Sentences with phrase «as ineffable»

Nature and culture are engaged as ineffable partners.

and Which events in their own lives would they describe as ineffable?

After finishing the novel, students could list or illustrate two ideas: Which events in the story do they think that Liesl might describe as ineffable?

And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal Himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.7

«Peace» is experienced as ineffable unity and harmony, yet is only partially grasped and understood.

Not exact matches

Nathaniel calls our attention to Bishop Trautman's difficulties with the word ineffable as reported in the Erie Times - News.

When this is combined with the insistence that this is wholly ineffable, it becomes possible to think that those who have discovered God in this way are experiencing the same reality as that which Buddhists have identified.

In fact, the sea is presented as a monster that only God's ineffable power...

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

Certainly Christian life, which is nothing other than the acceptance of the ineffable mystery of God as love, must be accomplished in the concrete details of earthly life, which is determined by the secular forces of science, of politics, of power and also of guilt.

In fact, the sea is presented as a monster that only God's ineffable power can tame.

I think it will enlighten you as to how various theologies, including the package known as the Bible, developed, and the futility and danger of trying to capture the boundless, ineffable and eternal with words.

this god would be endlessly curious, and insatiably experiential... this god would be masculine and feminine, and ginormous and infinitesimal, and truthful and compassionate, expansive and contractive, and both light and dark, and both knowable and yet ineffable, and this god would be All in All, and in us * as * us... pretty much like god is, without all the religious attempts to define and confine who / how god is.

This could happen only if the guilty person were by nature endowed with extraordinary stupidity, and presumably by shouting in antistrophic and antiphonal song every time someone persuaded him that now was the beginning of a new era and a new epoch, had howled his head so empty of its original quantum satis of common sense as to have attained a state of ineffable bliss in what might be called the howling madness of the higher lunacy, recognizable by such symptoms as convulsive shouting; a constant reiteration of the words «era,» «epoch,» «era and epoch,» «epoch and era,» «the System»; an irrational exaltation of the spirits as if each day were not merely a quadrennial leap - year day, but one of those extraordinary days that come only once in a thousand years; the concept all the while like an acrobatic clown in the current circus season, every moment performing these everlasting dog - tricks of flopping over and over, until it flops over the man himself.

We must persuade ourselves of the non-existence of all surrounding phenomena, destroy the Grand Illusion by asceticism or by mysticism, create night and silence within ourselves; then, at the opposite extreme of appearance, we shall penetrate to what can only be defined as a total negation — the ineffable Reality.

The holiness of God is the mystery of His ineffable being manifested to us as His glory, which includes His righteous and merciful acts to which we are to conform our own lives.

As the highest expression of the word, it reaches the edge and very limit of the inexpressible, the ineffable, and the unspeakable, as does the divine tetragrammatoAs the highest expression of the word, it reaches the edge and very limit of the inexpressible, the ineffable, and the unspeakable, as does the divine tetragrammatoas does the divine tetragrammaton.

Christians may never stop, they may never set up anything as an idol, until the infinity of ineffable love reveals itself and God himself confronts them face to face.

We only think that he is not there because there has never been a moment in our life when we did not have him in the sweetness of his ineffable love as soon as we began to seek him.

The revelation of God is God himself acting within events and making himself known to those who are able to witness the events (and therefore among whom alone they can happen) as a concrete, ineffable Reality.

And when I started a public radio program on religion, ethics and meaning seven years ago, I was also quite aware that I was inviting people to put words around something as intimate as anything we try to talk about, and as ultimately ineffable.

It was not primarily in his words or acts as such, but in himself, that the ineffable love of God made itself known as a living, potent and present reality.

In our dialogue with other traditions, the key to sustaining conversation (rather than cutting it short by claims that others will interpret as arrogant) is to keep before ourselves the possibility that in some way or other all religions may be relative, culturally specific ways of looking toward an ineffable mystery.

I can not say there was anything exhilarating or rapturous in the experience as it then came to me --(the ineffable Ananda I had years afterwards)-- but what it brought was an inexpressible Peace, a stupendous silence, an infinite of release and freedom.

Although the Tao is finally ineffable, according to the Tao Te Ching, it is best described as «the Flow,» «the way things change,» «the Life» or «the Source.»

which is the ultimate source and cradle of all existence and the «uncreated and ineffable Supreme»... At is beyond time and space, beyond form or any experiential differentiation, and beyond polarities such as good and evil, light and darkness, stability and motion, and agony and ecstasy.

So he concludes that «the mystery in things remains overwhelming enough without extending it to what is offered as explanation,» viz., «that divinity is ineffable Being.»

As for the coaching programmes of the ineffable Charles Hughes when disastrously in charge at the FA, the fatuous emphasis was all on the long ball and no midfield.

