Sentences with phrase «ancient life demands»

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The artists draw on an ancient tradition of Mary as herself a voracious reader, stewed in holy Scriptures, and a notion, then commonplace, of the affinity between the intellectual and spiritual lives, of the «garden enclosed» where the God of truth meets the believer, set apart from the demands of the world.

Their intellectual attainment will be realized only when we admit fully, as the evidence demands, that Hebrew religion achieved freedom from an idolatry (to use a common term) similar to that of the rest of the ancient East — Yahweh was, through the earlier period of the nation's life in Palestine, worshiped in physical form, just as Marduk or Amon or any of the rest of them in their lands.

The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt believed that the spherical shape symbolised eternal life, and demanded that their underlings buried one with them in their tomb.

The Korea Society's current exhibition of Korean ceramics presents the work of eight living artists through such a familiar opposition, implying that the dialectic between ancient practices and demands for innovation is at the core of contemporary ceramic art's concerns.

Living in a house rich with ancient history does not mean proscribing the demands of modern family life, as the owners of this 11th - century manor house, deep within the Wiltshire countryside, have shown.