Sentences with phrase «becomes illusory»

Writing with critical fervor in I Corinthians, the apostle Paul reminds his readers that Christ's resurrection, in its fullest expression, is eschatological, a word spoken in the future; when Christians claim its fullness prematurely, he argues that word becomes illusory and destructive.

Appearance becomes illusory only to the extent that the final integration achieves completion by the inhibitory exclusion of some elements of reality.

The exclusive concentration on means rendered that final end of freedom so devoid of content that it became illusory and the rationalization of means a kind of treadmill that was in fact the opposite of freedom.

In fact, I am of the opinion that democracy has become illusory in town with this small number deciding for many decades who even appears on the ballot.

Morrissey's complaint cuts through to the truth about modern journalism — as Spielberg does not — by exposing how what we consider «the news» has become the illusory practice of a primarily Left - centered, conspiratorial institution that operates to manipulate a susceptible public.

In my view, while this case does not deal substantively with the issue as to whether the requirement that one pay the costs of the transcription of the proceedings below results in a barrier to access to justice, it raises tangentially the question as to whether access to justice has become an illusory concept for most Canadians.

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Advertisers without a roadmap for this uncharted terrain are quickly becoming lost in forests of inaccurate data they can't make sense of or dark caves of illusory tech that yield no light at the end of the tunnel.

This world of the moment, which is all we know, becomes the setting for an illusory extension into longer or shorter time scales which then seem to occupy a portion of an external time in a relation of the phenomenal to the absolute.

In a world from which freedom of competition, equality of opportunity, and social fraternity begin to disappear, political equality is illusory, and democracy becomes a dream.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

If this is true, then the identity politics around which much of the secular left has refashioned itself become as meaningless as the sense of self materialism suggests is illusory.

«No one has ever touched Zeno without refuting him,» he writes in a short essay commenting on the fundamental line of thought in his chief philosophical work, Process and Reality.16 In the same essay he explicitly distinguishes his theory from two other opposed positions: on the one hand from the view that interprets the character of becoming as illusory and becoming itself as simply empty and nonexistent in comparison with beings and their being.

In the skillful sense of this illusory art, each word becomes true when embodied in him, true through him — and yet he is told what he shall say by the hidden one that sits and whispers.

The other, since he evades purification and lives with illusory pleasures, making the illness difficult to cure, is estranged from the natural, lives a life contrary to nature and becomes a nonparticipant in this natural life which is communion with God.

He gives the impression that society has become so abstract that even events and activities that we take as quite «normal» are simply another form of the illusory nature of our culture.

But wishing without hoping can, as Freud shows, easily become nothing more than illusory projection.

So when you look for a while at Clinton and then quickly glance at Clintush, you will perceive Bush, although this illusory perception quickly dies away, and the picture becomes ambiguous again.

Reed's entire oeuvre makes it clear that he places the painted image in a structural «in between»: Thus painting becomes, in the artist's cosmos, a normal and real part of our lives as well as a completely artificial and illusory staging.

Through an effort to be neutral, Le Parc became drawn to looking at the illusory capabilities intrinsic to non-representational forms (demonstrated first in his «Op» art) and at the role reversal of artist / spectator / art form.

The artist complicates this in an extraordinary way by making these crude models from aluminum foil using reflected color, the result being an illusory and refracted space that becomes solidified through the process of painting.

Her attention to the illusory surface textures of protean forms is not solely attentive to liquid crystals but extends metaphorically to other social and scientific developments (a fictional Jack - and - the - Beanstalk becomes a modern genetic scientist, or crystals self - organise into a palace whose display function changes consumer society forever). . .

In fact, the predetermined confines push the boundaries in every direction and the corners become the focal point that expand the real and illusory space.

However, once painted, these moments from Liston's life — due in part to their modest scale and a pervasive illusory quality — become surreal vignettes, yet -LSB-.....]

In the 1960s, this developed into an illusory style which became known as Op Art.

The right to a speedy trial became even more illusory than in the pre-Askov days.

Noting the «full trial has become largely illusory» and Combined Air sets the summary judgment bar «too high,» Hryniak instead emphasizes the powers to weigh evidence, evaluate credibility, and draw reasonable inferences at summary judgment are «presumptively» available to the motion judge.

If the criticism of an article published in a newspaper on a subject matter of public importance is to be confined to passages actually set out in the criticism, then the freedom to comment on a matter of public importance becomes, from a practical point of view, illusory or non-existent.»

Because of the illusory truth effect, you and your child can become victims of parental alienation.