Sentences with phrase «become objects of desire»

Perceived as «good,» they become the objects of desire for well - resourced and quality - conscious parents.

Boris then calls on three misfit thugs (Lennie James, Robbie Gee, and Ade) to do the dirty work, but when their incompetence gets in the way, the diamond becomes the object of desire for some of the meanest criminals in all of London.

It might be a little reductive to pick the only male character to highlight Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled, but Farrell is clearly having all the fun in the world playing this soldier turned coward turned lothario turned maniac that becomes the object of desire for a house full of Southern Belles, young and old alike.

But soon after, the town falls under German control, and Sophie becomes an object of desire for the local Kommandant.

Quietly impressive, the discreet Mayfair townhouse has become an object of desire for top - rung international contemporary art galleries.

The Zero1 is a single - seat race car that, it's likely, will quickly become an object of desire for car fans worldwide.

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The first act of this faith is the uniting act; and in its exercise the believer cordially receives Christ; is sincerely pleased with him, love those things which Christ loves; desires and seeks those objects which he seeks, and in affection becomes one with Him.

Let us call the two parties A and B. B's property or treasure, B's heritage, B's right, is adjacent, or appears to be adjacent or is declared to be adjacent — adjacency is a phenomenally flexible term, subject to interpretation according to what is deemed to he adjacent by the powerful covetor; B's thing which is B's by rights, by inheritance, becomes in its adjacency an object of passionate desire, an obsessive craving, on the part of a more powerful A.

But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, HE FELL INTO A TRANCE; and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground, and there were in it all kinds of four - footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

The anxious self can make its own self - gratification the sole object of desire, or sensuality becomes a convenient means of escape from the self's agony through the obliteration of feeling, the plunge into nothingness.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

The Ingenieur has since become a classic object of desire for watch collectors.

Timothée Chalamet stars as the 17 - year - old Elio, summering with his archaeology professor father (Michael Stuhlbarg) in the Italian countryside; Armie Hammer features as the 24 - year - old grad student assistant who moves into their villa, and who becomes Elio's object of desire.

What has the world of romance come to when vampires, werewolves and zombies have become the objects of girls» desires?

And Swinton, even when robbed of one of an actor's most expressive tools, somehow turns that deprivation to her advantage: Her hoarse, watchful silence sets her apart in more ways than one, and Marianne becomes both an object of desire and a figure of unexpected depth and compassion.

These treatments can transform a seemingly humdrum car into a burly object of desire, not unlike an uninteresting man growing a bushy beard and buying a flannel to become a woodsman who haunts the dreams of unappreciated housewives.

As much as I don't want my bookshelves to become part of this trail of obsolescence, I can already see early warning signs of my own desire for convenience — for instantly getting what I want, for not having to deal with mere objects in all their cumbersome actuality — beginning to outrank my love of the book as a physical thing.

To a depraved British Major he becomes Clive, an object of desire taught to be a model English schoolboy.

Those who experience this condition have an overwhelming desire to amputate an otherwise healthy limb or limbs, due to some impairment of a region in the brain that makes the limb feel alien, «an estranged body part [that] becomes an object of obsession.»

Be prepared to question how flawed our communication with our loved ones really is and to ponder on how fragile our emotional intent becomes on its journey between our mind and that of the object of our desires and affections.

The objects and works created will explore the experience of becoming an aficionado, actualizing desire, and the social exploration of motorcycle riding as a cognitive dream space akin to the «zone» or «flow» of artistic creation.

Performance, and photographic and video documentation of it, became a major part of her strategy, which was always directed by her goal to free the women's body from its use as a tool for male expression and object of male desire.

«The New - York Historical Society explores how shoes have transcended their utilitarian purpose to become representations of culture — coveted as objects of desire, designed with artistic consideration, and expressing complicated meanings of femininity, power, and aspiration for women and men alike.

Over the past three decades, Steinbach has become known for his sculptures that place ordinary objects on display — some purchased, others borrowed — to explore the intersection of our personal desires, memories, and cultural values.

In the Turner colour experiments, I've isolated light and colour in Turner's works in order to extract his sense of ephemera from the objects of desire that his paintings have become.

Similar to Mark Bradford, Larson's dedication to material becomes a mapping of experience that reconfigures geography as objects of memory, hope and desire.

The turning point came in 1964, when Rauschenberg became the first American artist to win the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale — an achievement that stunned the international art community and helped make American art an international status symbol and object of desire.

Included in Harald Szeemann's renowned exhibition When Attitudes Becomes Form at the Kunsthalle Berlin in 1969, we see Ruthenbeck's desire to create forms that erase or resist the tie of the work of art to the physical material object.

His methodically ordered, almost ceremonial displays of common artefacts convey how collective desires become organized and ritualized through objects - how communication and aspirations are exchanged through the language of design.

Desiring to rid art of its potential to become a burdensome object, he began to paint directly onto the walls of exhibition galleries, thus harmoniously integrating the work into the architectural space.

Just as Cézanne tried to restore the solid form after Impressionism, and the more he longed for stability in his composition the less stable his objects become, Downes's desire to build firm forms with paint results in his exponentially less stable relationship to the horizontal platform of the earth.

The purity of black metal and the essence of shape become absolute and timeless, giving rise to the new object of desire for any type of environment: minimalist, traditional, classic.»

«Despite the fact that I did not have any use for them even the first time, the desire to own two of these objects becomes too strong to resist.»