Sentences with phrase «as ecstasy»

But it also has a large collection of work by Gill, including, on permanent display, a sculpture now known as Ecstasy (1910 - 1), one of the models for which was the artist's sister Gladys, with whom he had an incestuous relationship that lasted most of his life.

He was only interested in expressing basic human emotions, such as ecstasy, tragedy, doom and so on.

Their second power over suffering was, in a sense, to sculpt it — to reveal it in Heaven only as it was seen and felt by them — as ecstasy.

From there, things take several unforeseen twists and turns, involving an evil drug lord (Timothy Olyphant, Scream 2), and soon Ronna and her friend Claire (Katie Holmes, TVs «Dawson's Creek») in over her head, at a nightclub selling aspirin disguised as Ecstasy.

In the past month alone, studies have been published on the benefits of MDMA (better known as Ecstasy) in people with post-traumatic stress disorder and on the fast - acting antidepressive effects of the club drug ketamine (aka «Special K»).

The researcher studied the power of pill testing to prevent deaths caused by «party drugs» such as ecstasy and methamphetamines at festivals, clubs and Read more about Should we pop pill - testing into our drug strategy?

«We've always known that electronic dance music party attendees are at high risk for use of club drugs such as ecstasy or Molly, but we wanted to know the extent of opioid use in this population,» said CDUHR researcher Joseph Palamar, PhD, MPH, the study's lead author and an associate professor of population health at NYU School of Medicine.

On the street it is known as Ecstasy.

«Using some drugs such as ecstasy can make certain brain regions overheat and then become damaged,» Dr Li says.

In a pilot study, South Carolina psychiatrist Michael Mithoefer is targeting PTSD with a controversial drug: methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA, commonly known as Ecstasy.

Dr. Palamar also pointed out that «bath salts» can wind up as adulterants in drugs such as ecstasy (MDMA, «Molly») so it is possible that many club and festival attendees who use «Molly» may be unintentionally using these potentially dangerous drugs.

Maybe you are only alive when your ego is so threatened by the immense evil of the Destroyer, and you fight to get back up for air, for light, for animal normalcy now grasped as ecstasy ignored.

The mature Christian, therefore, takes ethics (left hemisphere), as seriously as ecstasy (right hemisphere).

Better known to nightclubbers as ecstasy, the euphoria - inducing drug MDMA appears to alleviate Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in war veterans, firefighters, and police officers, researchers said Wednesday.

Not exact matches

Because the Deep Web is best known as the home of Silk Road, a notorious online service similar to eBay — if that website trafficked in handguns, ecstasy pills and thugs, rather than vintage timepieces and Alf dolls.

The U.S. government still classifies cannabis as a Schedule I substance under the 1970 Controlled Substance Act (CSA), which places it alongside heroin, MMDA and ecstasy as drugs with a high potential for abuse and no approved medical usage.

Ripatrazone devotes considerable attention to Ron Hansen's 1991 novel Mariette in Ecstasy, which he sees as «a postconciliar method to regain lay participation in the mechanisms of the Church.»

Then there was a thing called «the movement» (often capitalized as The Movement), which was a frequently confused mix of agitations coming out of the civil rights movement, joining up with opposition to the war in Vietnam, and linking hands with a «counterculture» that embraced everything from pharmaceutical ecstasies to flirting with revolutionary violence.

I've also heard an interesting idea that Heaven and Hell are the same place, and whether you experience God's presence as unimaginable ecstasy or like diving into the sun is largely dependent on your own individual bent.

To regard the ordinary embodied experience of men and women as theologically significant in a positive way is to receive all these images of physical delight, of beauty and ecstasy, of human growth and nurture, of the contact between human persons that the touching of bodies can make possible.

This smaller unit (vs. 16) toward which the whole passage is pointed 7 is the reproduction — insofar as such is capable of reproduction — of the word received in prophetic concentration / ecstasy.

The New Testament never speaks of the training of the soul in mystical experience or of ecstasy as the culmination of the Christian life.

The publisher's promotional material appears to build on the expectations associated with this sort of story, describing Mariette in Ecstasy as «a powerful portrayal of the disturbing world beneath the placid daily life of an American convent.»

As a report on the fantasies and ecstasies of the day, his statement is certainly correct.