Individual scientists may benefit from the idea that they possess an ineffable quality beyond the reach of most humans, but science as a whole suffers.

It was only later that I changed my mind — a gradual, nay, ineffable process I should probably describe, for the sake of Beauty, as an epiphany at the end of a pier in Santa Monica while watching the sun go down through my Ray - Bans.

While it only comes in one shade (so far), think of this cream - to - powder wonder similar as you would to a translucent powder, lending ineffable coverage and tamping down shine on a range of skin tones.

MR POPPER»S PENGUINS contains that ineffable quality of both whimsy and heart that makes it as irresistible to kids as it is to adults.

This superb debut feature by Korean - American director So Yong Kim seems to be constructed entirely of the ineffable and intangible, those fleeting moments that most movies treat as throwaways.

Scott Tobias gives the film the same «B +» grade as his colleague, but acknowledges that he thinks it's Malick's worst film, even though he found it affecting in its attempt to «give expression to the ineffable and show us something beautiful, reminding us that we live in a world that's larger than ourselves and crafted by that invisible hand.»

Though it's been labelled as the filmmaker's most impenetrable work, I'd offer that it's a crystal - clear representation of Herzog's belief that art is first ineffable, then essential, then fickle — that the pursuit of the muse is, in a Modernist sense (and the Romanticists are the wellspring for the Modernists), the only possible solution to the schism in us separating the things of Nature from the things of Man.

The elemental nature of the fable and the film's quietly radical yet complementary merging of sound and image go hand in hand to summon a world that's as ephemeral as its protagonist's states of being, yet contains an emotional richness that remains ineffable.

If you ask me, Audrey isn't an actress so much as someone you would like to have known and maybe had the opportunity to cuddle, which makes her mega-stardom in the Fifties and Sixties all the more testament to her ineffable appeal.

A faithful adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides's popular first novel, «The Virgin Suicides» conjures the ineffable melancholy of teenage longing and ennui in its story of the suicides of the five Lisbon sisters, stifled by the rules of their overprotective religious parents — as told through the collective memory of a group of boys who yearn to understand what happened.

The tale is both elemental and rich, and in addition to giving a masterclass in screen acting as a patriarch at most one generation removed from peasantry, Auteuil is generous with opportunities for his fellow players, especially Astrid Bergès - Frisbey (in the title role), Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma and the ineffable Jean - Pierre Darroussin (the Inspector in Le Havre).

This is as it should be: Bresson made films of extraordinary clarity and ineffable mystery.

Its take on nature vs. man is different from The Machinist's in that it doesn't have overt references to the debilitating toll on spirituality represented by industrialization (the key to The Machinist «swoes appears to be a cigarette and an American muscle machine), more concerned as it is with the toll that man's attempts to comprehend the ineffable takes on his own ability to function, ironically, as a biological entity.

Its tractability is astonishing — protean, not too much to say magical; in describing his first film experience as a visit to «the kingdom of shadows,» Maxim Gorky brushes up against the ineffable sublimity of a medium that mimics the eye, stimulates the ear, and has as one of the key elements of its academic study a concept that suggests the moment a viewer finds himself «sutured» into the text.

Sarsgaard's enigmatic older man carries an ineffable sadness that becomes heartbreaking as the gulf between his ingratiating exterior and true self grows more pronounced.

Plus the omnipresent hype, not for the films themselves, but rather for that ineffable, high - altitude Sundance experience and for you, you, and you, oh my God, actually present at the most happening American film event, where, as one blogger gushed, the thrill was not in seeing the merchandise but in watching Harvey Weinstein make a deal.

The brothers would cast the actress in a significant proportion of their movies, understanding fully well that whether in a minor role or a more major one, Frances McDormand is an almost ineffable asset to have as part of your production.

Furthermore, such an accessible means of book distribution has ineffable value as a growing form of artistic expression.

Naturally, the world of finance isn't all that keen on ineffable terms like something or a feeling, so here, bonds are rather more precisely defined as a debt security, or simply an IOU.

While I extensively enjoyed the Donkey Kong Country series on the Super Nintendo, Diddy's Kong Quest in particular is quite spectacular, I've always felt fairly alienated by its following as for some ineffable reason, I didn't enjoy them nearly as much as the status quo.

There are Post-Minimalist roots, even philosophies of Asian Mono - ha, but by focusing on the painting process as its own subject, Jones» work attains an ineffable aura of permanence.

-LSB-...] don't depict Seal Point but rather are meditations on the ineffable qualities of a place as Walker has experienced it — color, light, motion, shape, texture — recording the narrative of how the artist feels about this special location over the course of changing seasons, months and years.