Sentences with phrase «as alien forms»

Similar to a game of «odd one out,» they exist as alien forms in a clinical space otherwise only filled with utilitarian IKEA furniture and homewares.

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As for the first pagans (sumerians), they worshiped the fallen angels that come in form of aliens, gods and goddesses, enchanted beasts, and serpent weilders, and shouldn't be taken lightly, these witches, wizards.

Unless these aliens brought some kind of evidence for their religion and the existence of their deity, such as a demonstration of the power of their form prayer, I really have to much to rethink.

If we conceive of the Word or Spirit as moving more and more fully into the body of the profane in response to the self - negation of God in Christ, then we can understand how the Christian God gradually becomes more alien and beyond, receding into a lifeless and oppressive form, until it finally appears as an empty and vacuous nothingness.

This transition is effected by the death of the abstract and alien God in the kenotic process of Incarnation and Crucifixion; but a religious form of faith can only grasp this process as a series of events that are autonomous and external to human consciousness.

For so long as consciousness remains bound to religion, it must exist in an alienated form, closed to the inner reality of Spirit by its very belief in an alien Other.

Moreover, I regard the Incarnation as a historical movement and process; it does not reveal the illusory opposition between God and the world, but rather effects an actual reconciliation between estranged and alienated opposites, between an alien and transcendent form of God that is estranged from the world and a fallen and broken form of the world that is estranged from God.

Once God has died in Christ to his transcendent epiphany, that epiphany must inevitably recede into an abstract and alien form, eventually becoming the full embodiment of every alien other, and thence appearing to consciousness as the ultimate source of all repression.

It would be a mistake to see this as entirely inflicted on the immigrant groups by an alien American culture.17 Some form of it is what lured many to these shores in the first place.

Thus Hegel, even as Blake, correlates and integrates the death of God and apocalypse, for the French Revolution is the historical advent and embodiment of the death of God, yet this is the death of a wholly abstract and alien form or manifestation of God, an epiphany or realization of God which does not occur or become real until and the full and final birth of the modern world.

May it not be that the particular form of the Christian message, based as it is upon a record of events long ago, recorded in terms largely alien to modern thinking, partly explains the comparative ineffectiveness of the Gospel?

It is a form of transcendence that can not possibly be viewed as a physical separateness or alien otherness.

Above all, a Christ who even now is manifest in the preincarnate form and epiphany of God, and who can be reached only by a total reversal of our history and experience, must be named as the Antichrist, as the dead and alien body of the God who originally died in Christ.

A faith that names Jesus either as the Son of God or as the prophet of God must be a backward movement to a disincarnate and primordial form of Spirit, a movement annulling the events of the Incarnation and the Crucifixion by resurrecting Jesus either in the form of the exalted Lord or as the proclaimer of an already distant and alien majesty of God: hence an orthodox and priestly Christianity is inevitably grounded in the sacred authority and power of the past.

Thus, too, Christendom has known the most terrible guilt in history, and as a religious Christianity has progressively and ever more fully reversed the movement of the Incarnation, the Christian God has increasingly become alien and abstract, until in our own time he has only been present and real in actual experience in a totally alien form, and the whole body of Western humanity has been initiated into a radical and total state of guilt.

As a figure of a much more general phenomenon and as an example of its most extreme form let us consider Carlo Levi's description of the religious life of a village in southern Italy in which he lived for a year, a life so alien that he considers it not only pre-Christian but in a sense pre-religiouAs a figure of a much more general phenomenon and as an example of its most extreme form let us consider Carlo Levi's description of the religious life of a village in southern Italy in which he lived for a year, a life so alien that he considers it not only pre-Christian but in a sense pre-religiouas an example of its most extreme form let us consider Carlo Levi's description of the religious life of a village in southern Italy in which he lived for a year, a life so alien that he considers it not only pre-Christian but in a sense pre-religious.

I believe this is known as liberal democracy, and is of a form alien to, and actively suppressed in, the continental EU.

Any intelligent aliens we meet could be so far advanced we might have a hard time even recognizing them as being life - forms at all.

«We think the nickel - phosphorus - iron grains formed pre-solar, because they are inside the matrix, and are unlikely to have been modified by shock such as collision with the Earth's atmosphere or surface, and also because their composition is so alien to our solar system,» he adds.

Because ozone is largely dependent on the existence of organisms to form, Webb will look for it in alien atmospheres as a possible indicator of life.

NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan also said that she believed in alien life and with the advances in science and technology, she thinks that proof of alien life forms will finally be found in as early as about a decade.

The findings were headed by Bruce Macintosh, a professor of physics at Stanford University, and show the new planet, 51 Eridani b, is one million times fainter than its parent star and shows the strongest methane signature ever detected on an alien planet, which should yield additional clues as to how the planet formed.

Whoever you are, whatever you do, your job is almost certainly boring as hell compared with the researchers who spent the last six weeks diving beneath Antarctica's sea ice to study alien life forms on the ocean floor.

Sigourney Weaver returns as Ellen Ripley, the last surviving crew member of a corporate spaceship destroyed after an attack by a vicious, virtually unbeatable alien life form.

