Sentences with phrase «as revelatory»

The color is as blunt as the marking, and equally as revelatory since working into the entire surface wet at once, over the dry layer means she gives herself one chance to get the image she's after.

«Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions» (2015 - 16) was billed as revelatory, the first exhibition to go behind - the - scenes and offer an «unprecedented look into Puryear's inspirations, methods, and transformative process.»

A lot of New Yorkers only ever find themselves at the end of the J or E train line if they need to get to JFK airport, but the inaugural Southeast Queens Biennial offers one more incentive to board a Jamaica - bound train, and it might be just as revelatory as taking a trip abroad.

The drawings and paintings mostly date from the titular year, 1983, which the artist retrospectively sees as revelatory and transformative.

The photographs that accompany these stories are as revelatory as the reporting and will provide scholars and curators with important primary sources for years to come.

As revelatory and satisfying as this effort will undoubtedly be, I wish the museum would do something completely strange, like mounting a thorough, Modern - style retrospective of the artist - healer Hilma af Klint, someone completely outside its carefully elaborated narrative who was nonetheless one of Europe's earliest abstract painters.

Elliptical in its account — and sometimes narrated in a literal whisper — the documentary rhymes with the sensual quality of Schneeman's own body of work, which is framed as revelatory.

Hershman Leeson proceeds from the world of her dreadful personal secrets — compounded by the history of the Holocaust that she deftly interlaces into her own story — and emerges as a revelatory genius with an affinity for strong, productive, creative, and individualistic movers and shakers, giving them a voice and animating their lives in a series of brilliant, thought - provoking movies.

Yet, as this revelatory show proves, he continued to evolve as a painter and to produce giant - scale canvases with terrific panache into the late 1990s.

Just as revelatory in their formal sophistication, these works, primarily made from 1966 to 1970, with a few made in the late 1970s and early 1980s, boggle the eye with their simplicity.

Given the financial risk for developing for the platform, It's natural that most games have been ports, copycat variations or VR iterations of familiar genres which absolutely fill a need for content - hungry players but do little to advance the notion of VR as a revelatory, essential experience.

It's not as revelatory as it perhaps once was, but through the game's many permutations (and genre leaps) over the years, the original still distills horror the best.

The inhumane treatment given by her first doctors is starkly contrasted by that of her last, and when her gender dysphoria is finally given a medical name, it feels as revelatory as it should.

A lot has changed in that time and if the the look of the film isn't as revelatory as it's predecessor, it's still mighty impressive.

It's not as revelatory as the opinions coming from the US would have suggested.

Star Trek Into Darkness may not be as revelatory as its predecessor, but it's still among the Top 5 entries in the franchise.

The sequel, while entertaining, isn't as revelatory and spends too much time being reverent to the original series despite a tremendous adversary in Benedict Cumberbatch.

Naomie Harris — Moonlight Moonlight is rightfully praised for building its central character's lifetime of pain, but Harris is just as revelatory for connecting the threads of Paula's transition with far less material.

As celebrated as Toy Story 2 is as a revelatory chapter in the Pixar Story, it's easy to lose track of why it is deemed so.

If their latest collaboration, a straight story, doesn't feel quite as revelatory as Keep the Lights On (2012) or the heartbreaking Love Is Strange (2014), it still impresses you with its quiet, confident maturity.

Its inconceivable and «impossible» nature has led believers to see it therefore as a revelatory «interruption» of the fabric of normality.

The event, this sequence of disastrous episodes, is interpreted as revelatory event, disclosing the nature and intent of Yahweh — his nature as Lord of creation and his intent to make of Israel a people.

In this sense we may appreciate symbols as revelatory of the ultimate importance (of reality) while at the same time we acknowledge our own creatively imaginative input into their production.

But when the book enters into the electronic world of cyberspace our conceptions of God and our ways of apprehending Scripture as a revelatory text will change.

To see the text as revelatory poesis is to understand that it «makes sense» by projecting a reference as a possibility for me.

