Sentences with phrase «almost live presence»

The midrange was thick and warm beneath, bringing a blend of dry force, matched by just enough high - end sparkle to create an almost live presence from the music.

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For me, the claim was almost laughable in light of the ways Jesus» presence disturbed the lives of people who loved him as a baby, a child, and a man.

One would almost think that the West had only just had news of that victory, as it had just learned of the conquest of Jerusalem, and that the purpose of the company of statues that now was mustering in the glimmering recesses of cathedral porches was to reveal to men as living presences the figures of their collective dreams.4

It's an instinct that drives him to pursue art with an almost physical vulnerability («You put your hands under your skin, you break your breastbone, you rip open your rib cage»), an instinct that drives him to hit high notes that he claims he can reach only in the presence of an audience, an instinct that compels him to construct a life filled with tension and paradox — a life in which he finds himself a friend of both the poor and the rich.

While the Humanists propose to solve the problem of the religious crisis by allowing only a religion which completely identifies itself with the spirit of secularism, and while the Modernists rely primarily upon the actuality and presence of the religious life, the Barthians wish to depend almost exclusively upon the Bible and on a church which recognizes the special worth of the Bible.

You may be surprised to discover that almost the whole of our waking life is spent in some way in the presence of mass - mediated messages, messages which, by their nature, are highly ideological by virtue of their being centralised, largely impersonal, lacking the opportunity for personal feedback and participation, and generally existing primarily for the purpose of economic profit.

But subjects like astronomy needs an introduction, as its presence in our day to day life is almost nil.

The Metal Gear series began life on the MSX home computer / console hybrid, a platform with almost zero presence in the U.S.. So, for the American market, Konami had the game reworked for the country's favorite console, the NES.

Also sure to be nominated: Renee Zellweger, whose helpful and pushy neighbor brings «Cold Mountain» to life, and Marcia Gay Harden, who has an almost frightening presence in «Mystic River.»

If the real William Moulton Marston, the psychologist - turned - comic - book - writer, was anything like his film counterpart, he probably would be grateful that his presence in Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is almost completely overshadowed by the two most significant women in his life.

Director and co-writer Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) was key, according to Kingsley, as was the make - up and costume team working with Kingsley to breathe life into the half - Maori war hero, who is an almost mythical presence in Orson Scott Card's 1980s bestseller.

It's fitting that Jackie keeps John Kennedy (Caspar Phillipson) on the film's periphery, a powerful and almost haunting ghost of a presence who utters almost no words but whose brutal death and its aftermath is graphically displayed, the sudden, jarring explosion of the President's skull determining a sudden new path for the First Lady, who in the midst of her grief and shock must pack up her belongings and leave the White House and her former life behind.

And MacFarlane, in his first leading live - action role, is such a weightless presence that he blands out almost every scene he's in.

• And the good folks at Droid Life noted: «The UI itself is almost identical to the original Fire, including the consistent presence of lag from the home screen.

[69] Some recent observations indicate that historic presences of resident whales are possible: a group of two or three were observed feeding in Izu Ōshima in 1994 for almost a month, [71] two single individuals stayed in Ise Bay for almost two months in the 1980s and in 2012, the first confirmed living individuals in Japanese EEZ in the Sea of Japan and the first of living cow - calf pairs since the end of whaling stayed for about three weeks on the coastline of Teradomari in 2014.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to «order» than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: «I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can not agree with your methods of direct action»; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a «more convenient season.»

Nanamo's assassination by poison — gasping, choking for air, for dear life; as her and the dreams she has for her people die violently and then fall to the floor — has so much presence it can almost be touched.

Large scale, almost life - size, the paintings become physical presence's and you can feel them viscerally and visually.

The still lifes imply narratives: in Still Life # 60 (1973), a huge six - part work measuring almost thirty feet in width, the objects, which appear to be the contents of a woman's purse, suggest a human presence; a visitor who has placed her belongings on a bedside table.

As Harrisburg native, photographer, and co-owner of the Gallery Blu art gallery, Christina Heintzelman - Jones notes, «there's almost a panache to living here now,» she said only half jokingly adding that the presence of artists in a neighborhood, even one in transition, often helps mitigate what could be seen as a risky investment.