This is why it has the power to heal us of our modern derangements: because, paradoxical as it may seem to modern temperaments, Christian asceticism is the practice of love, what Maximus the Confessor calls learning to see the logos of each thing within the Logos of God, and it eventuates most properly in the grateful reverence of a Bonaventure or the lyrical ecstasy of a Thomas Traherne.

To me that was a heartbreaking picture, of course, but it was also an image of something amazing and glorious: the sheer ecstasy of innocence, the happiness of a child who can dance amid despair and desolation because her joy came with her into the world and prompts her to dance as if she were in the midst of paradise.

Fra Angelico, the sensual Florentine monk who used to crawl out his window to visit the girls, painted her watching joyfully as on Easter morning Jesus dances in ecstasy at his resurrection.

This experience of the unity of the self is understood by the mystic as the experience of the unity, and this leads him to turn away from his existence as a man to a duality of «higher» hours of ecstasy and lower» hours in the world which are regarded as preparation for the higher.

The spirituality of the convent depicted in Mariette in Ecstasy would be condemned by many in the Catholic Church today as psychologically unhealthy and preoccupied with personal salvation at the expense of social justice.

That is why, as Traversi says, Dostoevsky's hero - mystics are driven by their thirst for this God «into straining the boundaries of human experience, so that their ecstasy inevitably coincides with the dissolution of the personality into epileptic idiocy.»

Such a total change in outlook is regarded as a glimpse into the life of ecstasy and bliss which is the consummation of the religious quest.

Rounds out and counters our hearts & flowers sense of «grace» As Neils Bohr says, the opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth: agony and ecstasy — Siamese Twins though we want to send one of them to the cellar.

It is not unusual to see in the sculpture of a Romanesque church such a thing as the graphic portrayal of lust placed alongside a saint contorted by the ecstasy of revelation.

Otherwise God would be a universal natural substance, something non-rational; psychological experiences, excitement and ecstasy, devotion and joy, would be interpreted as communion with God.

But when we divorce physical pleasure from emotional connection, such as when we selfishly strive for orgasm through pornography, masturbation or illicit sexual encounters rather than cultivating sexual ecstasy with our marriage partner, sexual ecstasy is only «half - baked.»

St. Teresa of Avila in one of her ecstasies, regarded her thinking and imaginative faculties as troublesome little dogs snapping at her ankles.

Because alcohol has the power to give temporary feelings of adequacy, expansiveness, and ecstasy, it has been regarded in many cultures as something magical, even divine.

After all, were not each person's private ecstasies irrefutably his own and therefore very real so far as he was concerned?

And this may not be an easy matter; for real love includes and requires a certain anguish as the complement to its ecstasy.

«The false presentation of ecstasy, intimacy and power presented in porn are finally being seen as hollow.»

«My tears of sorrow changed to joy, and I lay there praising God in such ecstasy of joy as only the soul who experiences it can realize.»

Although dictionary.com defines Rapture as:» the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence» and this is a term used by many Christians regarding the second - coming of their Savior; it is also defined as: «ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy».

But they also know the unique, creative ecstasy of union as they refuse to be parasitic upon each other, or upon others.

Some find the meaning of life in a present, intimate and manageable kind of human love, such as that for another person, or in the ecstasies of group belonging.

life, in visions and ecstasies, as they are induced or furthered by such abstinence, the ascetic believes he already finds traces of this divine nature in himself.

I can only grieve that most exegetes still represent Luke as continuing to foster ecstasy as the mark of the Spirit's coming when Luke substituted foreign languages for «tongues» to dispel that distraction.

The Yehudi speaks these words in a whisper in the midst of a great ecstasy of prayer such as he has experienced from his youth on, not without danger of death.

A contemporary who hears the voice of Yahweh, I daresay, would be just as suspect in that perspective as one who experiences the voluptuous ecstasies of Astarte.

Nothing one can do will convert Gregorian chant into a style as bodily and erotic in its center as various kinds of rock; nor can rock be made to sound as contemplative or as ethereal as chant, though it can indeed take on an aura of ecstasy.

Although the individual may for a time seem to outwardly decline in their practices of virtue, they in reality become more virtuous, as they are being virtuous less for the spiritual rewards (ecstasies in the cases of the first night) obtained and more out of a true love for God.