A tale of horror and suspense cut from the same jump - scare cloth as «Alien,» with a dash of «Arrival» thrown in — with its subtext of a woman mourning an unspoken loss — «Annihilation» initially exudes a form of magnetism every bit as somber and determined as Portman's tersely self - possessed protagonist.

Like the man - apes before him, Dr. Floyd is similarly awed and stirred by his first view of the alien form - it is a religious experience as the men worshipfully gaze at the altar where the monolith stands.

The fantastic narrative structure jumps from a pre-historic era, when apes first discovered using bones as tools and as weapons, to a futuristic space - age when man discovers proof of intelligent alien life in the form of a gigantic black monolith on the moon.

Yet there is no doubt that «Prometheus,» set about a hundred years from now and starring Noomi Rapace («The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo») as an archaeologist leading a space mission to capital - T Trouble, is an «Alien» - derived life form.

Thus, to interpret the monolith as a form of alien intelligence leaves us with more questions than answers.

It was rather in the form of refugees that the aliens descended on South African soil as the final survivors of their home planet.

In her upcoming movie, «Under the Skin,» she plays, «as the audience gradually comes to learn — a form of alien, landed or stranded among us, and acquiring human males not for sex or friendship but for the serial harvesting of their meat,» the New Yorker reports.

Based on Patrick Jean's spectacular short film Pixels sees aliens invade Earth in the form of classic»80s arcade characters after mistaking a video feed featuring footage of Pac - Man, Donkey Kong and Space Invaders as a declaration of war.

Her suspicions are right, as the alien facehugger attaches itself to the prison's dog, and becomes a smaller, more agile form than we've seen previously.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim vs The World) stars as Kate Lloyd, a scientist sent to Antarctica to study an alien life form that has been frozen underneath the surface.

Team 17, developers behind the Alien Breed series on XBLA, recently announced that their Unreal - powered trilogy will be coming together as one in the form of a... Read More

«Pixels» is one of the most original and enjoyable movies of the year, as the all - star lineup of Adam Sandler, the red - hot Josh Gad («Frozen»), Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan («Source Code») and Peter Dinklage («Game of Thrones») battle aliens in the form of giant classic video game characters.

At 37 minutes, this story of an arms developer (Gary Sinise) accused of being an alien impostor, is fairly taut and suspenseful, if a bit Twilight Zone / Outer Limits in its resolution — which comes off that much more hackneyed in its ridiculously padded - out feature length form, which may be longer but is about a third as entertaining.

Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin takes risks starting with its very premise: it's about a nameless alien being who adopts the physical form of a young human female and drives around Scotland picking up unwitting men to be processed as food.

Beyond also benefits from looking more like Star Trek as it uses more galactic species and creatures in various animal, alien, and human forms than the other two films.

The human is Captain Charles T. Baker (voice of Dwayne Johnson, who, in animated form, is a skinny, blonde, blue - eyed white guy — take that decision as you will), who lands in the backyard of our alien hero Lem (voice of Justin Long), a typical teenager who just got a promotion at the local planetarium and has a crush on Neera (voice of Jessica Biel), the girl next door.

Who: Adam Sandler, Josh Gad, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Monaghan and Kevin James What: When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games.

Does it strike anyone as especially odd that nearly all of the films released this year by Paramount Pictures have dealt with encounters with alien life form with potentially catastrophic results for mankind as a whole?

First appearing in the comic book series as an alien costume worn by Spider - Man in Marvel «s The Amazing Spider - Man # 252 in 1984, it was several years before the creature left Peter Parker and merged with photographer Eddie Brock, forming the antihero known as Venom.

Chris Pratt (Passengers, Jurassic World) is back as Peter Quill, the half - man, half - alien «Star - Lord» who leads a team of misfit alien superheroes on missions to save humanity and other life forms too.

Pixels Rated PG - 13 for some language and suggestive comments Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D Adam Sandler is back at his dumb - movie best as a former child video game champion who must save the planet when aliens attack the Earth in the form of 80's video games like Galaga, Centipede and Pac - Man.

Kent does generally take the Alien approach and attempt to conceal the monster as much as possible, but when it does show its form, the impact of it is lacking.

Under the Skin stars Scarlett Johansson as an alien being in female form on Earth, stalking the Scottish cities and countryside for human prey.

Action - Brave the hostile terrain of an alien planet teeming with vicious life forms as legendary bounty hunter Samus Aran...

When racial minorities do feature in such films, it's either as token characters whose ethnicity is never meaningfully commented upon (Lando Calrissian being the classic example) or in the form of analogies that themselves reek of racism (like the insect - like, ghettoized aliens in District 9, or the orcs in Netflix's Bright that inexplicably invoke Latinx and black stereotypes, even though those races also exist within the world of the film).

... except for «all idiots, imbeciles, feeble - minded persons, epileptics, insane persons; persons who have had one or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; persons of constitutional psychopathic inferiority; persons with chronic alcoholism; paupers; professional beggars; vagrants; persons afflicted with tuberculosis in any form or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living; persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or persons who practice polygamy or believe in or advocate the practice of polygamy; anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States.»