This was largely identified with Jesus Christ, although, in a secondary sense, at least, the Jewish scriptures were also regarded as revelatory.

They should see democracy as revelatory of how religious institutions can be combined with quite different institutions to build a moral social life.

It is the community of loyalty, devoted memory, and faith, which answer to the life, death, and resurrection of Christ; and therefore it is the community in which alone the life, death, and resurrection of Christ as a revelatory event took place.

Some portray the apostolic witnesses less as revelatory witnesses to God's mercy than as oppressive promulgators of abusive images of God.

It is not enough simply to say that these events have in fact been taken as revelatory, and that the continued appropriateness of doing so is demonstrated by its fruitfulness.

Christian Scientists see these events not as supernatural interruptions of the natural order but as a revelatory appearance of a spiritual reality, shaking the very foundations of human perception.

When God is omnipotent, one can read history as the will of God, and history is way too full of evil, suffering, and violence to imagine it as revelatory of God's will.

Or just that the process is transformative, without necessarily providing a meaning that would be as revelatory or applicable to others?

That may not strike you as revelatory, and that's okay.

Not exact matches

Of course, as the series has only just aired, it remains to be seen whether or not it will have a similar revelatory impact as some of its predecessors, but it still stands as yet another example of TV's growing true crime trend.

A guiding idea throughout is that the person develops and realizes himself through his actions, even as these actions remain revelatory of the person.

As Dear James opens, Agatha continues to write long, revelatory letters to James, and then instantly tears them up.

I expect it to be revelatory and illuminating because it is scripture and for me as an Episcopalian; those are my presuppositions.

My revelatory commission forbade me to resort to extrahuman sources of either information or expression until such a time as I could testify that I had failed in my efforts to find the required conceptual expression in purely human sources.

Anyway, last week, we talked about Chapter 2 — «The Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Literature» — in which Enns tackles the difficult question of how to understand the Bible as special and revelatory when Genesis in particular looks so much like other literature from the ancient Near Eastern world.

But, if I am understanding Wright correctly, this idea has consequences for both uber - conservative Christians (who may tend to see God's presence and revelatory activity as limited the words printed in the Bible) and more liberal Christians (who may prefer to think of the words of Joshua and Jeremiah as entirely their own, and not the words of God).

At no point in this process does the incarnate Word or Spirit assume a final and definitive form, just as God himself can never be wholly or simply identified with any given revelatory event or epiphany, if only because the divine process undergoes a continual metamorphosis, ever moving more deeply and more fully toward an eschatological consummation.

He says that certain acts are revelatory both because they do in fact express one's being and because they are received as doing so.34 However, the first part of this needs refer only to the fact that every outer act of a person is to some extent an expression of his inner being.

He became the decisive act of God in that he did this and has been received as having decisive revelatory power.

He believed that Christ exists in three «revelatory forms» - as Word, as sacrament, and as church.

In the one understanding of contextualization, the revelatory trajectory moves only from authoritative Word into contemporary culture; in the other, the trajectory moves both from text to context and from context to text, and in the midst of this traffic the interpreter, rather like a police officer at a busy intersection, emerges as the sovereign arbiter as to what God's Word for our time actually is.

It is the experiential insight that gives succor to man's deformed yearning (sehnsucht) for perfection in life, and it reveals to us that «God can not be contained within reason, because what he does goes beyond reason,» therefore the initial anticipation of the revelatory act / reality is signaled by the existential realization that God's «unnecessitated» love for us as created being, both corporately and individually, makes transparent «God's gift of Himself.»

The new cultural coding that we need will emerge from the revelatory vh sion that comes in the special moments we describe as «dream.»

Since you bring the topic up, let me sketch out what I see as the dimensions of the issue for someone who hasn't experienced a persuasive altar call or revelatory «Road to Damascus» experience.

Precisely in acknowledging God's primordial will as represented by Jesus, one necessarily pronounces a truth - judgment about Jesus» revelatory function — or, to use the traditional term, office.