienced pleasure.

We asked Meg, the blogger behind MegBiram.com, to utilize the National Sleep Foundation's healthy bedroom tips to help craft the perfect sleep environment, with a focus on refreshing their room for increased aesthetic pleasure, better productivity and of course, a good old fashioned dose of spring cleaning for better overall health.

I always felt sleeveless layering to be some sort of aesthetic guilty pleasure because it certainly doesn't do much in terms of function...

Part of the aesthetic pleasure afforded by writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson's «Phantom Thread» lies in the swank fabrics and carefully tended 1950s settings surrounding the Day - Lewis character.

The most noble aesthetic pleasure is the discovery of truth,» Jancso told Filmvilag magazine.

It's a genuine pleasure watching these two talented actresses engage on everything from boy troubles to the aesthetic considerations of superhero movies.

The picture - in - picture commentary stands as perhaps the best extra of the year, in which the directors hold forth with a marvelous lack of pretension even as they describe a fantastically experimental approach More surface pleasure than their borderline avant - garde Crank films or Gamer «s symbiosis of satiric content and form, Ghost Rider 2 nevertheless tries to create new aesthetic paths for a genre that has rapidly fallen into vanilla homogeneity.

But, before you start thinking about the cost, let's take a better look at what the package presents in terms of uniqueness and aesthetic pleasure.

The new version of the BMW 5 Series Touring, which has traditionally enjoyed particular success in European car markets, raises the model's signature combination of driving pleasure, aesthetic appeal, innovation and intelligent functionality to an even higher level.

In The Dynamics of Creation, Anthony Storr, the British psychiatrist, contends that an individual who «fears love almost as much as he fears hatred» may turn to creative activity not only out of an impulse to experience aesthetic pleasure, or the delight of exercising an active mind, but also to defend himself against anxiety stimulated by conflicting demands for detachment and human contact.

If the ebook is all about ease, and short attention spans, the ink and paper book must satisfy not just the thrill of reading, but the deep aesthetic pleasure associated with owning, holding and even scenting a favourite text.

With its spectacular views of the majestic St Peter's Dome and across the Eternal City, the panorama is an aesthetic pleasure in itself.

But taking the whole relaxation thing up a notch (or 10) are these 9 bathtubs in Queensland, where postcard - perfect views of the Whitsunday Islands and towering rainforests add an aesthetic pleasure to the whole experience.

But it also taps into a powerfully ingrained ideological pleasure in mass spectacle and, through its aesthetic, points vertiginously to a computerized and virtual future, the anticipation of which fills me with a pleasurable dread.

His later works, such as plaster pianos, blue Murano glass musical instruments and bronze and ceramic turtles, achieve a perfect equilibrium between conceptual conviction and aesthetic concerns, and also reflect a real pleasure of making.

Van der Stokker argues for the role of pleasure in aesthetic experience, finding alliances between beauty and intellect, playfulness and criticality.

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«It gives me pleasure to feel there's a level that doesn't require knowledge of or immersion in the aesthetic of a given time or place.»

[4] However, several of the original Dadaists denounced the label Neo-Dada, especially in its U.S. manifestations, on the grounds that the work was derivative rather than making fresh discoveries; that aesthetic pleasure was found in what were originally protests against bourgeois aesthetic concepts; and because it pandered to commercialism.

It is characteristic of Stingel that even while providing a critique of painting he simultaneously celebrates its aesthetic and intellectual pleasures.

Following her residency at the British School at Rome and at the Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Prouvost presented an installation inspired by the aesthetic and sensuous pleasures of Italy — Farfromwords: cars mirrors eat raspberries when swimming through the sun, to swallow sweet smells.

Culled from the orderliness of scientific taxonomies, we assemble our gardens for aesthetic pleasures, and for contact with wildness.

Instead and pressingly, even with wild up and downs, flaws and all, the 2017 Whitney Biennial is the best of its kind in some time for the multiple ways it reveals how — selected as it is, without overdetermined political and aesthetic dogma, and curators remaining open to the exigencies of pleasure and the mysterious ways that art mutates but doesn't play catch - up — a show of artists simply at work, whether making expressionistic paintings, idiosyncratic functional constructions, casting the further shores of socially activist conceptualism, or documenting collapsing ecosystems or family dynamics — that artists are always addressing and channeling issues of the day.

Alloway traces their embrace of this aesthetic concept to the 18th century Romantic reprise of the Sublime's «momentous and powerful» qualities, in which the pleasure from nature's beauty is accompanied by a sense of awe, fear or dread, «solitude, silence, and infinity.»

Helmbrechts walk, 1998 - 2003, is the subject of a chapter in Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory by Brett Ashley Kaplan, published by Routledge in 2011 and in Dora Apel's, Memory Affects; The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing and is cited in Unwanted Beauty; Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation, also by Brett Ashley Kaplan.

The Rules of the Game # 1 - 3 aesthetic pleasure is secondary.

There's such grace and refinement, and simple sensory pleasure, to be found in Judd that it's hard to believe that when his art first came on the scene, even some of his fans felt it was a purely conceptual exercise, with few aesthetic rewards.

Each reveling in visual detail, eliciting an almost iconoclastic charge, the works in this exhibition continue to expose layers of pleasure and discomfort lurking beneath the surface of aesthetic experience.

This significant new work synthesizes Uklański's ongoing interest in craft and aesthetic practices from the fringes of Modernism, while also suggesting Feminist forms and the seminal role of visual pleasure.

She champions the importance of women's sensual pleasure and she examines the possibilities of political and personal emancipation from predominant social and aesthetic conventions.

An understandable aesthetic pleasure is thus evoked but the de-materialised nature of the work also interrogates the exhibiting function of the institution and its values.